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Patrick Buchanan: Trump & the press -- a death struggle

Alerting the press that he would deal with the birther issue at the opening of his new hotel, the Donald, after treating them to an hour of tributes to himself from Medal of Honor recipients, delivered.

Editorial cartoon for 9-27-16

Posted yesterday in National Columns

Editorial cartoon for 9-26-16

Posted 9/26/2016 in National Columns

Bill Crawford: State needs more private sector jobs to get off the bottom

Posted 9/24/2016 in National Columns

For decades the U.S. Census Bureau has published data on income and poverty. Related news stories have consistently focused on Mississippi's humble rankings. Just released statistics show Mississippi continues to be the poorest state with the highest poverty rate.

Kathleen Parker: What we will look for Monday night

Posted 9/24/2016 in National Columns

It's here, at last. The showdown we've all been waiting for: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump.

Rheta Johnson: Faulkner, chainsaws and magnolias

Posted 9/24/2016 in National Columns

The apex of my 40-year journalism career was a telephone interview, strange to say. I combed my curls and dressed up in my best corduroy skirt and blue sweater for that phone chat, wanting to look pretty because of the person on the other end of the line.

Jamie Stiehm: Waiting for a beautiful new bronze museum to lift us up

Posted 9/24/2016 in National Columns

WASHINGTON -- Here we were wishing for something good, to rise above the campaign fray. And then it happened. We will never be the same.

Patrick Buchanan: How Trump wins the debate

Posted 9/23/2016 in National Columns

On one of my first trips to New Hampshire in 1991, to challenge President George H. W. Bush, I ran into Sen. Eugene McCarthy.

Editorial cartoon for 9-23-16

Posted 9/23/2016 in National Columns

Leonard Pitts: Donald Trump is a 'BS artist'

Posted 9/22/2016 in National Columns

We've called him many things. We pundits have overworked our thesauruses and our imaginations to describe Donald Trump.

Editorial cartoons for 9-22-16

Posted 9/22/2016 in National Columns

Kathleen Parker: The Trump letters

Posted 9/21/2016 in National Columns

As the first presidential debate approaches, fists clench, jaws tighten and invectives giggle in anticipation.

Editorial cartoon for 9-21-16

Posted 9/21/2016 in National Columns

Editorial cartoon for 9-20-16

Posted 9/20/2016 in National Columns

Froma Harrop: New Yorkers walk past political bluster over bombing

Posted 9/20/2016 in National Columns

The explosives going off in the dumpster in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea was not a major terrorist event -- except on the TV news channels.

Wyatt Emmerich: Pathways to less expensive power

Posted 9/19/2016 in National Columns

A Texas company is planning to build a high-voltage electricity transmission line linking the wind farms of west Texas to the deep South. The line would enter Mississippi near Vicksburg and run through the middle of Mississippi terminating north of Columbus.