Publication: Washington Examiner

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Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.  On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

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Of the many disturbing examples of media malpractice in the Trump era, none are so alarming as the press’s unswerving deference to current and former members of the intelligence community. They can be perjurers, power abusers, perhaps even killers-by-drone, but as long as they oppose President Trump, they can expect journalists to give them a sympathetic ear.

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Despite snatching a second term from the jaws of defeat, Trudeau’s Liberal Party finished second in the national vote tally. Conservatives have inched ahead as the most popular party among Canadian voters, at 34.4% — even in defeat, 1.4% more than the Liberals.

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It’s really hard not to laugh out loud at liberal New York Times writer Michelle Cottle’s defense of all the career government employees who make up the so-called “deep state” by describing them as “patriotic public servants.”

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There are a healthy amount of middle-class suburban voters who are looking for an alternative to their options currently. It appears only two on that stage understood the lessons of 2016 and 2018: the mayor of a Midwest city and the senator from a Midwest state. The rest seem to be repeating the mistakes of the former senator from New York.

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Pelosi and company have failed us and failed you. They refuse to bring the question of whether we should investigate Trump to a vote in the House of Representatives. Without the formal vote, Schiff can continue to freeze out the public and their representatives by holding closed-door hearings, suppressing the transcripts, and preventing the president from representation of legal counsel.

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Conservatives who spent years investigating and criticizing the Clinton family business dealings known as “Whitewater” and Hillary Clinton’s cattle futures scam ought to be equally outraged by President Trump’s obviously sketchy tax dodges.

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Elizabeth Warren is the only candidate making sustained gains in the Democratic presidential primary polls. But reports of Joe Biden’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Following her botched campaign rollout, which left her early polling in the single digits, Warren has rebounded to a statistical tie with Biden.

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Republican insiders, conceding the political risks of impeachment, say it is crucial that Pence communicate quickly and effectively.

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The 2020 Democratic candidate with whom the CIA whistleblower had a “professional” tie is Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials. Lawyers for the whistleblower said he had worked only “in the executive branch.” The Washington Examiner has established that he is a career CIA analyst who was detailed to the National Security Council at the White House and has since left.

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As commander-in-chief, a president’s job isn’t simply to lead, it’s to lead with sustained physical and mental health. Bernie Sanders’ recent heart attack means he can no longer meet that criteria.

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The president of the United States ought not outsource the nation’s foreign policy to his shady lobbyist-lawyer.

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Virtually the entire leadership of the conservative movement and the whole Republican congressional superstructure are at dangerous risk of massive political disaster. They have put all their eggs in one basket, and it turns out that that basket is on a wall waiting to fall. Trump could take organized conservatism down with him in ways impossible to put back together again for a long, long time.

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There’s simply no reason to support the NBA after its pathetic decision to side with China’s oppressive totalitarian regime over pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. For those who missed it, this all started when Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, exercised his free speech rights when he sent out a tweet supporting the Hong Kong protesters. China reacted as oppressive regimes do, and the Chinese Basketball Association responded by cutting ties to the Rockets…

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Maybe Trump’s conversation with Ukraine was meant to advance his personal interest, but it served the public’s interest, too. Democrats can’t seriously say that Trump did anything worse than their endless and ultimately worthless Russia probes.

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The Obama administration made the right call to listen to the concerns of our nation’s business owners, follow the science, and then reject anti-e-cigarette regulation. There’s not a shred of evidence backing the absurd notion that banning “kid-appealing” flavors would do anything but push people to dangerous, black market vapes. The Trump administration ought to take note and do the same.

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Whatever you think about the ongoing Democratic impeachment inquiry…Congress was justified on Monday in subpoenaing Rudy Giuliani for documents on his Ukrainian activities.

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House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they’ve spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process in which most Republican voters believe Trump was unjustly targeted, it’s quite likely that the next time there’s a Democratic president and a Republican House, we’ll have another impeachment.

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Hugo Gurdon: Impeachment will drag on toward the election. Barely a third of the public supports it at present, and voters punished Republicans in the 1998 congressional elections for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Democrats calculate that bespattering Trump with dirt and doubt will help them on Election Day. That’s debatable.

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Reading the full transcript, and understanding the broader context, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Trump was using the power and influence of the U.S. to advance his own political interests rather than the national security interests of the nation.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has thrown her weight behind the impeachment process following reports of Trump’s contacts with Ukraine’s president. We still don’t know all the facts, which makes it premature to take a position on impeachment.

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This may be a massive Trump scandal. It also may be a scandal about the Biden family. Maybe it’s a minor issue. Maybe it’s nothing.

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Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw is a coward who does not respect the troops, according to Newsweek. This, of course, is all a damnable lie.

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Predictions of impending environmental doom have been made regularly for the past half-century. They have been made by leading scientific experts as well as journalists and politicians. Although the cause of looming disaster has changed over the decades, one thing hasn’t changed: Every prediction with a date attached has not happened. Most have been spectacularly wrong.