A Maine winner and the Bama election loser
Two columns, each showing a different side of this month’s Senate results. (Links to full columns embedded in the headlines.) Alabama’s Doug Jones was a bad fit from the start […]
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Nation needs GOP Senate to block radical leftists
(Oct. 30) With polls showing President Trump having only the narrowest possible path to reelection, far narrower than in 2016, the importance of keeping a Republican Senate majority grows exponentially. […]
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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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In defeat, Jeff Sessions shows great character
(July 14, exclusive interview) Jeff Sessions is a class act. The former U.S. attorney general lost big in his political comeback attempt for the U.S. Senate from Alabama, but he […]
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Anti-Trumpers who target GOP Senators aren’t Republicans at all
(July 7) There are honorable Never Trump Republicans who object to the current president but without abandoning their own principles. And then there’s the Lincoln Project. This group is neither […]
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NY Times advances my story on Tuberville’s crooked hedge fund
(Note: This is a story from the Sunday New York Times that further advances the piece I first wrote about here. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. […]
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Jeff Sessions starts fighting back
(May 26) Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is finally getting feisty in his battle to win back his old Senate seat from Alabama — and his feistiness is nothing […]
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R.I.P., Tom Coburn: a great senator and good man
(March 28) Former Sen. Tom Coburn, who died Saturday morning of complications from prostate cancer, was one of the finest public servants of my lifetime. The Oklahoma Republican, a practicing obstetrician, […]
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Why Jeff Sessions may have a runoff advantage after all
(March 4) President Trump already is taking potshots at former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but a further analysis of yesterday’s Alabama Republican primary for the U.S. Senate should give Sessions […]
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Jeff Sessions at first looked like he faced uphill battle in runoff
(March 4) Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces an uphill battle to win back the U.S. Senate seat from Alabama that he held for 20 years. Sessions now will be […]
