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Legislation would help safeguard Missouri water against unregulated export (4/25/24)As past president of the Southeast Missouri Regional Water District and a local farmer, I will not stand idly as our precious water resources are attacked. This is why I fully support State. Rep. Jamie Burger and State. Sen. Jason Bean as they introduce legislation stopping unchecked access to our water supply.
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Rich Lowry: Nothing good comes from Columbia University's radicalism (4/25/24)Columbia University is once again the center of the radical universe. More than 50 years after anti-Vietnam War demonstrators roiled the Columbia campus in 1968, anti-Israel agitators are disrupting the school’s operations, and inspiring similar actions at other universities around the country.
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Rich Lowry: Alvin Bragg makes history -- preposterously (4/24/24)24Alvin Bragg is to be commended for getting to trial on the Trump hush-payments case. Lesser prosecutors would have been daunted by the prospect of creating a national melodrama and a norm-breaking prosecution of a former president over what is, in essence, a misdemeanor business-records charge.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Are Iran’s nine lives nearing an end? (4/23/24)1The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half century. So it has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April 1 attacks on its "consulate" in Damascus and the killing of Iran’s kingpin terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard Corps there.
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Kathryn Lopez: The power of forgiveness (4/23/24)"Is forgiveness and being forgiven an important part of gratitude?" I was asked this question around the same time that Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, an Iraqi-born Assyrian bishop in Sydney, released a statement from a hospital, forgiving a teenager who stabbed him during Mass.
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Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Happiness is a home to tinker with (4/22/24)My husband and I have never bought a home we didn’t tinker with. And by "tinker", I don’t mean a coat of fresh paint and new shelving. I mean the knock out a wall, rip up the flooring and till the backyard for a new garden kind of tinkering. Real do-it-yourselfers. This is why when the kitchen cabinet recently fell off the wall — literally while putting away dishes — we didn’t stress too much. We were planning to remodel the kitchen anyway. I simply set up wire shelving for the dishes that hadn’t broken, and then we strolled through Lowe’s hand in hand. ...
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Star Parker: Trump is right — more violence, turmoil under Biden (4/20/24)14Former President Donald Trump’s statement that the attack on Israel by Iran "would not have happened if we were in office," has drawn derision, including from his former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton called the remark "delusional," saying that Trump "has no idea what to do in the Middle East in this situation."
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Rich Lowry: The anti-Israel delusion (4/20/24)2Surely, you’ve heard of the brutal conflict that has displaced millions of people and killed more than 14,000, while aid convoys have trouble getting where they need to go? No, the Sudanese civil war hasn’t been on your radar screen?
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Veronique de Rugy: Tax time myths and truths (4/20/24)Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much. One recent poll revealed that 56% say they pay more than their fair share. Unfortunately, I fear this is just the beginning considering the insane level of debt Washington policymakers have accumulated over the years. With this in mind, here are some important facts about our tax system that you might not know.
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Betsy McCaughey: Paying top dollar and getting bupkis (4/19/24)3If you pay New York state taxes, you’re paying top dollar and getting bupkis. Nothing in the budget deal announced in Albany on Tuesday changes that. State tax money is supposed to provide services and improve the state’s economic outlook. But a report released last week shows the state’s economic prospects plunging to dead last among the 50 states. ...
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Jonah Goldberg: US support for Israel, Ukraine proving inadequate (4/18/24)13After Iran’s massive drone and missile attack on Israel on Saturday, President Joe Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "You got a win. Take the win." Most of the weapons, the first Iran had ever fired on Israel from its own territory, were successfully intercepted.
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Kathryn Lopez: The human cost of IVF (4/17/24)2The New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury and her husband recently put some of their hard-earned resources into getting a movie based on one of her novels, "Someone Like You," into theaters. It was an act of courage and faith, and it could be a cultural game-changer if people care to notice.
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Rich Lowry: No one cares about Joe Biden’s lawlessness (4/17/24)5Here we go again. President Joe Biden has, once more, claimed to find astonishingly wide-ranging authority to forgive student loans hiding in minute places deep in the federal code. Biden has already been rebuked for this practice by the Supreme Court, yet he remains undeterred.
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Repealing food stamp ban for felons would improve public safety (4/16/24)People with drug felonies on their criminal record are uniquely excluded from receiving benefits in Missouri from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, after they are released from prison. This deprivation of SNAP benefits is solely because of their categorization as a former drug felon.
