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Tag: Donald Trump
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Is Gavin Newsom the Democrats’ Answer to Trump?
California’s Democratic governor is trying too hard to be as tough as Trump and bumping into the consequences of his own policies while doing it.
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More Questionable Government Statistics, This Time From the Justice Department
A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics is a product of flawed methodology imposed during the COVID era and should not be trusted.
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The Ugly Truth About a Necessary Ukrainian Peace
There is no path to a clear and just victory. A negotiated peace will require concessions to Russia, and it is better to accept them than to continue this madness.
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MAGA Should Not Enable Stoner Culture
Reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug won’t do anything to advance MAGA politically and it will make American culture decidedly less great.
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Gerrymandering: Obama vs. Obama
Not surprisingly, at various times, Barack Obama has been on all sides of the gerrymandering question.
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It’s Time to Federalize Washington, D.C.
After 52 years of a failed home rule experiment, it’s time to return the responsibility for governing our nation’s capital to Congress as the Constitution intended.
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Just Say No to More Marijuana
The president should ignore the well-funded cannabis lobby and focus on what more marijuana use means for ordinary Americans.
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The ’80s Called—They Want Their Sanctuary Policy Ideas Back
Sanctuary cities are a dated concept that, even from the point of view of immigration doves, are unsustainable when confronted with today’s realities.
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A Territorial Lease Agreement Could End the War in Ukraine
A territorial lease approach may be the most face-saving solution for all parties involved in the Ukrainian quagmire.
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Democrats Have Been Gerrymandering the Whole Country
The immigration policy of Democrats for the last generation is a much more brazen version of gerrymandering than anything proposed by Republicans in Texas, or anywhere else.
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Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again?
Are wealthy liberals willing to put their money where their mouths are?
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The Emerging Right on Parade
A former MSNBC host paraded out a selection of young people on the new right and their performances left much to be desired.
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Winning, Even When It Doesn’t Feel Like It
Perpetual skeptics would do well to consider how far the right has come in the last five years, even as they count the battles left to fight.
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The Real January 6 Wasn’t at the Capitol – It Was at Trump Tower
The scandalous meeting on January 6, 2017 between the incoming president and James Comey was the beginning of an attempted coup.
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The Obama Dossier
Recalling the back story to the Russia hoax that fundamentally transformed America.
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Trump’s Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)
Trump and America are winning this trade war and demonstrating the shortcomings of the economists in the Ivory Tower.
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Tax Remittances to Stop the Border Cash Leak
Enforcing immigration law with ICE raids is an important, but difficult, way to secure the border. Taxing remittances is much easier and would also be very effective.
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Grading the Second Trump Presidency, Six Months In
Trump’s second administration is off to a strong, and fast, start because Trump has learned to seize the day.
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When the Bill for Bad Comedy Comes Due
Stephen Colbert chased applause instead of laughter. He catered to his audience’s prejudices instead of challenging them. It was boring, and thankfully he’s out of a job.
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Love Gov Threatens Florida Move
The irony of Andrew Cuomo’s threatened move to Florida, should he lose the New York mayoral race this fall, is not lost on Florida Republicans.
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Dems Rail Against Colbert’s Cancellation—Here’s Why
Democrats rush to Stephen Colbert’s defense because they know that Colbert, and all of the dying late-night television phenomenon, run cover for and serve the interests of Democrats.
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MAGA’s Epstein Crisis
Trump's abrupt dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein case shocked supporters, who had backed him because they thought he would hold powerful people accountable.
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The Left’s Concert of Violence
When America rejected the left, they viewed it not as a rejection of their policies, but as a rejection of them as people. Many leftists feel justified in lashing out.
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Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?
Donald Trump didn’t get Stephen Colbert canceled; everything Democrats like about him did.
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ADL’s Thought Police Helped Create the Current Climate of Anti-Semitism
How the Anti-Defamation League now embraces the ideology that they were originally established to combat.
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Mamdani Shows Democrats Can’t Quit Obamaism
Obamaism is sinking the Democratic Party but they can’t quit it.
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MAGA Is Getting the Ukraine Aid It Voted For
Trump has always been more hawkish than his base on aid for Ukraine.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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Trump Upended the GOP’s Old Racial Calculus in the 2024 Election
After Pew’s review of the 2024 election, the GOP can never again claim that immigration restriction and winning minority voters are mutually exclusive.
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Epstein Wide Shut
We are not equipped to understand the perverse depths of elite power. Morbid speculation on the unknowable will only lead to self-defeat.
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What Trump Knows About Superman
Donald Trump understands America and Superman better than the Hollywood director who tries to pull a fast one in this new adaptation.
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FBIntrigue
Evidence is accumulating about how the agency looked the other way when confronted with China’s 2020 election interference, and a whole lot more.
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The Krakening of Bondi and Patel
The lesson to be learned from the Jeffrey Epstein files saga is that the attorney general and the director of the FBI should not be commenting on evidence they have not personally reviewed.
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A Model Neocon
While the broader conservative movement at least pretends to hear the people’s call for an end to forever wars, National Review’s Noah Rothman remains a stalwart defender of the neocon orthodoxy.
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It’s Time for the Feds To Take Over Columbia University
If Columbia University’s acting president, Claire Shipman, fails to end the harassment of students and destruction of property from far-left and pro-Hamas activists on campus, the feds should step in.
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A Big Beautiful Test of GOP Principles and Discipline
If there were serious divisions in the Republican Party, Trump would have lost this fight.
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Exposing the Palo Alto-Deep State Cabal
When Congress grills former White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients about who was running the government in the Biden years, they should have him explain his connections to the Kavanaugh hit, too.
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Other Presidents Complained, But Trump Made NATO Step Up
Trump has accomplished what other presidents only dreamed about regarding NATO commitments.
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America Needs ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
America has suffered the consequences of false compassion for illegal immigrants for too long.
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Who Are We to Say Iran Can’t Be a Nuclear Power?
Even if Iran were to possess nuclear weapons, any threat of their offensive use would trigger an American strike that would end Iran as a geopolitical entity.
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The War Against Woke Is a Legitimate Forever War
The Tech Right may not be interested in fighting the war against woke anymore, but the woke are very much interested in fighting them.
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Five Reasons the Media’s Story Downplaying the Iran Bombing Is a Hoax
The reporting on the effect of Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities follows a familiar playbook, and it is too soon for these assessments to hold any water.
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Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Non-citizens From Census
Eliminating the influence of non-citizens in our elections means not counting them in the census.
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A Clear Path for a GOP Mayor in NYC?
A path to victory is there for the Republican Party, if they have the guts to take it.
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Democratic Party Gets Its Left-Wing Battering Ram
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York represents nothing new in Democratic Party politics. He is merely a new state-of-the-art version of what they’ve always been begging for.
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Unwelcome Allies
Although it made sense to support Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, the narrative surrounding it from neoconservatives, and especially their attacks of the bombing’s critics, are tired and preposterous.
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Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One
Winning the wars of the future will require defending ourselves against the dark side of globalization.
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How Trump’s Iran Attack Looks Through MAGA Eyes
The nuclear-site bombings recall unhappy memories of past interventions and risk a wider war that would alienate the president’s supporters.