Each April, our nation celebrates the role of community colleges. In 2021, community colleges are faced with aiding in the recovery from the C…
Hokum by Richard Schanck
Hokum by Richard Schanck
Hokum by Richard Schanck
Hokum by Richard Schanck
We’ve all heard President Biden’s calls for unity and reconciliation. Despite these calls, his numerous executive actions and the legislation …
Hokum by Richard Schanck
Bill Cohen, the former Republican three-term U.S. senator and U.S. representative from Maine, never lost an election. He was elected to the Ba…
After Republicans lost the White House and both chambers of Congress last November, you might think they’d be asking themselves: How can we at…
While glued to the coverage, both riveting and chilling, of the Senate trial of former President Donald J. Trump, and watching the House prose…
Democrats are once again impeaching former President Donald Trump —now a private citizen — for provocative rhetoric they say incited the attac…
Perhaps the most famous quote about the First Amendment — one that is often garbled and is sure to be dissected in the upcoming impeachment tr…
On April 1, 2018, when Thad Cochran retired after 40 years as a U.S. senator from Mississippi, he made history; Cochran was the last Republica…
Regular readers of this space may recall that I believe Americans are the most optimistic of voters. Think about it: With the exception of tho…
The U.S. COVID response has been called “federalism at its best” — treating the states as “laboratories of change,” as former Justice Louis Br…
Before his swearing-in as president, Joe Biden attended Catholic Mass. At his inauguration, the invocation was delivered by the Rev. Leo O’Don…
On Tuesday afternoon, while working at my desk, two things happened almost at once.
I don’t think there is anyone in America with a phone who hasn’t seen the graphic pictures of the Capitol under siege, or hasn’t read the harr…
We’re living in a time of egregious double standards where Democrats and complicit media hold Republicans to a different code of conduct than …
Amid Wednesday’s riots, President-elect Joe Biden’s selection of Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general was not the front-page story it oth…
I want the vaccine. I have rarely left my house during the last nine months — if you try, you can find a way to have almost anything delivered…
Joe Biden has been tweeting about his plan to implement a 100-day national mask mandate. A largely symbolic statement given the vast majority …
My friend Mark Russell, the wonderful American humorist, had an ironclad prediction:
“This Deal Is Good Enough.”
I’m not a scientist. I’m not an infectious disease expert, let alone one of those who led the fight against AIDS. So I have to depend on exper…
We’re “all in this together,” or so we were told at the outset of the pandemic 10 months ago.
Looking for a last-minute gift idea? Here’s one: Donate to your local food bank, and send the folks on your annual card list a note, telling t…