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Jan 14, 2025 | 
spectator.org | Donald Devine
Why would 24 conservative Republican senators recently vote for a $200 billion Social Security bonus for the already rich retirement accounts of government employees — who, as civil servants, did not pay into Social Security during the time of their government employment?
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
foxnews.com | Donald Devine
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Donald Devine
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Donald Devine
When did conservatives last hear such widespread media opposition to a president nominating “unqualified, extreme, and controversial” appointees to high government positions? As a past Ronald Reagan Office of Personnel Management nominee, I can attest to the fact that he was rebuked as strongly as Donald Trump is today, including by old regime Republicans.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Donald Devine
It all reminds me of July 1, 1987 when President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for an opening on the Supreme Court. He had it made in the shade, said my complacent conservative friends. The result was brutal. But we do not have to look back 32 years to see how unruly the leftwing mob can be. Recall the recent fate of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Only his courage and unscotchable determinate saved him. The simple fact is that the conservatives are often slow on the draw against the American left.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Ruchir Sharma |Donald Devine |Auguste Meyrat |James Hankins
Every campaign season, candidates from both parties unveil wildly optimistic promises for economic growth and universal prosperity. The 2024 election is no different—both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have put forward politically popular proposals to combat inflation by increasing federal deficits.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Donald Devine
It all reminds me of July 1, 1987 when President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork for an opening on the Supreme Court. He had it made in the shade, said my complacent conservative friends. The result was brutal. But we do not have to look back 32 years to see how unruly the leftwing mob can be. Recall the recent fate of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Only his courage and unscotchable determinate saved him. The simple fact is that the conservatives are often slow on the draw against the American left.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Donald Devine
As a conservative lecturer and symposium leader, no question is asked of me more by students and activists than: “How do the different ideological factions relate to one another”? They want a political spectrum scorecard to straighten things out. There are many spectrum versions but most of them have no consistent metalogical attribute defining the criterion they are measuring. Many have been tried and none is perfect.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Yuval Levin |Donald Devine
By Yuval Levin (Basic Books, 352 pages, $25)An important conservative intellectual was here teaching an attentive post-graduate audience about the contributions of a dozen intellectual leaders of the early conservative movement. But it soon became obvious from the questions posed to him that the students were confused.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Donald Devine
David Brooks is the regular alternative voice discussing politics and public affairs for the government-supported Public Broadcasting Service’s News Hour. He is a regular columnist for the New York Times, a former editor for the Weekly Standard (from its inception), and a contributing editor to progressive Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly. Wikipedia noted that Brooks has been described ideologically as a moderate, a centrist, a conservative, and a moderate conservative.
