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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

To the Ballot Box … Or Not

There are good bills. Bad bills. And bills best described as, well, Grade A cow patties, flies buzzing all around them, the stench wafting...

America Surrenders

Our president wants you to believe he is in control. He wants you to see him as he would like to see himself, all...

Trump Pushing Rise Of Far Right

On April 6 former German president Christian Wulff observed the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp with a strong warning...

Don’t Let Elon Eat Our Food Future

Over the millennia, farmers everywhere have learned the wisdom of a commonsense practice in agriculture: Don't Eat Your Seed Corn. Raise the best crop you...

Suffer The Little Children, At Kennedy’s Whim

Conducting his first press conference as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved swiftly to demonstrate yet again why he...

From The People’s Business To Family Business

Donald Trump's defenders have taken great offense to suspicions by Democrats and others that the Trump family and its close circle are doing insider...

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