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ERIE — William Sabatini may have the best job in America.Byron York: For Democrats in Ford-Kavanaugh fight, believing is enough
What is perhaps most extraordinary about the all-out war over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination is how little the public knows about the accusations of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who claims that at a high-school party in 1982, when she was 15, a drunken 17 year-old Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, tried to undress her, and, when she tried to scream, covered her mouth with his hand.Coincidence: Media follow Democrats' lead and want Brett Kavanaugh to withdraw
You could ask why the media are helping Democrats in their attempt to wreck Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, but that’s like questioning a mother who stays home from work to care for her sick son.The air has seeped out of the Russia/collusion balloon
Animus gone wild is the only explanation for such blunders in attacking a target-rich environment like the Trump administration.Idle hands are the devil's playthings
September 19, 2018 10:38 AM Noemie Emery: Democrats' sleazy attack on Kavanaugh comes from an old playbook
September 18, 2018 12:00 AM Democracy has little to do with new liberal attacks on Constitution
September 17, 2018 12:00 AM How 2020 is shaping up to be a traditional presidential election
September 14, 2018 01:47 PM Rahm Emanuel has given up on Chicago, and it's a bad sign for all of America
“It’s The Lord of the Flies on LaSalle Street,” wrote columnist John Kass in the Chicago Tribune. In case the references are unclear, whether because high schools haven’t been assigning the William Golding novel in the last few decades or because out-of-towners unaccountably don’t realize that Chicago’s City Hall fronts on LaSalle Street, the curmudgeonly Kass was writing about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s announcement that he won’t run for a third term as mayor next February.Byron York: Same old story: New Woodward book raises old questions about methods
Bob Woodward's new book Fear: Trump in the White House, is filled with extended accounts of behind-the-scenes conversations between major players in the Trump campaign and administration. There's no need to give examples; almost every page has dialogue that is presented, in quotation marks, with the implicit assurance that the author knows precisely what was said.Want to know why conservatives distrust the media? Check out the smear of Kavanaugh on contraception
If a liberal Democrat tells the right sort of lie — the sort that appeals to the journalistic class’s ideology and prejudices — then she not only can get away with it, she can expect to see it amplified by the major media.On the Supreme Court, Democrats finally get their just deserts 31 years later
Are you happy now, Teddy Kennedy? Are you happy, Joe Biden? Are you happy now, Harry Reid? It’s due to the things that you did and said that Donald J. Trump is now naming his second Supreme Court justice in under two years in office. It is your fault that the once courtly process of Supreme Court appointments turned into the blood-and-thunder-eye-gouging drama that we hate and we live through today.Dan Hannan: The West is losing liberalism
September 10, 2018 12:00 AM Byron York: When a foreign adversary meddled in a presidential election
September 09, 2018 08:02 PM Democrats' visions of hand signals from white supremacists
September 05, 2018 06:11 PM Here are the numbers that ought to make any honest Republican despair about the 2018 elections
September 05, 2018 10:58 AM Labor unions can be great institutions again
Liberals typically celebrate Labor Day with a bit more enthusiasm than do conservatives. That's because conservatives often see labor unions as inherently antagonistic institutions that are anti-business or socialist. Conservatives also understand that labor unions largely exist to get Democrats elected to Congress.