Sept. 11, 2001: Another day, like Dec. 7, 1941, that will live in infamy. Nineteen militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers at the World Trade Center in NYC, a third plane hit […]

When you visit the State House in these early days of the session, there’s a new atmosphere. People actually seem glad to see each other, and the tension that quickly built up in recent sessions has yet to surface. A lot of that is due to the end of pandemic conditions, and leadership decisions to […]

I love my gas stove — almost as much as I love my Weber gas grill. So I became curious this past week when I heard that a commissioner in one of our ever-expanding federal-government agencies discussed a possible ban on natural gas stoves. As the story goes, Richard Trumka Jr., a U.S. Consumer Product […]

When news broke the other day that President Biden’s lawyers had found a few documents with classified markings in a think-tank office he once used, we all knew that MAGA’s false equivalence cops would spring into action. Their predictable message, aimed primarily at low-information nitwits: Trump is innocent because he and Biden did the same […]

Don’t worry, America. Big Media will never let Joe Biden get away with illegally taking classified documents from the White House in 2016 and stashing them at his office and in his garage next to his Corvette. The ace reporters at liberal places like the New York Times, CNN and NBC are already digging deep […]

THE CONVERSATION — U.S. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is just the latest conservative lawmaker to misuse the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to judge a person on character and not race. In the protracted battle to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, Roy, a Republican, nominated a Black man, Byron Donalds, a […]

When my mother was a teenager in Exeter, New Hampshire, she’d sometimes respond to a potential suitor’s request for a date with the line, “No thank you, I’d rather stay home and read Dickens.” When I was a ninth grader in Parkersburg, West Virginia, my English teacher Ms. Pettigrew seemed taken right out of a […]