Tim Walz

ELDER: Jeffries and Schumer denounce Trump’s ‘Racist’ video — but who are they to complain?

February 21, 2026 Larry Elder

On President Donald Trump’s social media platform, someone in the administration — the White House offered different versions of how this happened — posted a 62-second cartoon video set to the song “The Lion Sleeps […]

MATTHEWS: Mecklenburg County could learn from Minnesota ICE drawdown

February 19, 2026 Stacey Matthews

Some of the most intense scenes and confrontations since the Trump administration began its immigration enforcement operations last year have happened in blue cities and states where there is little to no cooperation allowed between […]

HILL: Why rob banks when you can rob government?

January 22, 2026 Frank Hill

Willie Sutton was named to the FBI Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List in 1950 after a series of bank robberies and various escapes from prison. When asked by a bank teller after one robbery, […]

MATTHEWS: Anti-ICE violence turns deadly as heated rhetoric intensifies

October 2, 2025 Stacey Matthews

One of the top campaign promises from then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump heading into the 2024 presidential election was that he was going to put a stop to then-President Joe Biden’s open borders policies. Among […]

MATTHEWS: Some true, nasty colors on display after assassination of Charlie Kirk

September 18, 2025 Stacey Matthews

I never in a million years thought I’d be writing a column on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and yet at the same time, I really can’t say that it came as that much of […]

MATTHEWS: Potential 2028 matchup seen in current Vance-Newsom feud

June 26, 2025 Stacey Matthews

Donald Trump is only six months into his second term in office, and already, chatter is running wild about potential 2028 presidential contenders. With Trump being unable to run again thanks to term limits, Vice […]

Sen. Chris Murphy aims to connect with Democratic voters

April 27, 2025 The Associated Press

SAXAPAHAW — Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn’t drawing stadium-size crowds like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are as he tours the country talking to voters. But in a packed Haw […]

North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes cast for Trump and Vance

December 18, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — On Dec. 17, the members of North Carolina’s 59th Electoral College convened at the State Capitol in Raleigh to cast the state’s 16 official votes for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD […]

BARONE: The Democratic Party’s bad October

November 3, 2024 Michael Barone

Was it just a coincidence that Vice President Kamala Harris showed up, 15 minutes late, to be interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier a day before Nate Silver’s poll aggregation website showed her chances of […]

GINGRICH: President Trump and the politics of joy

November 1, 2024 Newt Gingrich

President Donald J. Trump showed Americans what real “politics of joy” looks like. He held a press conference in a garbage truck wearing a garbage collector’s vest (which he then wore to a rally with […]