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The Mafia and the migrants
ROME – I spotted them on my way to dinner with a friend near Castel Gandolfo. They are…
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The ‘progressives’ are to blame, too
WASHINGTON – What has been missing in Washington for the past two or three decades is a serious…
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Will Congress be stirred from its slumber?
“Congress has been dropping in relative power along a descending curve of 60 years’ duration, with the rate…
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While Trump takes the shots, Tillerson runs the offense
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has often been the silent man in the Trump foreign policy…
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Can Democrats broaden their message beyond appeals to race and identity?
Before he slithered out of the White House, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon gave Democrats…
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Where was Obama during Katrina? Trick question
Some questions are more satisfying than their answers – if, that is, you care about facts. One such…
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Kentucky’s pension wars arrive, but peace is possible
A serious assessment offered by an independent consulting group hired to audit Kentucky’s public-retirement funds represents an important…
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In defense of Trump’s pardon of Sheriff Arpaio
President Donald Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., has drawn predictable responses.…
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How white supremacy morphed into white ‘victimization’
After the deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Va., I found the most memorable internet meme to be a…
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Tragedy in Charlottesville
In the South during the Jim Crow era, the “one-drop rule,” codified into law, asserted that if a…
