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National Columnists

What we leave behind matters

Technically Bill’s Place, Pennsylvania, is no longer on a map — the realignment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the 1960s ended its tiny dot. However, for over 30 years, if you were traveling up and down the Lincoln Highway along the Bedford-Fulton county line, you were greeted with ...

War on small business partnerships should end

President Donald Trump has promised to create millions of new high-paying jobs. One easy first step to doing that is to repeal Biden regulations on America’s 4 million business partnerships (sometimes known as S corporations) that are prolific job creators. The latest estimates find 10 ...

We’re going to need to build more ships

Alfred Thayer Mahan would be appalled. The great 19th-century strategist and navalist surely would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating war — and a traditional land power, no less — to dominate global shipbuilding. ...

Students educated quite well before DOE

How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was created by Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress? Quite well, thank you. I went to a public school where the ...

Will Trump turn nationalism against America?

President Donald Trump is nothing if not strong-willed, and he’s the leader of the mightiest nation on Earth — but there’s one power even Trump can’t afford to discount. It’s the power of nationalism and national pride, which Trump himself harnessed to win two terms in the White ...

Visitor gets modern-day view of Moscow

When an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the renowned Professor Alexander Dugin to visit them in Moscow arrived in my inbox, it was actually the culmination of a series of emails and telephone calls from Russian-American friends giving me a heads up. Still, it startled ...