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Stiehm: Biden’s age paid off in debt limit crisis

Ain't no way to run a railroad, Congress, facing a debt limit crisis. The United States Treasury came close to going over the edge of default — and danger lingers if Congress doesn't act to raise the federal borrowing limit like, now. The lesson learned: Republicans who threatened to derail ...

Erickson: A demarcation point

Last week, noted pastor and theologian Tim Keller died. While the world is focused on Gov. Ron DeSantis's bid for the presidency, many Christians have focused on Keller's wit and wisdom. A Presbyterian pastor, Keller's death drew comment from all corners of Protestantism and even from Catholic ...

Barone: Mugged by reality? Or respectful of common sense?

A conservative, to paraphrase and slightly alter Irving Kristol's saying, is a liberal who has been mugged by reality — especially by a reality that is plain to the vast bulk of ordinary people but remains inexplicably invisible to liberal intellectuals and politicians. That saying applies, ...

Charen: Tim Scott and the Republican Id

Watching Tim Scott's announcement speech, I was struck by how differently I would have responded to his message 10 years ago. In 2013 I wrote: "It's to their credit that Republicans are obsessed with getting the government to address its unconscionable and unmanageable debt, freeing up the ...

Harrop: DeSantis should worry whether he can even win Florida again

Ron DeSantis apparently wants to be president. His pitch rests on the "Florida blueprint," the stuff he's done as the state's governor. But the assumption that the American majority wants much of the DeSantis program is shaky. It's not even clear that Floridians do. A Pew poll has 56% of ...

Stiehm: McCarthy’s messy fraternity house

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield, California, comes from central casting as a fraternity president. Trim looks, blue blazers, back slaps to the bros and affable, but vain and vapid. Fraternity parties are known for violent destruction the morning after ...

Robbins: Democrats scramble to whitewash a scandal of their own

From national security adviser Michael Flynn to Rep. George Santos, former President Donald Trump has promoted, deployed and spawned an epic parade of dishonest lawbreakers in his own mold. Democrats have had a justifiable field day pointing out what can euphemistically be called the ...

McCaughey: Democrats’ new rule — Migrants first, everyone last

Democrats' new rule: If you're not a migrant, go to the back of the line. Gary Moretti and his fiancee booked 30 rooms at The Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York, for their bridesmaids and guests for a June 24 wedding. But New York City Mayor Eric Adams' migrant-first policy demolished ...

Barone: The Russia collusion hoax: Unpatriotic?

The report of special counsel John Durham is, or ought to be, devastating for anyone who has put any credence in what has now been definitively revealed to be the Russia collusion hoax. With a painstaking examination of the evidence (1,753 footnotes!), Durham establishes conclusively that ...