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Columns

Minnesota Democrats test how woke is too woke

By TIM GRAHAM Syndicated columnist What is going on in the People’s Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Ronald Reagan years, with ex-Vice President Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their ...

When it comes to war, Trump parties like it’s 1954

By KEITH RAFFEL Syndicated columnist The Trump-ordered attack on Venezuela and capture of its president is meant not only to be a distraction from the mounting Epstein scandal. It’s also a power play consistent with the American president’s backward-looking economic and geopolitical view ...

American people being morally blackmailed

By JOSH HAMMER Syndicated columnist In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln warned, in eerily prescient fashion, that the spread of a then-ascendant “mobocratic spirit” ...

History is watching, so what are you doing right now?

By BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP Syndicated columnist Louisville Urban League President Lyndon Pryor said something at the organization’s annual Impact Luncheon last month that has been stuck on replay in my head ever since. I’m paraphrasing here, but he told the crowd, “If you’re wondering ...

Only less government will bring about less fraud

By VERONIQUE de RUGY Syndicated columnist Growing national outrage over Minnesota’s welfare fraud is justified, but not because of where it took place or because it implicates members of any immigrant community. It’s much more than a “Minnesota” story. The outrage is justified ...

A tall task lies ahead in Venezuela

By ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Syndicated columnist Dictator and narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in a thrilling nighttime raid on his palace in Caracas, Venezuela, in an operation codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve. The mission involved over 150 aircraft launched from ...