The Fed Was Right to Not Lower Rates
(Written just before the Fed met last week.) by Quin Hillyer| June 18, 2019 When the Federal Reserve Board meets on Wednesday, it should not reward speculators who are betting the […]
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Scalise shows grace, and gratefulness, two years later
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise paid fitting tribute Wednesday to a person without whose courage he and perhaps numerous other representatives and staffers probably would have died two years ago […]
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Trump team tweaks, slowly fixes, Obamacare
The Trump team on Friday continued adding to its largely admirable record of tweaking healthcare policies through administrative action. While at least one of its proposals is ill-advised, most of this administration’s changes […]
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Trump’s words show the mindset of a colluder
If the standard for removal of a president were “pollution of the civic realm” rather than “high crimes and misdemeanors,” President Trump would deserve impeachment. Trump’s assertion that he would gladly […]
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Quirky Hickenlooper may represent sanity for Democrats
The measure of how tethered Democrats are to reality and American values may be the degree to which former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper gains traction in the race for the […]
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Culture corner: Sex ed, college lies, cakes, and golf
Four columns from the Washington Examiner. Links to the full pieces are embedded in the headlines. Bully donor Culverhouse aborts the truth in donor spat with Bama Law (June 10): A […]
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The view from Omaha Beach
(June 4, early for June 6): If you ever stand at the beach at Vierville-sur-Mer — otherwise known as Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France — that’s when you […]
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What Bush couldn’t teach, ‘tank man’ did
(June 3): When the Chinese government slaughtered unknown numbers of its own citizens in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago on June 4 (Chinese time), Americans waited in vain for their […]
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Dr. John, Leah Chase, Rafa Nadal, and other culture
Three columns about memorable people, and their art. (Follow the links in the headlines.) A slave ship and a restauratrice: black history done right (June 4): Two recent news items […]
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Good Trump, Bad Trump
What Trump got wrong, and what he got right. (Follow the links in the headlines.) Trump’s prepared remarks on D-Day were excellent (June 6): Give President Trump credit. His prepared remarks on […]
