Bob Dole was the U.S. Senate’s greatest American
(Dec. 6) Bob Dole was quite simply the greatest U.S. senator and the greatest American who served in the Senate of our lifetime. He was great not because he survived […]
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Pete du Pont, a politician of substance, R.I.P.
(May 10) Former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont, who died Saturday at age 86, ran the single most ideas-heavy presidential campaign in my lifetime. Some conservatives just wish he had […]
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Remembering former GOP bigwig Bill Brock
(March 26) Some people leave an immensely greater mark on a nation’s history than the bulk of the public ever recognizes. Bill Brock, the former U.S. representative, senator, Cabinet member, […]
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Where are the leaders who can help calm the waters?!?
(Aug. 27) Everybody should calm the bleep down before I lose my mind and start shooting at all of you who can’t calm down! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You see the problem above. […]
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Fox Nation, Brit Hume air timely tribute to Jack Kemp
(July 29) In this era of astonishing divisiveness in politics and the general culture, Fox Nation graces us with a 78-minute documentary on a late politician of a far more […]
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Kemp past, Kemp future… with some Sasse as well
Three pieces, the first one before the Jack Kemp Foundation’s tenth anniversary dinner, the last two written afterwards. All three are about how we should think and talk about politics: […]
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Conservatives must downplay their anger
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; MOBILE, Ala. — Are Republicans or conservatives these days even capable of smiling? President Trump and his wingman Steve Bannon are angry people, […]
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Telling D.C. what Mobile Mayor Stimpson does right
By Quin Hillyer at The Washington Examiner; As the rest of the country fights ever more loudly over statues, race, history, presidential deportment, and just about anything else, the city […]
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Sean Payton’s Civics Lesson
by Quin Hillyer at Opportunity Lives: When New Orleans Saints football coach Sean Payton held a press conference Wednesday to announce, after weeks of public speculation otherwise, that he would […]
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Roundup, 10/9/15: Ryan’s Hope; and more
The House of Representatives is in disarray. I join the editors of National Review in calling on Paul Ryan to step up to the plate: Paul Ryan Should Run for […]
