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Hillary’s Hamartia

Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution Hillary Clinton could have spared the country hours of wasted investigations, debates, and near civil war had she just made three easy ethical and logical choices. One: Had she, as Secretary of State, used a standard Department of State email server for her official correspondence, there would have been no […]

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Scandals Sanitized with Linguistic Trickery

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Obama becomes an unnamed ‘government official,’ ‘investigation’ becomes a ‘matter,’ and ‘illegal’ becomes ‘improper.’ There are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz’s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make

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Border Politics and the Use and Abuse of History

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much has been written — some of it either inaccurate or designed to obfuscate the issue ahead of the midterms for political purposes — about the border fiasco and the unfortunate separation of children from parents. Rich Lowry’s brief analysis is the most insightful. The media outrage usually does not include

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The IG Hall of Mirrors

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The professionally written and admirably researched IG report is in some sense a hall of mirrors, with all sorts of reflections that are contorted and warped, and into which all parties claim to see reality. Often the euphemistic conclusions are not supported by the data produced. The only constant

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The Silencing of the Inspectors General

Impartial watchdogs are useless if the government stonewalls them and ignores their findings of wrongdoing.Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz, an Obama administration appointee, is scheduled to deliver a report this week on DOJ and FBI abuses during the 2016 campaign cycle. Remember: His last investigation of FBI misconduct advised a criminal referral for

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06-11-2018 Angry Reader

From An Angry Reader: Subject: 1972 REDUX….The carnivores of civil liberties. “You talk like a man with a paper ass”. Someone needs to enlighten you about the need to cite examples. How did you ever get your job at Stanford? Gary Seager –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Dear Angry Reader Gary Seager, In such a brief note, you still

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