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Victor Davis Hanson: DEI cronyism and woke grifters (4/16/24)11When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking.
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Veronique de Rugy: The erosion of fiscal responsibility (4/15/24)Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a larger conversation about austerity — was one of ethos. "We weren’t spending the money in theory," she wrote, "or in 1945, when an ethos of fiscal responsibility prevailed. We were spending it in the 21st century, when that ethos had collapsed, so there was a considerable chance that when the good times finally rolled around, no politician would willingly undertake the sacrifices necessary to get the budget back in shape." ...
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Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: We all deserve space to pursue our dreams (4/15/24)The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop saved me from making a huge mistake recently. I emailed my editor before I left and told her that I didn’t think I’d have time to continue writing this weekly column. I told her I was too busy. I have a full-time job for our local newspaper, where I write and edit columns for the Kentucky community. ...
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Michael Reagan: Republicans need to unite, not fight (4/15/24)10I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington. As the GOP proved again in the House last week, it’s incapable of accomplishing anything of importance. ...
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Star Parker: Americans are not seeking out middle ground (4/13/24)A Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Sen. Mitt Romney regarding the demise of the No Labels political party initiative tells us as much about Romney, and why he failed to ever become a national leader, as it does about the failure of the No Labels effort. No Labels defined its mission "to support centrism and bipartisanship."
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Betsy McCaughey: Biden Administration not ready for an H5N1 pandemic (4/13/24)4The H5N1 virus, which for 30 years affected mostly birds, is rapidly evolving and spreading globally. The Biden administration is dangerously unready. Over the last two years, H5N1 has jumped from birds to mammals, infecting at least 26 species.
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Rich Lowry: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s case against Speaker Johnson (4/13/24)The first time that Republicans toppled their own speaker during this Congress, it wasn’t a particularly edifying spectacle, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is reaching for new lows. To paraphrase Marx: first as a farce, then as a more preposterous farce.
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Eclipse in downtown Cape: A day the hidden gem shown to visitors from around the world (4/13/24)How do you even begin to describe something that’s both utterly breathtaking and incredibly frustrating all at once? This past weekend was an absolute whirlwind as we played host to folks from all corners — Washington State, Iowa, St. Louis, Illinois, and the East Coast — all descending upon Cape Girardeau with one mission: to witness the eclipse. They’d been planning and booking with us for months, and let me tell you, the anticipation was palpable. It felt like forever waiting for that moment to arrive, but when it did, it was nothing short of magical.
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Jonah Goldberg: The latest sign that Republicans are abandoning even their most deeply held principles (4/12/24)3The changing of the conservative mind in recent years could hardly be captured more pithily than in the headline of a recent op-ed: "Why I believe in industrial policy — done right." So opined Sen. Marco Rubio for the Washington Post and, at greater length, for National Affairs.
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Rich Lowry: Yes, fight anti-white racism (4/10/24)4Is there anything more poisonous or ridiculous than insisting that corporations and the government treat people fairly regardless of race? Apparently not. An Axios report on the Trump team’s intention to use civil-rights laws to target diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies discriminating against whites has occasioned sneering and denunciations.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Americans differ on Ukraine and Gaza (4/9/24)1When Russia invaded Ukraine, Americans overwhelmingly supported Ukraine — as they did with Israel after Oct. 7. No wonder: Ukraine was surprise attacked by Russia, and Israel was by Hamas.
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Kathryn Lopez: Remembering and misremembering Buckley (4/9/24)I cried and cried and cried on the night of Feb. 27, 2008. I'm not sure anyone ever did that while watching Charlie Rose on PBS before. But there I was. William F. Buckley Jr. had died that day, and Rose played recaps of interviews with Bill over the years. Bill founded National Review magazine in 1955, and I was editor of the magazine's website when he died.
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Veronique de Rugy: Washington’s ‘job creation’ circus is hitting the road (4/8/24)2In the grand circus of politics, where elephants and donkeys alike perform under the big top, there’s one act that never fails to draw a crowd: the venerable "job creation" routine. Putting people back to work, especially those without college degrees and in the manufacturing world, is in the center ring. Unfortunately, when you look behind the smoke, mirrors and rabbits hidden in hats, you’ll see that promises to rebuild America through industrial policy are just plain old corporate welfare. ...
