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Carl Hiaasen: Teachers with guns only makes sense to lawmakers who have lost their minds
From the What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong? Department: A bill allowing Florida teachers to carry guns in public schools passed the Legislature last week and is expected to be signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Teachers will soon be able to volunteer as “armed guardians” in their schools after attending firearms training, undergoing a psychiatric...
S.E. Cupp: What Joe Biden can learn from Pete Buttigieg
So far, he’s hitting it out of the park. Less than one week after Joe Biden announced he’s running for president — again — he’s in an enviable spot. He smashed all 2020 subsequent one-day fundraising records, bringing in a whopping $6.3 million on his first day. A new CNN...
Michael R. Strain: Stop poor-mouthing the two-earner family
When it comes to pressures on working parents, it is usually the political left that is loudest in calling for more government intervention to help them. Its focus is on traditional liberal programs like universal child care and mandates for more generous family leave. But some on the political right...
William Behre: Regional public universities open doors to American dream for all students
Last month I found myself in the middle of a social media frenzy. It started when Dr. Phil McGraw gave an interview to People.com regarding the current college admissions scandal. Dr. Phil opined that the accused parents weren’t really shopping for an education, but rather they were looking for status....
G. Terry Madonna & Michael Young: Biden brings liabilities, strengths
Joe Biden’s recent presidential announcement surprised few, but it will surprise more than a few if Biden actually wins the Democratic presidential nomination. At age 76 today, he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated by more than seven years. He also brings several other liabilities not shared with other...
Mitchel Nickols: Schools, workplaces must deal with bullies
As accepting as some people may be today, and childhood activities being just a part of growing up, it’s hard to explain how a fifth-grader goes to school and two days later dies from being beaten by a classmate. That’s what happened in March to South Carolina 10-year-old Raniya Wright,...
John Sparks: Founders’ wisdom on Senate still works today
Periodically, those who do not think the U.S. Constitution is “democratic” enough set out to repudiate that document’s genius. The Electoral College is often the recipient of such attacks. The most recent constitutional provision to be called into question is Article I, section 3: “the Senate of the United State...
John Stossel: Bernie Sanders wrong about the poor
Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.” That’s a lie. Yes, rich people got absurdly rich. Last year, says Oxfam, “the wealth of the world’s billionaires increased (by) $2.5 billion a day.” I say, so what? The poor did not get...
Walter Williams: Discrimination & disparities
My longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of “Discrimination and Disparities.” It lays waste to myth after myth about the causes of human differences not only in the United States but around the globe. Throughout the book, Sowell shows that socioeconomic...
Donald Boudreaux: The power of economics
Economics grabbed me from the moment I first encountered it as a freshman at Nicholls State University. I remain in awe of economics’ power to explain features of reality that are otherwise inexplicable. Why, for example, did we Americans in the 1970s waste so many hours waiting in long lines...
Buzz Aldrin: It’s time to focus on the great migration of humankind to Mars
Last month, Vice President Mike Pence announced that we are headed back to the moon. I am with him, in spirit and aspiration. Having been there, I can say it is high time we returned. When Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and I went to the moon 50 years ago this...
Kristen Laney O’Toole: My MS worsened while waiting for MRI authorization
I was living a healthy, active life as a communications consultant in Pittsburgh. That changed suddenly and dramatically in 2014 when I began experiencing back pain. As the pain intensified, I realized that something was seriously wrong. My doctor wanted to do an MRI to officially diagnose what he suspected...
Pat Buchanan: A nation at war with itself
President Trump has decided to cease cooperating with what he sees, not incorrectly, as a Beltway conspiracy that is out to destroy him. “We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump said last week. “These aren’t, like, impartial people. The Democrats are out to win in 2020.” Thus the Treasury Department just...
Colin McNickle: Hurdles for Pittsburgh property tax relief
Pittsburgh would be given the exclusive and explicit authority to enact a property tax relief program for longtime owner-occupants whose property values have risen because of gentrification under a bill pending in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. But should the measure be approved, myriad implementation questions, left to the city, remain...
Charles Lane: ‘Jeopardy!’ has stopped being fun because James Holzhauer is a menaceVideo
Night after night for more than two weeks, “Jeopardy!” champion James Holzhauer has crushed two opponents on the venerable game show like a pair of bugs. By the time you read this, his streak may have ended, but it doesn’t seem likely: As of Monday, he had won 18 games...
Jennifer Rubin: Nancy Pelosi was right about impeachment
The Post-ABC News poll shows a clear majorities of Americans oppose impeachment (56 percent), disapprove of President Trump’s performance (54 percent), think Robert Mueller’s report did not exonerate Trump (53 percent) and think the president lied to the country about the events documented in the special counsel’s report (58 percent)....
Michelle Malkin: Beware Soros-funded hijacking of US Census
“Are you a U.S. citizen?” Only in self-defeating, sovereignty-eroding America is the idea of asking whether people living in America are American citizens for the American census a matter of controversy. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on...
Gary Cuccia: Look for dating violence warnings
I talked to my daughter, Demi, 16 minutes before she was murdered. I didn’t know she was in danger, and I don’t think she did either. Demi had just turned 16. She was a cheerleader at Gateway High School, and the light of my life. She was about a year...
Eric Dean: Compulsory licensing could kill research, construction jobs
Across the country, scientists are developing roughly 4,000 experimental drugs. They’re developing these potential breakthroughs in laboratories meticulously constructed by union tradesmen and women. These labs are the best in the world, thanks in no small part to these skilled craft workers. My organization, North America’s Building Trades Unions, spends...
Terry O’Sullivan & Stephen Sandherr: Immigration fix & Pennsylvania’s construction crisis
While Congress has long signaled that a legislative fix for a group of immigrants could come soon, it can’t be soon enough for the thousands of affected Pennsylvanians and the industries in which they work. Currently more than 5,000 immigrants with Temporary Protected Status reside and work in Pennsylvania, and...
Lynn Banaszak: The Girls Scouts leadership pipeline
I fondly remember the afternoons with my Girl Scout troop in our elementary school cafeteria, laughing, learning and growing. I earned many badges, but more importantly, I gained a sense of accomplishment, explored different perspectives about the world, developed a commitment to community and forged lasting friendships. I count those...
Walter Williams: Brett Kavanaugh & George Mason University snowflakes
George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a summer course called Creation of the Constitution. The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago. Some GMU students and faculty have...
John Stossel: Our green dreams need better resources
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years. “That’s a goal you could only imagine possible if you have no idea how energy is produced,” James Meigs, former editor of Popular Mechanics magazine, says. “Renewable is so inconsistent,” he adds. “You can’t...
Nancy French: Romney wasn’t Christian enough for some Republicans. Somehow, Trump still is.
When Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, ran for president in the 2008 GOP primary, many evangelical Christian voters were reluctant - putting it mildly - to support him, because of his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of Romney’s opponents, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, exploited...
S.E. Cupp: Bernie Sanders’ secret: He’s a political insider
There’s good news and bad news for Bernie Sanders. The bad news is, 2020 is proving to be a lot more work than 2016 was. He’s no longer just a protest candidate who can dodge the demands of running for president in favor of vague promises and canned speeches. The...
