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Charen: The ‘criminal immigrant’ canard

President Joe Biden chose to scrap a bit with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at the State of the Union — a choice that should remind us of the old saw, "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." Greene has two modes: heckling and lying. This time, she was doing both by ...

De Rugy: Biden’s corporate tax hike: Populism versus economic literacy

In the latest volley of policy proposals that seem more rooted in populist rhetoric than economic knowledge, President Joe Biden's budget plan to hike the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28% strikes me as particularly misguided. This move, ostensibly aimed at ensuring a "fair share" of ...

Harrop: Build anything anywhere threatens communities

YIMBY sounds nice. YIMBY stands for "Yes in My Backyard." It's a positive-sounding rejoinder to NIMBY, "Not in My Backyard." The NIMBY label is being used to stigmatize defenders of zoning laws, with the goal of bulldozing the rules. Needless to say, real estate developers are all for YIMBY ...

Stiehm: Illustrating paths toward peace in times of war

Accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy dedicated his Oscar to "the peacemakers" in our post-atomic bomb world. That struck a chord close to home. My mother wrote the book on women peacemakers. An Austrian aristocratic novelist. A Guatemalan ...

Robbins: Hate rape – The kids say it’s OK

The United Nations has long been so uniformly corrupt on the subject of Israel that anytime it ekes out an acknowledgement of attacks on the Jewish state — however reluctantly, belatedly and perfunctorily it does so — it's a man-bite-dog story. Last week, a U.N. official who had clearly ...

Erickson: The evils of two lessers

The Democrats and Republicans have, together, decided to subject the American public to a rerun of the 2020 presidential election. This may be an exceedingly low turnout election, as most Americans, outside the bases of the two parties, have no desire to vote for either Joe Biden or Donald ...

Barone: Are voters recoiling against disorder?

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024. With Nikki Haley's withdrawal, there will be no more significantly contested primaries or ...

Napolitano: Taking rights seriously

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, Mankind would be no more justified In silencing that one person, Than he, if he had the power, Would be justified in silencing mankind." — John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self-evident truths — truisms — that ...

Charen: There’s another way Trump could get immunity

Apparently interpreting the Supreme Court's decision on the 14th Amendment as a personal vote of confidence, Donald Trump pushed his luck, urging the justices to rule swiftly that he has absolute immunity as well. That is not likely. Most observers thought the court would reject Colorado's ...