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Cheney's stance has been admirable & the caucus needs & should tolerate dissenting views, occasionally even in leadership. But I'm inclined to agree that if she can't move off this

The complete absence of horrified reaction at the raid on Rudy Giuliani's apartment means that we've quietly abandoned four years of pretending there's a norm against federal investigations of the

Biden now bragging about jobs created before any of his policies had time to do anything. Reminder: the Obama-Biden Administration spent 8 years blaming Bush for what happened on its

"No corporation has ever made a bad business decision for reasons of internal corporate politics," said nobody who actually understands markets.https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/1385642379428827137 Also, nobody who has observed t

Popular democracy is, as I have argued, an essential part of the theory of modern conservatism. I just recognize that it is of less value as an end in itself

In states with Senate races in 2016, there were 1.8 million more votes in the presidential race than in the Senate races. Across the 30 large & contested states I

Hirono: Wait, are you telling me policy considerations are something *we* should address?Barrett: Yes, you write the laws. Hirono: are you saying that the stories of people are legal arguments?

Democrats think the President heads the legislative branch.https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1128653125236219905 Democrats think the President heads the legislative branch.https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/04/democrats-executive-or

Reminder: when conservatives were trying to stop Donald Trump from getting the Republican nomination in 2016, Kasich stayed in the race to thwart that effort, refused to attack Trump on

We finally watched Hamilton the past two nights. I have no especially novel insights: it's that good. It's highly historically literate, despite a few dramatic liberties. The score is musically

Census of 1860 data is striking. Slave population % of the seceding states was huge, much larger than border slaves states - also, the free black population was tiny everywhere

I'm in favor of enforcing the law. Most cops are good people. Cops deserve the benefit of the doubt in close cases. Cops can't work from home in a pandemic.My