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The 'Criminal Immigrant' Canard

From the Right / Mona Charen /

President Joe Biden chose to scrap a bit with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene at the State of the Union -- a choice that should remind us of the old saw, "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."

Greene has two modes: heckling and lying. This time, she was doing both by bellowing that Biden should "Say her name," a ...Read more

There's Another Way Trump Could Get Immunity

From the Right / Mona Charen /

Apparently interpreting the Supreme Court's decision on the 14th Amendment as a personal vote of confidence, Donald Trump pushed his luck, urging the justices to rule swiftly that he has absolute immunity as well.

That is not likely. Most observers thought the court would reject Colorado's action because permitting it would have invited chaos ...Read more

IVF and the GOP

From the Right / Mona Charen /

The Alabama Supreme Court set off political tremors last week with its decision that frozen embryos have the status of "extrauterine children" and thus are covered by a state law that permits parents to seek damages for the wrongful death of a "minor child." The implication that in vitro fertilization (IVF) cannot be practiced if embryos have ...Read more

The Base Wants the Fight Instead of the Victory

From the Right / Mona Charen /

The border bill circus is the latest demonstration of a bedrock reality of today's Republican Party: It does not exist to achieve political outcomes. Its chief function is fan service.

The overriding concern of GOP voters, according to polls and to elected Republicans, is immigration. In the ranty precincts of the right, they believe that the ...Read more

Tucker's Fatal Attraction

From the Right / Mona Charen /

The title of my 2003 book, "Useful Idiots," was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union. I wrote about Democrats. Twenty-one years later, the epithet belongs wholeheartedly to the GOP. Their choice to support Trump -- ...Read more

Trump's $83.3 Million Temper Tantrum

From the Right / Mona Charen /

In the wake of the eye-popping $83.3 million verdict against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, many commentators mocked Trump's bumbling lawyer, Alina Habba, and not without cause. The 39-year-old fashion model, er, attorney, who had never tried a defamation case before (and, in fact, was lead attorney in only three previous cases) was ...Read more

Hamas's Useful Idiots

From the Right / Mona Charen /

We all saw it. A genocidal government launched a staggeringly savage massacre against civilians. Now, the International Court of Justice in the Hague has taken notice -- but in a twist worthy of Kafka, the party in the dock is not the perpetrator but the victim.

The decision by South Africa to bring the charge of genocide against Israel ...Read more

Iowa's Silver Lining

From the Right / Mona Charen /

No question that a 30-point victory for Trump was not the ideal outcome of the Iowa caucuses. Voters have only two opportunities to prevent the return to power of a Putin-besotted, antisemite-praising, Constitution-terminating, multiple felony indictee -- the primaries and the general.

It would have been better if Trump had been rebuked early ...Read more

Don't Let Trump Dictate the Conversation

From the Right / Mona Charen /

Within the few days, Trump has made at least five moronic, dangerous or incendiary comments. And if the past is any guide, the press and social media will be all over each of them. Some will decry his vicious allusion to John McCain's disabilities, earned in a war Trump evaded. Others will be outraged by his description of the Jan 6 defendants ...Read more

Congress, Here Are Two Bipartisan Gift Ideas for Our Children

From the Right / Mona Charen /

Mona Charen is off this week. The following column is by Veronique De Rugy

As the festive season approaches, with its twinkling lights and merry carols, the item topping my Christmas wish list is fiscal responsibility from Congress and the administration. If this sounds like an economist conflating policy with goodwill, remember this: In...Read more

 

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