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Friday, July 14, 2017
Handle With Health Care
Senate Republicans rolled out the latest rewrite of their Better Care Reconciliation Act yesterday with the hopes that it won’t be long until America is looking at Obamacare in the rearview mirror.
Trump Jr.’s Meeting May Not Rise to Treason, but It’s Still Shady as Hell
The New York Times recently reported that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who claimed to have information that could harm Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The intermediary told Trump Jr. that the information came from high up in the Russian government — the prosecutor general of Russia, in fact, who is an appointee of Russian President Vladimir Putin (but, then again, aren’t they all).
Retaining Our Principles Includes Keeping Our Eyes on the Big Ball
Amid the endless media obsession with Trump scandal allegations, important policy issues are getting short shrift. Considering that the left is happy with the status quo — the autopilot advancement of statism — this can only please Democrats.
The Ironies of War and Armistice: Reflections From the Demilitarized Zone
This past summer I was invited to teach literary interpretation and academic writing at a small Reformed-Christian seminary outside of Seoul, South Korea. At the close of two intense weeks of instruction, which consisted of six hours of lectures and discussion each day, I was ready to decompress.
The 16 Things You Must Believe if the ‘Witch Hunt’ Accusation Is True
One column cannot accommodate the list of things you must believe if you trust that Donald Trump is truly the victim of a baseless witch hunt. Consider this a mere stab.
Anti-Trump Overreach Could Backfire
Overreach. Donald Trump seems to have an uncanny knack for prompting overreach by his opponents and critics. This often hurts him and the country. But it has the potential to hurt those doing the overreach as well.
Were Democrats Working With the Russians?
Because of left-wing outrage and media obsession, the nation has focused on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to influence the American election.
Bungled Collusion Is Still Collusion
The Russia scandal has entered a new phase and there’s no going back.
CNN’s White-Whale Russia Obsession
The media’s sudden explosion over a meeting last summer at Trump Tower between Donald Trump Jr. and an alleged “Kremlin-backed lawyer” (she wasn’t Kremlin-backed) has spawned a whole new feeding frenzy. Every miniscoop gets inflated into the latest contender in the urgent liberal question: “What will finally get trump impeached?”
A Clear Choice in WV Senate Battle: Conservative Patrick Morrisey
I have spent my life in public service and public policy fighting for conservative ideals. Limited government, free-market policies, traditional values, American exceptionalism — these are the issues that gave rise to the Reagan Revolution and the modern day Republican Party.
Environmentalists Are Birthing Ever More Climate Change Hype
One of the hallmarks of the “Ugly American” is the habit of thinking foreigners will understand what you’re saying if just shout it louder and louder.
Two Deaths; Did Only One Matter?
Do you remember Freddie Gray? He was a walking example of the problems plaguing America’s inner cities.
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Reversing the Rout in Our Readiness
With overall federal budget expanding steadily year after year, you’d think not one category of spending has had to suffer. Surely everything that can be funded has all the money it could want or need — and then some.
Summertime, and the Leavin’ Ain’t Easy...
The busiest people on Capitol Hill today may be travel agents. Most senators are probably scrambling to change their vacation plans after the GOP’s announcement that the chamber was cutting its August recess short. Instead of adjourning on July 28th for the usual summer break, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks there’s too much unfinished business to leave town. If members are upset about working overtime, McConnell says, take it up with Democrats.
Trump’s Excellent Speech in Poland, on Poland, and About Poland
Before I write this defense of Donald Trump in Poland, let me remind readers—from the right and the left—that I come to this subject with some credibility. ..
Flying the Fairer Skies?
Consumers have benefited for decades from the presence of Open Skies agreements that lessen government interference in the market for international air travel.
GOP Rallies Behind Idiotic Bill
Republicans are about to do something very stupid. Using bribery, threats and cajolery, they intend to pass a catastrophically unpopular bill on a party-line vote.
‘Kerosene’ Maxine Waters: How Much Longer Will Her District Tolerate Her?
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has become President Donald Trump’s fiercest congressional critic. In eight years, Obama never had a Republican nemesis the likes of Waters, who recently said, “I’m taking the gloves off.” Seventeen years ago, I wrote Waters a letter. She never answered.
The American Left’s Downward Spiral
I have returned! From Europe, that is, and I hope I met with no Russian agents while there. The soi-disant liberals are in a snit about the Russians.
Fixing the ‘Rotting Carcass’ Tax Code
Cynics are said to be people who are prematurely disappointed about the future. Such dyspepsia is encouraged by watching Republicans struggle to move on from the dog’s breakfast they have made of health care reform to the mare’s nest of tax reform.