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If Clark Kent had a twin brother he might resemble Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. That includes Johnson’s mild-mannered nature.

Underneath that bland exterior of Johnson’s may not be a Superman, but Johnson on the first anniversary of his speakership is confident that while Republicans may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single ...Read more

MIAMI - As in most presidential election years, ballot measures are usually overlooked or downplayed by the national media. One is in Florida where a proposal to legalize cannabis to be administered...Read more

A political rule of thumb is that candidates should never offend a large group of voters, especially close to an election.

Harris ignored that rule, not once, but twice last week.

First, she disrespected the annual Al Smith dinner in New York, which raises money for Catholic charities and has been attended by every modern presidential ...Read more

Three years ago, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said this: “I don't think we're going to have real peace and security in the Middle East until the regime of the ayatollahs is replaced, not just because of ...Read more

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”– Joe Biden on “The Breakfast Club,” 2020

“ We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all ...Read more

It took two and one-half months for Kamala Harris to agree to an interview with a national journalist. She was interviewed on "60 Minutes" by Bill Whitaker, but her answers are not likely to help her with the few voters who say they are still “undecided.”

Asked by Whitaker to explain her economic plan and how it would be paid for, Harris’...Read more

Vote buying is illegal in the United States. The law says: “Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—Shall be fined ...Read more

The year was 1982. I was in Israel when the IDF crossed the Northern border to root out terrorist sanctuaries in southern Lebanon. The government of Prime Minister ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit last Friday to a border region in Arizona takes political cynicism to a new low. It is like hoping to score political points by visiting the relative of someone who has been murdered by a man...Read more

Among the questions I am most often asked by people who don’t like the two presidential candidates: “How did we get to this point where I can’t enthusiastically vote for either one?”

What may be a partial answer comes from an essay by Daniel McCarthy, editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.

In the summer 2024 issue, McCarthy ...Read more

It’s been more than two months since Vice President Kamala Harris was deeded the Democratic presidential nomination. During that time, she has not held a news conference or sat with many mainstream journalists to answer serious questions about how she would lead the country and who she would choose as her advisers. On Saturday, riding high on ...Read more

In1995 when Timothy McVeigh bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children and injuring hundreds more, President Bill Clinton blamed “politics/fromtheright/calthomas/s-3417419">Read more

The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has commented on a report he commissioned that found the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is in a deplorable condition. The report’s findings echoed media investigations of the past which discovered unacceptably long waits for ...Read more

You could see where this was headed from the start when debate co-host David Muir asked Vice President Kamala Harris the question Ronald Reagan asked Americans to ponder when he debated Jimmy Carter in October 1980: “Are you better off ...Read more

As the disastrous (for Biden) Trump-Biden debate June 27 did not include any of my recommended questions, I offer ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis some questions they might consider asking Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s face-off.

For Harris: Some Republicans, including your opponent, have accused you of ...Read more

President Biden says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to win the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza by the terrorist group Hamas.

As the saying goes “with friends like these, who needs enemies?”

In his first statement since the recovery of six hostages murdered by Hamas, including American-Israeli ...Read more

CNN has won the “privilege” of conducting the first interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz on Thursday night, beating the promised “end of the month” deadline she had set.

The Harris team had reportedly been “shopping” networks to assess what they believe would be the most favorable one to her. CNN now...Read more

“I could be whatever you want. you just tell me what you want and I'm gonna be that for you.” ― Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week, Vice President Kamala Harris seemed ...Read more

The producers didn’t plan for the biopic about the life of Ronald Reagan to open so close to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, but delays caused by the pandemic and an actors strike led to its release on August 30.

It seems easier to portray a historical figure that no one currently living remembers. In the case of the challenge ...Read more

The first Democratic National Convention I attended was in San Francisco in 1984. UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick indelibly labeled attendees “San Francisco Democrats,” because of their left-leaning policies.

Forty years later it appears little has changed. Then, Vice President Walter Mondale, who was nominated to take another crack at the ...Read more