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Robbins: Making Gabbard director of national intelligence really isn’t smart

The furor about the real risk to American national security posed by President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence has obscured what is the even greater risk, and that's the one posed by the president-elect himself. It's somehow all but ...

Erickson: Worldview matters

It is a truism that does not get talked about enough, but is innately part of being a conservative, or really a person of any ideological conviction — worldview matters. Those of us on the right have long understood this. If, for example, a person is an atheist who believes there is no ...

Charen: Don’t pardon Hunter

While all eyes are on Mar-a-Lago and the goons Trump is nominating to besmirch high government offices, there is another potential threat looming to the rule of law, and it comes not from MAGAworld but from the sitting president. I'm referring to the possibility that President Joe Biden might ...

Hollis: Hey Democrats — it’s your policies

Across traditional and social media, in public forums and (no doubt) in private offices, Democrats are licking their wounds from the trouncing they received in last week's elections. It isn't just that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris lost the Electoral College and the popular ...

Stiehm: Trump serves revenge, dares Senate to defy

"Julius Caesar did not seize power; the Roman Senate ceded power to Caesar." — Sen. Robert C. Byrd Let that be a lesson to us from the West Virginian's grave. Donald Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. Yet we missed his meaning: the first day after the election. Right away, we felt ...