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Gasoline prices have surged to their highest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic and it has me feeling pretty good about my electric vehicle purchase. I know that utility prices are also on the rise, but being able to plug my car in at home instead of paying horrid prices at the pump has still saved our family money. Charging an EV at home ...Read more

Catholics don't like converts, not really. We don't trust converts. Converts annoy us because no convert to Catholicism can resist finding a real Catholic and explaining the Catholic Church to him.

Enter JD Vance, the latest convert to explain my own religion to me.

How long's this guy been Catholic? Maybe 30 minutes? In that short time, he'...Read more

Democrat Eric Swalwell and Republican Tony Gonzales were both accused of sexual misconduct involving staffers. Californian Swalwell said he'd resign from his House seat after giving up on his run for governor. Texan Gonzales said he was withdrawing from the 2026 reelection race.

Back in the day, male politicians cavorted with their female ...Read more

Usually, when you're talking about winning a war, it helps to know what you were fighting for. What was the goal of the war? If you don't know that, how do you know the difference between winning and walking away?

In a way, the Trump administration has made it easy on itself. Since they haven't managed to explain what we're doing plunging the...Read more

Call him the "antisocial" media president.

When a president attacks the Pope, he telegraphs: "There's nothing I won't do or say." That is a profoundly troubling message.

There are no lines I won't cross, no rules I won't break, President Donald Trump is telling the whole wide world. Nobody is safe nor sacred in my book. Got it? And the White...Read more

There's a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaires who think they're entitled to turn America's farmlands and rural communities into their personal domain of predatory AI "data centers." But a little bookstore in Tulsa, Okla., recently hit those puffed-up elites where they're most vulnerable: The funny bone.

Magic City Books put up a ...Read more

As a surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for the ACLU, I spearheaded an ACLU project beginning in 2020 to strengthen warrants in the digital age, so that law enforcement does not conduct overbroad searches of our cellphones, computers and other devices. I traveled the country talking to judges and criminal defense lawyers about warrants and...Read more

There is lore about the 1862 meeting between Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," -- the influential novel about slavery -- and former President Abraham Lincoln. "So," President Lincoln is reported to have greeted her, "you're the woman who wrote the book that made this great war." History doesn't indicate whether Lincoln made...Read more

That $7,500 tax credit to buy an electric vehicle, now gone, was a "grotesque misallocation of federal spending." It was a form of "rent-seeking," whereby companies seek "to dominate the bureaucracy instead of the marketplace."

Thus wrote Kyle Smith in a Wall Street Journal column titled "EVs Can't Compete Without Subsidies." Smith deserves ...Read more

My daughter is suffering from long COVID. I have written about it before. I wish I had good news. I don't.

It is a nightmare you should do everything you can to avoid.

Most people who get COVID get well and move on. That's what we want to believe. No one wants to remember, much less relive, the pandemic, for reasons too numerous to count.

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"You can kill 10 of our men for every one we kill of yours," resistance leader Ho Chi Minh told the French who ruled Vietnam as a colony in 1946. "But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win." Historians who describe this remark as directed toward France's successor oppressors in Southeast Asia (the U.S.) are mistaken -- though the ...Read more

Watching the Artemis II space flight has filled my days with awe and wonder. From pilot Victor Glover's poignant Easter message and mission specialist Christina Koch's "space plumber" story to the crew naming a moon crater for commander Reid Wiseman's late wife. Artemis II really shows us what humanity is capable of. All of this took place with ...Read more

When I was younger, it was pretty easy to believe that only white countries should have a nuclear bomb.

When you looked at the white countries, the guy (and it was always a guy) in charge wore a nice suit, and he'd been to college, and there were pictures of him opening a new museum. In those countries, they had canned food and television. ...Read more

It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of southwestern Ohio don't want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped down the road from their front porches. What's wrong with them? Are they snotty not-in-my-backyard liberals?

Not quite. Wilmington, Ohio, is a very Republican region marked by modest incomes. Such ...Read more

It was Easter, for many a sacred day. The President of the United States had a message to send:

"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell -- JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

I'm sorry for the language...Read more

The seventh of April: Put it down as the most schizophrenic day in United States history.

While the nation waited with bated breath to see if Donald Trump would keep his threat to destroy the ancient Iranian "civilization" by 8 p.m. ET, we also glimpsed the dark side of the moon for the first time in human history.

Let's start with the good ...Read more