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US President Joe Biden's trip to Israel amidst conflict with Hamas garners mixed reactions and highlights America's global role. Here's a review

Friday, Sept. 9, 2023 -- Alabama illustrated how contempt for the law -- not to mention for equal representation and basic fairness -- is an animating value in whole swaths of America. Defiance is defining large parts of the country, as represented by so many politicians who feel comfortable only when they are resisting someone else's agenda rather than coming up with their own.

The Manchurian Candidate was apparently more than just a movie. A Russian agent in the employ of one of Putin’s oligarchs was paid millions to run Trump’s campaign and was passing secret campaign information to Russian intelligence that they used to target specific groups of American voters via Face...

Your party's choice? please raise your hand if you would. [ cheers and applause ] >> note the audience reaction. six hands went up in the air. everyone except former governor chris christie and asa hutchinson. as david firestone put it in "the new york times," six candidates apparently would not be bothered to see mr. trump stand on the capitol steps in 2025 and swear an oath to uphold the constitution, no matter if he had been convicted of violating the same constitution by, take your choice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, lying to the u.s. government, racketeering and conspiracy to commit f...