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National Columnists

Jeans Mom or yoga pants Dad?

There’s a guy at my gym who works out in jeans. They’re not baggy jeans, either. They’re the regular, no-stretch, no-fun, no-frills jeans. The man’s in his late 50s or early 60s, not old enough to have given up and not so young that he’s clueless. I’ve found myself thinking the ...

Our rights do not come from government

Tim Kaine needs to report to a remedial civics class as soon as possible. The Virginia senator and former vice presidential candidate expressed outrage at a congressional hearing that a Trump nominee said that our rights come from God, not government. Kaine suspected incipient theocracy, ...

Is sovereign wealth fund on horizon?

When President Donald Trump announced in August that the federal government took an equity stake in Intel, he bragged that taxpayers had “paid zero” for part of a company now “worth $11 billion.” In reality, taxpayers paid plenty: $8.9 billion in subsidies with potentially more to come. ...

Trump’s National Guard deployment, 80-20 issue

Donald Trump’s recent floated proposal to deploy the National Guard to crime-overrun blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore has been met with howls of outrage from the usual suspects. For many liberal talking heads and Democratic officials, this is simply the latest evidence of Trump’s ...

Trump has many great achievements in six months

President Donald Trump’s greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it—without “comprehensive immigration reform” or any other rhetorical trickery. It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal ...

Doctrine actually engages in global conflicts

He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones. How many times in our lifetimes have we heard that admonition to watch our words, especially our criticisms, of those around us? The same could be said of American foreign policy in general, and more specifically of President Donald Trump ...