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OPINION: Brett Kavanaugh Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt
Let me start by acknowledging my bias. Brett Kavanaugh is one of the most decent people I have ever known. There is nothing in...
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An Insider’s Guide to the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing
People who have not worked on the Hill may have been confused by what happened at the Senate Judiciary Committee this past week. In...
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What to Make of the Anonymous Anti-Trump NY Times Op-Ed
The New York Times has published an anonymous anti-Trump op-ed, by a senior Trump Administration official, and boy is it a doozy.
It claims that...
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Journalism is an Honorable Profession Worthy of Defending
Let me defend an honorable profession that is under siege for political reasons.
In my 33 years in the newspaper business, I worked with dedicated...
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Remembering John McCain
A man like John McCain comes along only once in a very long time. As a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, he was offered release by...
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What Would Christopher Hitchens Have Made of the Trump Presidency?
Upon encountering this question on Quora, my instinct was that the late Christopher Hitchens would have been mortified by the idea of Donald Trump...
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