Publication: Washington Examiner

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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. 

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Warren likes to tell everyone that she “has a plan” for virtually every issue facing the country. Most of her plans …are untested campaign proposals that have little chance of going anywhere in Congress. But one of her latest plans would restrict corporate takeovers and restructurings. It’s similar to a plan that caused the largest stock market crash in our history the last time it was considered by Congress.

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Have Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee figured out what President Trump did to them? By the looks of their questioning of Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday, the answer is no.

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Quin Hillyer: Leland Ingham Keyser is my new heroine. Keyser is the high school friend identified by Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, as the other young high schooler at the gathering at which Ford said Kavanaugh forcibly groped her. All along, though, Keyser has said she remembers no such gathering, nor ever meeting Kavanaugh.

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When candidates were asked by moderator George Stephanopoulos to describe their greatest career setbacks, Biden said professional setbacks aren’t as important as personal ones. With dignity, and somehow without seeming to play for teary sympathy in a maudlin and crass politicization of tragedy, Biden spoke of losing his wife and infant daughter in a car accident, and then of losing his grown son to cancer.

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One example of many: FDR, undeniably a great president, especially as a war leader, but one whose policies also drove some prominent members of his own party to the opposition and some of whose actions seemed, well, eccentric. Like sitting in bed in 1933, and setting a new price of gold, up 21 cents one day because, “it’s a lucky number, because it’s three times seven.”

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Media outlets fell over each other this year to promote a study purportedly showing that counties that hosted Trump 2016 campaign rallies later experienced a 226% increase in hate crimes. The study has been thoroughly debunked this week, leaving several news organizations with egg on their face.

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There is certainly more to learn about the military’s use of Prestwick and Turnberry. But the bottom line: Did an “odd” refueling stop “line the president’s pockets”? Given what is known so far, that’s a hard accusation to support.

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The Taliban proved they are currently unwilling to negotiate seriously. In turn, the group must know that the president won’t sacrifice America’s security and its allies for a campaign narrative. Trump’s decision, in the context of a tough reelection fight, thus stands in stark contrast with President Barack Obama’s 2011 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

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Stephanie Grisham, Hogan Gidley: From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Post had some pretty embarrassing moments. Whether it was incorrectly stating that presidents do not deliver remarks on the 4th of July, ignoring speeches by Presidents Reagan, Kennedy, and Obama, or being called out for shoddy, politically motivated fact-checking, the Post’s lost summer culminated with a fateful day in August when they were forced to issue 15 corrections to a single article.