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National Columnists

Butler, East Palestine: Most important 42 miles

The drive between Butler, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio village of East Palestine is less than 42 miles long. In between are the villages and boroughs of Lyndora, Connoquenessing and Evans City on the Pennsylvania side before you cross the state line directly into the village of East ...

Harris must reach into her law, order past

What follows here assumes that Kamala Harris carries out her stated intention to “earn the nomination” and not pretend that the crown is only in the shop. This gives her an opportunity to craft her image as a centrist with a spine, the sort of Democrat who can win national elections. The ...

Where will Biden stand in history books?

President Joe Biden’s time in the White House is coming to an end. He’s now officially a lame duck with six months to go. So where will Biden stand in the history books? From his first days in the Oval Office, he governed from the far left on everything from climate change to radical ...

We need to show love for one another

While I was watching the ongoing news reports on the assassination attempt of former President Donald J. Trump, I was simultaneously scrolling through social media posts on X. The repulsive vitriol was and continues to be ever present, and although President Joe Biden had the best intentions in ...

Can we let voters decide — not FBI, CIA, DOJ?

When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the “right thing” of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton. What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts ...

Never confuse incompetence for malice

During COVID, many people believed so many of the things that were conspiracies came true. They were never conspiracies. They were statements of common sense that ordinary Americans knew were true but the bureaucrats insisted were not so. The competence of ordinary Americans was given ...