White colonizer, health care thief, psychopath.

On Sunday, The New York Times asked its readers to believe President Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017, his first year in office, and that he paid no federal income tax in 10 of the past 15 years.

With President Donald Trump scheduled to make his Supreme Court nomination over the weekend and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, saying he has the votes to affirm a nominee if qualified, the seemingly powerless Democrats have begun to turn on their own.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is not conducting a front-porch campaign — not with the social distancing advised during the coronavirus pandemic — but he may be trolling the late 19th-century campaign conducted by Republican William McKinley just a bit.

A call by state Rep. Yusuf Hakeem, D-Chattanooga, for the Tennessee secretary of state to investigate a "laundry list" of "troubling" allegations at the Hamilton County Election Commission less than three weeks before the start of early voting sounds suspicious to us.

Whatever the Senate Homeland Security and Finance committees hoped they might find - and couldn't - in the months-long joint investigation into Hunter Biden's role on the board of a Ukraine natural gas firm, which was released Wednesday, some things are clear.

We can't help but be amused - more than five years after Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential candidacy - that the national media and elected officials can still be sent into orbit by a word or two that comes out of the president's mouth.

Democrats are practiced at making threats, but in the coming fight over a United States Supreme Court nominee they've quickly come to more resemble the mob.

You could almost feel sorry for Democrats following the Friday death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon of the left and a trailblazing jurist.

We can't imagine how nervous the Biden for President campaign staff must be each time its candidate says something in public.

The record low unemployment levels first reached a year ago for Blacks and Hispanics were achievements President Donald Trump could take credit for, and he wasted no time in doing so.

Somebody got to Maurkice Pouncey.

If there was any doubt whether the novel coronavirus has become political, it was answered Wednesday by the two competing candidates for the office of president of the United States.

Much has been made in this presidential election campaign of the unrest in large cities this summer following the May death of Black suspect George Floyd while in custody of white Minneapolis police officers, and much more is likely to be made of it before the Nov. 3 votes are certified.

It wasn't so long ago that any public display of a swastika or comparison of a public figure to Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler would be roundly condemned by community, political and religious leaders.

If the Washington Post had published an article in its Politics section on Republican Sarah Palin's shoes during the 2008 presidential election, it would have been excoriated.

To date, James Buchanan is the only man from Pennsylvania to have been elected president of the United States.

America has become so used to social distancing that we wonder if that's how the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, are being viewed today — with a social distance.

When the coronavirus disputes center on when a vaccine might be ready and who is likely to get it, instead of where the disease is likely to worsen and who is more disproportionately affected, we finally may have crested the hill and started down the other side.

Which is more possible - that President Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about U.S. troops being "losers" in 2018 or left-leaning media attempting to damage the president's reputation in 2020 by spinning up such a story knowing other anti-Trump national media would run with it?

The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, which includes the Chattanooga area, tweeted last week that he couldn't understand how Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi profess to be faithful Catholics but don't live up to the teachings of their faith.

National news agencies and polling organizations are desperate not to be wrong about their periodic reports in this year's presidential race, but trust us they are running scared.

In the whole scheme of things, whether United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, got a hair wash and blow out earlier this week at a San Francisco salon that was off limits to nonprivileged people is small potatoes.