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The moment The Wall Street Journal article appeared revealing President Trump was mulling over the idea of the United States buying Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory in the Atlantic, ankle-biters began to mock the idea.

There was a day, not so very long ago, when one newspaper shone brighter than all others: The New York Times.

Well, all the palaver about the 50th anniversary of Woodstock has finally shut down. The reminiscences, the brave statements, the claptrap about how beautiful we all were — it is over. Now the Woodstockians can get back to their retirement communities, their gerontologists, their rehab centers yet again. 

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is attacking Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan, reportedly telling donors in the Hamptons this weekend that she has “not been comfortable with Bernie’s plan.”

Joe Biden will have the nation's first primary state essentially to himself as his top rivals jockey for attention from hundreds of Democratic officials gathered in San Francisco for the party's last national meeting before presidential voting begins in February.

You had to pity New York Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill as he defended his firing of white Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold death five years ago of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who had resisted arrest.

It seems in vogue for politicians to propose ever-expansive federal environmental agendas, as if individual freedom and state governance were passe. Witness the one-upmanship on presidential candidates' environmental agendas or the "Green New Deal," which massively increases the federal government's size and scope without doing much to improve the environment.

Local officials who try to obstruct federal immigration enforcement should be condemned for endangering the public, while those who assist the federal government in ridding their communities of dangerous, criminal aliens should be commended.

Ever wonder why 31-year old pro-quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other young people became so alienated from the freest, most generous nation in the world?   Could recent generations be “learning” things that just aren’t so? The answer is “yes.”

During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.”

Never mind.

On August 12, the Commerce Department’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced rules changes to the implementation of regulations pertaining to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973.

A friend of mine died this weekend. Gene was a gentleman in his early 80s who lived life to the fullest.

Death comes to us all.

Every. Single. Person.

It really takes uncommon depravity for someone to use a tragedy such as a shooting to score political points. It is a level of disregard for human life that the vast majority of decent people in America cannot comprehend.

The July 27 edition of The Wall Street Journal contains a debate between David French (attorney and writer for National Review and columnist for Time) and Marci Hamilton (professor at the University of Pennsylvania and former clerk for Sandra Day O’Connor). 

Are dairy cows dangerous contributors to climate change or victims of toxic masculinity?

Perhaps they’re both, if you accept hysteria over cow-emitted methane, along with the sexual politics of feminists at a taxpayer-funded university.

Friends and supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden have been gently suggesting to him and to campaign officials that perhaps he should make fewer campaign appearances, thus lessening the likelihood of Mr. Biden making more high profile gaffes, as he did repeatedly last week in Iowa.

It's not that something is rotten in this Jeffrey Epstein suicide-in-a-federal-jail-cell story that is oh, so slowly unfolding on Park Row in Manhattan.

It's that everything about it is rotten.

Federal authorities shouldn't be alarmed, but they should be mindful following the probe into the Jeffrey Epstein death case: R&B crooner R. Kelly isn't doing too well.

Imprisoned as he is in isolation in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the accused sex offender's attorney says he is "miserable."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump operate quite distinctly, both ideologically and stylistically.

President Trump's trade war economy is tanking, with growth rates sinking into Obama-era levels and the U.S. stock market in a nose dive.

President Ronald Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 38 years ago this week at Rancho del Cielo, his ranch in the mountains outside of Santa Barbara, California. The bipartisan legislation was the largest tax cut in the history of the United States of America at the time. 

The trade dispute between the U.S. and China has rightly earned worldwide attention, as the two largest economies in the world place tariffs on specific goods.

China's military continues aggressive actions in the South China Sea and a violent crackdown against Hong Kong could come any day.

On the heels of the second round of Democratic primary debates, many observers and media outlets rightfully pointed out that while the candidates on the stage in Detroit continuously claimed that they would fight for working-class Americans, they failed to address the issues that really matter to working people. 

Throughout history, we have seen at warp speeds dramatic political winds cause major shifts in public policy, public sentiment and in the behavior of politicians.

Desperate Democrats have apparently decided that the way to win in 2020 is to paint President Trump as a racist, perhaps even a hood-wearing, torch-carrying grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

In an ad to run on Fox News, presidential candidate Julián Castro addresses President Trump, blaming him for stoking "the fire of racists."

The name Jeffrey Epstein has taken up most of the bandwidth in news outlets since last Saturday morning, when we were told his lifeless body was found in his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell in New York. Epstein was being housed there pending trial on sex-trafficking charges.

The weathervane above Downing Street has recently swung due west toward America, although the one above Parliament seems to be stuck pointing at Europe, so It probably needs some new parts to replace the rusty old ones. 

I was traveling with candidate Trump during the 2016 campaign, and we spent a night at the Trump National Doral Miami. I had to leave early to get back to Washington, and so I took a taxi the next morning from the hotel to the airport.

In America, religious persecution against Christianity means fighting the American Civil Liberties Union for the right to read a Bible at lunchtime in school.

Let's get something straight: Fair elections and safe and secure elections are not the same.

Generically speaking, fair elections in the United States mean federal, state and local yokels cannot arbitrarily decide who can and cannot vote.

