It’s Like an Instant-Replay Review for One of the Big Decisions of 1998

Jim Geraghty

The spectacularly convenient shift among Democrats continues, now with Kirsten Gillibrand leading the charge:

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, who holds Hillary Clinton’s former seat, said on Thursday that Bill Clinton should have resigned the presidency after his inappropriate relationship with an intern came to light nearly 20 years ago.

Asked directly if she believed Mr. Clinton should have stepped down at the time, Ms. Gillibrand took a long pause and said, “Yes, I think that is the appropriate response.”

But she also appeared to signal that what is currently considered a fireable offense may have been more often overlooked during the Clinton era.

(As I wrote a few weeks ago, spectacularly convenient shifts are a habit for Gillibrand.)

Still, for those of us who always felt Bill Clinton escaped serious ...

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Seth Leibsohn for Congress

Andrew C. McCarthy

I can’t say I was vested in any of the Republicans who were thumped in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City on Election Day. I sensed, though, that last week’s off-year,...

Liberals' Sudden Concern About Bill Clinton's Behavior Is Cynical

David Harsanyi

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Michael Barone

The inexorable workings of the political marketplace seem to be enforcing some discipline over hitherto fissiparous Republican politicians. The question is whether this is happening too late to...

The Left’s Attacks on Megyn Kelly Are a Sign of Our Dispiriting Times

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Roy Moore Is Pure Steve Bannon

Rich Lowry

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March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'The Red Wheel is a sprawling and fascinating mix of philosophical and moral discernment, literary inventiveness, and historical insight that sometimes strains the novelistic form, but is also one of the great works of moral and political instruction of the twentieth century.'
- Daniel J. Mahoney, co-editor, The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings

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