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- If Donald Trump's reelection launch sounded familiar, that's because it featured the same false claims he's been peddling for years.
- Jules Witcover: Seeking more evidence of President Trump's abuses of power before initiating impeachment is fair.
- If the Congress can vote to impeach Bill Clinton and force Richard Nixon to resign, then they should also put up a constitutional challenge to Donald Trump.
- Maryland’s prison population has fallen below 18,000 for the first time in nearly three decades, according to a new report from the Vera Institute of Justice. The state's incarceration rate is the lowest it has been since the late 80s — a period that preceded enormous growth in inmates nationwide.
- Democrats divided over impeaching Donald Trump should be unified by one point: Impeachment is about right and wrong, not political advantage.
- Baltimore County Executive Olszewski offers a budget that envisions a better Baltimore County, not just an unchanged one.
- President Trump is not a saint but neither were his Democratic predecessors. I am not saying two wrongs make a right but am simply pointing out the double standard liberals use to judge us conservatives.
- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited the Maryland Senate on Thursday night to surprise and honor his old friend Thomas V. Mike Miller, Maryland’s Senate president, who is diagnosed with cancer.
- Rod Rosenstein gets it half-right: The Justice Department should be sensitive to the rights of uncharged people but that standard can't apply to a president.
- The Sun's attack on President Trump's opposition to late-term abortions isn't supported by the evidence.
- President Trump seems poised to repeat a pattern of self-inflicted political damage, says Jules Witcover.
- Leonard Pitts Jr.: Impeachment won't save America; Donald Trump is only a symptom, not the problem.
- President Donald Trump, who has declared the American press "the enemy of the people," invited some of them into the Oval Office last week to witness his meeting with Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic congressional leaders. He soon had reason to regret the invitation.
- As we celebrate the life of President George H.W. Bush, it has been noted by the media that one of the reasons he lost reelection in 1992 to candidate Bill Clinton was because he broke his “Read my lips. No new taxes” promise.
- Supporters of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election fear that acting attorney general
- After a brief call for more civility in response to the flurry of bombs sent to past and current Democratic leaders, President Trump still clings to his campaign against the press as "the enemy of the people."
- he success in renegotiating NAFTA offers a useful opportunity to look back over 25 years to its first passage and its impact on one Baltimore company, Ellicott Dredges, which in 1993 unwittingly became the national poster child for NAFTA.
- Robert Reich: All three branches of government are now under the control of one party controlled by Donald Trump.
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- Don't compare consensual sex in White House to possible assault by Brett Kavanaugh.
- Secretary of State Colin Powell used to talk about the Pottery Barn Rule: If you break something, such as a foreign government, you’ve bought it. Unfortunately, the U.S. has a long history of intervening and leaving chaos behind. This is what I call the Blowback Rule of unintended consequences.
- Democrats have resorted to smear campaign in latest attack on Brett Kavanaugh.
- President Donald Trump's former lawyer says he is a criminal, but he won't be indicted, and he won't be impeached. Voters can change that.
- Here are some quick-hitter type thoughts from an editor who has the beach on his brain and is ready to check out for a much-anticipated vacation away from his e-mail inbox.
- Get to know Brett Cavanaugh. The Marylander is the president's selection to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
- bs-ed-op-0707-thomas-cultists-20180703. Cal Thomas: Labeling Trump supporters "cultists" will only drive more of them to the polls.
- FBI report once again reveals Washington as our modern Versailles, a place of courtiers and lickspittles, says John Kass.
- Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your
- Impeachment might be too high a bar for President Trump's political foes to clear, says Jules Witcover.
- After more than a year of deceptive bobbing and weaving in the Robert Mueller investigation, President Trump has, thanks to his latest defense lawyer — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani — bought into the strategy that best suits his personal style: standing and fighting back.
- The latest news about the Mueller investigation is producing a torrent of obfuscation, misdirection and false arguments from President Donald Trump and his defenders.
- Republican efforts to require work from Americans in the social safety net is a classic big-government mistake.
- President Donald Trump's first year was bad. He's doing everything possible to make his second worse.
- Imagine if Congress invested the $1.5 trillion tax cuts directly into infrastructure projects around the nation. That would have stimulated state and local economic development, and put money into the hands of working Americans instead of billionaires.
- Politics has become a lifestyle, part of the "Big Sort" driving so much in our culture. That's why the NRA's marketing these days has so little to do with gun policy and so much to do with smash-mouth cultural resentments.
- Hulu's 10-part docudrama based on Lawrence Wright's book about the lead-up to 9/11 is not to be missed.
- Why must U.S. make an exception for those protected by DACA when immigration laws are so poorly enforced?
- When Fox News calls out President Donald Trump for a fake news tweet, you know it’s a whopper of a lie.
- Democrats show no interest in holding the Obama administration accountable for influencing Russia probe.
- Moderates, it’s time to speak up. If we are going to fix our political climate, which is quickly descending into all out chaos, and in turn our country, we need to find common ground.
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- After more than a week of virtually non-stop talk on cable TV and endless headlines about Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” book, it seems fair to ask: What do we really know to be true about President Trump and his White House that we didn’t know before?
- The prospect of Roy Moore's election to the Senate has given us an opportunity to evaluate just how much moral clarity our politicians bring to their jobs. Here's a ranking.
- The Sun downplays Clinton offenses in order to castigate Republican Party and Roy Moore.
- There's a consensus aborning: There should be zero tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and violence of any kind. The problem is that the logic of zero tolerance often renders every bad act as equally unacceptable.
- Republican tax plan will harm middle class and that isn't good for the country.
- President Trump is king of "I know you are, but what am I?" politics, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- If we are serious about trying to change society away from the oppression of patriarchy, now is the time for all good and intellectually honest media workers to hold their nerve, stay focused and not start making excuses and applying double standards when they see someone they had admired go down.
- When a serious charge against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is debunked by a Fox News anchor, you can be sure the charge is fake news, even if the charge is promoted by a second Fox News anchor named Sean Hannity.
- Democrats must demand that Al Franken resign for being a creep, says John Kass.