Trip Pittman for Senate?
By Quin Hillyer, a personal note, not “journalism.” For months now I’ve been puzzling over the choice facing Alabamans in the August 15 special election for U.S. Senate. As a […]
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Health care reform: Go slow, and explain it better
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., promised on Thursday to provide “ample time” for “robust debate” with an “open amendment process” regarding the […]
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Jeff Sessions did very well at Senate hearing
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner; Attorney General Jeff Sessions acquitted himself quite well in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The focus on Sessions, in relation to […]
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For FBI, ‘Say it Ain’t Joe’
By Quin Hillyer at NRO’s The Corner; Many news outlets are reporting that former-senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut is rather likely to be Donald Trump’s choice to be the new […]
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Dem Filibuster of Gorsuch Called ‘Dumbest’ move
(Quin Hillyer, Liberty Headlines) Court-watchers have debated for weeks both the likelihood and the propriety of the filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch that Senate Democrats have threatened. But now […]
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Democratic senators fumble with filibuster on Gorsuch
(Quin Hillyer, Liberty Headlines) In considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats increasingly appear to be listening more to hard-left interest groups than to traditionally liberal […]
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How to Fix the Filibuster… and the Senate
By Quin Hillyer at The Examiner; The Senate’s famous filibuster, now on the brink of elimination, should be both revived and limited by listening to Democrats on how to reform […]
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How Jeff Sessions fought against racial disparities
Please read this whole Wall Street Journal piece here. No sooner did President-elect Donald Trump name his pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, than allegations of racism began to fly. A writer at […]
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Richard Shelby’s outlandishly sleazy campaign
by Quin Hillyer For somebody supposedly of invincible political strength, Alabama’s senior U.S. senator, Richard Shelby, sure looks to be running scared as he conducts an amazingly sleazy campaign against […]
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Shelby vs. McConnell for Senate in Alabama
Alabama’s Richard Shelby, still energetic at age 81, is not on many conservatives’ lists of “worst Republican senators,” much less a list of obviously vulnerable ones. But challenger Jonathan McConnell offers […]
