“The (plug in random NFL team) play Radio City Rockettes offense. One, two, three, kick.” That’s an old football joke. If you don’t understand…
Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation.
Every year, the week before Halloween, we host a little pumpkin carving party. Since I’m an enthusiast of inexpensive, nearly effortless enter…
Unless you’re a member of the Audubon Society, you’re about to learn more about woodpeckers than you ever thought you’d know. Or care to.
We warned China to stop its incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone — and the Chinese responded by flying even more aircraft …
The phone company is going about it all wrong: The Washington, D.C., area is getting a new area code (771), and instead of fending off complai…
How does a stupid and ridiculous lie come to be embraced and promulgated by top officials of the United States government?
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Microsoft announced recently that individuals using their various accounts won’t need to use passwords. Big bloomin’ deal! If you were underwh…
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Benjamin Franklin was right about death and taxes, but new taxes only become inevitable when a Democrat is elected president, and here we are.
Wisconsin gets an F in teaching of civics and U.S. history.
It’s hard to imagine more humiliating images than what we’ve seen in Afghanistan in recent weeks, from the hasty evacuation of the U.S. Embass…
“Mistakes were made.” That’s a passive-aggressive phrase that politicians and others have used since time immemorial to deflect blame. Suggest…
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Americans do love our abbreviations and acronyms. So, when we talk about the FDA, we mean the Food and Drug Administration, not the Foot Dragg…
One thing about anti-social media: It may be a spreader of misinformation, but the responses in the comments sections give us a rough idea of …
Poor Ron Klain.
President Biden arrived in office with the southern U.S. border secure and Afghanistan in a state of fragile equilibrium.
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A trillion dollars used to be a lot of money, even in Washington.
I will admit I didn’t watch much Olympics coverage; I never do. I’m put off by how the event has turned into bad-taste corporate kitsch in the…
Teddy Roosevelt fervently believed that the president of the United States should be at the center of the political universe, constantly attra…
”Well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” — Chico Marx, 1933, “Duck Soup”
The Guardians?! After being known as the Indians since 1915, the best team name that the Cleveland baseball club could come up with was the Gu…
If you wonder what Republicans are accomplishing in Washington, look no further than the Senate Armed Services committee, where a majority of …
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 …
No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconocla…
