A timeout from the children's hour
Some of our grown-ups are missing, just when we need them most, and our Democratic friends need more powerful meds. The ink on the streets of Washington is knee-deep and toxic.
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Benjamin Franklin has been trying for years to give the Republicans needed advice from the grave, and they never listen. "We must indeed all hang together," Franklin told his fellow conspirators in Philadelphia, "or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
No hot date for the Nerd Prom
Guess who's not coming to dinner, and probably a good thing, too. Neither Donald Trump nor the not so loyal opposition can be trusted to sup together without sharp elbows, sneers and insults. Before the second bottle of wine is uncorked, the hard rolls (and most years the rolls are really hard) would be flying across the tables.
Trumpspeak, a language rich in adjectives
Donald Trump isn't the carrier of the disease that threatens the language, but he suffers with enthusiasm. His abuse of the adjective might eventually threaten his foreign policy.
An expensive lesson for conservatives
The more the culture bounds out of control, the more the wary have to take care with the company they keep. This applies to media that will print anything in pursuit of "clicks" and "hits," and to well-meaning organizations about whom they invite to tutor their true believers.
When the high-minded stoop to the low-down
Rage can lead the unwary to dangerous places, and some of our media notabilities are half-way there. E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post poses the question that bugs them most.
How Trump's 'disarray' may be merely strategy
There's a hint or two that Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, which has so savaged the chattering class, may be subsiding, if only a little. There's no cure for TDS, but the passion that drives it eventually exhausts the afflicted.
The painful education of Neil Gorsuch
Neil Gorsuch doesn't know much about politics and how the political class in Washington works, and that's a good thing. Politics and the law make unnatural bedfellows, and the progeny of such beds is often unnatural.
Exporting the example of the new American revolution
The voice of the chicken, like the voice of the turtle, is heard in the land and it's making a fearsome racket, on final approach to the roost. The established order has been turned upside down in a flutter of fine feathers. The unmentionables and the deplorables are suddenly at the village gates.
The coming test of Donald Trump
Donald Trump is about to get a tough test of his presidential leadership, with no true-or-false or multiple-choice questions. Every new president gets the test, usually administered by international creeps and bad guys. There's no fudging the answers. Reality is the teacher, grading on a steep curve, and presidents pass or fail. There's no soft grading.
A very special relationship is on once more
Once more, with feeling. There's a president with the proper appreciation of "the special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain. Winston Churchill is back in the Oval Office, even if it's only his head on a pedestal.
A nation derided for doing the right thing
Immigration, both the legal and the illegal kind, is destined to be a contentious issue in America forever. That's the price of living in the place where everybody wants to be.
Trump puts the squeeze on the government dollar
''Jaw, jaw," Winston Churchill said, "is better than war, war." The wartime leader, whose voice saved the West and civilization, would know. That sometimes goes for politics, too.
A hearty last laugh for the Donald
Donald Trump's greatest contribution to America will be his stripping the media, particularly the overpaid and undereducated television media, of its last pretense to fairness and objectivity.
Democrats wasting time hating Donald Trump
Democrats who confuse hating Donald Trump with Mom and apple pie as the all-American recipe to win elections are blowing their chances, such as they are, for the 2018 midterm elections. If you're a Democrat it's never too soon to fret and stew about the prospects.
At bat against Donald Trump's nominees: No hits, no runs, no errors
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Stop the press! Vlad the Intruder tried to game the election
The nation's intelligence agencies -- the CIA, the FBI, even the National Security Agency, have discovered that the Russians are doing naughty things.
Terrorism made easy when nobody's looking
President Obama is on his way out, and not a minute too soon. The legacy he obsesses over continues to expand in revealing ways. It may not be exactly what he thinks he's leaving, and it's more legacy than he wants.
The Obama years stumble to a cheesy climax
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John Kerry's practiced betrayal of friends
John Kerry doesn't come late to the betrayal of friends. He has had considerable practice.
