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National Columnists

Good immigrants make America stronger

This week, news emerged that the Trump administration has been setting new standards with regard to incoming immigrants. According to Axios, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will not take into account the “positive attributes” of migrants entering the country; such attributes ...

Our cities, towns shouldn’t be open-air drug dens

Will more marijuana use make America a better place? Not many who’ve seen and smelled what legalizing the drug has done to cities like New York, D.C. and San Francisco would say so. Yet President Donald Trump is contemplating a change to marijuana’s federal classification that would ...

Explaining truths about Trump-Putin talks

When U.S. President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, at a U.S. military base in Alaska last week, the world united in hope. Just kidding. They mostly just bickered over who “won” the peace smackdown. You would think that the prospect of finally ...

Like others, I’m addicted to my phone

I am addicted! To my phone. I check an email and before I realize it, I’m watching TikTok videos: lions fight hyenas, military dads reunite with kids, athletes do amazing things ... I look up, and an hour has passed. I’ve wasted time, ignored my family and friends, and ...

Zohran Mamdani — When will we ever learn?

The two most recent polls — Gotham and Siena — on the New York City mayoral race, show Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani leading Andrew Cuomo, running second as an independent, by 18 and 19 points respectively. Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June, garnering 56.39% of ...

‘Drill, baby, drill’ is working wonders

Well, so much for the vaunted renewable energy “transition” to save the planet. This was always a fable. We get 80% of our energy from fossil fuels, and with Donald Trump now in the White House, that ratio is rising, not falling. A Reuters headline from recent days tells the real story: ...