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National Columnists

Post-election, we can be honest about Alamo

En route to visit family in South Texas for Thanksgiving, we stopped in San Antonio to enjoy the riverwalk and take our 9-year-old son to the Alamo. If you’re a student in Texas, the state is really particular about how that 1836 battle at the old Spanish Mission gets taught. Perhaps this ...

Will Kennedy make America healthy again?

The way America thinks about health care is terribly wrong. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that a staggering 74% of adults in America are obese or overweight. Don’t search for a scapegoat like McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken. The problem is that we ignore ...

IRS’s worldwide tax grab needs to end

The new year will bring a new administration, and I’ll be watching to see if President-elect Donald Trump’s team finally puts an end to the worldwide taxation of individual Americans’ income. Fixing this is imperative. It would not only be sound fiscal policy but could keep millions of ...

Pardon contributes to cynicism about Washington

Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter. “I am not going to do anything, I will abide by the jury’s decision,” the president said. He repeated that assertion on other occasions. So did his press ...

Many want to see real change in Washington

New York Times columnist David Brooks, who is about as close to a conservative as that liberal newspaper publishes, wrote something last week that gets to the heart of why Democrats, especially, but also some Republicans, fear a second Trump administration. After extolling what he believes to ...

Tradition comes alive during Christmas season

On any given day, walking into the main entrance of the Omni Bedford Springs, the grande dame of American historic hotels in Bedford, Pennsylvania, is always a welcoming and breathtaking embrace of the past. Walking in during the Christmas season is even more extraordinary, as you are ...