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Time for Republicans to unify and elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker
About 20 Republican congressional representatives are playing an extremely dangerous game by casting protest votes against Rep. Kevin McCarthy in his bid for House speaker.
The limits to emancipation through COVID-19 vaccination
Normal life has returned for most Americans as the COVID-19 pandemic that struck three years ago continues to fade.
What should the new Congress investigate?
The voters could have given either party a mandate in November. They didn't, opting instead for an outcome that will produce gridlock between both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and both sides of the Capitol.
When the power fails, lives can be threatened by policy and criminality
Some like it hot, some like it cold, but the majority of humanity depends on middling temperatures for comfort -- and for life itself.
The campaign for RNC chair has not been pretty
As the Republican National Committee heads toward a decision about who will lead them for the next two years, the process has reminded everyone that democracy can be messy.
Biden's border policies placed migrants in grave danger with freezing weather
On Christmas Eve, a busload of migrants who crossed the southwest border arrived outside the Washington home of Vice President Kamala Harris in 18-degree weather.
Omnibus bill affirms Congress' budgeting practices that spiked the national debt
The Christmas season of 2022 has come to a close, and in keeping with tradition, some wishes have been realized and others deferred.
The Edison Electric Institute embarrasses itself
Gina McCarthy has a long career in and around the federal government.
Nurturing flickering faith at Christmas
The Christmas season, with its lustrous traditions, highlights the preeminence of faith.
Remembering the purpose and joy of Christmas
In 1816, near the starving and ruined city of Salzburg, Austria, a 24-year-old priest, the Rev. Joseph Mohr, suffered -- as did his flock -- through the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
Biden and his 'progressives' responsible for the illegal immigration inundation
America is under siege. A steady stream of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border is poised to erupt into a tidal wave meant to wash away forever the nation's red, white and blue identity.
Will McConnell join the spending Democrats?
You have to give the Democrats credit. You can count on them to do the politically smart thing even in defeat.
Nuclear season's unholy greetings
A generation of Americans who have suffered little more than an occasional shiver of apprehension over the prospect of nuclear war are now forced to contemplate the relentless peril that haunted their parents.
Concern over agricultural emissions plants a seed of degrowth
Farms have always existed primarily to grow food -- the stuff of human sustenance -- but modernity threatens to turn thumbs-down on the farm.
Fusion, finally
Fusion, the nuclear reaction that occurs inside the sun, has been achieved on Earth.
'Twitter Files' expose incestuous collusion between Big Tech and Big Government
The political left has been dwelling comfortably in a bubble of thought conformity, shielded from competing influence by an incestuous relationship between Big Tech and Big Government.
A new rule for the House of Representatives
When the new Congress convenes, California Republican Kevin McCarthy -- who most people expect to be speaker by then -- wants to start things off by reading the Constitution aloud.
What a Republican House majority must do
Recently, a handful of nominal Republicans were included in a story about what the new Republican House majority should do.
Shooting down Biden's vaccine mandate
President Biden's ill-considered COVID-19 vaccine mandate for military personnel is taking well-deserved fire from all sides.
Elon Musk exposes the dimensions of election interference at Twitter
Liberty is a fragile quality, and the nation is now witnessing just how close it has come to losing it.
