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Michael Barone

The gender gap, we're informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter. That spurred political journalists to emit ...

Ben Shapiro

Last week, the internet was set abuzz by a memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice about the Jeffrey Epstein case. Epstein, of course, was found hanging in his cell in a New York jail in August 2019, after his arrest on charges of sex trafficking of underage ...

Tim Graham

The "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact barely touch the talking heads on cable television anymore. They used to have a serious tilt against the Fox News hosts in prime time. So it's unsurprising that on July 9, they published their first attack on conservative CNN analyst Scott Jennings, who offered ...

Armstrong Williams

In the early morning of July 4, a flash flood emergency was issued for Austin and San Antonio by the National Weather Service in Texas. According to the NWS, a flash flood emergency is "exceedingly rare" and is only used when "there is a severe threat to human life and catastrophic ...

The Raffel Ticket: Keith Raffel

President Donald Trump and his acolytes need to learn that the days of falsely blaming the deep state, government inefficiency or DEI hires for their own bungling are over. They, not Joe Biden and his team, are now running the country. Three days before the deadly July 4 flood in Texas, ...

Salena Zito

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment. The men who served with him were German, Irish and Scottish settlers. ...