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National Columnists

Say hello to my incredible talking dog

I have a talking dog. We didn’t know it when we got him, of course. He didn’t reveal this talent to us right away. He would vocalize occasionally in dog-speak, but no one really had any idea what he was saying because he spoke in his language, and we spoke in ours, and there was no ...

We don’t do first Thanksgiving justice

We’ve all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth colony in the new world. How they survived a brutal winter and then celebrated a successful harvest with Native Americans the following fall in what would become known as ...

Worldview matters for Cabinet pick

It is a truism that does not get talked about enough, but is innately part of being a conservative, or really a person of any ideological conviction – worldview matters. Those of us on the right have long understood this. If, for example, a person is an atheist who believes there is no ...

Don’t pardon Hunter, for good of nation

While all eyes are on Mar-a-Lago and the goons Trump is nominating to besmirch high government offices, there is another potential threat looming to the rule of law, and it comes not from MAGAworld but from the sitting president. I’m referring to the possibility that President Joe Biden might ...

Trump’s victory could have been bigger

Did photo ID or other strict voter identification measures play a role in President-Elect Donald Trump’s landslide election victory? Trump won the Electoral College by a considerable margin - 312 to 226 - over Vice President Kamala Harris. But is it possible that the victory, which many ...

Martha Stewart’s still going strong at 83

I like Martha Stewart. Always have. Two recent documentaries, “Martha” and the series “The Many Lives of Martha Stewart,” follow the Greek drama that make Stewart a cultural fascination to this day. They recount the jihad against this visionary who came under attack for being a woman ...