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Why Does this Harvard Law Professor Want Trump Impeached?

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My friend Gene Healy from the Cato Institute calls Laurence Tribe the “dean of con-law [constitutional law] professors,” but can’t understand Tribe’s fascination with impeaching President Trump. Tribe, who teaches at Harvard, typically takes a more balanced approach to the law. In 2015 he was excoriating the EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions plan in front of Congress. But […]

Holder for President? He Suppressed Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights

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Last week former Attorney General Eric Holder signaled that he might be considering a run for president in 2020. Americans could never accept a man who targeted the Second Amendment rights of veterans as their Commander-in-Chief. During Holder’s time as Attorney General, the Department of Justice maintained a list of “mental defectives,” who weren’t allowed […]

Who Is the #1 Anti-Muslim Terrorist Warrior?

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Originally posted February 27, 2014. I have been writing about America’s #1 police chief for years. Here he wins a needed victory over the left. Put an asterisk next to the prizes for the Associated Press for its 2011 series on the New York City Police Department’s search for terrorists. The stories suggested that police […]

Can Trump Keep His ‘America First’ Promises?

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William Lind writes at The American Conservative that Donald Trump is acting in ways counter to his campaign rhetoric. Lind (author of 4th Generation Warfare Handbook) is worried about Trump’s foreign policy instincts being subverted by the desires of the GOP establishment. Conservatives such as myself, who seek a return to America’s historic and successful foreign policy […]

The Dirty Dozen and Toxicity from Pesticides

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Eating organic fruits and vegetables is beneficial for optimum health, but pesticides used on non-organic produce present health risks, especially to children. Toxicity from pesticides disrupts the normal functioning of the nervous and endocrine system, and many health experts believe that it increases the risks of cancer. All organic, all the time, however, may not […]

Eric Holder: Outright Misleading Congress

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The House Oversight Committee has accused Eric Holder of misleading Congress regarding the investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gun running program. The program allowed firearms to be purchased in the U.S. by “straw purchasers,” who then sold the guns to Mexican drug cartels. Holder was Attorney General at the time the program was running. […]

Trump: No Ramadan Dinner at the White House

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For the first time in two decades the White House will not host a Ramadan dinner. The Trump administration is no stranger to breaking tradition, and instead of hosting a dinner, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump chose to put out a statement offering “warm greeting” to the Muslim community. The Hill reports: President […]

Defeat in Georgia—a Gut Punch to Democrats

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It’s so bad, you have to wonder if there were a secret plot hatched by Republicans to fool Democrats into talking about issues that voters don’t care about, writes James Freeman in the WSJ. The operating assumption among journalists and politicos has been that the Russia investigation is a problem and a distraction for Mr. […]