Commentary

Lake: Itโ€™s 1968 all over again, the year that left two leaders dead and shattered our politics

For months now, the parallels between 2024 and 1968 have seemed eerie. The Democratic convention is once again in Chicago this August, as it was 56 years ago. The Democratic incumbent, once again, is despised by his left-wing base and seems out of touch with voters. College campuses are once again aflame over a foreign war.

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Boyd: Contrary to media claims, inflation index shows Americans still face sky-high prices

Contrary to the corporate media cabalโ€™s desperate attempt to paint theย Consumer Price Indexย report for June 2024 as a sign that inflationย โ€œcooledโ€ย and will continueย โ€œcoolingโ€ย andย โ€œslowingโ€ย the closer the nation gets to Novemberโ€™s presidential election, Americans are still paying higher prices on basic day-to-day goods and services than they did in the last four years.

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Ganahl: Is Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s emergency declaration a public health measure or political maneuver for the White House?

When Gov. Jared Polis declared a state of disaster in Colorado because of a surge in Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), known commonlyย as bird flu, it ignited both a mix of public concern and political debate.

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Harless: Democrats’ lies about Project 2025 is fearmongering campaign aimed at smearing Trump, helping Biden

Democrat officials have launched a disinformation campaign about the Heritage Foundationโ€™sย Project 2025, misattributing policies nowhere to be found in the project and falsely linking them to former President Donald Trump.

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Ashbaugh: How a Latino Democrat and a Black Republican opened a white, middle-aged womanโ€™s eyesย 

The Republican friend of mine who I so quickly judged, as we reconnected after years of not seeing each other, was Lavelle Lewis, a football and basketball player who Iโ€™d cheered for during our years at IHS in Rochester, N. Y. After a couple of cups of coffee, I realized that as liberal as I was, Lavelle and I werenโ€™t so different.

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Harsanyi: If you were duped on Bidenโ€™s cognitive decline, youโ€™re too dumb to be a journalist

By the time we saw Joe Bidenโ€™s debateย debacle, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Bidenโ€™s fragile mental state was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats.

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Lake: Brand-new Republican Party platform leans into popular MAGA for the masses issues

For the last eight years, Donald Trump has ignored a basic rule of politics: always expand your base and appeal to as many supporters as possible. Well, if the newย Republican Party platformย is any indication, Trump is finally taking this conventional advice about elections.ย 

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Moore: The case for ‘Draining the Swamp’ is stronger than ever

The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and government hiring has outpaced every private sector industry. It isn’t just the IRS bringing on thousands of new workers. The bloat is everywhere.

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