When both sides in a political skirmish think they’ve won, the loser is usually you.
Debra J. Saunders
Debra J. Saunders is the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. dsaunders@reviewjournal.com … @DebraJSaunders on Twitter. 202-662-7391
The Office of Legal Counsel has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration can’t regulate execution drugs the way it regulates other prescription medicine.
Andrew Pollack, the father of an 18-year-old girl killed in the Parkland School shooting, has since become the conservative voice for the families of victims of school shootings.
Democrats and President Trump agreed on a $2 trillion infrastructure package, but it may just be a way to blame each other for inevitable failure.
Would Trump have come into office as a different president if then-FBI Director James Comey hadn’t told him about the allegations in an unverified “dossier” before Trump took the oath of office?
President Donald Trump pushed hard for the moment when he could deliver this State of the Union address with all the pomp the Capitol venue can offer – robed Supreme Court justices, solons of the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wearing suffragette white, and prime time on America’s TV sets.
Trump would do well to stand before the joint session of Congress and admit he lost the House and lost the shutdown battle but sees a path forward where he can get some of what he wants by recognizing the new lay of the land. Win-win.
First, BuzzFeed News ran a story Jan. 16 that asserted President Donald Trump told his long-time private attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about talks with Russia about a Trump Tower in Moscow. The sources? Two anonymous federal law enforcement officials.
The partial government shutdown will end when both sides think they are losing the political war that started it — and not before then.
The gift that keeps on giving to President Donald Trump is that his fiercest critics on the left are no paragons.
As Democrats frame the partial government shutdown as causing unnecessary pain and uncertainty on federal workers, the White House is on a mission to make it appear as painless as possible for the American public.
I don’t think it was a coincidence that staff who worked for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi often ended up standing in front of me when I attended press events she held in San Francisco, when I worked for a local paper.
In November, President Donald Trump set the stage HOW? for a remarkable bipartisan achievement that his predecessor, Barack Obama, failed to achieve.
The Senate and House proved this week in passing the $867 billion farm bill, when it comes to spending money they don’t have, party leaders really can reach across the aisle.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
