Radio Free GOP: Broadcasting from the Republican Party in exile Few Republican elected officials have dared stand up to President Trump, and with the death of Sen. John McCain, the party’s moral conscience has been silenced. McCain was everything Trump is not: a war hero, an enemy of dictators, and a patriot who, however imperfectly, lived a life devoted to causes greater than himself. Finish...
What happened in Helsinki again? The watershed that wasn’t Less than two weeks ago, President Trump — standing beside a Russian dictator who had meddled in the 2016 American election, annexed the Crimean peninsula and waged a brutal war in Syria — took the side of said Russian dictator over that of his own intelligence officials. Finish reading this column in the Los Angeles...
Tax Scientology In addition to being megalomaniac leaders of cult-like movements, the late L. Ron Hubbard and Donald Trump have shared an aversion to paying taxes. The founder of Scientology waged a ruthless battle to win a religious tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Service, while the president has boasted about his tax avoidance and refuses to release his returns....
Who are you calling a “warmonger?” Do you believe that economic sanctions are necessary to prevent the Iranian government from obtaining nuclear weapons? That small, Eastern European democracies living in the shadow of an aggressive Russia ought have the choice to join a defensive military alliance? That democracy promotion and the protection of human rights should be at the forefront of...
Guilty of demagoguery, not collusion Here is one scenario that explains Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia. When the Manhattan businessman announced his presidential bid in the summer of 2015, Moscow perked up its ears. Here was a candidate arguing against America’s traditional world leadership role, who attacked American allies as scroungers, who wanted to make “America first” and whose amoral,...
Don't Bow to the "Muslim Street" Intervention in Darfur may fuel Muslim anger, but that can’t be an excuse to do nothing. Americans are frequently told that the Iraq war has “inflamed the Muslim world.” Just a few months after the conflict began, Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, used this exact phrase to describe the war’s effect on global Muslim...
Who's the Hypocrite? It’s not fair to use affirmative action against Clarence Thomas. With the release of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” all of the old smears directed against him since his confirmation hearings 16 years ago are once again being trotted out. That he’s “incompetent.” That he’s “not qualified.” That the only reason...