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There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of the elections in California. With absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing, he took to Truth Social twice on Wednesday.

"The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA...Read more

Not least because I was 12 years old, the Bicentennial festivities felt very different from this year's 250th birthday celebrations for the United States. This being America, commercialization was inevitable -- everything was red, white and blue and was official whatever of the shindig. Overall, though, 1976 was a nonpartisan affair despite ...Read more

When artists canceled their performances for President Donald Trump's June 25 Great American State Fair, one stood out for me: Martina McBride. The first time I saw Martina live in concert was at the Taste of Cincinnati festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Memorial Day Weekend in 1994. Her iconic song "Independence Day" had just been released as a...Read more

"If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that's hardest," my pop used to tell me. "The right thing is always the hardest thing."

Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off "60 Minutes," a television news show that rose to journalism and stayed there for a hell of a long time.

Management canned him for...Read more

Horrors. The profiteers running this year's World Cup are forcing fans to shell out thousands for a single ticket.

But they're not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. No one has to buy them.

This should be very obvious.

That said, some products are priced in ways ...Read more

I was stopped at a red light when I noticed a man on the sidewalk pouring water over his head. He had a big bucket and a cup that he filled with water from the bucket to dump over his head. At first, I thought he might be trying to cool off, but it wasn't that hot of a day. It was a long light. I realized he was taking a shower. As it were.

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Change is not my best friend. Not since the day my family moved from Wisconsin to California when I was eight.

Leaving the land of my grandmother, the skating rink and snowballs in winter, Lake Mendota and the tennis courts in summer, the community garden and all that seemed unfair.

The Fourth of July parade for kids was pure Americana. I ...Read more

A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to protect people from abuse by giant corporations.

But DOJ's present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards -- using the agency to protect corporate abusers from people seeking justice. For example: Big Oil. This massive polluter is insisting that government authorities must save it ...Read more

Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen recently claimed that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee was "un-American," an announcement that surely surprised the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of American citizens who have supported AIPAC, whose forebears and family members served in America's military and fought for their country in ...Read more

The Democrats' apparent choice to replace Maine Republican Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate has built a rap sheet of dazzling disqualifiers.

It wasn't enough that Graham Platner's impersonation of a blue-collar oysterman has been exposed. Turns out he attended the Hotchkiss School, an elite prep school in Connecticut and is grandson of Warren...Read more

Bill Press is not filing a 6/4/26 column. We are subbing Mary Sanchez. The Press column returns next week.

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President Donald Trump may be the smallest, meanest and most vengeful man to serve in the Oval Office. Every time I think he and his minions could stoop no lower, they surprise me. There is simply no limit to Trump's hunger for vengeance, or the willingness of his minions to do his bidding, no matter how unethical.

The latest is Wednesday's ...Read more

As with the weather, everyone complains about the Democrats, but no one does anything about them. Well, we do point out what the perennial hapless loyal opposition is doing wrong. But we rarely offer useful suggestions for what they ought to do instead.

Democrats are favored to take back the House in this year's midterm elections,...Read more

I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam removal. Milltown's dam is not one that will come out...Read more

I used to work with a guy, and every morning, I would greet him the same way.

"Howyadoin'?" I'd say.

"I'm here," he'd answer.

And so, we were. We were there for eight hours, day or night shift, with two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch.

And, after work, we went to places where the job wasn't. Home. Target. A bar.

And in those places...Read more

How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed.

It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah Washington at 39, John Coltrane at 40. Billie Holiday ...Read more