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Bob Franken: Federal government’s sad song …
In 1932, as the Great Depression took hold and once-proud Americans were reduced to begging, Bing Crosby recorded…
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Cal Thomas: Cough up, America
When you receive your paycheck and look at the withholding for federal, state and sometimes city taxes, along…
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Cal Thomas: The Trump speech and the response
Despite advance billing that President Trump’s border wall speech would break news and contain new information, it was…
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Rich Lowry: Millennial socialism 101
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s so-called Green New Deal makes the obligatory nod to the original New Deal, but FDR’s handiwork…
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Cal Thomas: What’s the point of a carbon tax rebate?
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish government is proposing rebates to a carbon tax it recently imposed to households…
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Rich Lowry: The irrational allergy to the wall
It’s a wonder that Democrats haven’t staked out a negotiating position demanding the destruction of already-existing barriers along…
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Cal Thomas: Decision time on Brexit
LONDON — To Brexit, or not to Brexit, that is the question (apologies to Shakespeare). The answer to…
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Bob Franken: Trump between Iraq and a hard place
As we hopefully shout “Happy New Year!” let’s hand it to President Donald Trump. There he was, the…
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Bob Franken: And the winner is …
I am happy to report that television news hangs on, even in this fragmented world of social media,…
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Rich Lowry: Trump should chill about the stock market
Donald Trump may watch the stock market more closely than any day trader.
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Cal Thomas: No peace or goodwill
Not for a long time has the world seemed so removed from the angelic proclamation of 2,000 years…
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Rich Lowry: The insufferable James Comey
Never before has a former FBI director boasted about taking advantage of an administration’s disorganization for his own…
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Bob Franken: Season’s hallucinations
T’was the time around Xmas, and all through the White House,
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Bob Franken: Lame-duck mucking
OK, I get it. After an election, when the incumbent is about to be transformed into the former,…
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Cal Thomas: And Now the Boy Scouts
The erosion of what many Americans once believed were the foundations of our country continues apace. They include,…
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Rich Lowry: If there’s no collusion, there’s always Stormy Daniels
The most legally fraught part of the Russia probe now revolves around payments to an American porn star.
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Opinion: Marijuana Board should not allow onsite marijuana consumption
The Alaska Marijuana Control Board is considering proposed regulations to allow retail marijuana establishments to add “marijuana consumption…
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Bob Franken: The fake-potpourri column
The word “potpourri” has a few definitions, but for a columnist it means writing about a bunch of…
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George H.W. Bush: Man of character
I first met the man who would become America’s 41st president in 1968. He was a Houston congressman…