Bob Neal: The Countryman: For these I give thanks

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Published
November 20, 2021

Bob Neal: The Countryman: For these I give thanks

As we near our annual orgy of grace and gluttony, we have a lot for which to be thankful. Most of all, I'm grateful for communities that keep on keeping on through it all.
Published
November 18, 2021

Rich Lowry: Joe Biden’s incredible shrinking presidency

Biden is stumbling, out of touch, and weak. Two of his major initiatives, at the border and in Afghanistan, created completely avoidable catastrophes. He has given no sense of being in control of events or even his own party. He is an accidental president who is running smack into his own inadequacies and absurd pretensions.
Published
November 18, 2021

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The Nazis are coming

That, to a distressing extent, is the crux of the argument being mounted by some of those who refuse to obey vaccine mandates. On Sunday, a group of them even showed up at the Bronx office of New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz with yellow Stars of David affixed to their clothes.
Published
November 17, 2021

Froma Harrop: Political freeloaders are all around us

They are to the left of us. They are to the right. These are politicians who grandstand, who vote against their constituents' interests, knowing that their tougher colleagues will do the hard work.
Published
November 17, 2021

Cal Thomas: Threats of more lawlessness in New York

Eric Adams, the incoming mayor of New York City, met last week with Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, and about a dozen other members of the organization. According to local Fox5 TV, Newsome threatened "riots, fire and bloodshed" if Adams reinstate the NYPD's controversial anti-crime unit.

Published
November 16, 2021

Froma Harrop: The SALT tax deduction is actually progressive

Curbing the deduction forces Americans to pay taxes on income that's already gone to paying taxes. But it's more diabolical than that. It acts as an incentive for upper-income Americans to move to states with regressive tax laws and meager social safety nets — while at the same time degrading the tax bases of the very states that maintain progressive tax policies.
Published
November 15, 2021

AARP urges support of Build Back Better Act

The drug companies spend millions on lobbyists and lobbying campaigns to try to keep their high prices and high profits. They spend billions more every year on marketing and advertising than they do on research and the development of new drugs that could save lives and alleviate pain. Big Pharma is more focused on profits than the health and well-being of Maine seniors.
Published
November 15, 2021

An Air Force sergeant killed himself on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The note he left is heartbreaking.

"In the past decade that I have spent in veterans advocacy, much has been done about the veterans suicide epidemic with few results," Naveed Shah said. "Santiago's death in this hallowed place, at this time of reverence for veterans, perhaps should provide pause for government officials and elected leaders in Washington to consider the impact 20 years of wars have had on our armed forces."
Published
November 15, 2021

On gasoline prices, Biden is more therapist than doctor

Policies do have an impact over time, and Biden's bigger project of decarbonizing the economy will hit a wall if mandated shifts in energy supply aren't matched by changes in demand. This is essential to the current political moment, too.
Published
November 14, 2021

Rich Lowry: Inflation is a dagger aimed at Joe Biden’s presidency

Of course, we aren't anywhere close to the late 1970s, when inflation hit double-digits. But the latest numbers — with prices increasing 6.2%, the biggest annual increase in more than 30 years — should be a fire bell in the night for Democrats.

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