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National Columnists

Work required to reclaim mantle of change

“Democrats are like the Yankees,” said one of the most memorable tweets to come across on X after Election Day. “Spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lose the big series and no one got fired or was held accountable.” Too sad. But that’s politics. The disappointment behind that ...

Politics of economic redistribution, RIP

Whatever happened to the Democrats’ reputation as the party favoring the working man? Put another way, what happened to the Democrats as the party promising economic redistribution from the rich to the average man? Those are questions that Democrats are asking after Vice President Kamala ...

Post-election, we can be honest about Alamo

En route to visit family in South Texas for Thanksgiving, we stopped in San Antonio to enjoy the riverwalk and take our 9-year-old son to the Alamo. If you’re a student in Texas, the state is really particular about how that 1836 battle at the old Spanish Mission gets taught. Perhaps this ...

Will Kennedy make America healthy again?

The way America thinks about health care is terribly wrong. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that a staggering 74% of adults in America are obese or overweight. Don’t search for a scapegoat like McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken. The problem is that we ignore ...

IRS’s worldwide tax grab needs to end

The new year will bring a new administration, and I’ll be watching to see if President-elect Donald Trump’s team finally puts an end to the worldwide taxation of individual Americans’ income. Fixing this is imperative. It would not only be sound fiscal policy but could keep millions of ...

Pardon contributes to cynicism about Washington

Clearly, President Biden didn’t mean it last June when he responded to a question about whether he would pardon his son, Hunter. “I am not going to do anything, I will abide by the jury’s decision,” the president said. He repeated that assertion on other occasions. So did his press ...