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Ghosted: a New Campaign Strategy Editor: The question that needs asking is why Jack Bergman has “ghosted” his constituents. He has not had a live public debate since October 17, 2016, nor has he held a public forum, town hall, since 2017. Its rumored he doesn’t like the rancor of being in a room with dissatisfied voters. Really, a retired Marine afraid of facing his constituents. No, what Mr. Bergman fears are the questions he will be asked and the answers he must defend and cannot. We, his constituents, pay him for his service to represent our needs here in the UP and Northern ...

Mona Charen

Columns

Polls being what they are, Republicans and their supporters must be feeling a bit like the condemned Frenchmen who rode to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. It's fitting, then, that they are seizing on unrest in France as a desperate campaign gambit. "The Riots in France Are a Warning ...

Erick Erickson

Columns

We keep being told we must debase ourselves further every election cycle. We must embrace the groypers, who are white nationalists, racists and antisemites. We must embrace the racial grievance mongers and the Christian nationalists who never talk about Christ but always talk about politics. ...

To your good health

Columns

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 22-year-old daughter gets sick often. She's a nursing student and in the hospitals often for her clinicals, but she always tries to wash her hands often and takes a multivitamin. Are there any supplements she can take or anything she can do to boost her immunity? She also ...

Rich Lowry

Columns

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, thinks he's another JFK, not in terms of charm or wit, but as a fellow victim of religious bigotry. When he ran for president in 1960, Jack Kennedy indeed encountered anti-Catholic prejudice, including the preposterous claim that ...

Georgia Garvey

Columns

What you put first, you will keep. After all, most of us wouldn't mind a bit more money, but when you think about it, you already know where you can get it. You can always steal from the offering plate, push over a panhandling woman, scam a desperate friend. There's a bit of a trick, though. ...