Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo playing co-pilot with President Biden would offer Democrats a truly powerful ticket in 2024. She belongs at the front of the line of potential new running mates.
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Cal Thomas: Sex and the city: Political edition
The Republican Party, the party that for years has styled itself as the party of “family values” and “traditional marriage” has lost all credibility on these issues.
America can take care of our poorest children. We just don’t want to.
When COVID threatened the already janky network of child-care centers available to parents, the nation finally stepped into action and expanded benefits to child-care centers. It worked.
Striking UAW can’t bring back the 1950s or wish EVs away
The solution to the U.S. backlash against Japanese vehicle imports was ultimately for the likes of Honda to simply build the cars here. The IRA’s subsidies are designed to encourage this, if politics allow.
Clarence Page: New York is having an immigration crisis? Join the club of receiving cities
Many migrants would like to work and support themselves and their families, but the process and approval of work permits is too grindingly slow.
Rich Lowry: Yes, Joe Biden is corrupt
We already know that Biden was complicit in an inherently corrupt enterprise that centered on selling access to him when he was a high government official.
Froma Harrop: Must we gorge on the 2024 horse race? Absolutely not
Polls might be of interest close to the election, but we’re not close or anywhere near. The election is almost 14 months away, and if you recall, polls 14 days before the 2016 election showed Hillary Clinton winning.
Cal Thomas: The ‘hypocrisy’ label has lost its power
Democrats have styled themselves as advocates for the poor. Failing to renew the Illinois scholarship program would deservedly earn them the hypocrisy label with a dishonor cluster.
Austin Bay: The Ukraine War is also a blood-for-oil war
The czarist and Soviet communist Russian empires were largely self-sufficient entities possessing the resources and millions of people required to field powerful military forces. However, when the USSR collapsed, the Kremlin’s empire lost about half of its population and significant food and energy resources.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Toward a new police-community contract
It troubles me that police are in the spotlight more for shooting people than for putting themselves in harm’s way. We need a model for police work that puts officers and the public in more contact. Unhostile contact.