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America's political scribes would do us a favor if they would drop the word "storied" before the name "Kennedy." America does not have families that are royal, storied or otherwise special because of the circumstances of members' birth. Or it shouldn't.

Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal government’s rating from AAA, the best, to AA+, one notch below. Fitch blamed “the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, the erosion of governance” and two decades of “debt standoff” over raising the debt ceiling.

The New York City Police Department has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an impenetrable private channel is understandable, transparency has well served the city for generations. It should not be rolled back.

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Congressional Republicans are in a struggle with the White House to rein in federal spending after the U.S. national debt ballooned past $32 trillion after the COVID pandemic. The 2023 Farm Bill is an excellent place to start. There’s plenty to cut.

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