To really drain the swamp, bust the bureaucracy!
Donald Trump ran for president promising to “drain the swamp,” but even his sometimes-valiant efforts amount to no more than manually removing marsh-water one tin cup at a time. Three […]
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Supreme Court, led by Roberts, punts and fumbles
Four pieces on the Supreme Court’s final week of its 2018-19 session, in chronological order, with links embedded in each headline. You will see, from my second piece, that my […]
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A virtual challenger against Trump. Then a real one.
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner, June 19. Now that President Trump has officially announced he will be a candidate for reelection, it’s time for a Republican to provide […]
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Trump’s deportation order is fully justified
[By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner. Published June 18, 2019] The media outrage is itself outrageous. President Trump’s renewed pledge to deport huge numbers of illegal immigrants is inspiring anger, but it’s hardly […]
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Trump team tweaks, slowly fixes, Obamacare
The Trump team on Friday continued adding to its largely admirable record of tweaking healthcare policies through administrative action. While at least one of its proposals is ill-advised, most of this administration’s changes […]
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Trump’s words show the mindset of a colluder
If the standard for removal of a president were “pollution of the civic realm” rather than “high crimes and misdemeanors,” President Trump would deserve impeachment. Trump’s assertion that he would gladly […]
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Good Trump, Bad Trump
What Trump got wrong, and what he got right. (Follow the links in the headlines.) Trump’s prepared remarks on D-Day were excellent (June 6): Give President Trump credit. His prepared remarks on […]
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Robert Mueller showed a deft, appropriate touch
by Quin Hillyer May 31, 2019 Note: A shorter version of this column ran in the Washington Examiner at this link. What follows is the full-length essay: You are Robert Mueller. You […]
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Mueller put focus where Trump won’t: blocking Russia
by Quin Hillyer | May 29, 2019 Give credit to special counsel Robert Mueller. In what he hopes will be his final public words on the subject, and fully consonant with his entire […]
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Trump is way to Biden’s left on crime
by Quin Hillyer | May 29, 2019 If President Trump’s base understood that he is talking like a weak-kneed milquetoast on crime, at least when compared to Joe Biden, then Trump […]
