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I won’t share Dr. Seuss with a mouse. I won’t read Dr. Seuss to my spouse. I’ve been told Dr. Seuss is a louse. So no more Seuss at the White...
In the space of less than two months, Amanda Gorman has gone from being a respected young literary voice to arguably the world’s most famous living...
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was a hero. Nothing can change that. However, nearly two months after his death following the Jan. 6 Capitol...
A little over a year after a damning inspector general’s report on the Trump-Russia “collusion” probe, it turns out the chickens have come home...
Anti-police sentiment has its consequences. Those consequences can be tallied in numbers — although the human cost that lurks behind them can’t be...
When the restive Israelites thought Moses was tarrying a bit too long with God atop Mount Sinai, they built themselves a golden calf to worship. Moses...
Fiscal continence wasn’t a hallmark of the three-and-change terms Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as president. This isn’t to say that if he had...
The Biden administration had better hope the world needs a lot of American-made solar panels. If not, the calculus of its environmental jobs push...
When it comes to statehood changes that the United States might be facing in the coming years, the two issues that spring most readily to mind —...
Former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference was, in a way, heightened by his Twitter ban. This...
There are two unpleasant truths regarding the gruesome murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey,...
On Aug. 21, Julia Louis-Dreyfus was one of the featured speakers at the Democratic National Convention. Taken on its own, the appearance itself was...
Don’t get me wrong — I’m not given to waging holy jihad against escapist entertainment. I’ve watched “Road House” at least ten times and...
Doublespeak in Washington, D.C., isn’t just a common phenomenon — it’s the norm. That said, even by that low linguistic standard, the Biden...
Neither Chinese divorce law nor marriage would be considered my métier, so to speak. I know enough about one of these things, however, to conclude...
We’ve heard a lot about the “Big Lie” these past few weeks, particularly since the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol. It’s supposed to refer...
In late January and early February, as President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief package began to take shape, the hashtag #BidenLied began trending...
This week, the Biden administration began to feel the heat on immigration for the first time. Due to the fact the new president is pushing eventual...
Genuine evil exists in this world. Law enforcement officers try to prevent it from happening to the best of their ability and within the confines...
On Monday, the first episode of Bruce Springsteen’s new podcast was released. This ordinarily would be big news, but the Boss wasn’t even the...
A few weeks ago, conservative actor Kevin Sorbo got himself into the soup when he “addiction-shamed” Hunter Biden. “Tell Hunter Biden he forgot...
A post-election profile of Joe Biden campaign adviser Anita Dunn in The Atlantic was titled, “The Mastermind Behind Biden’s No-Drama Approach to...
Here’s your fun fact for Wednesday morning: Provided its subjects are listening to their government, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...
Happy belated Groundhog Day, everyone. Sorry about being a bit late about it. To be fair, I didn’t even know we were in yet another time loop until...
It’s always telling when The Washington Post is running interference for any Democrat, especially Joe Biden. You can grok a lot of things from the...
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is term-limited, meaning his successor will be picked this November in an off-year election and sworn in in 2022. That...
Open your calendar app and mark the date: Feb. 22, 2021. That’s when “The View” co-host Meghan McCain finally realized that maybe Dr. Anthony...
Will they or won’t they? That’s the question that’ll have to be answered by the Senate parliamentarian after Senate Democrats and Republicans...
Rush Limbaugh was a radio and cultural icon — a man who could take on the left with half his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair. He...
Finally. It’s been a while since we had a good Robin DiAngelo outrage. Sure, “White Fragility” is still near the top of the bestseller list,...
It’s Politico and I don’t expect much, but the headline somehow managed to fall below my expectations: “Trump gears up for war with his own...
Brian Stelter’s CNN show, “Reliable Sources,” hasn’t covered the scandal regarding New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home...
If President Joe Biden had taken a trip to Mexico and left his dogs home, do you think the mainstream media would have noticed that he only declared a...
I remember the kids in my high school trying to look older in order to get into rated R movies or buy cigarettes. I would have hoped that kind of...
It was called Operation Choke Point — an Obama-era initiative specifically aimed at politically unpopular, but perfectly legal businesses that...
There were two key takeaways I had from watching President Biden’s town hall meeting on CNN last Tuesday. First, this is a man who shouldn’t be...
It’s been a particularly ugly beginning to 2021 in so many respects, particularly the weather. As of Friday, 70 percent of the United States was...
Across the nation, parents who want their kids back doing in-person learning have complained about unresponsive school boards that stonewall,...
If and when the time comes when people want to honor former President Donald Trump, Democratic Rep. Linda Sánchez of California wants to ensure none...
At this point, New York state counts more than 15,000 COVID-19 victims from nursing homes, compared with the 8,500 acknowledged in just weeks ago,...
I was under the impression, during the final year of the Trump administration, that Dr. Anthony Fauci was the voice of science. This wasn’t...
The phrase “saying the quiet part loud,” for the uninitiated, takes its name from “The Simpsons.” In an episode where Springfield holds a film...
There was, in the hours following Rush Limbaugh’s death Wednesday at the age of 70, a rush of praise and of judgment-passing about his career and...
On Tuesday, when radio icon Rush Limbaugh passed away at the age of 70 from lung cancer, there was almost a sinking feeling when you read the...
The unity presidency is going to use its honeymoon period to advance one of the most divisive, liberal pieces of legislation in the Biden...
President Joe Biden is still hot on the idea that his administration didn’t inherit any COVID vaccination strategy from the Trump administration —...
In the run-up to 2021’s Black History Month, the first since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody touched off a worldwide...
If you want a preview of how the Biden administration is going to look when it comes to regulatory authority, consider what President Joe Biden did on...