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Opinion

Campaign against media could bite back

National Columnists

In the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s – apparently temporary – suspension from late-night TV, a (tragically small) number of prominent conservatives and Republicans have taken exception to the Trump administration’s comfort with “jawboning” critics into submission. Sen. Ted Cruz condemned ...

If TikTok lives, Chinese propaganda wins

National Columnists

TikTok is an addictive app that, for years, has provided the Chinese Communist Party with direct access to millions of Americans. Owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, TikTok is used to provide a monsoon of CCP-approved propaganda while handing the Chinese government access to the data of ...

September: When good ends for some, begins for others

National Columnists

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date, said Shakespeare, and ain’t that the truth. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. The garden knows it too. The last batch of bright zinnias displays its ...

US economy growing, household incomes up

National Columnists

It’s hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn’t been for someone named Taylor Swift. Powell has been idolized by the Left for one reason: He’s been a ...

Wave of return to faith is rising

National Columnists

If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10’s brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here in Pittsburgh, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of ...

We must condemn all political violence

National Columnists

Political violence must be condemned in all its deplorable forms. Recently, we lost a 31-year-old young man, Charlie Kirk, by the act of a cowardly madman. An evil doer may have thought he prevailed when he took the life of this young man with a beautiful wife and kids, but evil failed ...