Rich Lowry: Skipping the debates has worked for Trump

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Published
October 1, 2023

Rich Lowry: Skipping the debates has worked for Trump

If Donald Trump was hoping that, if he failed to show, his opponents would tear at each other in pursuit of marginal advantage in the race for second, third or fourth place, it hardly could have gone better.
Published
October 1, 2023

Cal Thomas: The second longest ‘play’

If a government shutdown occurs on Oct. 1, both parties will share the blame this time. Democrats usually force the issue, but now a few House Republicans are refusing (so far) to agree to appropriations bills unless they get their way on spending cuts.
Published
September 30, 2023

Clarence Page: Are tables turning on the abortion issue since Dobbs? Be careful what you ask for

I’m sure I wasn’t the only TV viewer who stuck a finger in my ear and jiggled it after I heard former President Donald Trump criticize the six-week abortion ban brought about by his Republican opponent Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Published
September 30, 2023

Froma Harrop: Romney’s third-party idea could boomerang

A designated centrist would drain votes from Democrats as well as Republicans — and in the very swing districts that Democrats need to win if our politics are to return to normal. The far more effective strategy is to simply support Democrats running against the crazies.
Published
September 30, 2023

Rich Lowry: Joe Biden made the worst vice-presidential pick of the last 50 years

As Democrats begin to realize Biden's political weakness, with Donald Trump barreling down the pike, Harris is one of the factors — although not the main one — keeping them from doing anything about it.

Published
September 30, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: This policy shouldn’t have been a surprise

Why on earth are students permitted to have cellphones in class? Yet ... only 76% of schools in the United States forbid students to take cellphones to class. It should be 100%, and it should have happened long ago.
Published
September 29, 2023

Sen. Russell Black: What the Farm Bill means for Maine

The current Farm Bill expires on Saturday, Sept. 30 and, unfortunately, the new bill is in jeopardy amid the potential disruptions of a federal government shutdown if Congress doesn’t come together to pass a compromise budget.
Published
September 28, 2023

Cal Thomas: Rupert Murdoch: Right from the start

I spent 19 years as a Fox News Channel contributor and believe there would likely be no Fox News Channel, or talk radio, were it not for the monopoly the left has enjoyed for years in deciding what is news and what isn’t and slanting their reporting to fit their mostly liberal political positions. If the broadcast news divisions had hired some openly conservative reporters and producers, Fox might never have happened.
Published
September 25, 2023

Some kinds of dogs shouldn’t be allowed as pets

I am frankly suspicious of anyone who wants to own a bully dog. Limiting preferences for such dogs now would help limit the spread of the XL bully dog itself, which has been in the U.K. only since about 2014 or 2015.
Published
September 24, 2023

Rich Lowry: John Fetterman makes the U.S. Senate safe for disgraceful slobs

What the Missouri Compromise was to Henry Clay, what the Second Reply to Hayne was to Daniel Webster, what the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was to Lyndon Johnson, Carhartt sweatshirts and baggy shorts will be to John Fetterman.

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