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Watch out for ‘greenwashing,’ verify that home is truly enviro-friendly

May 20, 2019 at 8:14 a.m.

The practice is called "greenwashing," and home shoppers need to be on guard: It means a house is being marketed as environmentally friendly and energy-saving when it doesn't really deserve...

Donald Trump supporters will likely be scrutinized and analyzed until Nov. 8.

How ‘smart’ people pooh-pooh ‘dumb’ people who like Donald Trump

May 11, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

Perusing the wires on a deadline morn, I was struck by a constellation of intellectuals struggling to translate the relative meanings of Brexit, Donald Trump and the West's populist surge...

Former President Bill Clinton, shown in May 2016, spoke with Attorney General Loretta Lynch during an impromptu meeting in Phoenix recently, but Lynch says the discussion did not involve the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email use as secretary of state.

Why we aren’t surprised about another Bill-gate

May 11, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

But of course Bill Clinton wants his wife to become president of the United States and make history as the nation's first female commander in chief. Why, he'd be pleased...

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. on April 27, 2016. On Monday, June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of McDonnell.

The corrupting crusade against political ‘corruption’

May 11, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics. But discord is not altogether pandemic in Washington, and on Monday a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court,...

A European Union flag, with a hole cut in the middle, flies at half mast outside a home in Knutsford, Cheshire after today's historic referendum on June 24, 2016 in Knutsford, United Kingdom.

Brexit’s result: United Kingdom or little England?

May 11, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

Given their arrogance, pomposity and habitual absurdities, it is hard not to feel a certain satisfaction with the comeuppance that Brexit has delivered to the unaccountable European Union bureaucrats in...

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., center, joined by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, and Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan. discusses the release of his final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where a violent mob killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Tuesday, June 28, 2016.

Benghazi conspiracy theorists turn on Rep. Trey Gowdy

May 11, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

Et tu, Trey? A day after the House Benghazi committee released a final report that left Hillary Clinton relatively unscathed, conservative activists — the conspiracy-minded ones who pressured House leaders...

Pity poor Britannia. America, pay attention. It happened there, it can happen here.

May 11, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

It's enlightening to see that Brits can be just as dense as anyone else, especially for us old Anglophiles who venerate the dropped R, the broad A, the lift, the...

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., second from right, joined by other Republican members of the panel, discusses the release of his final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on June 28, 2016.

Benghazi report: Two years, $7 million, no smoking gun

May 11, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi released its long-awaited findings Tuesday and concluded that well, it looks as though they're going to have to empanel another select committee to iron...

Supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump listen to the first of three presidential debates, on Sept. 26, 2016 at the Trump headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa.

Clinton and Warren mean double trouble for Trump

May 11, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

Watching Hillary Clinton beaming sidewise on stage as Elizabeth Warren taunted Donald Trump brought the Wrigley twin ditty to mind: Double your pleasure, double your fun, with double good, double...

Brexit, meet Donald Trump’s Trexit

May 11, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

With Britain's vote to leave the European Union, did Donald Trump just win the presidential election? On the surface, this may seem an odd question, but the concerns that led...

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