How can Graham Planter, who might win the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine in next Tuesday's primary election ever be seriously considered for such a job, given the amount of personal baggage he carries? The answer is we have so lowered our standards and think so little of our ...

I detest him and everything he does or says. Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups. But it's possible that someday we'll look back on this horrendous era and say we needed Trump. We needed to see how horrible it could get before America was ...

Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it — a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories. On Monday, one of the far left's agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal ...

Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from Wisconsin to California when I was eight. Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis courts in summer, the community garden and all that seemed unfair. The ...

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the U.S. government would receive most of the revenue to provide services to the American people via the revenue received from personal income taxes. It also is how we fund Social Security, Medicare and unemployment compensation as "workers pay into" ...

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of ...