Last week the White House accused Moscow of sending saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to create a provocation that would give Vladimir Putin an excuse to invade the country, after amassing 100,00…
Bill Clinton used to say that all elections are about the future. It’s true. Voters want to know what candidates will do in office — how they will fix problems — and if they can be trusted to …
Members of Congress who acquire detailed information about every aspect of the economy can’t be trusted to police themselves against profiting from it through insider trading.
Glenn Youngkin promised to be on the side of parents as Virginia governor, and on his first day in office, he delivered.
Top-ranked tennis star Novak Djokovic finally got his comeuppance for reckless behavior unbecoming of a global sports ambassador. Australia’s government deported him, and his exclusion from th…
A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about it too much?
In a pandemic, things can move quickly.
FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requirements for our nation’s capital.
After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights.
Two years into the pandemic, the Supreme Court has finally established that the government has to operate within its defined powers, even in times of national emergency.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
It’s been more than 50 years since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. We’re within seven years of the centennial of his birth. Yet, instead of bearing down on his ideals of …
Over years of following American politics, I’d come to regard Joe Biden as harmless — a back-slapper without strong conviction, given to exaggeration and the occasional outright lie, but no wo…
So here’s my question: Let’s say you’re Attorney General Merrick Garland. Filing a criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump should be a fairly straightforward matter, even tho…
Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you have to work.
Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anything through the Senate — for a narrow categ…
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on terms favorable to Democrats. “We are goin…
As life returned somewhat to normal last year after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020, America’s briefly reduced greenhouse gas emissions have started climbing toward normal as well, according to…
Poor choices can have serious consequences — even for superstar athletes.
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The first anniversary of the Capitol riot was marked last week with the expected political drama.
This week, Western nations have been trying to rebuff Russia’s threats to invade Ukraine for the second time in eight years.
The ever-increasing connectivity between phones and the complex infotainment systems in automobiles may be putting our civil liberties at risk. Technology should never be used as an end-around…
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule — whatever is not forbidden must be mandated.
During the late 1970s, American families experienced stagflation — a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the summer of 1980, unemployment hit 7.8% and the…
Lucky countries have celebrations that remind their citizens of what binds them together — think Memorial Day or the Fourth of July.
For anyone who believes that America’s elite institutions of higher learning are taken far too seriously — and I count myself among the believers — the last two years have been bracing. Of cou…
Many conservatives cheered Elon Musk’s recent recognition as Time’s “Person of the Year,” especially since Musk has been outspoken in refuting pandemic orthodoxies, criticizing big government …
As the outpouring of sadness across social media showed, you’d be hard-pressed to find an American who was as beloved as Betty White.
In March 2020, kids went home from school on Friday and didn’t come back for months. Some didn’t walk through the school doors in person until August 2021.
Gone was President Joe Biden’s pleading, folksy, queasy tone that usually permeates his public remarks. Instead, he went hard on the attack against Donald Trump, the person who most deserved t…
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — My family has been fortunate during the pandemic. With our vaccinations and the precautions we’ve taken, and surely some luck, we haven’t had any infection scares.
The Constitution must be defended — except when it must be jettisoned for convenience.
The only legitimate reason to stage an official anniversary commemoration of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots would be to issue a call to unity and urge the nation to tone down their mistrust and bitt…
Student suspensions and expulsions are skyrocketing since the deadly shooting at Oxford High School last month, as school officials practice increased vigilance to head-off any possible violence.
It’s an election year — and Americans will be voting sooner than many people may realize. The first primary election is in Texas on March 1, fewer than two months away.
