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 Trump's DOJ Takes On Harvard's Asian Quotas
Betsy McCaughey, New York PostThe US Justice Department finally is confronting Harvard University and other elite colleges that blatantly discriminate against Asian-American applicants with a quota system.
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Trump's Anti-Muslim Political Strategy
Peter Beinart, The AtlanticEarly on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump retweeted three graphically anti-Muslim videos—one entitled “Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!,” the second entitled “Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!” and the third entitled “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!”—posted by British First leader Jayda Fransen, a woman convicted last year by a British court of harassing a woman wearin
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A Rising Tide in Alabama? Roy Moore Gains Ground in Polls
David Byler, TWSThe Alabama special Senate Election is a bit of a rollercoaster. Republican Roy Moore held a real lead over Democrat Doug Jones for most of the raceâ??until the Washington Post and other outlets published credible allegations that Moore had inappropriate sexual contact with teenagers while he was in his 30s. After those revelations, Moore's poll numbers dropped and Jones's shot up, allowing him to take the lead in the RealClearPolitics average.
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The Guy Who Wrecked Kansas Is the GOP's Role Model
Sophia Tesfaye, SalonWhat is the most brazen political lie ever told? I submit that it is the big lie Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback spread across Capitol Hill on Wednesday, hours before every single Republican senator voted to rush a massive tax cut crafted in secrecy and without public input from experts to a full floor vote by the end of the week.
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Who Polices the Police?
Victor Davis Hanson, Investor's Business DailyFormer FBI Director Robert Mueller was supposed to run a narrow investigation into accusations of collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government. But so far, Mueller's work has been plagued by almost daily improper leaks (e.g., "sources report," "it emerged," "some say") about investigations that seem to have little to do with his original mandate.
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Matt Lauer, Exposed
Ramin Setoodeh & Elizabeth Wagmeister, VarietyAs the co-host of NBC's Today, Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. On another dayâ?¦
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The Case for Normalizing Impeachment
Ezra Klein, VoxIn recent months, I have grown obsessed with a seemingly simple question: Does the American political system have a remedy if we elect the wrong person to be president? There are clear answers if we elect a criminal, or if the president falls into a coma. But what if we just make a hiring mistake, as companies do all the time? What if we elect someone who proves himself or herself unfit for office — impulsive, conspiratorial, undisciplined, destructive, cruel?
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Who Will Challenge Trump's Enablers?
E.J. Dionne, Washington PostWASHINGTON -- Great nations and proud democracies fall when their systems become so corrupted that the decay is not even noticed -- or the rot is written off as a normal part of politics.
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Sexual Harassment & the Dems' Missed Opportunity
Amy Walter, Cook Political ReportWe are reportedly at a watershed moment on the issue of sexual harassment. Women, emboldened by the Harvey Weinstein revelations, have come out of the shadows of shame and stigma to tell their own stories of harassment and assault. It's also been a time of reckoning for Democrats who once excused or defended President Bill Clinton over accusations of abuse and harassment. From an electoral standpoint, this new focus on empowering and energizing women
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Trump's Pocahontas Trap for Democrats
Thomas Lifson, American ThinkerThe conventional wisdom of D.C. politics has Elizabeth Warren as the big winner following the president's use of his nickname for her, Pocahontas, during a ceremony honoring the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. But the conventional wisdom has consistently been wrong about Donald Trump's effectiveness in reaching the voters he needs to win his victories.
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Racist 'Pocahontas' Reference Has Nothing to Do With Warren
Molly Roberts, WPPresident Trump name-called Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) “Pocahontas” at an event honoring Navajo code talkers, all under a portrait of Trail of Tears orchestrator Andrew Jackson. It reads like a case study in offensiveness, and still some people don’t seem to get it.
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Why Baby Donald Trump's Media Threats Don't Scare Me
Jack Shafer, PoliticoFor better than two years, he’s mauled reporters at every turn, herding them into pens during campaign stops and heckling them collectively, name-calling them individually (“third-rate reporter”; “dope”; “underachieving”; “dummy”; “no talent”; “wacky”; “dishonest”), and even castigating the profession as an “enemy of the people.”
