Debra J. Saunders
WASHINGTON — Fiscal restraint is dead. The federal government spends $1.5 trillion more than it takes in. The national debt is $34.5 trillion. That’s more than $100,000 in debt for every man, woman and child in America. No worries. On…
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced last week that he will step down from his Republican leadership position after the November election. The Kentucky Republican nonetheless plans to serve as a senator through the end of his term…
WASHINGTON — Thursday always was going to end this way. Former President Donald Trump would show up at the Texas border, and he would be on fire, while President Joe Biden would try and fail to play catch up, having…
WASHINGTON — In case any of the characters drawn to Hunter Biden — back in the years when now-President Joe Biden’s son was trolling for dollars by dangling access to his father — missed the warning federal law enforcement delivered…
WASHINGTON — The first question isn’t why special counsel David C. Weiss charged longtime informant Alexander Smirnov with making false claims about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The question is: Why now? In 2024, an election year. On…
WASHINGTON — How bad is the situation at the Southwest border? I attended a hearing Thursday of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on the consequences of the current “catch and release” policies to observe…
WASHINGTON — During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he has no interest in expanding the war in Ukraine to Poland and Latvia. So with former Polish President Lech Walesa speaking at a Friday event…
WASHINGTON — There’s been a serious outbreak of finger-pointing at the Biden White House this week. During remarks delivered in the White House State Dining Room Tuesday, President Joe Biden recognized that a Senate border bill was likely to fail….
WASHINGTON — There’s a video that shows Robert F. Kennedy Jr., presidential candidate, walking in what looks like the California hills with his dog. The Democrat-turned-independent sees a rattlesnake on the ground, picks it up, and holds the reptile in…
WASHINGTON — “Biden nominates union lawyer, Muslim American to U.S. appeals courts,” read the Reuters headline in November when President Joe Biden tapped Nicole Berner and Adeel Mangi for federal judgeships. I lead with the headline because I don’t want…
