Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is also America’s problem in her demonstrated ability to paralyze the Republican House from doing its business for weeks on end. The remedy would be replacing the Republican-run House with a Democratic-run one. Would it not?
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Cal Thomas: Warren Buffet is wrong on taxes
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is right most of the time, but he is no prophet, because he is wrong about raising taxes while ignoring spending cuts.
Rich Lowry: Biden has disastrously misplayed the politics of Gaza
President Biden has shown that it’s impossible to be all things to all people, but it is possible to convince most of them that you don’t know what you’re doing.
Rep. Tammy Schmersal-Burgess: Maine’s 72-hour waiting period violates the Constitution
Maine’s recent passage of a 72-hour waiting period to purchase a firearm … is a right delayed and therefore a right denied.
Austin Bay: Pier pressure on Gaza’s shore — and in Michigan
American prestige, equipment and lives are at stake.
Hal Phillips: RiverWatch: Scholastic no-drinking pledges are ethically sticky, even when fairly applied
My kids are out in the world but the graduation parties keep coming. I attended my first of the 2024 season on Mother’s Day — over to Jean Street in Lewiston (well done, Maddy!) — and it surely won’t be the last such engagement this spring. And yet, without kids in a school system, one […]
Clarence Page: DEI on campus and in corporations is due for a change
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in colleges and universities, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hardly looks like it’s in the peak of health.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: At the end of a tough winter
I’m not done writing, but I’m changing lanes. I have two books in mind and have been slowly, too slowly, working on one, a compilation of my columns, opting for those with long shelf life.
Froma Harrop: America needs more schools like De La Salle Academy
The educational needs that schools like De La Salle Academy fill are enormous. There has to be a way to grow this model.
Clarence Page: Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t run the government after all
Our Congress has too much serious work to do for its members to waste time and attention on a minority of members who don’t want to do the hard work of building a majority the old-fashioned way — with persuasion, negotiation and counting votes.