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Michael Reagan: Who’s going to save America’s soul? (4/8/24)Lent is over – and I’m kind of sorry. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I observe Lent every year. The Britannica defines Lent as a solemn period of penitential preparation in Christian churches before Easter that provides 40 days for fasting and abstinence in imitation of Christ’s fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry. ...
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Rich Lowry: The Bible is America's book (4/6/24)Of all the objectionable things Donald Trump has ever done, selling a Bible would seem to rank pretty far down the list. Yet his marketing, along with Lee Greenwood, of a God Bless the U.S.A. Bible for $59.99 has occasioned a couple of news cycles of outrage. The Bible has an American flag cover and accompanying American historical documents, including the Declaration of Independence, as well as the words to Greenwood's iconic patriotic song.
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Star Parker: Why do Americans, UN support Hamas terrorists? (4/6/24)Most recent Gallup polling in March shows that 36% of Americans "approve of Israeli military action in Gaza" and 50% disapprove. Last November, a month after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that claimed the lives of more than 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians, 55% approved of the military action that Israel initiated.
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Broadband availability challenge underway (4/6/24)Missourians have an incredible opportunity and responsibility to impact how broadband deployment funds will be distributed across our state. For the first time, Missourians can provide on-the-ground feedback about which homes and businesses still lack access to reliable, high-speed broadband. Nobody knows better which communities and rural areas are underserved than the people who live there, and now is the time to make your voice heard. Once the map challenge process closes on April 23, the public will not have an opportunity to weigh in on how these federal taxpayer funds will be spent.
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Betsy McCaughey: Teach migrant children English — bilingual ed is a scam (4/5/24)3New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school. Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure. All too often it's an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can't speak English and face a lifetime of poverty. Non-English-speaking students should be given intense instruction in English when they first arrive at school and then mainstreamed to classrooms where students are taught only in English.
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Jonah Goldberg: An unfortunate alternative to Trump, Biden (4/4/24)1American politics is so intensely stupid and nasty that it sometimes seems as if somebody made a series of wishes with a monkey's paw. The dark moral of "The Monkey's Paw," a 1902 short story by the English writer W.W. Jacobs that became a pop culture trope, is that you should be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. In 2008, the widespread wish for an African American president who would usher in a new "post-racial" politics yielded to an era of heightened obsession with and tensions over race. In 2016, the ancient dream of a capitalist outsider who would run government like a business delivered a man who ran the government like it was in the business of promoting and enriching him. In 2020, the notion that a non-military threat could unite a divided country around a common challenge gave way to sharp polarization over the management, treatment and origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rich Lowry: Colorblindness is America's most transgressive idea (4/4/24)Writer Coleman Hughes went on "The View" and was greeted almost as though he had shown up wearing a white hood. Hughes, a soft-spoken black intellectual who is a political independent, was talking about his new book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America."
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Jason Smith: Protecting rural Missouri from the Left's costly climate agenda (4/3/24)7On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he declared war on American energy by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have supported thousands of jobs and supplied 830,000 barrels of oil from Canada to U.S. refineries. It’s gotten even worse since then. While his radical, costly energy agenda is popular among the wealthy and most radical fringe of his party, it’s been a complete disaster for working-class Americans who are struggling to keep up with higher costs for everything from the gas they put in their cars, the groceries they buy to feed their families, and the furniture and appliances they purchase for their home. And as his new electric vehicle (EV) policy makes clear, he has no intention of abandoning his costly climate agenda.
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Rich Lowry: Thank God for the internal combustion engine (4/3/24)2One of Joe Biden's notable digressions when getting deposed by Special Counsel Robert Hur was about driving his beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible. Which wasn't surprising — the president genuinely loves his car. And why not? It's a thing of beauty and, for its time, was a splendid feat of engineering.
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Kathryn Lopez: The gift of Lieberman's example (4/2/24)1"The light's gone from his eyes." It was 2000, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, was in full campaign mode. As Al Gore's vice-presidential nominee, Lieberman was preparing to debate Dick Cheney, but Lieberman's son, Matt, was worried about him. He said the words above to Lieberman's wife, Hadassah, who later used them as a wake-up call for her husband. As Lieberman recounted in his 2011 book, "The Gift of Rest," Matt had been concerned that he was not sleeping, and maybe not praying, as he normally would. Matt had said, "His brain is all there, but his soul isn't coming through," Liberman wrote. "... It jolted me from my fatigue, and, I think, reconnected me to my soul."
