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Pat Buchanan: Pete Buttigieg & Christianity’s crackup
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” said Hamlet, who thereby raised some crucial questions: Is moral truth subjective? Does it change with changing times and changing attitudes? Or is there a higher law, a permanent law, God’s law, immutable and eternal, to which man’s...
Christine Emba: Congress should ease the pain of filing taxes
For the first time in a long time, I managed to do my taxes early this year. My refund check arrived by mail. Opening it, I looked down at the (paltry) sum, sighed and placed the letter into my bag. And then it blew away. Literally. It blew out of...
S.E. Cupp: The silver lining in Trump’s homeland security purge
“They are decapitating the entire department,” a Department of Homeland Security official ominously told The Washington Post of last week’s alarming purge that resulted in forcing the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, pulling the pick to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement and firing the Secret Service director. President Trump’s ouster...
Michelle Malkin: False accuser Shaun King’s record of harm
This weekend, “journalist, activist and humanitarian” Shaun King gave the keynote speech at the annual Innocence Network Conference in Atlanta. The theme of the event, whose attendees work to prevent and undo wrongful convictions, is “The Presumption of Innocence.” It was just three months ago that King recklessly exploited the...
Cal Thomas: God & the Democrats
For the last 27 years, Democrats have been trying to win over evangelical Christians who last voted in large numbers for their party’s presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, in 1976. At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Al Gore gave it a go, but misquoted Scripture. In his acceptance speech for the...
Jonah Goldberg: Kirstjen Nielsen wasn’t right for Trump’s ‘bad cop’ role
Summoned to the White House last Sunday, embattled and apparently overwhelmed secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen arrived with a resignation letter in tow. “Despite our progress in reforming homeland security for a new age,” it read, “I have determined that it is the right time for...
Nathan Benefield: How to deliver what ‘socialists’ want
Socialism has hit the mainstream — or so we’ve been told. Yes, democratic socialists are winning elections, including recent Pennsylvania victories in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and Bernie Sanders is again a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. But does this mean Americans’ political views have U-turned from free-market capitalism? That’s...
John Stossel: Mark Zuckerberg’s cronyism
Please, regulate me! That was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s message to Congress recently. “Lawmakers often tell me we have too much power over speech, and frankly I agree,” he wrote in an op-ed. “(W)e shouldn’t make so many important decisions … on our own.” It sounds so self-sacrificing. But give me...
Walter Williams: Tragedy of socialism
If one needed evidence of the gross ignorance of millennials, and their teachers and college professors, it’s their solid support for socialism and socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. Socialism has produced tragedy wherever it has been implemented. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of nearly 1,000 Americans perishing in...
Timothy L. O’Brien: Bill Barr is trying hard to be President Trump’s Roy Cohn
The attorney general of the United States is, we now know, quite sure of himself. Exhibit A: Spying During Senate testimony on Wednesday, William Barr was asked if, as Bloomberg News reported, he was planning to review how and why the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation into possible...
Vince Mercuri: Healing body, mind & spirit
Over 150 years ago, the seeds of a philosophy of healing were planted. In 1865, three Franciscan Sisters came to Pittsburgh from Buffalo looking for funds for their ministry. They opened a 15-bed hospital in a frame house to aid German immigrants in Lawrenceville. Over the years, the hospital grew...
John Baer: Pa. lawmakers to child-sex-abuse survivors: Take a number, have a seat
The Pennsylvania legislature, once again, is poised to turn its back on who knows how many survivors of child sex abuse. Promises of action? Pledges to victims? Repeated assurances that those who were violated (and long-voiceless) might find some measure of justice? You tell me. The state is among the...
Pat Buchanan: Socialist America or Trump’s America?
In the new Democratic Party, where women and people of color are to lead, and the white men are to stand back, the presidential field has begun to sort itself out somewhat problematically. According to a Real Clear Politics average of five polls between mid-March and April 1, four white...
Colin McNickle: Facts and fallacies on British Airways’ return to Pittsburgh
With much pomp and circumstance, British Airways last week resumed nonstop flights between Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and London’s Heathrow Airport after a 20-year absence. The new flights are being subsidized with $3 million in public money over the next two years. However, the rationales cited for restarting the service...
Timothy L. O’Brien: I’ve seen Trump’s tax returns and you still haven’t
Remember back in early 2016 when Donald Trump, who was still regarded as something of a long shot for the presidency, promised he would disclose his tax returns publicly – just like every other candidate had done voluntarily since 1973? “I have big returns, as you know, and I have...
S.E. Cupp: Dems overpromise, underdeliver on Trump
To call President Trump “Machiavellian” is to give him a little too much credit. Machiavelli had a keen awareness of history and could speak in complete sentences. But if Trump has figured out how to out-maneuver Democrats and his opponents, it’s only because they so easily fall for his traps...
Cal Thomas: Biden suffers political hit
Why does it seems like the political equivalent of a Mafia hit job on Joe Biden, who is being whacked before a much-anticipated announcement of his presidential plans? Most people who pay attention to such things have seen Biden’s hands-on approach when it comes to women. Not until recently, when...
Barbara Cisek: Congress must take action on drug prices
When Sen. Bob Casey asked me to testify at a March 6 Senate hearing on big pharma and rising drug prices, I immediately thought about every senior citizen who has stood alongside me in line at the pharmacy, only to be forced to leave behind a needed medication because the...
Tim Schmidt: Support responsibly armed Americans, not more failed gun laws
All too often a murderous maniac opens fire on innocent, law-abiding Americans and forces us to take an honest look at what can be done to stop future attacks. It happened in Pittsburgh in October at the Tree of Life synagogue, claiming the lives of 11 innocent men and women....
David Wassel: A solution for the Electoral College
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic candidates for the presidency in 2020 are calling to eliminate the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote. Yes, affording every state an additional vote in the Electoral College for each U.S. senator does somewhat skew influence in presidential elections more to...
Walter Williams: Police aren’t enough — fathers are needed
In 2018, there were 308 homicides in Baltimore. So far this year, there have been 69. That’s in a 2018 population of 611,648 — down from nearly a million in 1950. The city is pinning its hopes to reduce homicides and other crime on new Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. Another...
John Stossel: Breakfast isn’t important
I skipped breakfast again this morning. I won’t worry about it. Yes, I’ve heard the advice. “It’s the most important meal of the day.” It balances blood sugar levels, kick-starts your metabolism, stimulates the brain, etc. A Harvard University study said men who regularly skip breakfast have a 27% higher...
Donald Boudreaux: Conversation with a young socialist
Recently near my office at George Mason University I ran into a student of mine who was showing his friend around campus. The friend is thinking of transferring from Radford University to George Mason. The friend — call him “Jack” — wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the famous image of...
Lenny McAllister: Fight for education equality marches on
Equality in Pennsylvania can never be obtained as long as education is not an even playing field. In pursuing the dream of equality in this country, let’s keep in mind: “Education equality is the civil rights issues of our time.” Unequal education can thwart the most important aspects of civil...
Aaron Blake: How the White House is casting Puerto Rico
It’s tempting to view President Trump’s many grievance-filled tweets as angry, indiscriminate lashing out against political opponents. It’s unhinged! It’s unpresidential! They’re “rage tweets!” Etc. Often, though, if you look closely, you’ll see some design. Behind the invective and often-incorrect claims will be a controversial suggestion with some built-in plausible...
