For as much cash and strategy as partisans put into creating a wave for their own parties, they always seem to miss where the ripple starts and […]
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Defining education down: Bars lowered, gifted programs gone
What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I’m going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up. […]
Democrats need to prioritize, not give fiscal evasions
As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democrats might be expected […]
Looking for fiscal restraint? Ask a Democrat
by Lynn Schmidt I think I am living in an alternate reality. How is it that one of the most outspoken, principled, fiscally conservative members of Congress […]
The unbreakable will of this Pennsylvania town
LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Sometimes, a community’s relationship with its culture and its people is so strong it can withstand anything that tries to break it […]
Guest essay: W.Va. has the right election formula
by Amanda Carpenter West Virginia should be proud of how well it performed during the 2020 election. When confronted with the challenges of the pandemic, Gov. Jim […]
Life along the border collapses
Take all of the imagery you have seen of the over 14,000 Haitian migrants camped under an international bridge in the small Texas border town of Del […]
Destroying America
There are forces that wish to destroy America. Some of them are visible and some are stealth. The visible forces include terrorists and certain nation states like […]
Biden’s unforced COVID miscues
A more competent COVID-19 control plan driven by expertise, not politics, was one of President Joe Biden’s key 2020 campaign promises. But two unforced pandemic management errors […]
$3.5T plan is about to get a trim
by Doyle McManus The battle over Democrats’ ambitious spending plan is heating up in Congress, but one piece of the outcome is already clear: The $3.5 trillion […]