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Todd Blanche and the Department of Political Justice

There is perhaps no more dangerous appointment in a constitutional republic than an attorney general who mistakes his obligation to defend the Constitution for a choice to defend the president. Todd Blanche is demonstrating, with alarming regularity, that he does not understand the ...

Does Trump even care about national security?

What exactly does it take to get Donald Trump to read a security warning? More to the point, what does it take to get him interested in an alarming one overseen by his own secretary of state, Marco Rubio? The classified memo warned that Trump pal Jensen Huang, the AI chip magnate running ...

Is Trump a Republican? Well, he is no Abe Lincoln or Ronald Reagan Republican

Can the Republican Party return to its roots? It's worth remembering that President Donald Trump, a former Democrat, who then turned Independent, then turned Reform party, and then went Republican, took the helm of the GOP by being the opposite of everyone else running at the time. Trump made ...

Bibi Netanyahu’s legacy

I met him when he was deputy chief of Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Washington between 1982 and '84. Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu immediately impressed me with his command of English and his understanding of history - American and Middle Eastern. He was later Israel's ambassador to the U.S. ...

JD Vance has no idea what 2028 voters actually want

I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that's a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...

More than a thumping, possibly a realignment

More than a "thumping." That's what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining six Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. In Tuesday's midterm elections, Democrats won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have ...