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Schools dismantling DEI owe students action

National Columnists

Last year, following Trump's anti-DEI executive order, the Department of Education sent a letter to educational institutions. It began "Dear Colleagues," and threatened to withhold federal funds from institutions that did not gut their diversity, equity and inclusion objectives, claiming they were illegal. Last week, the letter was invalidated in court. However, the damage is already done, thanks to universities that scrambled to comply when they should have stood firm. This debate is nothing new. Critical Race Theory was the big fear of 2021. The U.S. Supreme Court effectively ...

Four fallacies behind post-SCOTUS-ruling tariffs

National Columnists

Within hours of the Supreme Court ruling that the White House's widespread "emergency" tariffs were illegal, President Donald Trump moved to install 10% across-the-board tariffs under a different alleged authority. He later said he would raise that rate to 15% and delivered a combative response in the State of the Union. The trade war isn't ending. It's just changing ZIP codes. What won't change is the propaganda coming from the White House, which insists that Americans don't pay the costs. Consider what follows as a guide to the fallacy-filled arguments that you'll soon ...

Men's hockey team did it right

National Columnists

If men's basketball is the most popular and professional athlete-filled team sport at the quadrennial Summer Olympic Games, then men's ice hockey is its Winter Olympic Games analogue. But there is one major difference. The United States has dominated men's basketball at the Summer Olympic Games, only once failing to win gold since NBA players were first allowed to compete in the Barcelona games. But in men's ice hockey, the U.S. hadn't won gold since the 1980 miracle – and not once since NHL players first competed in Nagano in 1998. This year's Canadian hockey team was ...

Revolution brewing in British politics

National Columnists

Revolution brewing in British political circles There's a revolution brewing across the Big Pond. The British people were already fed up with the Labour government headed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. And then the man Starmer appointed to be ambassador to the United States – Peter Mandelson – was exposed as having a deep friendship with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, even after Epstein was convicted on charges of sex with a minor in 2008. Mandelson is now under investigation for possibly passing sensitive government information to Epstein. Starmer is viewed as being crippled by ...

I don't care if skater Liu is woke

National Columnists

As the nation celebrated American figure skater Alysa Liu's stunning victories at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, there's a particular collection of embarrassingly sad online dwellers who just can't understand why conservatives might cheer on Liu. Why? Well, because she is, apparently, woke. For those who just don't get it, let me explain. In the world of sports in which Alysa Liu is thriving, we (the big bad conservatives) simply don't care about your politics if you are proudly representing our great nation – which Liu undoubtedly is -- and you leave your politics at the door ...

Jackson left lasting impact

National Columnists

When I first saw Jesse Jackson, like most Americans, it was on television. He was there when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Never did I imagine that I would get to know Rev. Jackson, get to admire him, see him at work as a civil rights leader firsthand, become his friend, and later have him work hard to defeat me politically. He saw me as outside the norm. "Franks, you are an aberration," he would tell me frequently. Yet as irony would have it, Jackson actually won a Democratic-only primary in Connecticut, a feat I would accomplish with Democratic, Independent, and ...