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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has indicated she would enact gun control measures through executive order if Congress didn't act.

Should Obama beat Clinton to her own gun fight?

August 21, 2019 at 5:54 p.m.

After nine people were killed at an Oregon community college last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed a new attitude on gun control. She sounds a lot like President Barack Obama's...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lays out his tax plan during a Sept. 28, 2015, news conference in New York. Trump says it would spur economic growth; economic experts say it would grow the national debt by trillions over a decade.

Welcome to Rev. Trump’s Church of Emotional Economics

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Donald Trump would not tell reporters whose advice he received in creating his tax plan, but I hear a familiar voice in its 3 1/2 pages. It sounds like Jeb...

If Jeb Bush thinks getting rid of free stuff is such a cool idea, he should promise to get rid of everybody's free stuff. That would include subsidies to Social Security and Medicare.

How about no ‘free stuff’ for Republicans?

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Jeb Bush wants you to know that he's not running for president in order to give "free stuff" to black folks. I don't have a problem with that, as long...

Martin Shkreli, chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, said he would lower the price of the drug Daraprim after being criticized for boosting it 50-fold to $750 a pill. He is shown in a 2011 photo.

The most despised man in America

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

If Martin Shkreli is not the most hated man in America, he must at least be first runner-up. If his name doesn't ring a bell, you're not alone. He's probably...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during a campaign rally at the Sharonville Convention Center on Sept. 22, 2015, in Cincinnati.

A Muslim president? What’s so wrong with that?

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

After reaching the top tier of Republican presidential candidates in polls, Dr. Ben Carson has given us another historic milestone: He has boldly called for religious discrimination against Muslims who...

Fact-challenged campaign dramas just getting started

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

"Facts are stubborn things," goes an old saying that President Ronald Reagan liked to quote. Unfortunately, so are cherished myths. Remember how U.S. Sen. John McCain courageously corrected a woman...

Why the GOP still fails with minority voters

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Donald Trump recently tweeted his gratitude for a huge surge — Hyooj! Hyooj! — in his black and Hispanic support that, it turned out, did not quite exist. "A great...

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, center, celebrates her release from jail on Sept. 8, 2015, with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, left, and attorney Mat Staver before a cheering crowd outside the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Ky. Huckabee has championed Davis' refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The difference between Kim Davis and Charee Stanley

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Mixing religion with politics can be as hazardous to a politician as mixing aviation with alcohol. You could hear that in the awkward response by Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd during a campaign pep rally, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in Mobile, Ala.

Could Trump win with blacks, not Latinos? Don’t count on it

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

For years Bruce Bartlett has been trying to help his fellow Republicans to reconcile their long-broken marriage with African-Americans. Timing has not always been his friend. We first met when...

Rowan County Clerk of Courts Kim Davis speaks to coworkers at the County Clerks Office on September 2, 2015 in Morehead, Ky. Citing a sincere religious objection, Davis, an Apostolic Christian, has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling.

Small bumps on the road to same-sex equality

May 23, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

While Kim Davis, the now-famous county clerk in Kentucky who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, sat in jail, her deputies issued licenses to same-sex couples for the...

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