Rich Lowry: The GOP race is not quite as over as it looks

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Published
August 24, 2023

Rich Lowry: The GOP race is not quite as over as it looks

Iowa can break late. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who won Iowa in 2012, didn't really start moving until late December. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won four years earlier, started his upward march around November. If someone is going to replicate this kind of climb, the big upward move may still be months away.
Published
August 23, 2023

Cal Thomas: Questions I would ask the GOP candidates

Wednesday night (Aug. 23)’s GOP primary debate in Milwaukee for the Republican candidates for the presidency will be more a Q&A session than a classic debate, but that’s OK. Viewers will have a chance to take the measure of the men — and woman — who wish to become president.
Published
August 21, 2023

Trump and Bankman-Fried face speech limits as criminal defendants

Witness tampering and obstruction count as a dangers to the community — either can result in bail being denied or revoked. It's illegal to interfere with testimony or other aspects of the trial.
Published
August 20, 2023

Cal Thomas: Back to what type of school?

As millions of children return to public school, it’s a good idea to again examine what they are being taught and what is being left out. It also offers an annual opportunity for parents to ask if their kids are being educated or indoctrinated.
Published
August 20, 2023

Austin Bay: The Biden administration’s Afghanistan bug-out continues to have disastrous consequences

Americans aren't dying from Afghan-exported terrorism — not yet.

Published
August 20, 2023

Froma Harrop: What’s happening to people?

America is the land of plenty, but to many, it's become a world of envy and anger. Nowadays, malcontents seem to feel more entitled to act out in anti-social ways.
Published
August 20, 2023

Clarence Page: Will the upending of the ‘Blind Side’ story help chill Hollywood’s ‘white savior’ complex?

Of course, I’m not opposed to white actors or characters. I’d just like to see the sort of diversity that roughly reflects our cultural diversity and fully developed characters who reflect what we humans increasingly can see is real life — here and around the globe.
Published
August 19, 2023

Clarence Page: Why #MontgomeryRiverfrontBrawl gained new meaning in Black conversations

The sight of Black people rushing to the defense of an endangered Black person and the police responding by properly subduing the suspects, especially in a city with all the historical baggage Montgomery carries with it from the civil rights era, you gain a new appreciation of how the system can work, when it’s supposed to. You can see it in the tweets.
Published
August 19, 2023

Rich Lowry: How Eric Adams has vindicated immigration restrictionism

In his desperate pleas for federal help to deal with about 100,000 migrants who have come to New York City since the spring of 2022, Mayor Eric Adams is vindicating the hawkish position on immigration with almost every utterance.
Published
August 19, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The most interesting state that isn’t named Maine

I narrowed to three a list of interesting states. Minnesota, North Carolina and Virginia. Minnesota for Scandinavian culture and terrific cities, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth. North Carolina for diverse culture, mountains and the Outer Banks. But I settled on Virginia.

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