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Joe Manchin and London Breed have nothing in common. One is an old-school Democratic senator from West Virginia, surviving and thriving in an increasi...

President Joe Biden has the misfortune to be president at the moment when corporate America has decided to get together and gouge American consumers. ...

Monday marked the 58th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the streets of Dallas. It’s time for the government to release...

“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” the economist Thomas Sowell once said. Looking at the way prices are rapidly...

Joe Biden was never exactly a colossus bestriding the Earth, but he’s been getting smaller by the day. A Washington Post poll over the weekend suggest...

As the nation’s political press obsess over the fate of the administration’s Build Back Better proposal, nothing less than the ultimate success or fai...

President Joe Biden is sending a team of show horses to the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next month to show the world that the U.S. is a le...

Here is where the Old Contrarian (me) seeks to diminish the importance of what Old Yeller (not the 1956 children’s book, but the 45th president of the...

How does a stupid and ridiculous lie come to be embraced and promulgated by top officials of the United States government? Well, as it turns out, it’s...

President Joe Biden sounded all the right notes in his Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke on the need for global coopera...

As the U.S. House rushed Tuesday on legislation to fund the government, suspend the federal debt limit and provide disaster and refugee aid, U.S. Glen...

In his book, “A Magician Among the Spirits,” Harry Houdini relates the story of the life and career of a sketchy spiritualist named Daniel Dunglas Hom...

I wrote recently about an Afghan human rights activist who ran shelters for abused women but was forced by Taliban advances to flee her home. She is n...

Teddy Roosevelt fervently believed that the president of the United States should be at the center of the political universe, constantly attracting at...

President Joe Biden declared on Monday that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq would cease by the end of this year. But he also made clear that U.S. forc...

RIP, Trade Promotion Authority. The law that allowed Congress to fast-track consideration of trade agreements expired on July 1. Trade agreements will...

Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir Putin said back ...

On June 19, 1865, 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas. They carried a message for the 250,000 enslaved people of the Confederate stat...

All sorts of information is now spilling out about how former president Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sought to investigate leaks related to th...

Recently, former President Donald Trump and people around him have been dropping more and more hints that he will run for president in 2024. “I look f...