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Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Contact her at dsaunders@discovery.org.
by | Sep 1, 2016

On Tuesday, Aug. 30, President Obama commuted the sentences of 111 federal drug offenders. In his first term, Obama endured…

by | Aug 30, 2016

Some people do not learn from their mistakes. Anthony Weiner is one. The husband of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin…

by | Aug 28, 2016

Opponents of California’s death penalty have been highly successful at thwarting executions since the state resumed executions in 1992 after…

by | Aug 23, 2016

Patricia Hearst is the first person in American history to receive a commutation from one president and a pardon from…

by | Aug 21, 2016

As mayor of Oakland in the 2000s, Jerry Brown supported redevelopment. Then he returned to the governor’s office in 2011…

by | Aug 18, 2016

In 2009, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact, run by the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times), won a Pulitzer…

by | Aug 16, 2016

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Karen de Sa it was “positively medieval” for District…

by | Aug 14, 2016

For the first time since 1988, both major parties’ nominees — Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — say…

by | Aug 11, 2016

The first of three presidential debates won’t happen until Sept. 26. Today, nearly six weeks beforehand, I safely can make…

by | Aug 9, 2016

Monday’s front-page New York Times story “Scholarship or Business? Think Tanks Blur the Line” reports that while think tanks in…

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