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National Politics
Biden’s terrible pardons, from several angles
Biden twice takes up his pardon pen, and I twice excoriate him, plus add context. (For the full version of…
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Lee Edwards, Clarke Reed: Two legendary GOP builders
Lee Edwards, anti-communist and chronicler (Dec. 16): The night was June 12, 2007, and Lee Edwards was beaming. After years…
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Lawmakers are short-changing national defense
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Dec. 7) The primary responsibility of a national government is to provide for the common defense,…
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Pelosi, and Carolina — two unrelated pieces
Here are two short ones I am just putting together to save space. That time in Rio when Pelosi wasn’t…
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National Politics
Trump knows conservative suckers are born every…..
(Nov. 25) President-elect Donald Trump is not ushering in an administration of conservative populism. He’s pushing a fringe kookery that is marinated as deeply in left-wing shibboleths as…
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Democrats should separate culture from compulsion
(Nov. 25) Democratic analysts who say extreme wokeness is killing their party are right, but issue positions aren’t the whole problem. What’s worse…
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Whitaker for NATO? Not so fast
(Nov. 21) President-elect Donald Trump may face serious confirmation battles for even some of his nominees who aren’t as high…
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National Politics
Going the extra mile to justify the Hegseth nomination
(Nov. 20. Note: Since I first wrote this piece, I have leaned ever more strongly against this nomination. What follows,…
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National Politics
Minus the bombast, Musk and Ramaswamy could do well
(Nov. 13) Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will find it’s not so easy to radically downsize government. Their task,…
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National Politics
Is this Caligula on the Potomac?
Note: What follows is the full, slightly longer original version of this published piece: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3233995/caligula-on-the-potomac/ Just two weeks after…
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