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Opinion

How Christmas will steal the Trump

Columns

Trump gave what was billed as a "Christmas speech" in rural Pennsylvania last week that began with his "wishing each and every one of you a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, all of that stuff" and boasting that now, under his presidency, "everybody's saying 'merry Christmas' again." Then ...

Living in Lockdown USA

Columns

"Just FYI if you're seeing the news right now, I'm totally safe," a son enrolled at Brown University texted me. "I've been home for a few hours now and wasn't there when stuff started to happen. Seems to be some crazy shooting near brown." What?! I turned on CNN and saw the quaint streets of ...

Use caution when going out on early ice cover

Editorial

Those eager to take advantage of winter’s snow need to keep safety at the forefront of their preparations, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources advises. Be extra careful on all waterbodies and remember that no ice is safe ice, that state’s DNR warns in a news release. Stay alert ...

Candace Owens’ conspiracy theories wacky even by MAGA standards

Columns

By RICH LOWRY Syndicated columnist Few would have guessed that Erika Kirk would have to spend energy these last few, heart-breaking months fending off a right-wing influencer bent on implicating her slain husband’s own organization, TPUSA, in his assassination. Here we are, though. ...

Trump’s relationship with Europe is more abusive than allied

Editorial

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Dec. 8 was so hastily arranged that Mr. Macron needed to be back in Paris by late afternoon to ...

An imagined look at trip to the grocery store

Columns

By GEORGIA GARVEY Syndicated columnist Closed-circuit TV captured this (completely fake) conversation between President Donald Trump and a grocery store clerk yesterday. CLERK: That'll be $286.47, Mr. President. TRUMP: Did you swipe my customer rewards card? I thought the Twinkies were ...