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Stiehm: Aging brings wisdom to Biden

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is a bit older and a lot wiser than former President Donald Trump. Biden, a young, fit 80, traveled on major diplomatic missions to India and Vietnam while Trump, an old, heavy 77, was booed at an Iowa football game. Trump didn't dress for a Big Ten big ...

Robbins: Giving Irish: A nation and a vibrant community celebrate one another

The phrase "fighting Irish" did not originate with Notre Dame's football team, but with the Irish immigrant soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. It was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee himself who is said to have coined the term, a testament to the bravery and effectiveness of ...

Erickson: Sen. Tuberville’s stand

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., refuses to give his consent for the United States Senate to advance hundreds of military promotions. His objection stems from the Biden administration changing military policy to pay for abortion-related travel. Prior to the end of Roe v. Wade, the government ...

Barone: Legalized shoplifting becomes a racket, and minorities hardest hit

You could blame Victor Hugo. In 1846, the French novelist observed a young man being arrested for holding a loaf of bread he stole. Deeply touched, he fashioned his novel "Les Miserables," published in 1862, around the character Jean Valjean, who is imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf ...

Napolitano: Is the CIA in your underwear?

In a year, if a friend asks you if the CIA is in your underwear, you'd probably not take the question seriously. You'd be wrong. The CIA is spending millions in tax dollars to get into your underwear next year. Eleven years ago, when this column asked if the CIA was in your kitchen, folks who ...

Harrop: Can AOC win back our love? Possibly

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been giving interviews of late, serious interviews. The New York representative is clearly maturing. The celebrity-obsessed lefty has turned into a working member of Congress. That's good for all who want the Democratic fringes to stop attacking their moderates and ...

Stossel: Debating a Democrat

Colorado has a popular Democratic governor, Jared Polis. He's a rare Democrat who says, "I'm for more freedom and lower taxes." But is he really? At least he's willing to come to Stossel TV to debate. Refreshingly, Polis supports charter schools. He even founded two. Unfortunately, his ...

Stiehm: Justice for a January day, at last

WASHINGTON — Enrique Tarrio, leader of the extremist Proud Boys, came to the federal courthouse to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy (and other counts) committed on Jan. 6, 2021. The violent Trumpist Proud Boys were first to march to the Capitol, even before former President Donald Trump ...

Robbins: New biography highlights Dr. King’s enduring legacy

On Aug. 26, a 21-year-old White racist left his Florida home, bringing with him his swastika-festooned assault rifle and a handgun. He headed to Edward Waters University, a historically Black university in a largely Black section of Jacksonville, then got out of his car and donned a bulletproof ...

Erickson: New guys are like the old guys

Back before former President Donald Trump's wing of the party took over the establishment, one of the issues that provoked the anti-establishment conservatives to back Trump's coup of the party was the nonstop promise-making of the establishment that the establishment never intended to ...