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Victor Davis Hanson: Gaza — truths behind all the lies (4/1/24)4Prior to Oct. 7, there were roughly 2 million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas canceled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of billions of dollars in international aid to build a vast underground labyrinth of military installations. “Collateral damage” Hamas began the war by deliberately targeting civilians. It massacred them on October 7 when it invaded Israel during a time of peace and holidays. It sent more than 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities for the sole purpose of killing noncombatants. It has no vocabulary for the collateral damage of Israeli civilians, since it believes any Jewish death under any circumstances is cause for celebration.
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Michael Reagan: East Palestinians see red over Biden’s politics (4/1/24)2Last week must have been especially rough for the people still living in the contaminated eastern Ohio town of East Palestine. On Tuesday, only hours after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore Harbor was knocked down by an out-of-control container ship, they had to watch President Joe Biden come on national TV and promise to “move heaven and earth” to reopen the port and rebuild the bridge “as soon as humanly possible.” ...
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Holly Thompson Rehder: Money In the Right Pockets (3/30/24)2Hi y’all! Several weeks ago, I took time in my weekly column and on the Senate floor to talk about the importance of doing the leg work and having the conversations if legislators want to get their bills approved by the General Assembly and on to the governor’s desk. I am pleased to say that I walked the walk, did the work and now a very beneficial bill is on the verge of heading to the Missouri House of Representatives.
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Veronique de Rugy: Americans can tell the difference between rosy economic data and reality (3/30/24)2The economy is growing, unemployment is low, wages are up, and inflation is down. However, the American people remain grumpy about the state of the economy. This puzzle was just investigated by four economists. They found that people often know that something is wrong even if statistics don't reflect the problem. In this case, people are perceiving that inflation is still, in fact, high.
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Betsy McCaughey: Beware of squaters (3/29/24)4If you own a home and don't want to lose it, keep reading. Homeowners who go on vacation or a business trip, even for just a week, are returning to find their house overtaken by trespassers who fraudulently claim a right to be there. It's happening to tens of thousands of homeowners from New York City to Atlanta and Los Angeles...
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Star Parker: Recapturing our lost and disillusioned youth (3/28/24)Our nation's Declaration of Independence begins with the famous statement that "all men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." But according to the latest Gallup World Happiness Report, Americans' success in the "pursuit of happiness" is diminishing. For the first time since the annual report was first compiled in 2012, the United States is not among the top 20 happiest countries in the world. In this latest 2024 report, the United States ranks 23 in the world, down from number 15 in 2023.
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Jonah Goldberg: Why Trump's running mate is less likely to be Marco Rubio than Marjorie Taylor Greene (3/28/24)3Now that Donald Trump is officially the presumptive Republican nominee, he's getting ready for the general election. In just the last couple of weeks, he's scratched a lot off his to-do list. He installed new leadership, including his daughter-in-law, at the Republican National Committee and negotiated a joint-fundraising agreement with the party. His campaign is in talks with his former campaign manager and pardon recipient Paul Manafort to run the GOP convention. And his lawyers have successfully delayed the most serious legal threats he faces while getting a nearly half-billion-dollar bond in his fraud case reduced to a more manageable $175 million. Yep, everything is shaping up as well as can be expected for Trump's fourth run for president (including his widely forgotten and short-lived 2000 effort ). The last big thing on his list: Pick a running mate.
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Rich Lowry: The absurd four-day workweek (3/27/24)6Karl Marx would be proud. Bernie Sanders has proposed taking another step toward the philosopher's envisioned utopia by proposing to mandate a four-day workweek. Marx wrote how in communist society, workers would be liberated to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, raise cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."...
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Kathryn Lopez: A message from Rome (3/27/24)2ROME -- I was here 11 years ago today, I am remembering. A pope from Latin America was elected. Everyone was surprised. I've been staying at the North American Pontifical College here in the Eternal City. The seminarians have a love for the pope and want to teach the treasures of the Church to all who are open...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden's border blowup (3/26/24)2Some 8 to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took office. A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to "surge" into the United States without specifying that they first needed legal sanction: "We immediately surge to the border all those seeking asylum."...