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Dems' Missed Opportunity on Sexual Harrassment
Amy Walter, Cook Political ReportWe are reportedly at a watershed moment on the issue of sexual harassment. Women, emboldened by the Harvey Weinstein revelations, have come out of the shadows of shame and stigma to tell their own stories of harassment and assault. It's also been a time of reckoning for Democrats who once excused or defended President Bill Clinton over accusations of abuse and harassment. From an electoral standpoint, this new focus on empowering and energizing women
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The Ghost of Matt Lauer
Megan Garber, The AtlanticThat was Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC’s Today Show, informing viewers on Wednesday morning that Matt Lauer—her co-host, and a mainstay of morning television since 1994—had just been fired for an allegation of sexual misconduct that had been brought against him by a colleague. Guthrie had, seemingly, just heard the news. “I will tell you right now we do not know more than what I just shared with you,” she continued, sitting next to Hoda
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How Republicans Are Winning Over Hispanic Voters
Edith Jorge, Washington ExaminerOn paper, some may believe that I am the ideal Democrat voter: a woman from the blue state of New Jersey who also happens to be Hispanic. Quite frankly, I once was a registered Democrat, as was my entire family — but that all changed when a teacher helped me secure my first internship for Governor Chris Christie’s office, and I realized that I was, in fact, a fiscal conservative.
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Trump Deregulation Is a Major Driver of Stock Market Rally
Gary Shilling, BloombergReducing government regulation is tough. It’s resisted by all those who benefit, including government employees who administer the many programs. Every president since Jimmy Carter has attempted to lower the cost of regulation. At best, any cuts have been tiny and mostly centered on trimming paperwork. But less regulation is one campaign promise made by Donald Trump that is coming true. With tax and health-care reform problematic and given the president's protectio
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Trump Should Fire the E.P.A.'s Scott Pruitt
Thomas Kean, New York TimesPresident Richard Nixon, who joined with a Democratic Congress nearly 50 years ago to create the Environmental Protection Agency, said then that clean air and water were “the birthright of every American” and that restoring nature was “a cause beyond party and beyond factions.”
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How Segregation Leads to Racist Voting by Whites
Ryan Enos, VoxAlthough there can be debate about the details, there’s little doubt that attitudes about race and immigration played a central role in the election of Donald Trump. On survey after survey, white voters uneasy about the changing complexion of America or willing to endorse shockingly negative stereotypes about minorities went for Trump.
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Democrats Are Now the Puritans and It Could Cost Them
Ross Baker, USA TodayAlabama Senate candidate Roy Moore may be a skeevy mall-creeper and President Trump a boastful Lothario, but somehow their transgressions seem less out of character than the same offenses committed by men who have earned a reputation as advocates of gender equality. Such practitioners of “do as I say not as I do” are tarnished by what Abraham Lincoln called “the base alloy of hypocrisy”.
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Beware the Sexual Harassment Backlash
Carol Costello, CNNCarol Costello warns that as more women come forward, critics will start to claim some are lying or that others have gone too far.
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Reminder: Elizabeth Warren Isn't Native American
Brian Darling, New York ObserverI’m originally from Massachusetts and think Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a political hack who embarrasses the Commonwealth. When Trump called her “Pocahontas,” I thought it was funny because she has previously falsely claimed that she has Native American heritage. Nevertheless, the left never misses an opportunity to call Trump a racist.
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Can We Just Say It Already? Donald Trump Is a Racist.
Paul Waldman, The WeekBack in the 1970s, there was an oft-aired public service announcement featuring a boy and his granddad down at the fishin' hole that taught an important lesson about the seamless tapestry of humanity. The boy asks what "prejudiced" means, because his friend Jimmy called him prejudiced. Prejudiced, Grandpa explains, "is when you react to someone because of their religion or their color." "I don't do that!" says the boy, but Grandpa is smart enough to know a lie when he hear
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Pence, Warren and Why People Loathe the Media
Mollie Hemingway, The FederalistEarlier this week, Donald Trump made a joke at an event honoring the great World War II Navajo Code Talkers. He poked fun at Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who used to claim to be Cherokee despite not having any evidence to substantiate the claim. Democrats and their media footsoldiers decided it’s racist to mock someone for falsely claiming to be Native American. For example, Jim Acosta of CNN wrote: “WH press sec says ‘Pocahontas’ is not a racia
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How Tax Reform Fueled Michigan's Resurgence
Tom Leonard, RealClearPoliticsAmerica’s economy is finally growing after years of struggle, but the current recovery still has a long way to go. We need a new plan that accelerates our economic growth, spreads that success to more families and creates a stronger environment for people to get back into the workforce. The Republican tax reform plan now working its way through Congress is the best way forward for American workers.
