Let’s not go messing around with the Electoral College
Imagine how different the world would look today if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election. We may disagree about whether things would be better or worse, but there's not...
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Check a candidate’s arguments
This political campaign has been a frustrating blizzard of numbers and studies. One side says $344 billion over 21 years, then the other side calls that a desperate lie and...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Anyone who regards the prospect of double-digit inflation with insouciance is either too young to have lived through it the last time (the late 1970s) or too old to remember....
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Sarah Palin thinks she is a better American than you because she comes from a small town, and a superior human because she isn't a journalist and never lived in...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
It's interesting to consider what the price of oil would be today if it had been higher in the past. Suppose, for example, that President George W. Bush had used...
MEDIA TYPES
I'm sorry Mike Royko feels I have an "elitist" smirk on CNN's Crossfire ("Wiping the smirk off media elitist," June 25). A few years ago he complained that I wasn't...
TRYING MARIJUANA, THEN AND NOW
Both President Bush and drug czar William Bennett have agreed that past pot smoking should not disqualify someone from future high office. . . . You can`t be excused for...