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Jason Smith: The dangerous consequences of Biden's border crisis (3/26/24)23In mid-March, an illegal immigrant was arrested for viciously stabbing two people outside a laundromat in O'Fallon, Mo. It's just one of the many examples of the dangerous consequences of President Joe Biden's border crisis, which has turned every state into a border state. Unfortunately, Biden continues to ignore Americans' concerns and their demands for this administration to do what's necessary to end this crisis and make our border -- and communities -- safe again...
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Betsy McCaughey: New York doomed to be migrant central — other cities take note (3/25/24)2Mayor Eric Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayers’ expense, is smoke and mirrors. It’s designed to fool you into thinking he’s solving a problem when he’s actually caving to the migrant industrial complex. ...
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Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: We must show up and do better for our communities (3/25/24)A big part of my job is community engagement. The opinion section of any newspaper cannot happen without the people of the community. In order to lift up the voices of our neighbors, I must reach out and be willing to talk to people, not just sit at the computer and wait for my inbox to fill up. ...
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Michael Reagan: Oakland's tax revolt is a hopeful insurrection (3/25/24)You’d never expect a tax revolt to start in the blue California city of Oakland. But a bunch of angry, overtaxed and underprotected local business people there have said, “Enough is enough.” The owner of a restaurant has called on other Oakland small businesses to stop paying local taxes until their city starts doing what it should be doing — protecting them from a recent wave of robberies and thefts. ...
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Star Parker: Abortion is a winning issue for Republicans (3/23/24)6Abortion is a winning issue for Republicans The visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in St. Paul, the first ever visit by a president or vice president to an abortion clinic, is getting the considerable attention it deserves...
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Rich Lowry: Joe Biden should be angry and anxious (3/23/24)4Who knows if Joe Biden is as "angry and anxious" about his reelection prospects as a new NBC News report portrays him. It could be that it's ordinary ill-temper from a politician prone to shouting in private (an Axios headline not too long ago dubbed Biden "old yeller"), or exaggerated reports from meetings where typical salty language is used by old political pros hashing out strategy and tactics...
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Veronique de Rugy: U.S. Steel-Nippon Steel: A global deal for American prosperity (3/23/24)The Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel company recently agreed to be purchased by the Tokyo-headquartered publicly traded company Nippon Steel. This deal makes sense to economists. It will encourage other foreign companies to invest in the U.S., creating wealth and new job opportunities, and further shoring up the U.S. economy, particularly amid inflation worries. More importantly, this deal makes sense to the owners of U.S. Steel...
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Jonah Goldberg: Trump didn't threaten a 'bloodbath' (3/22/24)13At a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Donald Trump said that if he is not elected in November, there will be a "bloodbath." That he said that much is true. Having actually read the text of his remarks, however, I do not believe he was threatening: Elect me president or the streets will run red with blood...
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Holly Thompson Rehder: Options and support for education (3/21/24)16Hey y'all! Another week has come and gone and it has been a whirlwind of legislative activity. In addition to the continuing process of committee hearings and meeting with colleagues to work out the details of proposed legislation, activity on the Senate floor is picking up steam. Last week we passed a huge bill regarding education in Missouri. I say huge referring to both its impact and its literal size...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Elite heaven or real hell on earth? (3/20/24)2The horrific murder of Laken Riley by a repeated felony offender and illegal alien Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan citizen, was preventable -- had federal immigration laws simply been enforced by the Biden administration. When called out in his recent State of the Union address, President Joe Biden referenced the deceased Riley. But Biden misidentified her as "Lincoln Riley" -- the USC football coach!...
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Rich Lowry: Democratic leadership send signal to left-wing base (3/19/24)4The uncommitted voters of Michigan say "jump," and Chuck Schumer asks "how high?" The Senate majority leader gave an extraordinary speech flaying the democratically elected leader of an ally engaged in fighting a defensive war against a hideous terrorist enemy...
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Jason Smith: Biden's budget plan is the wrong recipe for America (3/19/24)3President Joe Biden frequently says, "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." Well, as Biden's recently released budget proposal for next year makes clear, he is once again doubling down on the very same failed policies that are bankrupting America, waging war on U.S. energy, and fueling the most painful economic crisis in decades. There's no question that his budget plan is the wrong recipe for America...
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Veronique de Rugy: Biden's corporate tax hike: populism versus economic literacy (3/18/24)3In 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 contributions from corporate America, is a glaring testament to a simplistic and all-too-common type of economic thinking that already hamstrings our nation’s competitiveness, stifles innovation and ultimately penalizes the average American worker and consumer. ...
