Politics

Biden Taps Becerra as COVID Policy Enforcer 0
- Politics
- December 9, 2020
One of the more interesting picks on Joe Biden’s team of health officials is California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Becerra has little to no professional experience with health care or infectious diseases. A lawyer long-entrenched in politics and public administration, his background suggests the role of
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A Historic Presidency 0
- Politics
- November 27, 2020
In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed.
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What Pat Buchanan Gets Wrong About the Contested Election 0
- Politics
- November 12, 2020
Despite Pat Buchanan’s record as a Trump-supporter sans pareil, his most recent column, on why Trump’s challenges to the Biden victory are both futile and possibly harmful, is profoundly unsettling. It is also based on questionable assumptions. “It seems a certainty that not enough electoral votes could be flipped from Biden to Trump to overturn’s Joe Biden’s
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An Election Without a Mandate 0
- Politics
- November 11, 2020
Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman somehow contorted the mixed, and yet unresolved, 2020 election results to simultaneously claim that mandates do not really exist, but that Joe Biden nonetheless has one. It is important to refute this spurious claim because Biden and Kamala Harris will use any excuse they can to push a laundry list of progressive legislation
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Resisting the Impulse to Evil in Uncertain Times 0
- Politics
- November 10, 2020
There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty brewing in the streets as Americans await the results of their latest attempt to continue the Republic. When words fail to achieve an aim, men on both sides of the political divide are often tempted to violence. Those on the left have demonstrated this in recent
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Seven Simple Proposals to Fix Our Broken Elections 0
- Politics
- November 9, 2020
Joe Biden may have declared victory, but whether he or Donald Trump officially wins the presidency may remain undetermined for weeks, even months, and even then we may see the election brought before the Supreme Court. Who knows? What we do know is that this election has delivered a mess not seen since 2000, when
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