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Tim Walz did a lot better than I thought he would in his debate with J.D. Vance last week. Walz didn’t knock himself out of the race like Joe Biden.

I am a white woman, who spent 80% of her life in the suburbs. I taught high school in the suburbs to young white girls who are now young white women

The Republican Party had something of a nervous breakdown after the 2012 election, when GOP challenger Mitt Romney lost to incumbent President Barack Obama. Some Republicans had convinced themselves that

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania  In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris came here, on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble

Trump or Harris? The pundits and so-called political experts in the liberal and conservative media are still arguing over who won last week’s presidential debate. They’ll never agree. And they’re

Viewers who tuned in to the highly anticipated debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris left disappointed. Harris’ supporters wished she had taken the opportunity to clear up why she

Eight years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown hoodwinked California voters into making it easier for violent sex offenders to shorten their prison sentences. A month ago, the 2016 ballot measure that

When the media started mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name, I have to admit I rolled my eyes more than once at the pearl clutchers on the left who saw it as

During Jerry Brown’s first stint as governor, he became enmeshed in a very complicated dispute over how the state should tax the incomes of multinational corporations. More than four decades

“He was on our radar.” How many times have we heard that after a mass shooting at a high school or a shopping mall? We heard it for the umpteenth

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was

It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over Donald Trump’s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing.  Kamala Harris herself posted a statement on

Hollywood can’t always be trusted to accurately portray reality or history, to say the least. But I fully enjoyed watching the facts go by in the premier of “Reagan,” which

As I watched the Kennedy siblings close ranks against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of his support for Donald Trump, it reminded me of the fragility of human bonds. Over

There was a time, four-plus decades ago, when crime was California’s most powerful political issue. The state was experiencing a serious spike in crime but the Legislature, controlled by Democrats,

With less than 75 days until the November election when voters will choose a new president, 34 U.S. senators, and the full House of Representatives complement, candidates’ rhetoric is getting

Vice President Kamala Harris has done an impressive job lowering the bar on the question of how she will communicate her views to the American people.  As you know, Harris

Kamala Harris has been trying to connect with the little people, the ones in semi-flyover country who might be a little squeamish about her San Francisco liberalism. In just one

Thirty-two years ago, as then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was trying to unseat President H.W. Bush, Clinton strategist James Carville summarized the campaign in four immortal words: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

Thank goodness the Democrat Party’s magic act in Chicago is finally over. For four days we’ve had to watch the liberal media drool over Kamala Harris and her unimpressive VP