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Michael Reagan: To win, the GOP needs to say what its for, not against (3/18/24)Republicans are never going to impeach Joe Biden. I wish more Republicans would beat that fact into their skulls. Just as Democrats weren’t able to impeach Donald Trump because they didn’t control the Senate, Republicans are never going to impeach Biden for the same reason. ...
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Star Parker: This is not the Soviet Union, Mr. Biden (3/16/24)In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It marked the end of an experiment that lasted almost a century testing the premise that godless secularization, turning control of people's lives over to other people to rule them, who decide what others need and how they should live and conduct their lives, is the answer for mankind...
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Rich Lowry: No, illegal immigrants didn't build America (3/16/24)4Joe Biden doesn't have a problem with illegal immigrants. He's made that clear in his shamefaced retreat from his impromptu use of the term "illegal" during his State of the Union address. He regrets using the offending word, doesn't want to disrespect illegal immigrants and believes that they are absolutely essential to the success of the United States...
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Jonah Goldberg: Trump and his MAGA movement stormed the Republican establishment. Now they have become it (3/16/24)Jonah Goldberg for 3-12-24 Donald Trump's domination of last week's primaries made it official: He has successfully routed the GOP establishment. Some would argue, with ample evidence, that this happened a long time ago. Particularly in Congress, the party is divided into three sometimes overlapping factions: Reaganites, pragmatists and populists, the last being Trump's "MAGA" faction. ...
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Betsy McCaughey: Is Laken Riley's life worth less than George Floyd's? (3/15/24)1George Floyd's death during a police chokehold on May 25, 2020, ignited nationwide protests to reform police procedures. Referring to Floyd's ordeal, former President Donald Trump said, "It doesn't get any worse than that," and within three weeks Trump signed an executive order establishing an abuse of force database and calling for improved police practices...
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Kathryn Lopez: Suffragette city at the state of the union (3/14/24)1"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women." This quote isn't from some evangelical firebrand or conservative pundit -- it's from Alice Paul, one of the leading suffragettes of the early 20th century. And yet, not for the first time, Democratic women wore white at a presidential State of the Union address to advocate for abortion. ...
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Rich Lowry: Joe Biden will never be normal again (3/13/24)7Joe Biden won the normality test in 2020. There wasn't anything remarkable about him. He just seemed like a steady hand who had been around for a while, who didn't look or sound like a radical, and who knew how Washington worked. He wasn't the leader of a movement, wasn't charismatic and wasn't particularly witty or well-spoken. He was, in fact, completely uninteresting and utterly conventional. He was just the most normal guy in the room...
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Jason Smith: The most divisive State of the Union address in U.S. history (3/13/24)8On March 7, President Joe Biden delivered a State of the Union address that will go down as the most divisive in American history. He turned the annual tradition into a campaign event, launching attack after attack against his political opponent and rural communities. ...
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The Ukraiian Verdun (3/12/24)Ukraine has ossified into something like the modern version of the horrific Battle of Verdun, fought 108 years ago on the 1916 Western Front of World War I. That meat grinder cost France and Germany some 700,000 dead and wounded...
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Michael Reagan: A miracle in California (3/11/24)3A miracle occurred Tuesday in California's U.S. Senate primary race. In a deep Blue state where Democrat voters outnumber Republicans 2-1, Steve Garvey, the former L.A. Dodger star, ran against three Democrats and came in a close second to Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff...
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Veronique de Rugy: A new fiscal commission must heed the lesson of '97 (3/11/24)The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee made news recently by announcing that if his party is serious about changing the fiscal path we are on, they'll have to consider raising taxes. Politics is about compromise, so the chairman is right. Every side must give a little. However, "putting taxes on the table" is not as simple a fix to our debt problems as some think...
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Star Parker: Clarence Thomas, liberal racism and the ongoing denigration of Black conservatives (3/8/24)17President Joe Biden stirred up controversy during the last presidential campaign, when, in an interview with a Black radio host, he said, "If you have a problem figuring out if you're for me or Trump, you ain't Black." Biden got pushback on this, but he captured a pretty common view among liberals...
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Betsy McCaughey: The Left's beef with beef (3/7/24)5New York State Attorney General Letitia James has a beef with beef. This week James sued the JBS USA Food Company, the U.S. subsidiary of the world's largest beef producer, accusing it of "fraudulent and illegal business activities" and demanding "disgorgement of all profits and ill-gotten gains."...
