NATIONAL COLUMNS

Leonard Pitts: Is left-wing terrorism making a comeback?

Posted 6/17/2017 in National Columns

You knew it was coming. You felt it with a sickening certainty the instant news of a mass shooting flashed out from Alexandria, Virginia.

Patrick Buchanan: A long history of leftist hatred

Posted 6/17/2017 in National Columns

James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, who aspired to end his life as a mass murderer of Republican Congressmen, was a Donald Trump hater and a Bernie Sanders backer.

Connie Schultz: A gunman shoots, and we become a family

Posted 6/15/2017 in National Columns

As the wife of a U.S. senator, I work hard to keep separate my marriage and my career as a newspaper columnist.

Editorial cartoons for 6-14-17

Posted 6/14/2017 in National Columns

Patrick Buchanan: Are we nearing civil war?

Posted 6/13/2017 in National Columns

President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down.

Leonard Pitts: So far, Trump doesn't deserve passing grade

Posted 6/12/2017 in National Columns

The Republican Party wants us to grade Donald Trump on a curve.

Partial to Home: An evening with Paul Thorn

Posted 6/10/2017 in National Columns

Paul Thorn, songwriter, musician, storyteller, artist, former welterweight boxer, son of a preacher and all-around good guy, walked onto the stage of the Omnova Theater Friday evening, sat down and to a full house unceremoniously announced he was going to play a song about "back-road fornication." Thorn then launched into "A Long Way from Tupelo."

Editorial Cartoon for 6-11-17

Posted 6/10/2017 in National Columns

Patrick J. Buchanan: The impeach-Trump conspiracy

Posted 6/10/2017 in National Columns

Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never met him. ... Have you all lost your senses over there?" Yes, Vlad, we have.

Steve Chapman: Trump's palpable fear of the truth

Posted 6/10/2017 in National Columns

None of us knows when the moment to gain immortality will arise, but Sarah Huckabee Sanders saw her opportunity and seized it. Asked Thursday about James Comey's assertion that President Donald Trump had lied, the White House spokeswoman answered, "No, I can definitively say the president's not a liar."