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John Kass: How are people missing the Clinton Foundation's stench of corruption?

Here's the latest in The Baltimore Sun's coverage of the Freddie Gray case and the unrest in Baltimore:

Most of the coverage about the Oklahoma University fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon specifically focuses on the students using a racial slur do describe African Americans. Their gleeful singing about lynching is overshadowed by that Boogie Man — the "n-word." It's the sensational, sexy angle. It's also lazy analysis.

The liberal left is getting itself tied up in knots over the "American Sniper" movie, writes John Kass.

President Obama has a particular weakness for the logical fallacy known as the argument from authority, says Jonah Goldberg.

In much of the Muslim world, newspapers frequently run vile anti-Semitic cartoons depicting, for instance, Jews dressed as Nazis eating babies. Perhaps if Jews outnumbered Muslims by roughly 115 to 1 rather than the other way around, we'd hear more about those blasphemous drawings.

The White House doesn't want a conversation about Islam and terrorism, writes Jonah Goldberg.

Mike Huckabee has little chance of becoming president, but he could decide who the GOP nominee will be, Jonah Goldberg says.

Liberals have falsely convinced themselves they are pitted against deeply entrenched powerful forces and that being a liberal is somehow brave.

Conservatives should take the high road and liberals should join them, writes Jonah Goldberg.

It's fine to say Sony never should have green-lighted "The Interview" in the first place. That's true of so much that Hollywood produces. The point is it did. And America is effectively giving one of the most evil regimes in human history a veto on our First Amendment.

The taboo against torture is important and honorable, just like the taboos against killing. But sometimes the real world gets a veto.

Without cigarette taxes, Eric Garner would be alive today, period, writes Jonah Goldberg.

President's reaction to Obamacare advisor's comments amounts to falsehood, supported by half-truths, in defense of a scam, says Jonah Goldberg.

The only reason an idea's time ever arrives is that some story gives birth to it, writes Jonah Goldberg

Today's self-proclaimed "Clinton Democrats" are more like Mr. Obama than they want to admit, writes Jonah Goldberg.

If the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about a Cartegena hooker, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public -- and Congress -- about larger issues?

There's a vast feminist industrial complex that is addicted to institutionalized panic, writes Jonah Goldberg.

Instead of Americans trying to persuade Muslims of the world that terrorism is un-Islamic, why shouldn't Muslims be working harder to convince us?

ISIS and groups like it attract failures at Western civilization.

Claiming Israel wants to wipe out Palestinians is a lie that, told often enough, gets believed.

Asking employers to pay for contraception makes it their business, along with the business of taxpayers and a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington.

Elizabeth Warren is the Barack Obama of 2016; the role of Hillary Clinton will be played by ... Hillary Clinton, Jonah Goldberg writes

While Washington is preoccupied with other things, Iranian President Hasan Rowhani may be opening the door to genuine progress.

First Putin denies Syria's chemical use, now he wants us to trust him on a diplomatic solution?

The State Department damaged American interests with its reflexive support for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Jonah Goldberg writes that the real question about NSA data-mining should be: Is it a good policy?

Dr. Ben Carson's calls for controversial policy changes, with President Barack Obama two seats away, has some calling for him to run for office and others demanding his apology.

Robert Reich says America fails to protect kids not just from school shootings but from poverty and disease

In both education and criminal justice, the powerful alter the system to their advantage

When should the Jets start Tebow at QB?