How could it be that even though reservations have been open since mid-June and it’s nearly six months away, sales for Donald Trump’s Florida and Texas appearances in mid-December have been blah. You’d think they would have been sold out by now, particularly since Trump will be paired with .…
As we discussed last week, “critical race theory” is a subtle philosophical construct where the answer to everything is: THAT’S RACIST! Teachers hawking this glop are being defended by their journalist allies, who sneer that CRT critics are too stupid to understand the nuances of the theory.
Political hypocrisy is rarely in short supply in Harrisburg, but a recent move by the Senate State Government Committee deals it in spades. While placing some guardrails on how the state’s congressional districts will be redrawn, the Republican majority removed virtually all of the proposals…
Intent of immigration
As the last presidential election approached, one could sense that something was wrong with the polls. The race felt tighter than the polls indicated, and specifically, Joe Biden’s solid lead in the polls felt less solid than the surveys suggested. As they had in 2016, pollsters appeared on …
WASHINGTON — As the Cuban people — up to 75% of whom have Afro-Cuban ancestry — rose up to demand their freedom, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation issued a statement praising the brutal regime that oppresses them and calling on the Biden administration to lift the U.S. embargo…
This week, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had any message for social media amidst a dramatic rise in the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases thanks to the delta variant. Biden immediately responded that companies like Facebook were responsible for murder: “They’re killing people — I…
It’s hard to teach an algorithm to identify misinformation when humans themselves can’t agree on what misinformation is — and when political leaders can’t decide whether we should have more or less of whatever it entails.
WASHINGTON — The Cuban people are rising up against their nation’s communist regime in the largest protests since the 1959 revolution. So, what is President Joe Biden going to do about it?
At PPL, we’re passionate about pollinators and the positive impact they have on our environment. Birds, bees, and butterflies are just a few of the pollinators that help sustain our ecosystem. And we’re committed to preserving and protecting them.
Time and again, it’s worth noting the absurdity of the two-party system in American politics.
In Tennessee, where cases of COVID-19 are rising, the state’s top immunization expert was fired for reminding teenagers that they are eligible for the vaccine and may legally get it without parental consent. After Republican lawmakers threw a hissy fit, the Tennessee Department of Health not…
“Freedom of speech is the air that any thinker breathes; it’s the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual’s thoughts.” Raif Badawi dared to write such things in Saudi Arabia. And he exercised his own freedom of speech, asking questions about faith and challenging extremism in that coun…
Ex-President Donald Trump is up to his old stings. He has turned to the courts to file a class-action lawsuit, waging “a pivotal battle in the defense of the First Amendment.”
The reporter tossed a standard question at coach Monty Williams after the Phoenix Suns won the NBA Western Conference finals, asking how he managed to be a tough coach and a sympathetic mentor.
“Don’t Mess with Texas,” reads a popular bumper sticker in the Lone Star state, which Republican lawmakers are clearly ignoring. Gov. Greg Abbott convened a special legislative session, intent on passing a draconian voter suppression law. Critics have dubbed it the “suppression session.” In …
DRY FORK, W.Va. — There’s nobody here.
COVID-19 cases in the US leapt 47.5% last week from the previous week. Shots in arms, not shutdowns, are the answer. Among the big risks to Americans right now are unvaccinated healthcare workers and unvaccinated, undocumented migrants fanning out across the U.S. But President Joe Biden is p…
Fred Keller shares inaccurate picture of America
When talking to FOX News Sunday about the deadly Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol invasion, former President Donald Trump described the participants this way: “These were peaceful people; these were great people.”
After President Biden promoted door-to-door efforts to encourage folks to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina denounced the campaign as intimidation and coercion. White House press secretary Jen Psaki could not contain her disdain for the governor’s lethal lunacy.
