Revisiting a former president
Thursday, April 25, on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas, four living presidents — Jimmy Carter, No. 39; George H.W. Bush, No. 41; Bill Clinton, No. 42, and Barack Obama, No. 44...
View ArticleThe purple Michael Smerconish on POTUS
I recall very well the first time I was on the Michael Smerconish radio talk show on WPHT in Philadelphia. He was doing a nationally syndicated talk show carried by 70 stations across the U.S. He was...
View ArticleWhite House counsel should resign if she knew about IRS abuses
I’ve been told today by several reporters that President Obama’s White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, knew for several days — perhaps weeks —that some Internal Revenue Service officials were engaging...
View ArticleFreedom of the press v. national security – A tough balance
I have known and been a friend of Attorney General Eric Holder for many years. He is a progressive Democrat who believes in First Amendment values and especially vigorous freedom for investigative...
View ArticleProtection from terrorism and intrusion on privacy rights — we can, we must...
The famous conservative Republican lawyer and former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, Ted Olson, and I sat next to each other while we watched in real time the activity of the most...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s interconnected ideas: Part I
It shouldn’t surprise anyone who has known Hillary Clinton for a while and followed her career in public service to know that she is driven by ideas to bring change that would improve people’s lives...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s interconnected ideas: Part II
Last week I wrote in this space about Hillary Clinton’s June 13 speech at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Chicago, describing her ability to place the issue of opportunities for women...
View ArticleGay marriage is no purple issue
“To officiate a union that is expressly not for the same godly purpose of procreation and to call such a relationship ‘sanctified’ is unacceptable to a sound mind.” — N. Michael Nunn, a member of Sinai...
View ArticleDC’s purple ‘Field of Dreams’
Thomas Jefferson said at his first inauguration in March of 1801: “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” Two-hundred-and-twelve years and a few months later, there is only one place in “This...
View ArticleObama should back Gillibrand
Some things that happen in Washington, D.C., have come to be expected, such as hyperpartisanship in the Congress along sharp “red” vs. “blue” lines.New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) has assembled a...
View ArticleThe anti-Clinton media — here we go again
Not everyone is as apparently obsessed with writing vitriol about the Clintons as Maureen Dowd, the New York Times's op-ed columnist. For example, last Saturday, Dowd compared the Clintons to the...
View ArticleObama’s profile in courage
In my view, Barack Obama’s speech on Syria yesterday was the high point of his presidency. Ultimately it could cement his place in history the way President Kennedy’s courage and resolve during the...
View ArticleLessons from Clinton’s 'third way'
Polls show that most Americans will blame House Republicans — not President Obama or congressional Democrats — if Speaker John Boehner and his Tea Party-driven caucus continue to insist that the...
View ArticleDon’t underestimate Ted Cruz
How many liberal pundits, bloggers and commentators have attacked first-term Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in personal terms of contempt and ridicule? Almost all. There can be little doubt that the GOP...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Crisis management and ObamaCare
As a supporter of the Affordable Care Act, also known as “ObamaCare,” I want the problems to be fixed and for the program to succeed. After all, we are the only Western democracy that does not provide...
View ArticleLanny Davis: ObamaCare flak seems familiar
The first argument used against the legislation was ideological. Conservative opponents called it socialistic because it allowed government to force individual Americans to take money from their own...
View ArticleLanny Davis: ‘Women’s rights are human rights’ — 20 years later
Almost 20 years ago, in September 1995, America’s first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, took the podium at the fourth annual United Nations Women’s Conference in Beijing. A prominent Chinese...
View ArticleDavis: From, Clinton, and the power of ideas
A lot of people credit Al From and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) with making a significant contribution to saving the Democratic Party from virtual political extinction at the end of the...
View ArticleLanny Davis: Here we go again on Hillary
OPINION l It seems the pundits and polls in our town and on cable TV looking to fill the time can’t get over the apparently irresistible temptation to blame Hillary Clinton for ... well, just about...
View ArticleLanny Davis: What is a liberal?
“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are...
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