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July 27, 2016 by White House Chronicle Leave a Comment

Amy Coney Barrett Is The Right Judge at the Wrong Time

It’s not a trial. But the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee into the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court seemed like one. This juror’s verdict: Guilty as charged in one liberal indictment and a toss-up in the other. Judge Barrett seems destined to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. But on […]

The Bleak Winter Ahead: Unemployment and a Contested Election Result

Llewellyn King

A winter of discontent looms. Unlike Shakespeare’s Richard III, it won’t be made glorious by anything now in sight. Instead, it promises a tsunami of misery for many and the ugliest election in U.S. history. At a time which calls for new energy, new thinking and a recasting of the social contract, two old men […]

Biden’s Environmental Plan Needs a Reality Check

Llewellyn King

The closest President Trump came to laying a glove on former Vice President Joe Biden in their first debate was on the environment. Biden’s published clean energy plan — which is more a gushing hydrant of wishes — is somewhat incoherent, certainly expensive at $2 trillion, and looks counterproductive. It is built on the left-wing […]

Oh, For Old-Fashioned Conservative Values, Not Trumpism

Llewellyn King

If Mitch McConnell’s toadying Senate has its way, we are to have a more conservative Supreme Court come the elections in November, even though it looks like the current concept of harsh conservatism will be roundly rejected in them. One branch of government, if President Donald Trump and McConnell have their way, will be handed […]

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