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Editorials and columns

‘RINOs,’ Meet the ‘Depublicans’

For some years now, conservatives who believe in free markets and limited government have been labeled RINOs -- "Republicans in name only" -- as GOP liberals or moderates have historically been known. The MAGA movement flings this term as an insult and a signal that respecting the realities of ...

A Republican who wants to raise taxes

Congress is debating major funding bills that would avoid another of those phony government "shutdowns" now scheduled for January 30. One sticking point is that Democrats want to either defund ICE, or greatly reduce its budget even though it is following the law in arresting and deporting ...

In real life, there’s no new ‘CBS Newsmax’ under Bari Weiss

The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as "CBS Newsmax," like it's lurched dramatically to the right. But if you're monitoring CBS in real life, there's plenty of evidence that "classic CBS" is still operating. In recent days, CBS ...

Who’s afraid of the Ten Commandments?

On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The predictable controversy surrounding the litigation, which involves similar but distinct mandatory ...

For some, Trump’s mask is finally slipping

Throughout 2017 and into 2018, I hoped that a moment would come when Republicans would see Donald Trump clearly. But years ago, I accepted that the scales-falling-from-the-eyes revelation will never come for the MAGA faithful. They are too invested. Still, as a recent Chicago Tribune report ...