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Mueller’s Mediocrity Makes Him Into A Star By Washington Standards
A sad truth about modern Washington is that bipartisan consensus is not only rare, it's dangerous. In other words, when…
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The Halberstam Book That Best Explains Trump Is By David’s Older Brother
The author and reporter David Halberstam is having a bit of a moment. The Washington Post recently published a piece, headlined "…
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New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails
Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his…
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Welfare Reform Paved Trail For ObamaCare Repeal
How thoroughly has the Washington press corps forgotten the lesson of Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform? Thoroughly enough that at…
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Access to Obama White House Brought Companies Better Stock Performance, Study Shows
Companies whose executives visited the White House during the Obama administration had their stock prices rise more than normal after the meetings,…
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Where’s Paul Ryan From? Bleakville
Barack Obama showed up at the General Motors factory in Janesville, Wisconsin during the 2008 presidential campaign and proclaimed, "I believe…
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Cuomo Scholarship Turns Golden Door Into Golden Handcuffs
"Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" — but once you arrive in New York,…
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Secret Behind McConnell Gorsuch Victory? Shrug Off Liberal Hysteria
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's success in getting Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court is a reminder that in…
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Why Trump Isn’t All Washed Up — A Lesson from Baseball
The Washington establishment and the press corps, neither of which liked Donald Trump to begin with, are now preparing to write off…
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The Cure For Trump-Related News Blues
Immediately after the election, there was a spate of reports about Clinton voters buying newspaper and magazine subscriptions as a way to…
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Trump Budget Cuts: Real or ‘Reality’ Show?
Donald Trump ran for office promising to crush the Islamic State, end the influx of illegal immigration from Mexico, and stop the…
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What’s A Fired Prosecutor To Do?
What should Preet Bharara do next? Life, especially public life, is full of second acts. A previous U.S. attorney for the…
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Could Federal Probe of New York City Mayor Lead To Chuck Schumer?
The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, is a tax-and-spend bleeding-heart liberal who ordinarily would be way, way…
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A Liberal Case Against Leaks
President Donald Trump's Twitter complaints about "illegal leaks" are easy to dismiss as the latest sign of his…
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Platinum Partners Case Is Latest Prosecutorial Overreach
When the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Robert Capers, unsealed an indictment late last year against operators…
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Trump Faces Foreign Policy Choices on Eve of Netanyahu Visit
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving in Washington this week to meet with President Donald Trump and the press full of…
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FBI’s Insider Trading Strategist Faces Criminal Inquiry Over Leaks to Press
A New York-based FBI agent who played a leading role in a string of recent insider trading prosecutions is under criminal…
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How Obama Caused the Trump Refugee Debacle
President Donald Trump is being widely (even by Dick Cheney) and at least in part justifiably criticized and condemned for his crackdown…
