Category: Columns

If you “cut the cord” and switch from cable TV to streaming services, you will probably notice a big difference in price, thanks to that long section of your bill with taxes and fees either being gone completely or dramatically slimmed down. As more customers go in the direction of cord cutting competition intensifies on…

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Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitutes. That’s not news, sadly, since a lot of people – including high-profile people – pay for sex. It’s a misdemeanor under Florida law, the jurisdiction under which he’s being charged, and the maximum sentence he is facing is four months in jail. So far, not a really…

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America has a bunch of foundational myths – George Washington and his famed cherry tree, the belief that anyone can get ahead if they just work hard enough and the stubborn belief that our occasionally sputtering constitutional republic is still more exceptional than any other nation on Earth. They’re core to our conception of ourselves…

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Jussie Smollett didn’t think he was getting paid enough for acting in “Empire.” The poor guy was only getting $20,000 per episode – pocket change in episodic TV land – and he’s been a regular character on the popular Fox dramatic series since 2015. He apparently thought that if he got a big splash of…

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The late Darryl Royal once explained the problem with cockroaches: “It’s not what they eat and tote off, it’s what they fall into and mess up.” That pretty much sums up the left’s impact on economics. Recently the most visible example was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s attack on Amazon’s plans for a New York City headquarters. The…

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Just days ago, President Donald Trump finally signed a bipartisan bill to keep the U.S. government open and functioning for longer than a stopgap amount of time. He also declared a national emergency in order to do what the funding bill didn’t: reallocate money for his border wall. It was an extraordinary step to address…

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Earlier this month, President Trump provided hope he will add yet another bullet point to his growing list of accomplishments. On February 12, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signaled to farmers and blue-collar refinery workers that the administration will soon release a draft rule that puts American workers at the heart of our energy policies.…

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It’s a terrible story. Unconscionable. Justin “Jussie” Smollett, a black, gay actor, told police that he was attacked by two racist Trump supporters on a Chicago street Jan. 29. Smollett said that, among other atrocities, the two white men beat him up, poured bleach on him, tied a noose around his neck and shouted, “This…

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According to NBC News, we are in the early stages of mood forecasting technology that could help stop bad moods even before they strike. (No, this is a different story than the one about using surplus North Korean missiles to take out your lowlife cousin’s Winnebago before he can embark on a month-long visit, although…

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President Donald Trump loves him some wall. Not the wall of corruption he’s surrounded himself with. Not that karmic wall of wasting all his political capital sucking up to superstitious xenophobes. Nor the huge self-erected wall that keeps him from learning or uttering or even caring about the truth. No, not those thick as a…

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