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Kelly Riddell

Kelly Riddell

kriddell@washingtontimes.com

Kelly Riddell is a former columnist and commentary writer for The Washington Times.

Articles by Kelly Riddell

Deporting Illegal Immigrants Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Obama interfering with immigration laws

"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by ICE, but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."

September 8, 2016
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Scott Morgan)

Is Gary Johnson finished?

The more important question probably is, did the Libertarian presidential candidate ever really have a chance?

September 8, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's economic platform is expected to include familiar liberal tropes such as a call to raise the minimum wage, heavily taxing the superrich, investment in infrastructure and subsidizing college tuition. (Associated Press Photographs)

The student loan conundrum

The president's goal was to make student loans more accessible and give more kids the opportunity to go to college, and, to those ends, he achieved. However, there are always pesky unintended consequences.

August 29, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Joni's Roast and Ride, a fundraiser for a PAC, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The cool kids in the media hate Trump

In more than a decade reporting on various topics, I've never witnessed my peers in the media be so blatant and unabashed about their left-wing bias.

August 29, 2016
Guido Tardive, of Mine Hill, N.J., a supporter of Republican Donald Trump for President, stands with his painted car Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, in Randolph, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) ** FILE **

Donald Trump’s real supporters and Hillary Clinton’s myth of the alt-right

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton -- because she doesn't have a record to run on (unless you count her pay-to-play success with the Clinton Foundation) -- decided to attack her GOP rival Donald Trump as racist on Thursday, and perhaps even more disheartening, cast his supporters as white supremacists, neo-Nazi's as well.

August 26, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meets with active and retired law enforcement at a Fraternal Order of Police lodge in Akron, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The Donald Trump double standard

Democratic leaders and the mainstream media have long been the ones to highlight black struggles, but when Donald Trump makes those same points, he's ridiculed.

August 24, 2016