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BORTINS: Free markets produce better outcomes
The things you used to buy, you can’t find; and if you can find it, you can’t afford it. Inflation is when your hard-earned dollars buy less than what they did in the past. If […]
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MCCAUGHEY: Dems reject work ethic, embrace freeloaders
The Democratic Party used to call itself the party of working people and hail the “dignity of work.” No more. Now Democrats want to guarantee people who choose not to work an income funded by […]
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HUDSON: A season of hope
As we celebrate Christmas this week, I hope we are all able to take time and reflect on the true meaning of this holiday for all who celebrate it. In the Christmas story as found […]
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ERICKSON: Reversing Roe
This past Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In the case, Mississippi is seeking Court approval on a law that would ban abortion after 15 […]
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SHAPIRO: Reality remains undefeated
This week, a 39-year-old black man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, plowed a maroon Ford Escape into a Christmas parade of children and older women. Six people were killed and another 48 were injured. The motive of […]
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HARSANYI: The only thing Biden has left is Trump
This week, the president took a trip to Virginia to try to help salvage the gubernatorial prospects of fellow Washington-lifer Terry McAuliffe. President Joe Biden used the appearance to liken the GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn […]
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HUDSON: Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend scheme
President Ronald Reagan wisely said, “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.” Today, our national debt is an unfathomable $29 trillion, […]
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BARONE: Republicans gain big in blue-collar elections but narrowly in affluent state legislative elections
State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment these days. That wasn’t so in the late 20th century, when clever local candidates and notables often got voters to cross party lines. But […]
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HUDSON: Americans shouldn’t accept the status quo
On Feb. 2, 1977, President Jimmy Carter addressed the nation from the White House. He had been in office for two weeks and inflation was already beginning to impact American families. Famously wearing a cardigan […]
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ERICKSON: Good news for Joe Biden
More Americans have died from COVID-19 during the Biden administration than during the Trump administration. That is not the good news for President Joe Biden. Former President Donald Trump initiated Operation Warp Speed. We had […]