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Opinion

Trump must rank as the most pro-Israel president in history

Donald Trump has held many rallies, but never one in the parliament of a foreign nation. President Trump’s speech to the Knesset on Monday was a raucous, celebratory affair with the audience of Israeli lawmakers showering him with adulation. Trump’s reception made it a little like a ...

Networks promote Democrats vs. ‘combative’ Pam Bondi

One way you can demonstrate how the liberal networks run on dunking Republicans is how they cover congressional hearings. For weeks, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer has been probing how the Biden White House staff covered up former President Joe Biden’s mental decline, and all the ...

Americans must not allow hate to spoil their humanity

Recently, I watched the live-streamed memorial for Charlie Kirk, the recently slain political activist and organizer of the Christian right. During his life in the public eye, I considered many of his ideas abhorrent, bigoted and cruel. I still do, but I’m not interested in litigating his ...

State lawmakers should not dictate schools’ curriculum

First, state lawmakers wanted to make sure teachers understood what they were NOT allowed to teach; now they are introducing the bits they do want teachers to include, despite repeated insistence they are not serving their own personal agendas by doing so. Ohio educators at all levels have ...

Virginians have opportunity to vote for decency in November

In 2017, in a special Senate election in Alabama to replace Jeff Sessions, Alabama’s electorate sent Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate after a series of disturbing allegations about Republican candidate Roy Moore. In 2022, Georgia voters elected every statewide Republican candidate for ...

Democrats and Republicans often misperceive each other

Just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a New York Times / Siena poll found that Americans believe polarization is the second most serious challenge facing the nation. (The economy came in first.) As recently as one year ago, fewer than 1% of registered voters cited polarization as a ...