Opinion

Social Security on the cutting block? “We have no choice but to make hard decisions,” Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern recently said. He leads the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 160 Republican lawmakers that recently called for making cuts in Social Security. Among other things, the group wants to raise the age at which a…

Hey! where’d all the browns go? “Yet again, we’re seeing evidence of what happens to Black and brown people from simple traffic stops.” — Ben Crump, attorney for Tyre Nichols’ family. “It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single…

There’s a 0.00002% chance you’ve got the wrong man The use of DNA to arrest Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four college students in Idaho reminds me that it’s time to bring the death penalty back in a big way. Notwithstanding the absence of a single example, the possibility of executing the “wrong man”…

Population shouldn’t be a Ponzi scheme China’s shrinking population, we are told, poses an economic threat to that country, as well as an economic drag for us. Here are the numbers: Deaths exceeded births in 2022 by 850,000. That leaves over 1.4 billion Chinese. That’s over four times the U.S. population occupying about the same land…

ANN COULTER New York Mayor Eric Adams would have been the Democrats’ runaway choice for president if only he’d kept his campaign promise and cut crime in the Big Apple. No mayoral candidate talked about “safety, safety, safety” more than he. As Adams told MSNBC during the campaign: “Public safety and justice is the prerequisite…

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared in a pre- taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last week- end. As is often the case with her interviews, Har- ris said a few awkward, ill-informed or downright odd things. For example, she claimed that the U.S.- Mexico border is “secure.” When asked if she was confident of…