Midterm elections are attracting more attention than usual this year and, as they approach, the focus on the possibility of voter fraud is growing sharper. So is the attention to efforts that block legitimate voters from going to the polls. Two recent...
Once again, the world has been shaken by a mass shooting, this one at the offices of the Capital Gazette, a small but venerated community newspaper serving Annapolis, Md. The alleged gunman had long borne grudges against the newspaper; by the time...
The United States has rightly withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council, with U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it a “cesspool of political bias.” She added, accurately, that the Geneva-based council is a “hypocritical and self-serving...
In the wake of an executive order that defused the self-inflicted immigration crisis, an initial impulse could be to say that all’s well that ends well. Unfortunately, all is far from well, the issue is far from ended and the negative impulses that...
After months of the arrogance, combativeness and secrecy of former Gov. Eric Greitens’ administration, the early days of the tenure of Missouri Gov. Mike Parson have been a welcome return to normalcy.Imagine having a governor who:• Treats elected...
On the surface, the hastily arranged face-to-face meeting between President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have the ability to make the world a safer place. But like almost everything that happens with each leader, far...
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to do a cake for a same-sex wedding was hardly the major setback for civil rights that some commentators are portraying it to be.Instead, by deliberately issuing a limited...
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” — Sen. Daniel Patrick MoynihanThat quote is appropriate in evaluating the dreary, predictable coverage of the ongoing violence on the Gaza border with Israel. Much of it has...
Eric Greitens left the governor’s office in the same way he acted in the nearly 17 months he was there — arrogant, dismissive of the Missourians he was supposed to serve and blaming everyone but himself for his demise.Now, it’s up to his successor,...
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last summer in favor of a mid-Missouri church that sought public funds to pay for a safer playground, it was clear that the often blurry line between church and state was going to be debated and defined yet again. A...
A few scant months ago, it seemed that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump, two combative and unpredictable leaders, were moving toward a possible nuclear confrontation that could result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands,...
“If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand wither….” — Psalm 137:5The formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital, and the move of the U.S. Embassy to the holy city, is an event comparable to the founding of Israel in...
