Tag: Commentary

The Alabama Senate election Tuesday was not the end of the feud between former White House strategist Steve Bannon, a conservative firebrand, and the firmly establishment Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP Images)

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The problem with Mitch McConnell’s Alabama autopsy and the ‘Bannon Effect’

Philip Wegmann · December 14, 2017 9:34 pm

Let's not get ahead of ourselves with fantastic claims. (Screenshot/Twitter)

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Fox News’ quiet screw up on the FBI texts

Becket Adams · December 14, 2017 9:23 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, center, looks at election returns with staff during an election-night watch party at the RSA activity center, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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After the Alabama Senate race, conservatives must ditch their anger

Quin Hillyer · December 14, 2017 9:10 pm

Sanctions relief will have to be earned, not extracted. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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On Zimbabwe sanctions, Trump must learn from Obama’s mistakes in Myanmar

Tom Rogan · December 14, 2017 8:57 pm

The U.S. would be justified in destroying the regime to protect U.S. and allied lives. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

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North Korea is weak, the US is strong: Nuclear deterrence will work, if we let it

Daniel Davis · December 14, 2017 8:30 pm

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai takes his seat for the FCC vote on net neutrality. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Don’t freak out over net neutrality deregulation

Tom Rogan · December 14, 2017 7:50 pm

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, center, announces the vote was approved to repeal net neutrality, next to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, left, who voted no, and Commissioner Michael O'Rielly, who voted yes, at the FCC, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Grover Norquist: With net neutrality vote, the FCC restores Internet freedom and stops government gatekeepers

Grover Norquist · December 14, 2017 7:39 pm

The plan is to meet on the sidelines in Hamburg. (AP)

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Russia will probably bomb US forces in Syria, on purpose

Tom Rogan · December 14, 2017 7:16 pm

Collage of former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump.

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Counting ‘Lies’: The New York Times’ comparison of Obama and Trump shows glaring media blind spots

Timothy P. Carney · December 14, 2017 7:07 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks at his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

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The evidence suggesting Paul Ryan plans to leave after 2018

Emily Jashinsky · December 14, 2017 6:56 pm

For a while, America's Dairyland really did a decent job cultivating conservative talent. In 2011, Reince Priebus took the helm of the Republican National Committee. Scott Walker moved into the governor's mansion, and seemed like a promising presidential candidate. Most promising and most well-known, Paul Ryan (pictured above) won the chairmanship of the House Budget Committee. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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When Paul Ryan walks, the Wisconsin era ends

Philip Wegmann · December 14, 2017 6:47 pm

A motorist on Highway 101 watches flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway north of Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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California’s Thomas wildfire has nothing to do with climate change

Tim Worstall · December 14, 2017 6:41 pm