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Paul Ryan -- Still an Entitlements Reform Crusader? Apr. 13, 2018
Concerning Paul Ryan's decision to leave Congress, I am more troubled by its implications for entitl... Read More
Republicans and Patriotism Apr. 07, 2018
The election night words of the long-shot Republican candidate after his upset victory remain with m... Read More
Trump's Tit-for-Tat Trade Policy Could Leave the Economy in Tatters Apr. 05, 2018
President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet that "trade wars are good, and easy to win." Unfortunately... Read More
Our Time-Tested Parties Aren't About to Fall Apart Mar. 30, 2018
Some days, the Republican Party seems on the verge of splitting up. Its congressional majorities cou... Read More
Hope for the Dead Mar. 29, 2018
What is the connection between personal freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its in... Read More
The Spending Bill Brings Us Closer to National Bankruptcy Mar. 29, 2018
Someday, elderly Americans will reminisce about the days when the federal budget was in surplus, and... Read More
Welcome, John Bolton Mar. 23, 2018
Now, we are getting somewhere! President Trump's decision to replace General H.R. McMaster with form... Read More
Capital Idea: Seize the Oligarchs' Manhattan Penthouses Mar. 20, 2018
The poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in the English countryside has roused Britons to two truths: Vladi... Read More
Luck of the Irish Mar. 16, 2018
Green has never been my favorite color, but I happily wore it each March 17 growing up. Attending Ca... Read More
Secret Ballot Mar. 12, 2018
Here's a little story from the 1960s. My parents were ordinary working people. They went to Mass eve... Read More
Trump's North Korea Gambit Could Be a Big Deal, for Good or Ill Mar. 11, 2018
It's not Richard Nixon's opening to China. It's not Neville Chamberlain's journey to Munich. But Pre... Read More
Trump on Trade: Better Than Smoot-Hawley? Mar. 09, 2018
Donald Trump's announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other cou... Read More
Are We Losing Mexico? And Canada? Mar. 01, 2018
The United States under President Trump has been retreating from leadership roles in Asia and Europe... Read More
Don't Take The Onion's Pessimism Too Seriously Feb. 23, 2018
"Study: 90 Percent Of Americans Strongly Opposed To Each Other." That's the headline on a story in w... Read More
In Facing Russia, We Don't Even Have a Neville Chamberlain Feb. 22, 2018
"Darkest Hour" follows Winston Churchill's struggle to rouse Britain to confront the Nazi menace. Wi... Read More
Will Automation Kill Our Jobs? Feb. 21, 2018
A recent article in The Guardian dons the foreboding title "Robots will destroy our jobs — and... Read More
A Million Dollars a Minute Feb. 15, 2018
Imagine you open the faucet of your kitchen sink expecting water and instead out comes cash. Now ima... Read More
Black History Month Feb. 14, 2018
Carter G. Woodson, noted scholar, historian and educator, created "Negro History Week" in 1926, whic... Read More
Clean Energy and Dollars Are Both Green Feb. 06, 2018
Some of the nation's fiercest winds tear across the 100-odd miles separating Casper and Rawlins, mak... Read More
Immigration Lies and Hypocrisy Jan. 31, 2018
President Donald Trump reportedly asked why the U.S. is "having all these people from shithole count... Read More
