When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the administration’s tariffs were unlawful, it resolved a constitutional question. What it did not resolve is how to unwind the economic damage. Gov. JB Pritzker has called for…

The American-Israeli war on Iran has spiked oil prices, as tankers hesitate to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean through which some 20 percent of…

President Donald Trump had good cause to fire Kristi Noem last week from being homeland security secretary, giving her the ax via social media post, with Trump announcing that she was being replaced by Oklahoma…

Though it’s half a world away, the war in the Mideast — the United States and Israel attacking Iran, Israel attacking Lebanon, and Iran attacking the entire neighborhood — is causing the price of fuel…

The naysayers emerged quickly, as those of little faith usually do. One of Kansas City’s best-known preachers, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, is mulling a U.S. Senate run. After a Lenten season of prayer and study,…

President Donald Trump and his administration insist their war of choice in Iran bears zero similarity to the bitter Iraq War the U.S. plunged into 23 years ago. I disagree. Both wars were based on…

Well, that didn’t take long. I just bought what will probably be my last reasonably priced fill-up for a while. It happens every time we start a war in the Middle East. I topped off…

The weekend attack on Iran by the United States and Israel can be viewed not as the start of a new war, but rather a fresh battle in the four-decade war on terror, of which…

A few months ago, I was eating lunch at Rookies Iola and a man around 50 years old was talking in a rather loud voice about his wife’s experience trying to get a REAL ID. …

Silence is never deafening, so let’s just say that the lack of Iran commentary from Missouri Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt this weekend was pretty noticeable.  By Monday morning — more than two days…