Speaker Johnson shouldn’t kiss Trump’s ring on tariffs
(April 10) Louisiana’s citizens need U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to stand up for their interests and exert Congress’ constitutional power and duty over trade and tariffs, not […]
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McLaughlin: Musk isn’t acting constitutionally
(Column at National Review Online by Dan McLaughlin, March 27) lon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have blown through Washington like nothing since, well, Donald Trump. For small-government […]
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Spread the Christmas “Word”
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Dec. 25 full editorial; slightly different version here) The Gospel of John begins with the famous formulation that “In the beginning was the Word, and the […]
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We should have Thanksgiving for our Constitution
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Day) Thanksgiving is not a day just for feasting and perhaps for random expressions of thanks. It’s a day for thanks specifically to God and thanks […]
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On Israel and foreign policy, Pence outclasses awful Trump
Pence pushes a very Reaganesque peace through strength (Oct. 10): It has long been clear that the education establishment’s obsession with identity politics pushes noxious notions into impressionable young minds. […]
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Pence is dead wrong in his latest legal tactic
(Feb. 15) Former Vice President Mike Pence is usually a serious man, but his latest reported legal gambit is laughably fatuous. If the reports are true that Pence plans to […]
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Trump’s advocacy of constitutional evasion should be the last straw
(Dec. 5, 2022) Now that former president Donald Trump has called for the suspension of the Constitution when it suits his ends, every elected Republican should finally denounce Trump as […]
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Why both parties deserved not to win
(Nov. 15) With a full week’s perspective on the Nov. 8 elections , one can see the U.S. constitutional system , in a macro sense, again worked exquisitely well. The results provided rough justice […]
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Conservative jurisprudence promotes both justice and freedom
(Oct. 25) Conservative constitutionalists, no less than politicians, should heed the old campaign maxim that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Speaking […]
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Republican senators play with fire by not convicting Trump
Amidst a host of substantive reasons why senators should find Donald Trump guilty of impeachable offenses, a purely political reality should be vivid in their consciousness. Each senator who votes […]
