ELDER: How many lives are saved by guns — and why don’t gun controllers...
Lost in the current debate about gun control are three important points.First, how many lives are saved each year through the use of firearms....
CHAREN: Undrained swamp by the Trump crew
I don’t know about you, but when I hear the phrase “drain the swamp,” I associate it with clean government, transparency, ethics and such...
SULLUM: Supreme Court’s silence clouds gun control debate
This month’s mass shooting at a high school in Florida has predictably provoked demands for new restrictions on guns, most of which are dubious...
CHAPMAN: The irrelevant 2nd amendment
In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, the Second Amendment looms over us like a giant pillar of fire. It is inspiring to...
ESTRICH: The last few days not good for Trump
The shooting came first: a horrifying massacre in Florida that left 17 dead and a community cut down. Then young people began finding their...
WILLIAMS: Another liberal-created failure
A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left’s harmful agenda for society’s most vulnerable people — the mentally ill. Eastern State Hospital,...
HART: Trump: The mule Washington cannot tell what to do
When you grow up in Columbia, Tennessee, the “Mule Capital of the World,” you end up knowing a lot about mules. One thing you...
A SHARP LIFE: The cost of raising kids, batteries not included
Raising kids is an expensive proposition. How expensive? $233,610. Now, before you decide that I am just making things up or pulling numbers out...
ELDER: Race and sports: It’s not 1947 anymore. Let’s not pretend that it is
ESPN recently re-aired a three-part documentary about the long rivalry between two storied NBA basketball teams, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics,...
CHAPMAN: First-class travel is the least of Scott Pruitt’s sins
Trying to point out the mistakes, transgressions and failures of the Trump administration is like trying to load frogs into a wheelbarrow. For every...