A new report from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) shows that the private union pension crisis is only getting worse, and now Congress is poised to make it worse still.

World economic growth is slowing, and a global recession may be in the making. Rational and compassionate people look at a recession as bad news, but not wealthy “comedian” Bill Maher, who wants a recession in his belief that it would cause voters to get rid of President Trump.

President Trump remains unique, fitting neither boom nor bust of normal incumbency campaigns. 

L.A. City Council candidates John Lee and Loraine Lundquist are competing to represent a Valley district affected by a methane leak in Aliso Canyon.

Talk about surprise medical billing.

In April of 2008, my husband suffered a heart attack that required emergency medical helicopter transport from one local hospital to another. The bill for the helicopter trip was $12,000; after insurance, our out-of-pocket was a modest $2,000.

China's foreign ministry on Friday blasted State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus. The day before, Ms. Ortagus called China a "thuggish regime."

There's a tendency during back-to-school season to focus on the tangibles.

You know — clothing and uniforms, antibacterial wipes, backpacks, two packs of No. 2 pencils and four packs of Crayola crayons. Off-brand crayons are a no-no.

Mass shootings have become so endemic to American life that we have begun to categorize them in ever more arcane ways to tell them apart.

President Trump blamed racism and white supremacy this week for the mass slaying of at least 22 people at a shopping center in El Paso, Tex.

I loved Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” when I was a teenager in the 1960s.

Few things unite Democrats in Congress, the Trump administration and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell like opposition to Facebook’s Libra. Instead, they should get behind the new cryptocurrency by crafting effective regulation.

“The economy, stupid!”

— Clinton Strategist James Carville

Robert Wolf, the founder and CEO of the investment firm 32Advisors and a former economic aide to Barack Obama, recently took to "Fox & Friends" to say to Democrats running for president in 2020: Hey guys, it's time to "whittle the field."

Agreed. Heartily agreed.

The horrific news that more than 30 people were senselessly murdered over this past weekend in El Paso and Dayton has deeply affected all of us. These are acts of domestic terrorism that cannot be explained or understood.

Politicians and pundits are promoting familiar explanations, excuses and demands following the tragic mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. From more gun laws, to blaming President Trump, conservative talk radio and Fox News, we’ve heard it all before.

There's a fundamental flaw in the "slippery slope" argument from both the left and the right.

Dark clouds continue to hang over the horizon. The mariner weather lore, “red sky in the morning, sailors (fishermen) take warning,” resonates sharply due to China’s high pressure drilling operations located in Vanguard Bank, inside Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

After a week of watching the Democrats in debate I ask myself, how far to the left are the Democratic presidential candidates going to take their party? 

It is a matter of deep concern that our long-serving politicians and bureaucrats are more comfortable continuously reviewing problems, rather than resolving them. 

Democrats would have it believed — fervently wish and hope and dream that it could be believed — that every time a horrendous shooting takes place in this country, it's due to the existence of the Second Amendment. Or to the existence of President Donald Trump.

Smart tailors and seamstresses learn very early that threading a needle is difficult if the thread is ragged.

That's why, whether stitching by hand or machine, they first moisten the end of the thread so it glides through.

If anything can be gleaned from watching the Democrats debate, it's this: President Donald Trump doesn't have much to worry about when it comes to his reelection.

Democrats, after all these months, even with all these candidates, still have nobody for president. There's no break-away; there's no front-runner.

Democratic presidential contenders have 10 more debates to go, starting up again in September. 

Here are a few suggested queries to liven things up and educate viewers:

If you've figured out the nitty-gritty of Elizabeth Warren's plans for public education, please — puhleeze! — let a sister in on it.

Among the pictures posted by William Schulz's family on the funeral parlor's website last week, one went straight to my heart: a young, smiling, shaggy-haired Bill Schulz sitting on my family's back porch in Carmel, New York. In his lap is the scruffy family dog named Lady Muttley.

Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats is leaving his post after two-and-a-half years of in-fighting with President Trump, who still says Russia didn’t interfere in the nation’s 2016 election.

It started out Wednesday night as Dullsville (actually it happened in Detroit — practically the same thing).

It featured Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and a supporting cast of eight other Democratic nomination seekers.

It's getting so bad for the Democratic Party leadership that one could almost start feeling sorry for them. Almost, but not entirely. What's happening to that party is of their own doing with the extraordinary destruction delivered by a party run and influenced by charlatans and frauds.

It is true. President Trump really is the least racist person in the world. Just ask him. "I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world," he said this week.

Barack Obama's Former Vice President Joe Biden, who would like to remind you he served with Barack Obama during the Obama Administration Senator Michael Bennet (Colorado) Senator Kamala Harris (Poopville, CA) Entrepreneur Andrew Yang (Somewhere very nice, you can be sure) Failed (But Not Former) Mayor Bill de Blasio (New York City) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (Last seen acting very presidential wearing a T-shirt and doing shots, NY) Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii, wish you were there) Julian Jay Inslee-Castro (I'll have to get back to you on this one) Spartacus (Ancient Rome)

Saying goodbye is never easy. Every school child quotes “parting is such sweet sorrow” from “Romeo and Juliet,” which has become a sentimental cliche.