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‘Walking a little bit taller’: Veronica Rossman, a historic appointee, ceremonially sworn in to 10th Circuit
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When Veronica S. Rossman’s daughter, Sofia, was in second grade, she approached her mother one night while Rossman was working at home. Sofia wanted to know what she was doing. “I’m writing a 10th Circuit brief,” said Rossman, at the time a public defender who handled cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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May: Defending the civilized world
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Eradicating ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ will require a long war In an inaugural address that was more purposeful than poetic, President Trump last Friday vowed to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from the face of the Earth.” I hope we can agree, across party and ideological lines, that those…
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May: How Obama is like Ike
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His dalliance with Iran mirrors Eisenhower’s courtship of Egypt The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983. Iranian-backed Shia militias killed hundreds of American troops in Iraq more recently.…
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A history lesson: Joe McCarthy and communism in America
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“I have here in my hand a list of names,” Joe McCarthy is famously quoted as saying in the 1950s. The senator from Wisconsin is well storied in the history books as the public face symbolizing fears of communist subversion in the U.S. during the Cold War and leading charges that Soviet espionage was widespread…
