The current Farm Bill expires on Saturday, Sept. 30 and, unfortunately, the new bill is in jeopardy amid the potential disruptions of a federal government shutdown if Congress doesn’t come together to pass a compromise budget.
Op-Eds
Cal Thomas: Rupert Murdoch: Right from the start
I spent 19 years as a Fox News Channel contributor and believe there would likely be no Fox News Channel, or talk radio, were it not for the monopoly the left has enjoyed for years in deciding what is news and what isn’t and slanting their reporting to fit their mostly liberal political positions. If the broadcast news divisions had hired some openly conservative reporters and producers, Fox might never have happened.
Some kinds of dogs shouldn’t be allowed as pets
I am frankly suspicious of anyone who wants to own a bully dog. Limiting preferences for such dogs now would help limit the spread of the XL bully dog itself, which has been in the U.K. only since about 2014 or 2015.
Rich Lowry: John Fetterman makes the U.S. Senate safe for disgraceful slobs
What the Missouri Compromise was to Henry Clay, what the Second Reply to Hayne was to Daniel Webster, what the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was to Lyndon Johnson, Carhartt sweatshirts and baggy shorts will be to John Fetterman.
Froma Harrop: If she said, he should also be able to say
In 2018, Yale University held a disciplinary hearing at which a female student told her story of allegedly being raped after a Halloween party but couldn’t be questioned back.
Cal Thomas: British to be forced to drive electric
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, after first announcing a mandate requiring all fossil fueled vehicles sold in the UK after 2030 to be electric, succumbed to pressure from the Conservative Party and within his own government and announced Wednesday a delay until 2035. His goal remains net zero by 2050.
Clarence Page: MAGA was only the beginning of Mitt Romney’s worries
“A very large portion of my party,” Romney tells McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, “really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” That’s why he spends $5,000 a day since the insurrection on private security for his family, Romney said.
Austin Bay: Taiwan arms for war — if deterrence fails
If Taiwan becomes a concrete porcupine — with trained soldiers, modern weapons and reinforced bunkers supported by air and sea assets delivering sea mines and missile strikes — Beijing will never take the island.
Clarence Page: Yes, Black parents like school choice too
It has become a grand tradition in journalism and politics to uncover a high-profile official who is responsible for public schools, yet — oops! — puts their own offspring in a private school.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Strong words from north of the border
Justin Trudeau has been wracked by scandals, many minor but cumulatively evidence that he is not so smooth an operator as his late father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada’s third-longest-serving PM.