TRUMP SPEECH STRENGTHENS BOND WITH SUPPORTERS. If you listen to some cable news analysts or read the political conversation on social media, the most notable thing about former President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night was its length. And yes, at 93 minutes, it was too long. But for the Republicans listening […]
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention was supposed to mark the transformation of Donald Trump from presumptive GOP nominee to official standard-bearer of the party. But it turned out the real transformation took place 48 hours before the convention began, in a field in rural Pennsylvania, when Trump narrowly escaped an assassin’s attempt to blow […]
America is on a journey without maps. No one has been here before. Not one agent on former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail had ever leapt between a would-be assassin and a once-and-possibly-future president. They’ve trained for such incidents, but no one now in the agency has ever experienced one until now. The last […]
Republicans gathered this week in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, and among the matters they confronted was the need to stop a wave of tax increases set to fall on Americans next year, particularly on the heart of the economy — manufacturers and their workers. It will be what some are calling a “tax […]
Tom Brady retired earlier this spring. He’d led his organization longer than anyone else on the scene and posted record numbers and results right up to his retirement. But if former President Donald Trump is elected again this November, Brady’s legacy must be completely undone. We’re not talking about the famed NFL quarterback. We mean […]
I first saw Caitlin Clark play basketball in the 1970s. Well, it wasn’t Clark herself. The women’s basketball phenomenon, 22, hadn’t been born yet. But I saw female players exactly like her – tough, talented, and grounded in spiritual values. This was because I grew up in a Catholic family in Maryland, went to Catholic […]
There’s a line about class that I think about a lot: “There are those who are where they are because they are doing what they are doing, and there are those who are doing what they are doing because they are where they are.” That difference between living wherever your employment takes you and having […]
Jamaal Bowman is out. The two-term congressman from New York’s 16th Congressional District was defeated in the Democratic primary by George Latimer, a longtime Westchester County pol. But Bowman’s new career, that of a professional anti-Israel activist, could be beginning. If so, he would hardly be the first U.S. politician to blame his electoral defeat […]
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status. Still, Democratic power brokers have proceeded as though the Democratic National Committee has only until Aug. 7 […]
Over the past few years, public confidence in the U.S. military, which has been extraordinarily high for decades, has fallen precipitously. In a poll of attitudes toward the military, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute found that the percentage of people expressing a great deal of trust and confidence in that institution had fallen […]
There is not a flicker of the old Republican Party left. No embers of fiscal conservatism, global leadership, or moral decency. Reaganism’s ashes are stone-cold. Milwaukee showed us a MAGA movement confident of victory. No previous Republican National Convention has known such vindictiveness, paranoia, and hero-worship. Sporting bandages on their ears, delegates loudly insisted that […]
Are you a gentleman of a certain age, looking to spoil yourself with a once-in-a-lifetime car? Your local Porsche dealer will show you the 532-horsepower 911 GTS, priced at $164,900 and up. This will impress your neighbors, local teenagers, and even your valet. Unfortunately, it will also earn you some gently dismissive smirks from the […]
I have a confession to make: For more than a decade, I’ve been addicted to Canadian football. It’s not the slick, polished product you see on Sunday afternoons in the NFL. No, this is a grittier, quirkier version of the game that feels like it was cooked up by a mad scientist. Even though it’s […]
