The precedent-smashing, highly political Roberts Court is likely to trigger outright defiance by the left and right. Just look at Alabama’s failure to comply with a recent Court ruling.
Roy Moore
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Beyond the Presidential Election, Some Races to Keep an Eye on in 2020
Will the Senate election in Alabama be a rematch between Doug Jones and Roy Moore?
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Trump Sr. and Jr. Oppose Roy Moore on Political Rather Than Moral Grounds
The president and his son don’t think Moore can win, but make no mention of his alleged sexual assaults.
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The Billionaires Waited Too Long to Panic
Wall Street doesn’t want Trump, but all of the alternatives are frightening them.
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Are Mona Charen and Michael Steele “Woke” Now? No.
They’re probably shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here, too. It’s tough to have sympathy for ultraconservative syndicated columnist Mona Charen (whose columns could knock an insomniac out) in the wake of the rude treatment she received from the cretins at CPAC this weekend, when she condemned Donald Trump’s disrespectful […]
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Above the Rim: Charles Barkley Dunks on Fox News
About 25 years ago, Charles Barkley starred in an iconic commercial in which he declared that he should not be regarded as a role model. With his on-point recent remarks about Fox News hack Laura Ingraham’s rhetorical assault on LeBron James, perhaps we should in fact regard Barkley as a role model: In today’s charged […]
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The ‘Law and Order’ Party’s Embrace of Criminals
All they have to do is claim to be persecuted by nasty liberals and they’re off to the races.
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Bake-Off: The Northeast GOP’s Quest for Fake Moderates
How do you reach for something that doesn’t really exist? In Connecticut, the state Republican Party is trying to figure out a way to pull off the same con Massachusetts Republicans pulled off nearly four years ago: Charlie Baker of Massachusetts is the most popular governor in the land, a wonky Republican with a business […]
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Even More Nonsense from John Kasich
Does anybody buy the good-guy act at this point? America’s favorite fake-moderate was dragged on to NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, and again tried to promote the dubious idea that Donald Trump and Roy Moore are anomalies in the GOP, as opposed to being an accurate representation of what his party thinks and believes: Ohio […]
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The Jones Act: Lessons from Alabama
I was wrong. I didn’t think Doug Jones had a chance in hell. I figured that at the end of the day, the Alabama electorate would give the guy with the (R) next to his name the benefit of the doubt, no matter how corrupt or craven. I figured that too many voters would be […]
