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Conservative author-commentator M. Stanton Evans often criticized what he regarded as “water bug journalism”—superficial news reporting that, like an insect skittering across the surface of… Read More
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Some of us have been voting long enough that we can still remember when Election Day was just that—Election Day. Not Election Week. Not Election… Read More
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Virginians with even a modicum of decency were rightly repulsed by vile 2022 text messages from Jay Jones, the Democrat nominee for state attorney general,… Read More
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For all of their pious pontificating about the nobility of illegal immigrants as people who simply came here in search of a better life for… Read More
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Sunday marked six months to the day since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, but the epidemic of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” shows no… Read More
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Some of us are old enough to remember B.C. Before Cable, that is. That was long before flat-panel televisions with HDMI inputs, before broadcasters’ digital… Read More
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With Republicans leading Democrats 12 to 2 in the bottom of the sixth inning (of a seven-inning contest) in their annual charity Congressional Baseball Game… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The fourth time was the charm for Faizan Zaki, of Allen, Texas, who last Thursday night won the 100th National Spelling Bee. The word that… Read More
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In Las Vegas on Monday, the American Music Awards held its annual ceremony and presented its trophies, but to paraphrase Sin City’s tourism slogan: “What… Read More
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The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is set to hand out its annual Profile in Courage Award on May 4 to a politician or other… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If there were any lingering doubts about the unabashedly pro-transgender bias of the liberal media, they were demolished Thursday by the marked contrast between a… Read More
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For many elected and appointed public figures, public service has proved to be extraordinarily lucrative. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Joe Biden and… Read More
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“We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told President Donald Trump at a Feb. 21 gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House…. Read More
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There was a time, not all that long ago, that CBS’ “60 Minutes” was widely regarded as the gold standard of broadcast journalism. Regrettably, not… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Somewhere, the Motown music hitmakers of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the original members of the Four Tops and The Temptations who have passed… Read More
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Sen. Angus King of Maine bills himself as an “independent,” but his voting record is such that if it could, the Federal Trade Commission might… Read More
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“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963 “Our long national… Read More
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Cher has a new autobiography, “The Memoir,” which runs just over 400 pages, but apparently, that’s only half the story. We know that because the… Read More
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In The Washington Post’s self-righteous telling, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” It says so every day, right there below the paper’s masthead. But democracy also dies… Read More
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What do Charlie Baker, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins have in common? They’re both in deep… Read More
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With apologies to Shakespeare’s Queen Gertrude in “Hamlet”: The congressman doth protest too much, methinks. Rep. Seth Moulton is none too happy about coming under… Read More
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As families gather around their dining room tables this Thanksgiving, it’s regrettable that some seats won’t be taken because Trump Derangement Syndrome won’t permit its… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Ringo Starr has a new country music album set for release on Jan. 10, and the legendary ex-Beatle appears to have recorded an LP that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Addressing the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Sept. 10, 2022, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about how, as president of… Read More
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The Biggest Loser? After Tuesday, it’s not just the title of the long-running reality TV weight-loss show anymore. The biggest loser of the Nov. 5… Read More
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is likening former President Donald Trump’s upcoming weekend campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York to… Read More
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Hurricanes Helene and Milton may be gone, but they won’t be forgotten, certainly not by the hard-hit residents and businesses of the Southeast. The immense… Read More
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The bias of the moderators of ABC’s presidential debate three weeks ago against Donald Trump was so blatant that even the opening skit of this… Read More
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President Joe Biden grudgingly announced he was abandoning his bid for a second term in office on Sunday—just one day after marking three-and-a-half years in… Read More
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The following is an updated version of a column originally published in December 2022. One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was “The Peter… Read More
