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Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News Channel, is a very smart man. And he knows how to count, a skill that has apparently eluded many of his fellow conservatives...

Sitting on my front porch a while back, I was watching two bald eagles perched on a cypress limb overlooking the bayou while hummingbirds swooped and buzzed around my ears...

With an editorial titled “Pope Sets Example For Other Aging Leaders,” USA Today tried laying a major guilt trip on the nation’s authority figures. Despite using disclaimers such as “There...

Beef contaminated with horsemeat has sparked a multi-nation controversy in Europe. It’s no secret that the French have long been galloping gourmets. Gobbling horsemeat there dates back to the country’s...

Tree-huggers and power suits are finding some surprising common ground When do societies start taking a new idea seriously? Easy. New ideas gain traction when starkly different sorts of people...

The Republicans’ path back to the White House is clear — be less racist and less stupid. But just because the path is clear doesn’t make it easy. Barack Obama...

The Obama administration seems to have gone Jack Bauer on us, which would be OK if we were just talking about non-American enemy combatants on some far-flung battlefield. It seems...

Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel to make a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into...

It was refreshing to see Gov. Dayton defend Minnesota’s business climate, our progressive values, and our loyal, diligent public workers in his State of the State address. For the past...

To hear Sen. Charles Schumer tell it, lawmakers crafting an immigration reform bill will focus on two big tasks. “First, defining metrics that demonstrate that the border is secure,” the...

How can it be that among those of good will who normally avoid racial and ethnic slurs, there is such strong opposition to the NFL Washington Redskins changing their name?...

Will the author of the Obama administration white paper on killing U.S. citizens please report for his war-crimes trial right away? If he served in the George W. Bush administration,...

The gathering debate over immigration reform is really about two different groups. One is the 11 million immigrants who are here illegally. The other was described by President Obama as...

For as long as I’ve lived in Arkansas, most of my adult life, people like the now-famous state Sen. Jason Rapert have made most of the noise and lost most...

Where should the next Minnesota veterans home be located? Eight hundred seventy-four veterans are currently waiting for admission to the five veterans homes in the state. If Minnesota is going...