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Right, left need to control radicals in own parties

It's starting to sound like we're in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. For those of you who forgot, the Spanish Civil War was the great prequel to World War II, in which the combatants were proxies for the Communists and the Fascists. Stalin's Soviet Union supported the former, Hitler's ...

Lightning will not strike twice in Maine – Platner steps down

Thank God lightning will not strike twice the same spot - in reference to the character issue. Maine's Graham Platner was a seriously flawed Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate despite first being the choice of many Democratic leaders in the state and in Washington. It took repeated ...

Pursuit of happiness, spiked

WASHINGTON — The Trump whirling dervish has come and gone to Turkey — to demand NATO hand over Greenland! — leaving a city exhausted by his wild Fourth of July displays. But first, it was so great to see legions of World Cup soccer fans all over the world, at all hours, cheering on ...

Transportation bill that proves Washington can’t quit clientelism

Congress loves to wrap legislation in the language of the public interest. This year's surface transportation reauthorization bill is no exception. Supporters describe the House Transportation Committee-passed package as a major safety bill designed to make America's transportation system more ...

NYC mayor Mamdani caves to the ‘commiefication’ of air conditioning

PARIS — In the end, he just couldn't help himself. The self-described "democratic socialist" mayor of New York City — the apparently ideologically confused crypto-commie, Zohran Mamdani — initially appeared to be on the verge of successfully resisting the authoritarian European ...

Dems need to take car keys away from Bernie

The Platner fiasco has unleashed something of a brawl in the Democratic Party over how the sexting candidate with a Nazi tattoo came to be their rival to Susan Collins, now in her 5th term as Republican senator from Maine. Bernie Sanders thought his socialists could pass off blue-collar ...