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Friday
Don’t blame Trump for the Presidential Alert folly
The new alerts are likely to prove harmless, if unnecessary
Thursday
Why are the New York Times’s ‘law professors’ pretending the Kavanaugh hearings weren’t partisan?
And how many of those 650 names do you recognise?
Kavanaugh is almost through — but at what cost to the Republicans?
The rage that is percolating in America will be exploited by the Democrats as they point to Kavanaugh’s presence on the court as a permanent blot on the judiciary
The truth is we prefer to lie
We will never know the truth of the Kavanaugh case unless one of the two principal actors ’fesses up — and even then I wouldn’t be too sure
Republicans should have seen the Brett Kavanaugh ambush coming – Richard Nixon did
‘The hearings themselves have become a scandal,’ said the 37th president of the Clarence Thomas allegations in 1991. How right he was
Wednesday
Jeff Flake 2020: Is the retiring senator warming up for a presidential challenge?
He is acting like a man with nothing to lose
Tuesday
Why there’s no feminist solidarity for Kellyanne Conway
If you don’t conform to the programme, you’re Not One of Us
Did Eric Trump help his Daddy cover up the Stormy Daniels affair?
The latest revelations about Trump cast further light on the assiduity with which he disseminates his serial fictions
Monday
Brett Kavanaugh’s real crime? He’s a white man
If you are obsessing over someone’s skin colour, you are probably a little bit racist
Cory Booker is his own worst enemy
The ambitious New Jersey senator is too desperate to be liked
Saturday
How Donald Trump can win again
It’s simple: he needs to rediscover his appeal to workers
Friday
McCarthyist? The Democrats’ treatment of Brett Kavanaugh is way worse than that
As Lindsey Graham noted, Republicans have never done to Democratic nominees for the Supreme Court what the Democrats have routinely done to Republicans
Thursday
Seeing red: where did all the deficit-cutting Republicans go?
None of the usual arguments made to justify deficit spending apply
The Kavanaugh hearings are the hottest ticket in Tinseltown
Supreme Court hearings are so in this fall…
Democrat blood lust has energised Republicans ahead of the midterms
Anyone can see the Kavanaugh slanders for what they are: brass-knuckled, any weapon at hand, dirty dealing
Wednesday
Donald Trump’s UN press conference was frenetic, yet friendly
A rollicking and rambling affair, complete with colour commentary from Trump, as he sought to subvert the format
Tuesday
Grassley posts a picture of corn — but no-one will lend an ear
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee can get no love on Instagram
The Kremlin, a British PR man, and a ‘chickensh*t’ meeting in Trump Tower
Pop Stars, Pageants & Presidents: How An Email Trumped My Life – Rob Goldstone
The Trump economy, like Obama’s, is a big, fat, ugly bubble
If the Democratic party were smart, or genuine, they would be going after the lies underlying today’s boom