Rex W. Huppke – Page 19

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell takes an elevator as he leaves a Senate Republican policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 17, 2020.

Column: Second stimulus check unlikely, but Americans will get free ‘Went Broke For Amy Coney Barrett!’ T-shirts

October 21, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.

A second stimulus check for American workers struggling through the coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to come anytime soon. That's the bad news. The good news for people unable to pay...

President Donald Trump waves goodbye to the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally Oct. 17, 2020, at Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville.

Column: Trump calls Fauci an ‘idiot,’ says rallies are ‘BOFFO’ while coronavirus rages on

October 19, 2020 at 4:11 p.m.

As hospitals fill up with COVID-19 patients in Wisconsin and Chicagoans face a second surge of coronavirus cases that could lead to new shutdowns, President Donald Trump is calling medical...

President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during an NBC News town hall event at the Perez Art Museum in Miami on Oct. 15, 2020, and Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden participates in an ABC News town hall event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Oct. 15, 2020.

Column: Trump and Biden town halls showed us two worlds, and only one of them is terrifying

October 16, 2020 at 12:31 p.m.

Toggling between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump taking questions in separate televised town halls nearly killed me. I've been dizzy for hours and still can't spell...

President Donald Trump tosses MAGA face masks into the crowd of cheering supporters as he arrives for a campaign rally at Orlando Sanford International Airport in on Oct. 12, 2020 in Sanford, Florida.

Column: Trump’s dance, McConnell’s COVID cackle show reckless disregard for surging coronavirus pandemic

October 14, 2020 at 2:55 p.m.

President Donald Trump thinks he's handling the coronavirus pandemic so well he started dancing at a campaign rally this week. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, during a debate in Kentucky, had...

Mailboxes in Annapolis, Maryland, on Aug. 18, 2020.

Column: A pre-election/pre-Halloween tour of the Reader Fan Mail Dungeon, where decency goes to die

October 13, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

As we find ourselves at the quadrennial confluence of Halloween season and election season, it seems an ideal time to offer a spoooooooooky tour of my Reader Fan Mail Dungeon,...

Armed protesters stand near the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on April 30, 2020, during a demonstration demanding the reopening of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Column: Failed plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shows danger of anti-government rhetoric

October 8, 2020 at 5:59 p.m.

On June 11, 2001, I stood in a tight, gray-walled room at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and watched through a window as Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh,...

A fly rests on the head of Vice President Mike Pence on Oct. 7, 2020, as he takes notes during the vice presidential debate against vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City.

Column: The fly on Mike Pence’s head during the vice presidential debate: A transcript

October 8, 2020 at 9:40 a.m.

For about two minutes during Wednesday night's vice presidential debate, a large, black fly planted itself on Vice President Mike Pence's white hair. It may have been the most compelling...

President Donald Trump holds his face mask as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Column: Why are Trump and Republicans the ones getting COVID-19? Must be a liberal conspiracy.

October 7, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

I don't mean to sound conspiratorial, but I think godless DEMONcrats have intentionally infected President Donald Trump, several Republican senators and a number of military and religious leaders with the...

U.S. President Donald Trump offers a thumbs up to his supports from a motorcade outside Walter Reed Medical Center during his treatment for COVID-19 on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Column: Trump puts Secret Service agents at risk with COVID Car Ride — but relax, it was medically necessary

October 5, 2020 at 12:22 p.m.

As President Donald Trump continues to battle COVID-19, a number of questions have come up about the accuracy of health updates coming from his medical team and the decision to...

Chris Duncan, whose 75-year-old mother Constance died from COVID on her birthday, walks through a COVID Memorial Project installation of 200,000 U.S. flags on the National Mall in Washington as the United States crosses the 200,000 lives lost in the COVID-19 pandemic on Sept. 22, 2020.

Column: COVID hits the White House that played it down. Don’t gloat — vote.

October 2, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

Viruses are opportunistic, and the coronavirus has now seized the opportunity to infect President Donald Trump, a man whose unwillingness to lead and model basic safety precautions has contributed mightily...

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