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America’s heartland, the Great Plains, sometimes called “flyover country,” often lags behind the rest of the country when it comes to fashion trends. So it was news to me and, I surmise, to many in the Kansas City area to learn, Thursday…

Abortion is back in the news thanks to the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision about the rights of fertilized eggs from In Vitro Fertilization procedures. With the topic again taking up headlines, it’s time to revisit leftist hypocrisy…

New York Times reporter and controversialist Jonathan Weisman made the front page of Monday’s New York Times with “Is Anti-Zionism Always Antisemitic? A Fraught Question for the Moment.” Weisman approached the…

I sat through all two hours of the debate among the Republican primary candidates, although I was irked by Larry Elder's absence.  Having said that, he didn't miss much.  It was like watching a junior high school debate, complete with…

by Bernie Moreno   The Biden Department of (in)Justice has, once again, displayed that they will stop at nothing to try to ruin the life and reputation of Donald Trump. It’s a disgrace. It’s a spectacle that belies its purpose: the…

Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville has blocked around 250 senior military promotions over his bigoted, dangerous, radical, far right, MAGA-extremist objections to the DoD’s recently issued abortion policy, hurting thousands of military…

In 2004, the Republican Party needed a candidate to run against a young up-and-coming state senator from Illinois running for the U.S. Senate. Barack Obama’s GOP opponent, Jack Ryan, had unexpectedly dropped out of the race after a sex…

Placeholder while article actions loadIt’s difficult not to pity Private C.J. Memphis in Charles Fuller’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “A Soldier’s Play,” which examines prejudice and racial stereotypes — on both sides of the color…

On Thursday, Eric Ting at SFGate.com reported MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell created controversy on Twitter for coming to the defense of Sen. Dianne Feinstein after the San Francisco Chronicle reported four senators anonymously…

In a Washington riven by discord, it can seem like a throwback to a gentler time.“I’m proud to stand with my Republican and Democrat colleagues” to send help to Ukraine, Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the US House of…