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Erickson: Cleaning up the right

Several years ago, I noted a connection between various Republican consultants and the incestuous ties within political campaigns. The GOP has a problem with a lot of consultants. They get paid commissions whether a candidate wins or loses. They get commissions from most parts of a campaign ...

De Rugy: December is no time to ignore Congress

Congress's lame-duck session is an ideal time for both parties to pass last-minute legislation while voters are busy Christmas shopping and before members who lost their reelection bids surrender their seats in January. Especially this year, real danger lurks in such legislation. Above all, ...

Stiehm: Washington wakes up for the holidays

WASHINGTON — It's beginning to look a lot like...Washington. After years of trauma, the capital feels back to itself for Christmas. The holiday ball for Congress just happened at the White House. The storied Willard Hotel, where Abraham Lincoln stayed days before he was inaugurated, revived ...

Stossel: Black guns matter

We know about Black Lives Matter. My new video is about a group called Black Guns Matter. Maj Toure, a Philadelphia high school dropout turned activist, tells me he started it after he got tired of hearing people endless chanting, "Black lives matter" but saying nothing "when it's time for ...

Zito: Brian Kemp had to beat Donald Trump and Stacey Abrams

Republican Brian Kemp credits consistent, good management for his 8-point victory over Democrat Stacey Abrams in their second matchup for the Georgia governor's office. In the end, Kemp was done in neither by the fierce national media criticisms of how he handled COVID, the corporate meltdown ...

Harrop: Democrats are learning how to win

By removing the Iowa caucuses as the first stop in picking a presidential candidate, would Democrats be giving up on Iowa? Not at all. The opposite could happen. It's true that the Iowa caucuses crowned Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, two times each, and the state followed in the ...