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Opinion

A fail-safe society is sure to fail

National Columnists

When are we going to trust our fellow Americans again? When are we going to allow qualified individuals with responsibility to make decisions without consulting detailed rulebooks and formal procedures? Those are questions New York lawyer and author Philip K. Howard asks in his latest ...

Seeing the glory of God in the eclipse

National Columnists

As excitement was building up for the solar eclipse in Ohio the past two weeks, I saw an electric sign board that piqued my interest while commuting to work in Lima. The sign was placed on a corner in Huntsville, a village that I pass through with a small population of just over 400. It was ...

No one cares about Joe Biden’s lawlessness

National Columnists

Here we go again. President Joe Biden has, once more, claimed to find astonishingly wide-ranging authority to forgive student loans hiding in minute places deep in the federal code. Biden has already been rebuked for this practice by the Supreme Court, yet he remains undeterred. He’s ...

Americans are not seeking out middle ground

National Columnists

An opinion piece by Sen. Mitt Romney regarding the demise of the No Labels political party initiative tells us as much about Romney, and why he failed to ever become a national leader, as it does about the failure of the No Labels effort. No Labels defined its mission “to support centrism ...

Polling how to sell what someone wants to do

National Columnists

In the mid-’90s, President Bill Clinton hired famed pollster Dick Morris to triangulate Clinton’s path to victory in 1996. Morris told Clinton that polling is not designed to tell someone what to do. Rather, polling is designed to tell one how to sell what they want to do. President Joe ...

Registration trends should make Democrats jittery

National Columnists

It still is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country in Pennsylvania and see an oversized, cheery, red billboard sitting along U.S. 30 reading “VOTE REPUBLICAN.” However, it is a reminder of how much the people who live in these old industrial and ...