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Academic drama and ‘Islamophobia’

by Gene Lyons Chances are, your humble, obedient servant here will never be invited to teach at Hamline University, a Methodist school in St. Paul, Minn. For one thing, I’m almost old enough to be president of the United States — that is, well beyond my professorial sell-by ...

China a threat not only to Taiwan

SYDNEY — Last July, the U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley, visited Jakarta, where he said China’s military has become significantly more aggressive and dangerous over the past five years. While the U.S. has seemed fixated on China’s growing verbal threats and ...

Fight over gas stoves heating up

Federal bureaucrats aren’t the only ones looking to ban gas stoves. Plenty of state and local officials want to do just that, including here in Nevada. Last Monday, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission was considering a ban on gas stoves. Richard Trumka ...

Pa. House Speaker flips from ‘D’ to ‘I’

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Come January in Harrisburg, there are two constants: The annual Farm Show will be better than it was the year before — it always is — and swearing-in for the new two-year legislative session is guaranteed to be packed with drama. Tuesday was no exception when the ...

The super-duper majorities in the W.Va. Legislature

The 2023 regular session of the West Virginia Legislature began this week with the Republicans in absolute control of the agenda. The 2022 election and party switches have given the GOP all but three of the 34 seats in the Senate. In the House of Delegates, Republicans hold 88 of the 100 ...

Barn doors and horses

After months of ignoring the problem and demonstrably false claims by his Homeland Security secretary that the southern border is “secure,” President Biden is finally visiting the area this week as part of a trip to Mexico. Last week, the administration announced it would immediately ...