Trump’s big, beautiful Iran question
Politics
June 23, 2025
For days, Donald Trump — impetuous, intuitive, instinctive, but not known for introspection — grappled with the path forward in Iran, and with his historical legacy. Would he unleash the GBU-57 bunker...
Politics
June 23, 2025
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s bombardment of three sites in Iran quickly sparked debate in Congress over his authority to launch t...
Maybe the latest Democratic disarray means they’re coming to their senses
Politics
June 21, 2025
Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, resigned from their positions on...
The Trump crime family
Politics
June 20, 2025
“Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder,” headlines The New Yorker. “As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests,” reports The New York Times. The Atlantic calls Trump 2.0 “The Most Corrupt P...
Politics
June 20, 2025
GOVERNMENT SHOULD NEVER happen in the dark. We elect our leaders to represent our best interests, to craft laws that protect our communities and to spend our money wisely. All of that has to happen in...
Politics
Deranged
June 20, 2025
To the Editor: I guess we don’t understand what a peaceful protest is? I thought burning cars, throwing bricks, rocks, and cinder blocks, or Molotov cocktails at the authorities was not peaceful. Sorr...
Politics
June 19, 2025
ON SATURDAY, AMERICANS exercised their right to gather and their right to speak up. Across the country, No Kings protests blossomed, timed to coincide with the Washington military parade celebrating t...
Just wait until liberals learn about syllogisms
Politics
June 19, 2025
As I’ve been pointing out forever, liberals don’t understand analogies, one of the most basic building blocks of logic, at least since Aristotle. This failing has been on display at MSNBC for some yea...
Pushing public notices to gov’t websites is a bad move
Politics
June 19, 2025
in the Legislation Pennsylvania Senate risks allowing local governments to operate in the shadows, leaving taxpayers unaware of decisions affecting their pocketbooks, their communities and their quali...
A decade ago, the start of the Trump era
Politics
June 18, 2025
This time 10 years ago, much of the political commentariat, both Democratic and Republican, was having a grand old time making fun of Donald Trump. The real estate/marketing/TV star entered the GOP ra...
Politics
June 18, 2025
By MEG KINNARD AND THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press A schism has opened among President Donald Trump’s most devout MAGA supporters and national security conservatives over the Israel-Iran conflict, as...
Politics
June 18, 2025
PUBLIC NOTICES ARE VALUABLE TOOLS of our democracy because they provide due process to Americans who will be impacted by the government action and help make the democratic process more transparent. Bu...
The rogue’s new gallery of left-wing scoundrels
Politics
June 17, 2025
The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam. Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false. The “hands up, don’t ...
The perils of assisted suicide
Politics
June 17, 2025
Better off dead? I don’t think I am.” Liz Carr was accepting an award for her work on a BBC documentary of the same name. She’s an actress and a disability rights activist, who’s been using her platfo...
Marc Garneau touches the face of God
Politics
June 16, 2025
MONTREAL — There’s been a lot of attention lately on one of the world’s bigmouths and his vision for space flight. It might be more profitable to listen to the thinking of one of the quiet men who kne...
Politics
June 16, 2025
THINK ABOUT GOLF, and your thoughts might gravitate toward warm, sunny climes where people retire to spend their days on the links. There’s a reason for that. Florida has the most golf courses at 1,26...
Trump deploys, protesters respond. This will not end well
Politics
June 14, 2025
“Here we go.” “I knew it would come.” “This won’t end well.” Those were my initial reactions to President Trump’s announcement that he had activated the California National Guard and to sources on Mon...
Politics
June 13, 2025
THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATE has a job to do. The state House of Representatives passed two bills this week that would allow survivors of child sexual abuse to file lawsuits past the previous lines drawn. ...