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In "The Wizard of Oz," the stentorian power of the great Oz is revealed as a fraud when Toto the dog (how apt) pulls back the curtain to reveal a squat, middle-aged man speaking into a microphone. Oz's power was all artifice.

On Sept. 10, Kamala Harris pulled the curtain to reveal a shallow, insecure, addled bully so easily baited that he ...Read more

When my friend David French -- New York Times columnist, pro-life evangelical, and lifelong conservative -- announced that he would be voting for Kamala Harris, it was like dropping a Porterhouse steak amid a pride of lions. The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg wrote a rebuttal, asserting, among other things, that "endorsements trigger an instinctual ...Read more

If Kamala Harris becomes the first woman president, her first accomplishment could well have already happened -- elevating and honoring the positive side of masculinity.

Tim Walz, whose politics are to the left of most Americans and certainly most swing voters, has been welcomed not as a box-checking, progressive pick, but as a Midwestern dad ...Read more

Within minutes of President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 race, Sen. Tom Cotton leaped onto X to declare that "Joe Biden succumbed to a coup by Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Hollywood donors, ignoring millions of Democratic primary votes. Donald Trump took a bullet for democracy."

Radio host Erick Erickson was even more creative, ...Read more

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." -- Proverbs 16:18

President Joe Biden, who earned our respect and affection over the past four years, is now trying our souls. In an interview on a Philadelphia radio show, he mumbled that he was proud to be "the first Black woman to serve with a Black president." Later, ...Read more

One of the saddest fables people comforted themselves with over the past eight years was the one about the strength of American institutions: The voters could elevate an unfit, malevolent demagogue, but our checks and balances were robust; our institutions would prevent any serious damage.

Over the course of these years, one institution after ...Read more

The governor of Louisiana just signed a law that will require all public classrooms in the state -- from kindergarten to universities -- to post the Ten Commandments "on a poster or framed document at least 11 inches by 14 inches ... in easily readable font."

For the first time since Reconstruction, Louisiana has a Republican governor and ...Read more