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Rich Lowry: The day Joe Biden blew up the border (3/6/24)6Joe Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2021. Less than two weeks later, on Feb. 2, he issued the executive order that began the unraveling at the border in earnest. The border crisis isn't something that happened to President Biden. It's not a product of circumstances or understandable policy mistakes made under duress. No, he sought it and created it, on principle and as a matter of urgency...
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Kathryn Lopez: Martyrdom and suicide are not the same (3/5/24)God rest the soul of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old in the Air Force who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. "Free Palestine," he declared as he was dying. While he meant his death as a political protest, it was suicide. And it should not be celebrated...
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Victor Davis Hanson: American paralysis and decline (3/5/24)2"We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies." So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless...
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Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Chores and tribulations: I crave a better way for household productivity (3/4/24)I love contributing to the family. But I hate chores. As a child, chores were tasks to be checked off a list so I could get on to other things. A checklist made clear that I’d either succeed or fail based on chores completed. I often felt overlooked, reduced to tasks. Patted on the head for duties that meant nothing to me so I could disappear into a hobby that meant everything to me. ...
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Betsy McCaughey: Migrant surge brings killers and criminal gangs (3/4/24)12Former New York City Police Department commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s longest-serving commissioner, cautioned last week that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.” Migrant crime is a major reason. Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and El Salvador’s feared MS-13 — what former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities. ...
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Stacy Kinder: Reflecting on the criminal acts of the last week (3/2/24)35Many of us in the Cape area were heartbroken by the death of a young woman this week. The news came on the heels of several violent crimes that had the community sending prayers and grieving for the families left behind. These crimes also have the community aptly concerned about public safety here...
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Star Parker: The state of Black progress (3/2/24)2As part of Black History Month 2024, my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, has announced the release of "The State of Black Progress," published by Encounter Books. This is a follow-up to "The State of Black America," published by CURE in 2022...
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Veronique de Rugy: Nostalgia versus numbers: challenging america's economic pessimism (3/2/24)1America is celebrated for its economic dynamism and ample and generously paid employment opportunities. It's a nation that attracts immigrants from around the world. Yet Americans are bummed, and have been for a while. They believe that life was better 40 years ago. And maybe it was on some fronts, but not economically...
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Rich Lowry: Joe Biden's inane war on packaging (3/2/24)5Joe Biden has met the enemy, and it is smaller packaging for foodstuffs. The White House is targeting the practice known as "shrinkflation," or companies keeping the nominal price of a product the same while decreasing the amount. This, naturally, is just another way of charging more. If the price is the same, but you're getting only 14 ounces of Wheat Thins instead of 16, you are paying more for your whole-wheat crackers...
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Jonah Goldberg: Nikki Haley keeps losing -- and revealing something important about Trump and Republicans (3/1/24)7Celebrating his victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday, Donald Trump declared, "I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now." It was an indisputable victory for Trump, particularly given that it was in the home state of his last remaining rival for the nomination, Nikki Haley, a twice-elected, popular former South Carolina governor. ...
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Holly Thompson Rehder: Passing the first legislation of the year (2/29/24)3Passing the first legislation of the year Hey y'all! Greetings from Jefferson City. It was a very productive week in the Missouri Senate as elected officials worked through the day and night on Monday to protect the Missouri Constitution and ensure a statewide voice on statewide issues...
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Jason Smith: Celebrating FFA (2/28/24)4Like so many in southeast and south-central Missouri, agriculture has always been an important part of my life. I'll never forget the memories I have as a young kid spending time at, and working on, my grandparents' farm -- the very same one I own, operate, and live on today. ...
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Rich Lowry: The un-American campaign against Donald Trump (2/28/24)16Donald Trump has a $355 million judgment against him, and we're just getting started. The judgment in the civil fraud case, which reaches $450 million including prejudgment interest, is the handiwork of an elected Democratic judge in a case brought by an elected Democratic prosecutor who pledged to pursue Trump in her election campaign...
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Rich Lowry: It makes no sense to abandon Ukraine (2/27/24)8Millions for defense, but not one cent for Ukraine. That's the rallying cry of opponents of a new $60 billion tranche of aid for Ukraine led by Ohio's Republican senator, J.D. Vance. Vance deserves credit for taking his perspective directly into the belly of the beast at the Munich Security Conference, where he rowed against the tide by advocating for abandoning the embattled Western ally...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Blue laws for red citizens (2/27/24)10One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from former President Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million. Trump awaits further civil and criminal liability in three other federal, state, and local indictments...
