Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota, uttered a forlorn sentiment at a Center for American Progress conference. She said Democrats can’t spend all their time bemoaning President Donald Trump’s existence, and that her voters care more about soybean exports than Russian bots. She’s right, but good luck getting anyone to listen. If Democrats have […]
Rich Lowry
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Donald Trump's Jerusalem triumph
In the second century A.D., Jewish rebels who had stunned the Romans and liberated a portion of Judea overstruck imperial coins with images and a message of their own, “Year One of the Redemption of Jerusalem.” The Roman emperor Hadrian had planted the seeds for the rebellion with his ambitions to remake Jerusalem, including the […]
advertisement
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Trump does what he says he will do
The instant analysis on cable TV of President Donald Trump’s decision to dump the Iran deal had a weary resignation to it: He said he would do this. Indeed, he had. Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to pull out of the deal and had made it a target from the time that President […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Rosenstein allows Mueller probe to go astray
Rod Rosenstein is doing a star turn as principled defender of the law, but he’s performed abysmally as deputy attorney general, and President Donald Trump would be fully justified in firing him. The leaked questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask Trump in a prospective deposition are, if accurate, a sign that Mueller […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Federal judges make mockery of the law
There is a lawlessness rampant in the land, but it isn’t emanating from the Trump administration. The source is federal judges who are making a mockery of their profession by twisting the law to block the Trump administration’s immigration priorities. If the judges get their way, there will, in effect, be two sets of law […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Columnist poisons public debate
I read Rich Lowry’s column (March 31) attacking student activists with a mixture of disgust and frustration — not just because of his calculated, cynical criticism of young people who have proven brave, articulate and motivated enough to actually prompt a national debate that is decades overdue — but because of his own place in […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Barbara Bush made responsibility a way of life
The memorial service for Barbara Bush over the weekend marked the passing of an era. The outpouring of praise for a woman who was an unselfconscious member of a political elite, an insider and establishmentarian, spoke to a pang of regret over a lost ethos of leadership. George and Barbara Bush were easily — and […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
With his book, Comey has stooped to petty revenge
James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishing a tell-all book? It’s never for the profits or the sheer satisfaction of sticking it to your enemies and putting yourself in the best possible light. No, there’s always […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Mueller's probe has exacted a significant price
Donald Trump shouldn’t fire Robert Mueller, but Mueller should be the last special counsel. The Mueller probe just took a Ken Starr turn with its lurch, via the Southern District of New York, into the Stormy Daniels affair. After the Starr investigation in the 1990s, there was a consensus that we weren’t doing that again, […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Don't talk with Mueller, Mr. President
The chief threat to Donald Trump at the moment isn’t that he’ll fire Robert Mueller, but that he’ll cooperate too readily. The president’s legal team has been roiled and his White House advisers divided by his determination to sit down for a deposition with Mueller’s team of prosecutors. Rarely has someone who is supposed to […]