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Kelly Riddell

Kelly Riddell

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

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In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. With Trump's latest tweets touching on sensitive issues, China must decide how to handle an incoming American president who relishes confrontation and whose online statements appear to foreshadow shifts in foreign policy. China awoke Monday, Dec. 5, to criticism from Trump on Twitter, days after it responded to his telephone conversation with Taiwan's president by accusing the Taiwanese of playing a "little trick" on Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Media in hysterics after Trump call with Taiwan

President-elect Donald Trump broke a decades-long precedent by taking a call from the democratically elected president of Taiwan, which caused the mainstream media to hyperventilate.

December 5, 2016
Tom Steyer (Associated Press) **FILE**

Tom Steyer for president?

Even though his environmental policies were rejected overwhelmingly by voters in 2016, it seems that billionaire Tom Steyer may be eyeing a run for president in 2020.

November 29, 2016
The Agenda of the Mainstream Media Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Using fake news against opposing views

What worries me the most about fake news, isn't that it's fake, it's that it's being used by the left to try to silence opposing views.

November 24, 2016
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. speaks to media at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The left attacks Jeff Sessions on his past, but excuses Keith Ellison

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Expect the left to use Mr. Sessions' past statements on race as ammunition against him, while ignoring his record since then. Also expect those same people to make the argument that Rep. Keith Ellison's controversial past statements are a non-sequitur in his bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

November 18, 2016
The Grief of the Democrats Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democrats reeling from epic loss

"We just had a shellacking. We just got a shellacking last Tuesday. We got an unexpected defeat and we've got to recalibrate it and decide how we go forward," Rep. G.K. Butterfield, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus told CNN this week after Donald Trump and Republicans swept elections in the House and Senate.

November 17, 2016