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Trump's Speech Was an A-plus Mar. 03, 2017
I was unable to watch President Trump's speech to Congress in real time but heard it was phenomenal.... Read More
Trump Should Expand Audits of Programs That Waste Taxpayers' Funds Mar. 02, 2017
Let me dream for a second that the Trump administration is serious about rolling back the expansion ... Read More
Optimism Reigned in Trump's First Address to Congress Mar. 02, 2017
The mark of great presidents is optimism — visionary optimism and transformational optimism. D... Read More
President Trump Finds Common Ground With Official Washington Mar. 02, 2017
President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress was remarkable partly because ... Read More
Congress Must Stop Death-by-Decree Feb. 21, 2017
Last summer, at the first meeting of the Trump Leadership Council — an advisory group consisti... Read More
Partisan Lines Stay Fixed Amid Trump Turmoil Feb. 17, 2017
Amid the turmoil of the first month of the Trump administration, with courts blocking his temporary ... Read More
Intellectual Honesty and Political Indifference Feb. 16, 2017
Over the past weekend, Trump administration officials offered harsh criticisms of the judicial inter... Read More
Congressmen Have a Right to Kill Themselves? Feb. 15, 2017
"America wasn't founded on one homogeneous moral view. We have competing moral views." Democrat Rep.... Read More
The President and the Courts Feb. 09, 2017
Last week, in a public courtroom in the federal courthouse in Seattle, the states of Washington and ... Read More
Is Trump Really Running Things? Feb. 09, 2017
Last Saturday night, Donald Trump attended the Red Cross Ball at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach... Read More
Continuing in Obama's Path Feb. 03, 2017
For eight years, conservatives — rightly, in my view — railed against the imperial presi... Read More
The President and Immigration Feb. 02, 2017
This past weekend, we all saw massive public outrage in major cities throughout the country. It was ... Read More
Congress Can't Count on the Other Branches to Protect Digital Privacy Rights Feb. 02, 2017
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently shot down the latest effort by the Justice Department... Read More
It's the White House Calling Jan. 28, 2017
In this era of tweets and texts, the White House of President Donald Trump, ever respectful of tradi... Read More
Donald Trump, Revolutionary Jan. 26, 2017
Within four hours of becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order... Read More
Rough Ride Ahead as Trump's Cabinet Nominees Underwhelm Jan. 26, 2017
President Donald Trump's administration at some point will have to start conveying a sense that it k... Read More
The Comforting Fictions of Obama's Farewell Speech Jan. 13, 2017
Watching President Barack Obama's soaring 2008 Democratic National Convention speech in Denver, I ne... Read More
A Ringside Seat to the Debt Ceiling Fight Jan. 12, 2017
If most lawmakers had their way, there would be fewer rules to restrain them from growing spending a... Read More
Runaway Deficits Forever Jan. 12, 2017
Upon becoming House speaker in 1995, Newt Gingrich decided it was crucial to adopt a plan to elimina... Read More
The People Saved the Ethics Office, Not the Tweets Jan. 05, 2017
That went over well. In the darkness of night on a federal holiday, House Republicans voted to kill ... Read More
