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June 7, 2016

“Clinton to Paint Trump as a Risk to World Order.” Thus did page one of Thursday’s New York Times tee up Hillary Clinton’s big San Diego speech on foreign policy. Inside the Times, the headline was edited to underline the point: “Clinton to Portray Trump as Risk to the World.” The Times promoted the speech as “scorching,” a “sweeping and…

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June 7, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Supporters of Bernie Sanders expressed outrage in the hours leading up to Tuesday’s primary elections, upset that The Associated Press and several television networks had already declared rival Hillary Clinton the party’s presumptive nominee. Clinton secured the commitments of enough delegates to win the party’s nomination on the eve of voting in California, New Jersey and…

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June 7, 2016

I’m not the right person to challenge Trump and Hillary, but the path remains open for others. Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States. I gave it serious thought — as…

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June 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton has a “Jekyll and Hyde” personality that left White House staffers scared stiff of her explosive — and even physical — outbursts, an ex-Secret Service officer claims in a scathing new tell-all. Gary Byrne, who was posted outside the Oval Office when Bill Clinton was president, portrays Hillary as too “erratic, uncontrollable and occasionally violent” to become leader…

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June 6, 2016

In these days of news cycles measured in minutes, if not seconds, the Katie Couric scandal may seem almost as stale as Katie Couric herself. But bear with me. It’s a big deal, and not just because she lied. But let’s begin with the lie. Serving as host and executive producer for an anti-gun “news” documentary, Under the Gun, Couric…

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June 3, 2016

The Transgender Conversation You Need to Have With Your Family A friend of mine told me about her recent experience in an airport security line. She was dutifully passing through the metal detector when she heard a beep and was told she would need the pat-down procedure. It is the right of the traveler to have that procedure performed by…

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June 3, 2016

A step that could lead to an eventual embrace of the presumptive Republican nominee Top evangelical and social conservative leaders are planning a private meeting with Donald Trump to see if they will be able to address longstanding concern about his candidacy. Former presidential candidate Ben Carson is working with Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Bill…

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June 2, 2016

A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democratic unease about her viability. There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president. How could that happen, given that her nomination has been considered a sure thing by virtually everyone in the media and in the party itself? Consider the possibilities. The…

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June 1, 2016

Will Joe Biden be the Democrats’ next Frank Lautenberg? Last week’s shattering report by the State Department’s inspector general drew the conclusion that several of us at National Review have been urging for over a year: Hillary Clinton’s systematic conduct of government business over a homebrew e-mail system resulted in serious violations of federal law. Mrs. Clinton’s withheld tens of…

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May 31, 2016

If you don’t dismiss a journalist for dishonesty, then what? Of course Yahoo News should fire Katie Couric. She committed an act of gross intellectual dishonesty — and if you don’t fire a journalist for dishonesty, what in hell do you fire one for? Bad manners? Well, yes. More on that in a bit. Couric is under fire (you know,…

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May 31, 2016

Donald Trump has surged in recent national polls against Hillary Clinton, overtaking her for the first time in the coveted RealClearPolitics average of several polls earlier in the week. But for all the fuss over the national polls, the only outcome that will matter on election night is how many states Trump can convert from blue to red on the…

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