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I'm not one to generally quote Senate Majority Leader John Thune as my authority on Cabinet appointees, but when it came to Bill Pulte -- the housing chief with no national security experience who was President Donald Trump's first choice for Director of National Intelligence -- he was right to express concern. Pulte has no business in that ...Read more

Even if you haven't geeked out over the "boy problem," you're probably aware of the well-documented evidence that boys and men are struggling.

Boys lag behind girls in school and graduate at lower rates. Women now comprise the overwhelming majority of college students and graduates. Boys are far more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, get into...Read more

Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced me. She started off by warning she might embarrass me, then proceeded with the most generous and ...Read more

I don't fix things.

I'm a man. I don't fix things.

I pay people to fix things, is what I do.

In general, the people I pay to fix things do not fix the thing on the first try.

Being unable to fix things on the first try doesn't hurt your fixing-things career, though.

Nearly everyone I've ever had to call back to fix the same thing twice ...Read more

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna conceded at a rally for the Maine senatorial candidate that Graham Platner's actions have not been sterling. Voters considering Platner don't like his "shameful" actions against women, the Californian said, but "they are willing to extend him grace and redemption."

Maine Democrats have just chosen Platner to challenge ...Read more

I woke up early to catch the latest news on the election results, only to find that the first text message I saw was not a news alert from Maine, but a warning from Apple Customer Support. Someone in Moscow, Russia, was trying to access my Apple account to make a $329.49 purchase on the AliExpress Marketplace. The transaction would be ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- June 27 is coming up, the date of the 2024 debate when America watched Joe Biden tank the election to Donald Trump.

Remember? It would be hard to forget Democrats' pain when we saw a ghostly Biden self-destruct and grope for words. Jill Biden tried to pretend otherwise, but the damage was done.

America is still paying dearly ...Read more

Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back ... maybe 10 years or so?

In those olden times, if someone or some corporations gave a million dollars to a political candidate, the donation was scandalous news -- a bribe!

Ahhh, I miss those innocent days when ethical outrage could erupt over a mere million. These days, a ...Read more

In a 2011 Los Angeles Times column titled "When Unity Was All-American," writer George Skelton marked the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor by recalling a time when Americans respected those whom they elected. "What I remember most," he recalled about America during World War II, "are home front adults pulling together, willing to sacrifice, ...Read more

Ashley, North Dakota, is a small farming town where the local diet leans hard on sausage, deep-fried chicken and strudel. It has something of a medical center, but the nearest trauma hospital able to handle the most serious injuries is almost four hours away in Fargo.

Yet the elders in McIntosh County, with Ashley as its county seat, ...Read more

The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent years fighting hate, racism and injustice in the American South and has played a critical role in strengthening the civil rights of millions of Americans. It has even worked closely with the FBI in that effort. Now, the Trump administration claims that the SPLC was actually involved in some kind of con...Read more

There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of the elections in California. With absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing, he took to Truth Social twice on Wednesday.

"The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA...Read more

Not least because I was 12 years old, the Bicentennial festivities felt very different from this year's 250th birthday celebrations for the United States. This being America, commercialization was inevitable -- everything was red, white and blue and was official whatever of the shindig. Overall, though, 1976 was a nonpartisan affair despite ...Read more

When artists canceled their performances for President Donald Trump's June 25 Great American State Fair, one stood out for me: Martina McBride. The first time I saw Martina live in concert was at the Taste of Cincinnati festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Memorial Day Weekend in 1994. Her iconic song "Independence Day" had just been released as a...Read more

"If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that's hardest," my pop used to tell me. "The right thing is always the hardest thing."

Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off "60 Minutes," a television news show that rose to journalism and stayed there for a hell of a long time.

Management canned him for...Read more

Horrors. The profiteers running this year's World Cup are forcing fans to shell out thousands for a single ticket.

But they're not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. No one has to buy them.

This should be very obvious.

That said, some products are priced in ways ...Read more