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Open Impeachment Process to Public View Oct. 29, 2019
Democrats are getting exactly what they want right now. By keeping impeachment proceedings against P... Read More
Time to Look at the Record Sep. 28, 2019
"History never looks like history when you are living through it" wrote John Gardner. "It always loo... Read More
A Farewell to My Readers May. 31, 2019
In 1987, I wrote my first weekly column, carried at the time by only two newspapers. Today, I write ... Read More
Can the President Legally Break the Law? Mar. 21, 2019
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." — Richard M. Nixon (1913-94) ... Read More
Pardon Manafort -- and Go to Jail Nov. 28, 2018
For more than a year, Donald Trump has dangled presidential pardons before former associates who mig... Read More
More Presidential Pardons for People, Please Nov. 24, 2018
Hey, if turkeys Peas and Carrots can get a presidential pardon, how about the thousands of Americans... Read More
Trump Raises the Stakes With CNN Nov. 16, 2018
Last week, the White House revoked the press pass of CNN's chief White House correspondent, Jim Acos... Read More
Toady's Revenge Aug. 24, 2018
Hell hath no fury like a toady scorned. Michael Cohen, to all appearances, seems a hapless sort R... Read More
The Love-Hate President and August Wars Aug. 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — The smell of napalm in August arises from the war President Donald Trump is wagin... Read More
Can President Trump Shoot Jim Comey? Jun. 07, 2018
Last weekend, the White House leaked a copy of a letter sent by President Donald Trump's legal team ... Read More
Absolute Power Jun. 06, 2018
It was John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, who is responsible for the first quote that comes to min... Read More
When Politics Was Fun Jun. 02, 2018
On Sept. 26, 1960, when Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy and his Republican opponent, Richard Nixo... Read More
Obama Administration's Spying on Trump a Departure From Norms May. 25, 2018
"F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims," read th... Read More
With Nixon in '68: The Year America Came Apart Apr. 27, 2018
On the night of Jan. 31, 1968, as tens of thousands of Viet Cong guerrillas attacked the major citie... Read More
'Nothing's as Bad as the 9th Circuit' Feb. 28, 2018
"Nothing's as bad as the Ninth Circuit": That is the president of the United States talking to the n... Read More
Trump -- Middle American Radical Feb. 09, 2018
President Trump is the leader of America's conservative party. Yet not even his allies would descri... Read More
Patriotism On the Cheap Jan. 27, 2018
For the first two centuries of U.S. history — while Americans were proudly winning a war for i... Read More
Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly Dec. 15, 2017
On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democra... Read More
That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion Nov. 10, 2017
The day after his "Silent Majority" speech on Nov. 3, 1969, calling on Americans to stand with him f... Read More
Authentic Republican Wisdom Aug. 05, 2017
American campaigns were not always, I can testify from personal witness, about the politics of perso... Read More
