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Tuesdays with Charlie: A golden retriever goes to college

Charlie is a 7-year-old Golden Retriever who knows there’s something different about Tuesdays. For starters, her dog walker comes earlier than usual, and deposits Charlie back home by early afternoon. A bag appears out of the closet, and Charlie’s favorite stuffed animal is placed in it, ...

Republicans aren’t disappearing ­— they might be getting stronger

Reports of the death of the Republican Party continue to be premature. You’ve heard the litany, often from reporters and commentators who never liked Republicans and, lately, from others who can’t stomach former President Donald Trump. And they’ve got something of a point. Republicans ...

ABC was wrong when it chose to censor RFK Jr.

ABC News did a wide-ranging interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. the other day. The ABC reporter asked him a number of challenging questions, notably about the lack of support from his own family for his presidential run. It was interesting stuff and good journalism — having on the heterodox, ...

All of the chickens coming home to roost

That loud clucking sound we are hearing from “sanctuary cities” and other cities run by Democrats is the consequence of lax immigration policies coming home to roost. After declaring with a straight face that the southern border is “secure,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro ...

Baseball’s new rules are reason to rejoice

When he was a New York Mets baseball broadcaster, Ralph Kiner once explained how cold weather can shorten by 25 feet the distance a flyball travels: “If the fence is 338 feet (away) and you hit the ball 338 feet, you’ll be 25 feet short.” Baseball produces more numbers than numeracy. ...

When you are not policing crime, civilians will

This week, the media found its latest iteration of its favorite narrative: White man harms Black man. That iteration featured a 24-year-old white Marine from Queens attempting to suppress a 30-year-old homeless, psychotic Black man, Jordan Neely, through the use of a suppression hold. Neely was ...