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The Raffel Ticket: Keith Raffel

Harry Bosch, the Los Angeles homicide detective created by novelist Michael Connelly, lived and worked by this watchword: "Everybody counts or no one counts." As Bosch explains, "It means I bust my ass to make a case whether it's a prostitute or the mayor's wife. That's my rule." In ...

Tim Graham

ABC stunned the media world on Wednesday by announcing they were suspending "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely after several ABC station groups withdrew their support for the show. It was a similar shock to CBS setting a cancellation date for "Late Show with Stephen Colbert." The Left went ...

Stephen Moore

Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future ...

Letter to the editor

To get beyond our current dysfunctional discourse, all Americans need to honor facts. No matter what we believe or how we spin it, this does not change the reality of a fact. You may believe, in the deepest part of your being, that the earth is flat. Fact: it is not, regardless of what you think. Fact: the United States is a secular nation, one in which one of its most revered values is that of religious freedom. We are not a Christion nation. The U.S. Constitution is the guiding document on which American citizenship is based. Not the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, or the ...

Robert B. Reich

We are now witnessing the start of what might be seen as Phase 2 of Trump's efforts to eradicate political opposition. Phase 1 has centered on silencing criticism. It has featured retribution toward people Trump deemed personal "enemies" — not just Democrats who had led the criticisms and ...

Cal Thomas

Charlie Kirk has been called many things, including an influencer, especially of young people. A better label might be "converter." The power to speak truth in a way that changes a political mindset is better than influencer. Kirk possessed that power which led to his murder by a 22-year-old ...