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Opinion

Trump’s attack on Venezuela illegal, unwise

Editorial

Over the past few months, President Trump has deployed an imposing military force in the Caribbean to threaten Venezuela. Until recently, the president used that force — an aircraft carrier, at least seven other warships, scores of aircraft and 15,000 U.S. troops — for illegal attacks on ...

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

Columns

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

Columns

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” ...

Only less government will bring about less fraud

Columns

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 ...

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

Columns

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 ...