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SHAPIRO: The Republican Party’s dissidents are showing themselves the door

Tucker Carlson says he can no longer support the Republican Party. In that regard, he finds himself in familiar company. A growing faction on the populist Right — including figures such as Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes — has increasingly positioned itself in ...

STOSSEL: Minimum wage fail

Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving ... Lots of people like gig work. It's flexible. You work when you want to work. But "workers' rights" activists and ...

HARROP: We should vote on ideas, not physical likeness

MS NOW commentator Ali Velshi was not alone in complaining that women are "underrepresented" in Congress. It is true that women account for 51% of the U.S. population but only 29% of the House members. To which I say, "So what." Basing the notion of fair representation on racial, gender ...

GARVEY: General Time is undefeated in battle

I am on a mudslide toward death. Well, we all are, really, when you think about it, but sometimes it just seems you're slipping down the side of the mountain faster than at other times. Like, for example, when you're approaching a birthday that starts with a "fif" and ends with crying in the ...

BARONE: Not following the example of President James K. Polk

A president orders the onset of hostilities — war — without authorization of Congress and without much in the way of making a case with the public. His troops win important victories and decapitate large parts of the government of the enemy. But in the enemy capital, no one surrenders or ...