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Trump Court Pick Kyle Duncan Is the Neil Gorsuch of Louisiana
Jeff Landry, The HillIt’s a question that President Ronald Reagan asked on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. It’s a question the 40th president appropriated from the Korean War movie, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri.” And it’s a question that we all might ask — with the addition of “and women” — when considering the President’s Trump’s stellar nominees to our federal appeals courts.
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When Politics Is Criminalized
Alan Dershowitz, New York TimesCorruption should be prosecuted. But malleable criminal laws are being used to go after political rivals, and that is dangerous to democracy.
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Donald Trump's Secret? There Is No Secret
Chris Cillizza, CNNThe US government is set to shut down on December 8 unless Congress can pass a bill -- and President Donald Trump can sign it -- to fund the government beyond that date.
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Elizabeth Warren's Pocahontas Pickle
David Catanese, US News & World ReportWhen President Donald Trump casually invoked "Pocahontas" during a ceremony honoring Native Americans on Monday, Washington's political class swiftly went into its familiar and usually unfulfilling ritual of trying to decipher his deeper intentions. Was he attempting to purposefully distract media coverage away from the White House's skirmish with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Was he simply reaching for cheap levity among a group he was largely
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Dems Were for Tax Reform Before They Were Against It
Ronna McDaniel, ExaminerThe country is ready for tax reform. It’s great news, then, that the House of Representatives passed its tax cut bill, and they did it on the same day the Senate Finance Committee passed its version. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act is steadily making its way through Congress and will be a welcome relief to families, businesses, and workers, letting everyone keep more of their hard-earned money.
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Democratic Women in 2018: Hear Them Roar
Josh Kraushaar, National JournalDriven by their disgust with President Trump, a historic number of Democratic women are running for office in next year’s midterms and are poised to reshape the political landscape. If Democrats retake control of Congress in 2018, their majorities will be reached on the backs of up-and-coming female recruits.
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Trump, Democrats Cast Preemptive Shutdown Blame
James Arkin, RealClearPoliticsHours before a meeting with congressional leaders of both parties, Trump tweeted that he doesn't see a deal emerging, and accused Democrats of supporting illegal immigration, being weak on crime and wanting to raise taxes. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi responded by backing out of the meeting, suggesting Trump wasn’t serious about a negotiation. The Democratic leaders instead encouraged their Republican counterparts to work out a deal without the president&rs
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Both Parties Killed Off Good Character in Politics
A.B. Stoddard, RealClearPoliticsThe outcome of a Senate race in Alabama may become a dividing line in history, but it won’t change things. Sure, one party will get a vote in the Senate, on most days anyway, but our political system won’t get back what it lost in 2017. That Judge Roy Moore, accused by numerous women of preying upon them as young girls, has remained a candidate and retained substantial support in polls is proof enough that tribalism has vanquished integrity.
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How Is It 'Racism' to Call Out a Fake Indian Like Warren?
Howie Carr, Boston HeraldHow much longer do we have to pretend that Elizabeth Warren is anything but a Fake Indian?It happened again yesterday — President Trump referred to the senior senator from Massachusetts as Pocahontas, and the alt-left media went into paroxysms of fake outrage, as if it's somehow racism to call out a fraud like the Fake Indian.
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How Far Will Sean Hannity Go?
Matthew Shaer, New York Times MagazineThe Fox News host is willing to defend Trump at all costs â?? and is reaching more than 13 million people a day.
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Why Won't Al Franken Say Whether He Believes His Accusers?
