Why is Gov. Landry messing up the levee board?
(A version of this is running as the July 22 official editorial of the Advocate/Times-Picayune) With the height of hurricane season fast approaching, Gov. Jeff Landry owes Louisianans a thorough […]
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Biden endangers Medicare by smearing Republicans
(March 7) President Joe Biden could have done a truly constructive thing by writing in Tuesday’s New York Times about the need to save the Medicare system from insolvency. Instead, he spread lies and took […]
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How can we better serve our veterans?
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Nov. 11) On this Veterans Day, let us not just praise the valor of those who served in the U.S. armed forces , but also do […]
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Progress, but not yet perfect, in reforming Electoral Count Act
(July 22) The bipartisan accord to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 is a laudable attempt to clarify and regularize the presidential vote-certifying process. But they haven’t quite got […]
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Commission avoids court packing and does a good job
(Dec. 9) The draft report of the “Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States” lived up to the hopes , not down to the fears , some of us held for […]
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Filibuster reform should be bipartisan
(March 17) Yes, let’s reform the filibuster. But no, don’t let Senate Democrats reform the filibuster. At least not the Democrats by themselves. Senate procedural reforms should be bipartisan. The […]
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Ameliorate, don’t annihilate, the Senate filibuster
(Sept. 3) Senate Democrats are on the right track in considering revisions to the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rules rather than elimination of the filibuster altogether. Still, the Senate should make […]
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Don’t defund police; just reform (some of) them
(June 8) Police departments should not be defunded, but they should be reformed. Some reforms should be able to attract broad consensus. Herewith, then, are the ideas that should be […]
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How to Revive Health Care Reform
By Quin Hillyer at The Washington Examiner; U.S. House factions trying to revive legislation reforming health-care policy should consider not just changes in bill language but several changes in outlook […]
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How Conservative Reforms Really Did Work
The terrific new web publication Opportunity Lives stresses real-life success stories of conservative policies, or of people fruitfully putting into effect principles valued by conservatives. Here is my first column […]
