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Cassie McClure: The invisible forces that keep the doors open

We're not southern enough to be yes, ma'am or no, sir, but I try to nudge manners into my kids' daily interactions with strangers. Today, I nudged him when I saw two women cross the parking lot and asked him to open the restaurant door. One of the women was older and one much younger, maybe a ...

Cal Thomas: Will this be the unhappy American birthday?

In one month, the United States will observe its 250th birthday. It is shaping up more like a memorial service for a lost loved one than a party to celebrate something special. Rather than anticipating a happy occasion, America at 250 is increasingly characterized by anger, name- calling and ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Gitmo and torture revisited

America's longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of ...

Keith Raffel: Yellow dogs and red lines

"Yellow dog" voters are back big-time. Who? In the run-up to the 1892 presidential election, journalist C. H. J. Taylor used the term to refer to western Republicans who, he wrote in The American Citizen, "would vote for a yellow dog out there if he was named Republican." In a 1956 voter ...