Tag: Commentary

Tough words for those focused on President Trump's Russia-related controversies. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Rep. Sean Duffy: ‘People don’t give a s–t’ about Russia investigation

Tom Rogan · July 27, 2017 7:44 pm

That's a significant vote of confidence coming from Duffy, who has close ties with both President Trump as an early endorser and with Priebus as a fellow Wisconsin Republican. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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‘I’m with Reince’: Rep. Sean Duffy backs Reince Priebus as Anthony Scaramucci attacks

Philip Wegmann · July 27, 2017 7:22 pm

Rep. Sean Duffy says Trump should "want the generals to direct" him on a political issue (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Sean Duffy: Trump’s transgender tweet opened Republicans to ‘a bazooka’ from left

Tom Rogan · July 27, 2017 6:55 pm

Trump couldn't ask for a better attorney general to take on the issue of illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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For Trump, loyalty is a one-way street

Jay Caruso · July 27, 2017 6:40 pm

If you're a lousy employee, you now know where to apply for your next job. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Despite warnings, the IRS continues to hire back its bad apples

David Freddoso · July 27, 2017 5:13 pm

Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that he's not accusing White House chief of staff Reince Priebus of being a leaker, but said if reporters think he is a leaker, Priebus should maybe explain himself. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Scaramucci wants Reince’s blood

Tom Rogan · July 27, 2017 4:27 pm

The goal of the military is not a social experiment. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Trump’s transgender military ban is psychologically justified

Nicole Russell · July 27, 2017 4:04 pm

Angry about his financial disclosures going public, Scaramucci threatened Priebus late Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Cain killed Abel quickly, Anthony Scaramucci can’t do the same for ‘brother’ Reince Priebus

Philip Wegmann · July 27, 2017 3:28 pm

ICBMs are exactly why Iran keeps sending satellites into space. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry,Vahid Reza Alaei)

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Iran is launching satellites to learn how to launch nuclear missiles

Tom Rogan · July 27, 2017 3:25 pm

On Wednesday evening, House and Senate negotiators agreed on a deal to send a new sanctions bill to President Trump's desk. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

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Congress just delivered a wake-up call to Europe and a painful rebuke to Vladimir Putin

Tom Rogan · July 27, 2017 2:51 pm

The government charged Marlow Humbert with committing sexual assault and placed him in pretrial solitary confinement, where he spent nearly 15 months.

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The American Bar Association’s chilling efforts to suppress free speech

Jana Minich · July 27, 2017 1:00 pm

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to alienate that quantum of voters willing to vote for Democrats to check Donald Trump, but not to force an impeachment trial which will, as in 1999, result in acquittal in the Senate. But such cool rationality seems rare among her fellow Democrats. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats and Trump: Both behaving irrationally

Michael Barone · July 27, 2017 4:01 am