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Editorials and columns

The siren song of despair

Charlie Kirk was a one-man answer to campus illiberalism. He rose to prominence at a time when university administrators and progressive students were working in league to make campuses no-go zones for conservatives. They effectively banned them from faculties. They didn't invite them on ...

A society paralyzed by the presence of evil

This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train. The video of the incident is absolutely horrifying: Brown, clad ...

Tom Hanks is canceled and Donald Trump applauds

The West Point Association of Graduates announced on June 11 that movie actor Tom Hanks would receive this year's Sylvanus Thayer Award at a ceremony and parade this month hosted by the U.S. Military Academy. The award goes "to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and ...

Which tax breaks work, which don’t, and what that tells us

Everyone in Washington loves tax credits and deductions. Politicians tout them as a painless way to help families pay for green energy, buy homes or lower the cost of health care. They're also politically irresistible: No one wants to be accused of "raising taxes" by trimming perks that voters ...

Swami enjoying the season

There is a big difference between working and retirement, at least Swami says so. Work wise, he had the thought of weekends, which were for things he had to catch up on, like cutting grass, straightening up the garage, etc. Now the All-Knowing-One has shifted gears; all those manual labor jobs ...

How long will we tolerate the madness in our streets?

In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city's mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place. Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, "a tragic situation ...