For most of the night, the more polished and media savvy Sen. JD Vance seemed to be winning the debate, in my view. But when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz challenged him to say who won the 2020 election, Vance’s discomfort with his running mate’s growing web of half-truths, fabrications and outright lies seemed to show itself.
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Froma Harrop: Warming comes for Florida’s economy
Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny.
Austin Bay: Helene’s Appalachian hell another FEMA failure?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s latest display of inadequate planning and operational clumsiness suggests providing robust, seamless communications systems and coordinating air operations may be the most materially productive and politically wise use of the Department of Defense in natural disaster response.
Cal Thomas: Harris on ’60 Minutes’
Her answers are not likely to help her with the few voters who say they are still “undecided.”
Ronald Lebel: What Maine voters need to know about Maine Democrats
Commonsense Mainers should think long and hard about whether this is the direction we should move our state.
Rich Lowry: The travesty of the CBP One app
Launched in 2020, CBP One was intended as a good-government, time-saving tool to manage the legitimate flow of people and goods at the border, but it’s now been twisted to launder illegal immigrants into the country.
Rich Lowry: Yes, Kamala Harris wants you out of your gas-powered car
There are good reasons that people prefer gas-powered cars, from convenience to reliability to cost. It may be that, over time, they come to embrace electric cars at the level the Biden-Harris administration deems appropriate, but that should be for the market to decide free of government impositions.
Rich Lowry: Dockworkers for economic stagnation
Our ports should be run for the benefit of all of us, and the wider economy, not for a union advancing a worldview that can only bring stagnation and mediocrity.
Froma Harrop: Trump really did try to kill Obamacare
Plans to cannibalize protections afforded by the Affordable Care Act are all there in Project 2025, the blueprint for another Trump term. Coverage for preexisting conditions would come under special attack. Knives would also be out for Medicare. Many drug prices, for one, would soar.
Cal Thomas: Vote buying, Biden style
Some critics say President Joe Biden is engaging in a more sophisticated type of vote buying in his attempt to forgive student loan debt.