Immediate sadness on the passing of Joe Lieberman
(March 27) [I posted this within about 75 minutes after the announcement of the death of Joe Lieberman. I meant to go back and write a lot more, but other […]
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Don’t fall for Justice Breyer’s ‘pragmatism’
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, March 29) Don’t fall for former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s newly published call for “pragmatism” rather than “originalism” or “textualism” as the best interpretive method. What Breyer’s suggestion […]
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Superstar reflections on Good Friday
(March 29) Fifty years after I first listened to Jesus Christ Superstar on a two-record wax album, its powerful evocation of Good Friday still both haunts and intrigues me. This is a […]
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Don’t pretend the Capitol rioters, or Trump, are victims
(March 26) One of the most distressing things about the Donald Trump movement is seeing putative “conservatives” make excuses for the 2021 Capitol rioters. The same people who usually defend police and castigate rowdy protesters […]
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A comprehensive case against the Biden-Harris team
(March 25) Millions of people cogently believe former President Donald Trump is a danger to the republic itself, but a large number of us also believe another four years of the Biden-Harris administration would be, in different ways, an […]
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Not even Trump merits this punitive, $464 million bond
(March 19) Many of us appalled by former President Donald Trump’s lifetime of dishonesty may take schadenfreude in the massive financial judgments now threatening his business empire — but the sizes of those judgments, and the bonds pertaining to them, are utterly […]
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Alabama and Idaho bolster parental rights and options
(March 25, official editorial of the Washington Examiner) State by state, parental rights and parental choice are being vindicated and promoted, even as the federal government and some bad judges work to erode the […]
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Louisiana is right to try banning public sector unions
(March 23, Advocate/Times-Picayune) The usual suspects are caterwauling that a slew of bills by conservative Louisiana legislators supposedly amount to an assault on workers’ benefits and “rights.” On some of the bills, […]
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Quin on a podcast and on a video
Former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh generously invited me on his podcast the other day to talk the relative demerits of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden (and Kamala Harris), and […]
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NeverTrumpers can’t afford to be an exclusive club
(March 22) The modern political impulse to insult not just enemies but erstwhile allies, too, now has infected the Never Trump ranks. The impulse, wherein Never Trumpers adopt one of former President Donald […]
