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Jan 1, 2021
Associated Press photoElizabeth Taylor and John Warner in 1977. Warner, who was Taylorâs sixth husband, became a Republican Senator in 1979.Â
This is my 1,768th opinion column. It is also my last.
Permit me a few reminiscences.
Elizabeth Taylor, the movie star, was married to John Warner, the Republican senator from Virginia. She was not at all happy in Washington. She had expected to be a political salon hostess as mistress of Warnerâs vast Virginia estate, like in the movies. But she was often alone while Warner politicked on Capitol Hill.
Ben Bradlee, then editor of The Washington Post, and I, then president of the Washington Press Club, were hosting a cocktail party for the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Kennedy Center. I was to escort Taylor around for the evening. She looked at my lavender polyester blouse with a bow at the throat and glowered. âYouâre wearing my color. But Iâll forgive you if you keep me in three finge
By Tom Nichols
Back in 1990, President George H.W. Bush faced a decision about going to war against Iraq after the surprise invasion of Kuwait in August. Victory was never in doubt, but it would still be a momentous step to take the United States and its allies into a conflict with what was then a significant military power.
Three decades later, this is still good advice. Americans face enemies both from within and from abroad. The country is being ravaged by a pandemic that has killed 1,000 times as many Americans as died in Operation Desert Storm, and at its worst has reached 9/11 levels of deaths almost daily. The Russians are plowing through the cyber defenses of multiple U.S. agencies. Congress could barely agree to send a pittance of relief to people facing cold, hunger and eviction.
Globalists unveil their latest scheme
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January 1, 2021
With their own peculiar brand of a New Years resolution, the globalists are out with their latest plan a Global Alliance to Defend Democracies. The feel-good ploy has two purposes to divert attention from our own failing democracy, and to assemble a group of nations supposedly to contain Red China. It could attract the support of people who think there may be something salvageable in a potential Biden presidency.
But if Biden takes power, Americas democracy will lie in tatters. We will be a laughing stock around the world.
The proposal, once advocated by such personalities as John McCain, has now surfaced in the writings of Richard Kemp, a former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, under the sponsorship of the Gatestone Institute, a group associated with fired Trump adviser John Bolton.