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Veronique de Rugy: Does another child tax credit help families? (2/26/24)3In the well-intentioned rush to support American families by expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC), critical questions are often ignored: Aren’t we already doing enough, and is this the best way to help? It’s imperative to step back and examine the assumptions at the heart of this ongoing debate. ...
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Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: The homeless crisis should not be treated as out of sight, out of mind (2/26/24)8At a lunch meeting recently, I heard someone say they liked living downtown but moved to the suburbs because “the homelessness is just too much.” This same person went on to say that unhoused people should be relocated out of downtown. To where? He didn’t say. ...
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Michael Reagan: Who’s worse: Trump or Biden? (2/26/24)11The Democrats are trying to put Donald Trump in jail. The Republicans are trying to put Joe Biden in jail — along with the rest of his extended political crime family. Both sides think the only way they can win is by putting their opponent in jail. ...
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Star Parker: Too many corporations, like universities, have lost their way (2/24/24)1Universities are not alone among our institutions that have lost their way. How about America's corporations, which now seem to think social justice is their job, beside efficiently delivering goods and services to the American public? In a recent panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Institute, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank, rang the alarm about the nation's debt...
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House takes action on public safety, veterans mental health and initiative petition reform (2/24/24)1The House this week sent to the Senate an extensive bill aimed at reducing crime in Missouri. Among its provisions are several proposed changes to how juveniles are treated by the state's legal system; the launch of a collaborative fight against online harassment and stalking; and Blair's Law, which would increase penalties for what has become known as "celebratory gunfire."...
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Betsy McCaughey: Dems’ open border trickery — gaming the census (2/23/24)2New York is Migrant Central — the No. 1 destination in the country for illegal border crossers — and it’s no accident. New York’s Democratic politicians benefit from the deluge. The more migrants come here, the more congressional seats and clout in the Electoral College New York is able to maintain. ...
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Jonah Goldberg: No, Donald Trump does not equal Alexei Navalny (2/22/24)32Alexei Navalny didn't simply die. He wasn't just murdered. He was tortured to death. It didn't happen on the rack or mid-beating, but Vladimir Putin -- who had tried to eliminate him earlier -- slowly killed Navalny all the same. Putin sent the Russian dissident and anti-corruption activist to the gulag with the aim of grinding him down with hard labor, isolation, hunger and shabby medical care, until he died. ...
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Victor Davis Hanson: The strange disconnect between Israel and Ukraine (2/20/24)2The Ukrainian and Israeli wars are similar and yet also different conflicts -- but in more ways than we can imagine. Ukraine was invaded by a huge Russian state, with a population three-and-a-half times greater, a gross national product 10 times larger, and an area 30 times its size...
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Rich Lowry: Russia is a civilizational adversary (2/20/24)The poet Robert Frost once said that a liberal is someone too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight. What would he say about those on the right who seem to be confused about the same question? Over the last few days, Donald Trump told a rally about how he'd supposedly warned the leader of a NATO nation that he'd encourage the Russians "to do whatever the hell they want" against countries that weren't spending enough on defense, while the former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson broadcast videos from Moscow praising its grocery stores and subways as superior to those in the United States.. ...
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Betsy McCaughey: Migrant crime turning cities into war zones (2/19/24)5Criminals posing as asylum-seekers are turning American cities into war zones. The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, feared for how it tortures its victims, is setting up business in New York City, police sources reveal. Gang members recruit migrants from shelters and as they come off buses from Texas, putting then to work in retail theft rings or on mopeds, grabbing phones and handbags and roughing up pedestrians...
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Star Parker: Winds of change in the Black vote (2/17/24)3Data shows that winds of political change are blowing among Black voters. In volatile times like now, predictions can be made with only the greatest caution. However, it seems clear that something is going on and Black voters are breaking with past voting patterns...
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Veronique de Rugy: Biden's Super Bowl shrinkflation blame game (2/17/24)6President Joe Biden wants to remind you that your Super Bowl party was more expensive than it used to be. The reason, he claims, is corporate greed and "shrinkflation." In a social media video before Sunday night's game, he spoke of companies selling "smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same." He opposes this behavior and is "calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it."...
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