There’s no doubt that left-wing culture warriors have done great harm to the Democratic cause. Some of it is mere foolishness. I’ve never forgotten being chided at a college talk several years ago for using the word “murderess” to describe a character in my book “Widow’s Web” who shot her hu…
One of the unintended consequences of teachers using COVID to refuse to do their jobs in 2020 is that their students suddenly had to take classes remotely — within earshot of Dad. A mother at a fancy New York City private school told me that the wokeness curriculum was nothing new, but mothe…
WASHINGTON — Former president Donald Trump is suing Big Tech, calling his banishment from Twitter and Facebook “unconstitutional” and “one of the gravest threats to our democracy.” In truth, Trump’s social media exile is the best thing that ever happened to him. It could even help him win ba…
More Republicans than Democrats appear to be “vaccine hesitant” — that is, reluctant for one reason or another — to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They’ve gotten the treatment you might expect in some quarters of the press. “Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We’ll all pay the price…
This week, thousands of Cuban dissidents marched against the repressive communist tyranny that has subjugated the Cuban people for three generations. They chanted “Libertad!” and called for the end of the regime. And they carried aloft a symbol of freedom: the American flag.
If you are a senior citizen or a person with disabilities and need in-home services paid for by Medicaid, it may soon become much more difficult for you to obtain these services. That’s because the PA Department of Human Services is in negotiations to contract with an out-of-state for-profit…
Catastrophic climate change is heating the planet, shattering records from Siberia to California, fueling wildfires, droughts and hurricanes. Yet, land and water defenders fighting to save the planet face threats ranging from intimidation to imprisonment to assassination.
Back-to-school outfits purchased at a store, rather than donated. A $50 registration fee for cheerleading and $70 for football, extracurriculars the kids had begged to join for years.
Noise pollution cannot be ignored
Not so fast, Joe.
Florist Barronelle Stutzman and Robert Ingersoll have shared many details from the 2013 conversation that changed their lives and, perhaps, trends in First Amendment law.
As I write, a Franciscan priest I know is in a courtroom in Ohio. Father Fidelis Moscinski was charged with criminal trespass for walking into an abortion facility in Cuyahoga Falls.
Is COVID source that pressing?
When President Biden was asked about his decision to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, he could not hide his discomfort.
Here’s one issue that both the left and right should be able to agree on: Fund the police. Specifically, the tax police.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. women’s national soccer team is denying team members turned their backs on a 98-year-old World War II veteran as he played the national anthem before an exhibition game, claiming that some players were simply looking at the flag at the other end of the stadium. “Get you…
Evolution made a monkey out of Darwin
If they weren’t such a surly lot, it would be easy to feel sorry for the red-hatted MAGA faithful wandering the countryside to attend the Great Pretender’s rallies. In the parlance of professional wrestling, from which Donald Trump borrowed most of his schtick, they’re called “marks,” people…
Today we’ll talk about how to write the classic New York Times column, using Thomas Edsall’s recent “Trumpism Without Borders” as our example. It must have taken him about 40 minutes to write it.
Gloria Allred, who represents more than 30 of Bill Cosby’s accusers, attributed his release from prison by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to “technical grounds.” Another who charged him of sexual assault called it a “legal glitch.”
One year, five months, and 16 days.
With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865, slavery was abolished. Or was it? A new constitutional amendment currently before Congress aims to settle this surprising question once and for all. Section One of the Thirteenth Amendment states, “N…
This Independence Day, a poll from Issues & Insights revealed that only 36% of adults aged 18-24 said they were “proud to be American,” compared with 86% of those over the age of 65. This shouldn’t be surprising. America’s children have been raised in a system dedicated to the propositio…
The Democratic Party's No. 1 priority is to pass a voting "reform" bill that would federalize elections under rules favorable to Democratic candidates. It's more important than infrastructure, or massive new social spending, or anything else, which is why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senat…
Voter ID?
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden missed his Independence Day target of getting first shots into the arms of 70% of American adults. If he wants to convince the vaccine-hesitant to get immunized — especially vaccine-hesitant Republicans — there is a simple way to do so: Give Donald Trump the …
MOBILE, Alabama — The delta variant of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, we are told, and vaccination rates are low here. Seven of the 10 states with the lowest rates of vaccination are in the Deep South, including Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina. That means residents of…
Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch should be household names. Fulton and Simms-Busch were the plaintiffs in a recent foster-care and religious-liberty case at the Supreme Court. It was a unanimous ruling, as you may have heard, and that is somewhat remarkable. Legal eagles who labor to de…
It occurred 50 years ago this month, a story known primarily by people now dead but one that is vital for our times, and for all time. It is a tale about the Pentagon Papers, the Unitarian Universalist Church, a teeny publishing house, a radical historian, a renegade Pentagon employee, a cou…
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