Andrew Egger, TWSIn the two weeks since sexual misconduct allegations began to surface against him, Senator Al Franken has repeatedly apologized to the four women who have accused him of groping them. He's said he's embarrassed and ashamed, and insisted that we have to listen to women and respect what they say. But he's been notably quiet on an important point: whether he thinks their accusations are true.After broadcaster Leeann Tweeden accused Franken on Nov. 16 of forcibly kissing and gropin
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5 Big Problems the Senate Republican Tax Bill Creates
Ezra Klein, VoxOver the past week, I’ve been speaking with conservative tax experts to try to better understand their case for the Senate’s tax bill, which Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rushing to pass this week. What I’ve found is jarring.
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How James O'Keefe Made Himself Irrelevant
Rosie Gray & McKay Coppins, The AtlanticThe conservative provocateur James O’Keefe’s latest stunt is possibly his biggest backfire: He attempted to sting The Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore accuser, but found himself stung, as the Post exposed the scheme in a detailed report on Monday night.
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We Will All Pay a Price for Trump's Nihilism
Eugene Robinson, Washington PostWASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's approach to governance is that of a bratty toddler confronting a neat stack of blocks: Knock it down and scatter the pieces. It may take years to rebuild what Trump and his minions are destroying.
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Good Riddance to Lena Dunham
Maureen Callahan, New York PostLena Dunham may be the first person to fabricate details of her alleged rape, then proclaim all women’s claims need to be believed, and then publicly accuse a young woman of lying about having been raped.
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Pie Trutherism: The Media's Latest & Lowest Attack
Emily Miller, Washington PostSarah Huckabee Sanders lied about baking a chocolate pecan pie for Thanksgiving. The White House press secretary further ruined the national holiday by humiliating the press corps by asking them why they are grateful. While none of this is true, attacking Sanders personally has become the media’s latest and lowest method of attacking President Trump.
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The Stench of the Sixties Lives With Us Still
Wesley Pruden, Washington TimesCharles Manson, perhaps the most wicked killer since the Nazis set up their abattoir in the Germany of the previous century, is gone now, banished by death to a decision at the judgment bar of God, from which there is no appeal. But we can measure the damage he and his times did here on our patch of Earth.
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Why Roy Moore Matters
Patrick Buchanan, The American ConservativeWhy would Christian conservatives in good conscience go to the polls Dec. 12 and vote for Judge Roy Moore, despite the charges of sexual misconduct with teenagers leveled against him?
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The Unconvincing Roy Moore 'What Aboutism'
Dana Milbank, Washington PostCall the CDC. Alert the surgeon general and put the National Institutes of Health on standby.We’re having a severe outbreak of whataboutism.
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Dismantling the Foreign Service
Nicholas Burns & Ryan Crocker, New York TimesThe Trump administration's proposed deep budget cuts to the State Department and failure to fill key diplomatic posts threaten the country's security.
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Republicans Should Unite For Legacy Tax-Reform Vote
Bernie Marcus, The HillDelivering long-overdue relief from overtaxation so that small businesses can become big ones and so hardworking families can keep a little more of what they earn is a legacy for which every U.S. senator should be remembered.
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Economy, Dems' Self-Destruction May Re-Elect Trump
Victor Davis Hanson, NROThe political verdict seems out on Trump's current political future. His supporters have won four special congressional elections. Yet, more recently, Republicans lost more local and state offices. Pundits argue about the degree to which these surrogate campaigns are referenda on Trump's future. Trump still polls between 39 percent and 42 percent approval, occasionally higher in supposed outlier surveys. Yet most concede that such polls did not in the past, and do not in
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Trump Has Ushered in America's Darkest Hour
Richard Cohen, New York Daily NewsIf every member of the Senate looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore. Donald Trump, a mess of a man but brimming with self-regard, probably already sees himself up there with Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln. It won't happen. Instead, he'd be lucky if he can get his face on a mug in the gift shop.
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How Universities Threaten Prosperity and Democracy
Peter Morici, Washington TimesThis is essential for entry level professional work and responsible participation in our civic life. Yet employers find those qualities lacking in about four in 10 graduates, and data from the College Learning Assessment Plus shows four years of college often adds little to students’ analytical abilities.
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