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What to Make of Mueller’s Testimony
Robert Mueller arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday in the uniform that has been a trademark throughout his career - dark suit, white shirt, blue...
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Virginia Democrats Achieve Simultaneous Faceplant
If you are interested in scandal-free government, do not ask Virginia Democrats. Over the past few weeks scandals have ensnared many of the Commonwealth's...
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How an Ascendant Left Could Be Democrats’ Undoing
The Democratic Party is riding high. They took the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. They bested President Donald Trump in the most...
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Mueller’s Filings in the Cohen and Flynn Cases Hint at ‘Collusion’
Prosecutors often drop bombshells in court filings. The sentencing memos Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed in the Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn cases are...
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Politics is Falling Apart
The Irish poet William Butler Yeats, a year after World War I, wrote “Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot...
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I Know Brett Kavanaugh. What is happening is so very wrong.
I am pro-choice, and pro-gun control. I support the #MeToo movement, in fact I am a #MeToo-er. I’m also a #NeverTrump-er. And most importantly...
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