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  • Sessions doing good things at Justice

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) makes opening remarks to a panel of Department of Homeland Security officials John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations; Anh Duong, director of Border and Maritime Division of Homeland Security's Advanced Research Projects Agency; Craig Healy, assistant director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's National Security Investigations Division; and Rebecca Gambler,director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, as they testify about the unimplemented biometric exit tracking system before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2016. (CBP Photo by Glenn Fawcett)

    By Quin, at Yellowhammer News; Yes, Jeff Sessions really is making a difference at the Justice Department, as a new order curbing the department’s own power makes clear. The other […]

     
  • The Shelby Stratagem, or Dual Withdrawals

    The Shelby Stratagem, or Dual Withdrawals

    Two intentionally provocative columns by Quin Hillyer at Yellowhammer News, about this mess of an Alabama Senate race; The Shelby Stratagem:  Weird messes sometimes require weird remedies. The Republican Party, […]

     
  • House Moves to Fix Flood-Insurance Program

    House Moves to Fix Flood-Insurance Program

    Note from Quin: This is important here in the Gulf states! (Quin Hillyer, Liberty Headlines) According to the New York Times, “a house in Spring, Texas, has been repaired 19 times, for a […]

     
  • Pro and Con on Roy Moore: IMPORTANT

    Pro and Con on Roy Moore: IMPORTANT

    Note from Quin: Please do NOT read these two pieces individually; if you read one, please read the other. They are sort of pro-con companion pieces, meant to show balance […]

     
  • Fallout from Roy Moore controversy

    Fallout from Roy Moore controversy

    Two important columns after the Moore story both — neither of them assuming Moore’s guilt or innocence, but merely analyzing political questions worth considering; It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault — and […]

     
  • Other stuff: Various interesting pieces

    Other stuff: Various interesting pieces

    (Quin Hillyer, Liberty Headlines) Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona may be retiring, but he’s not going without putting up a fight on behalf of homeowners he says are being unfairly treated by […]

     
  • Two blasts at Trump

    Two blasts at Trump

    Two pieces from Quin, in reacting to the horrid election results for Republicans last week, especially in Virginia. Key fact not mentioned in these two pieces: Exit polls showed a […]

     
 
 
 

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