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Nancy Pelosi knows how much Taiwan matters

2 August 2022 10:24 pm

In the coming hours, Nancy Pelosi is expected to arrive in Taiwan. The plane that is thought to be carrying…

Is the US thinking straight about Taiwan?

26 July 2022 12:46 am

As the Tory leadership candidates tussle over China, it is well worth reading this essay by the US strategist Hal…

Bono's 'poem' was an insult to the craft of verse

21 March 2022 6:00 pm

‘Poet’, said Robert Frost, ‘is a praise-word’. So it is. That explains in part the unabashed delight with which Colm…

Biden is losing America

29 November 2021 11:10 pm

Plummeting polls are sending a clear message to the Biden administration, but the President is deaf, dumb and blind to…

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So much for cooler heads prevailing

10 January 2021 7:33 am

There was a glimmer of hope amid the events at the US Capitol building on Wednesday. Could this be the…

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Republicans should make AOC House Speaker

25 November 2020 3:47 am

Republicans are currently on track to end up with 214 seats in the House of Representatives in January. As of…

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Who deserves blame for the Democrats’ lost House seats?

17 November 2020 7:31 am

Democratic joy at defeating Donald Trump was partially dulled by the simultaneous diminishment of the party’s House majority. As of…

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Their rantings betray them

28 September 2020 4:47 am

The compulsive and self-righteous bellicosity of the Democratic leaders in Congress over the Supreme Court vacancy has opened an opportunity…

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Nancy Pelosi’s bad hair day

4 September 2020 12:21 pm

Does Nancy Pelosi’s unfortunate trip to a hair salon have any news value? Or is it much a hairdo about…

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Delivering the goods?

2 September 2020 5:56 am

Seattle My local post office in suburban Seattle seems to be rigged to obstruct customers these days. After standing motionless…

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A country for old men

20 August 2020 5:01 am

When 83-year-old New Jersey congressman Bill Pascrell shared a photo of American lawmakers meeting a Chinese trade delegation in Washington…

oligarchy

Same old same old

27 July 2020 12:50 am

American politics is getting senile. Donald Trump and Barack Obama were both elected as agents of change, repudiations of an…

proxy voting

Clear and absent danger: why proxy voting violates the American system

22 May 2020 12:00 am

When House Democrats passed their $3 trillion coronavirus ‘relief’ package late last week, they also jammed through a rules change…

President Trump and Speaker Pelosi

Pelosi goes full Trump

20 May 2020 8:10 am

Speaker Nancy Pelosi skipped the sugarcoating and punched the President in the gut on Monday. Trump had announced to the…

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California spreads the wealth…to illegal immigrants

20 May 2020 5:51 am

California is mastering government of the people, by the people, for…illegal aliens? Starting this week, illegal immigrants living in California…

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The changes to come in the post-COVID world order

29 April 2020 12:58 am

The Democrats are taking their stand on the coronavirus crisis in an untenable position. It is like building a defensive…

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What Biden’s recent endorsers said about Kavanaugh and #MeToo

28 April 2020 10:37 am

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, claimed in an interview last month that the former vice president…

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What stunts should we expect to see at future State of the Unions?

10 February 2020 2:47 am

The State of the Union is like that annual meeting where the boss says it was a triumphant year as…

After Iowa, Donald Trump looks invincible

7 February 2020 10:00 pm

The Democrats have gifted Trump his best week since taking office

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Pelosi ‘might as well rip up any plans for attracting independent voters’, says Trump campaign

5 February 2020 2:59 pm

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh condemned Nancy Pelosi for ripping up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union…

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Lamar Alexander clears the way for an unbound Trump

1 February 2020 4:14 am

Lamar Alexander said that Donald Trump engaged in ‘inappropriate’ behavior as though he had yelled at a guest at a…

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You come at the Trump, you best not miss

18 January 2020 5:42 am

The third presidential impeachment in US history has now reached the Senate. Like the first two, this one is almost…

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The ‘impeachment’ of Donald Trump

23 December 2019 5:07 am

Did we just witness an historic event, the impeachment of only the third president in the entire history of the…

impeachment process

The impeachment process we deserve

22 December 2019 5:54 am

Like a bona fide member of Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has opted to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.…

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Why is Trump so nervous about impeachment?

20 December 2019 10:19 am

President Trump paraded his latest acquisition, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a defector from the Democratic to the Republican party, at…