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Joe Battenfeld: Democrats fall for Biden's non-pardon promise, and other whoppers of 2024

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Donald Trump’s remarkable return to the White House tops the list of major stories of 2024 but what about all those hyped non-stories that fell with a thud?

Like Joe Biden promising not to pardon his son Hunter.

Did anyone really believe the enfeebled Biden would send Hunter to jail? The self-righteous mainstream media and gullible Democrats...Read more

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Adriana E. Ramírez: A father's forgiveness

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Abraham Lincoln was the first president who controversially used the power of an executive pardon to grant amnesty to a relative — his Confederate sister-in-law, Emilie Todd Helm.

Now President Joe Biden recently has offered legal clemency to his tax-evading and fraud-perpetrating son Hunter. "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of ...Read more

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Editorial: Biden does no favors for America with Hunter pardon

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President Joe Biden gave the American people a final kick in the teeth with his about-face pardon of son Hunter Biden.

It’s a huge win for the Fortunate Son — he’s now spared a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions.

Joe Biden, who’s been fond of garnishing his speeches with the phrase “believe me,” ...Read more

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Editorial: Biden's disgraceful pardon of his son is nothing less than Trumpian

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In one fell swoop on Sunday, President Joe Biden erased whatever remaining claim he might have had in history to being a reformist president who restored the rule of law and political normalcy torn down by his predecessor. Biden’s blanket pardon for his son Hunter was such a self-dealing, corrupt and corrosive move that there’s no better ...Read more

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Editorial: Biden further tarnishes his forgettable legacy

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President Joe Biden’s legacy leaves much to be desired, but his decision to pardon his son Hunter on the way out of the White House leaves another irreparable stain.

The move, announced Sunday, contradicts the 46th president’s repeated assurances that he would abide by the justice system’s handling of his son’s case, which involves tax ...Read more

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Commentary: The American dream of bringing the mall home

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When Hurricane Milton was approaching Florida last month, a mom in suburban Tampa went viral on TikTok for her refusal to obey evacuation orders. When talking about feeling safe staying in her home, she said: “My husband built this house commercial. It’s residential, but it was built commercial-grade.” She wielded the phrase like a ...Read more

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Editorial: Labor secretary should prioritize freedom, not union leaders

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Donald Trump is drawing the wrong lesson about his support from union members.

Trump recently picked Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be his labor secretary. She’s a Republican who recently lost her re-election bid. She also was one of three House Republicans to back the Big Labor wish list known as the PRO Act. Support for that bill among ...Read more

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Leonard Greene: Unnecessary roughness over Michael Strahan's national anthem flap

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Michael Strahan is probably glad November is over.

For much of the month, the football player-turned-broadcaster was attacked by critics who treated him like an enemy of the state because he didn’t place his hand over his heart during a nationally-televised rendition of the national anthem.

What a crock.

The fallout followed a special Fox ...Read more

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Robin Epley: California's death penalty is unjust -- even for the cop-killer who shot Tara O'Sullivan

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There is no doubt that Adel Sambrano Ramos is guilty. But that doesn’t mean we need to try so hard to kill him.

Ramos murdered Sacramento Police Officer Tara O’Sullivan on June 19, 2019, in the first violent act of what ultimately became an eight-hour-long shootout. The day would leave the 26-year-old rookie officer — just six months on ...Read more

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Commentary: Trump promised to raise taxes, but Biden and Congress could tie his hands

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Now that Donald Trump will be headed to the White House, it is all but certain that he will pursue significant new taxes on imported goods. Although a widely criticized policy, there is little stopping him from doing this due to trade powers that Congress has given the executive branch over the years. Before President Joe Biden leaves office, ...Read more

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Juan Pablo Spinetto: Explaining economics to Trump won't save Mexico

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Mexico’s reaction to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs has been calm, firm, and based on facts. Now, the response needs to be followed by explicit actions or risk a North America trade conflict.

In responding to Trump’s warnings about imposing 25% tariffs on all Mexican and Canadian goods if those countries don’t do ...Read more

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Matthew Yglesias: Democrats can embrace reality, or they can lose again

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After a tumultuous and dramatic election, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the most boring and important facts about American politics, like how more voters identify as conservative than liberal.

This is a fundamental structural problem for Democrats, who need to win over large majorities of self-identified moderates without alienating ...Read more

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Commentary: Your state better be ready to protect workers under Trump

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In the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter was president, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was less than a decade old and still developing basic workplace safety rules. As unimaginable as it is now, workers did not have the right to know the names and toxic properties of the chemicals to which they were exposed, or to be ...Read more

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Commentary: Free speech in the Trump age

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There is an understandable urge among many Americans to cast aside America's essential principles in a frenetic effort to oppose Donald Trump. And there's a logic to this approach: He does it, so why shouldn't we?

Yet doing so would be a big mistake.

For starters, it often backfires. Take the essential principle of respecting the rule of law. ...Read more

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Commentary: Prepare to oppose Trump's immigrant purge

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All indications are that President-elect Donald Trump has every intention of following through on his promise to ramp up deportations, suspend due process and restrict legal status for millions of people living in the United States.

These include the children of immigrants, survivors of domestic violence and skilled foreign-born tech workers. ...Read more

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Editorial: Long overdue improvements to military housing now underway

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Those who volunteer to serve in our nation’s military, and their families, deserve to have safe, comfortable, decent places to live. Too often, we have failed to provide that basic need. So it’s good to hear news of housing improvements and new projects in Hampton Roads.

Recent positive developments are obviously welcome news for service ...Read more

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Commentary: The great Latino apology -- It's 'the street,' stupid

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Donald Trump secured a surprising 43% of the Latino vote, enough to swing the election in his favor. Now, Democrats are forced to confront the fallout of their failure, which is rooted in decades of disinvestment and disregard for the diverse Latino communities. Articles, conferences and white papers have warned of these consequences for years. ...Read more

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Commentary: Taking trans rights to the Supreme Court isn't about politics

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The outcome of the 2024 election has resulted in no shortage of Democratic finger-pointing. While the postmortem and soul-searching are necessary, the tone and tenor of the blame game have begun to morph into something more insidious.

In the last weeks we have seen an increasing demand for the Democratic Party to abandon its association with ...Read more

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Commentary: Christmas is coming, and California is still counting ballots. Is that a problem?

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Some Californians were carving Halloween pumpkins and taking their kids trick-or-treating when they cast their ballots in this year’s election. Now they’re putting up Christmas trees while officials are still tallying votes in some places.

With the vast majority of ballots counted, most of the races have been called by media organizations ...Read more

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Editorial: Threatening the FBI -- Director Chris Wray should stay and Kash Patel must never take over

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Donald Trump’s Saturday night announcement that he’s going to nominate a new director of the FBI, the woefully unqualified and completely unfit Kash Patel, is premature by a few years because the director’s position is not open. Director Chris Wray was nominated by Trump in his first Oval Office stint and confirmed 92–5 by the Senate, ...Read more

 

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