Free Press Commentary
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Opinion: Let it sink in: $19.5 million per charger
There are about 160,000 gas stations in the United States, the vast majority of them built and run through the private sector to maximize efficiency and convenience for motorists. And then there's the EV charging network overseen by federal bureaucrats that cost American taxpayers $7.5 billion and produced 68 stations with 384 ports.

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Opinion: Why DEI was already dying
President Donald Trump's executive orders banning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI)-related racial and gender preferencing have ostensibly doomed the DEI industry.

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Opinion: Kamala Harris won’t cure what ails the Democratic Party
William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was the last commander in chief born a British subject.

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Opinion: The need for a third option in Gaza
First and most obviously: The government of Israel needs to rush, in abundant quantities and to immediate and undeniable effect, food and medicine to the places in the Gaza Strip that desperately need them.

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Opinion: Woke broke as Sydney Sweeney jeans joy is jumping
Some fads end slowly, taking up to a generation to wane. Others are like lightning, bursting on the scene unexpectedly, destroying all in its path.

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Opinion: Conspiracy, maybe, but something’s missing here
Scientists studying the cosmos often speculate about hypothetical forces that might explain peculiar data or results.

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Opinion: Mistrust in the media? Try this one on
This editorial board is a firm believer in the importance of the Fourth Estate, which serves as a fundamental check on power.

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Opinion: Addicted to politics, fixated on 2028?
August is usually downtime in Washington.

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Opinion: Why MAGA’s ideologues can’t always get what they want
MAGA has a problem, in the form of Donald Trump. Put simply: MAGA wants to define what MAGA (or "America first") means, and Donald Trump wants it to mean whatever he says at any given moment.

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Opinion: What’s in a name? Georgia Gov. Kemp and Coach Dooley’s son are about to find out
Hearing that Gov. Brian Kemp was promoting football coach Derek Dooley, the son of Bulldog legend Vince Dooley, as a U.S. Senate candidate, I immediately thought of my Uncle Dick Torpy.
