Even pardons have limits
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Sep 1, 2017 1:00 AM - Steven and Cokie Roberts: President Trump had the right to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County after he was convicted of defying a federal judge. But just because a president has the right to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.
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Trump vs. The filibuster
Aug 31, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Byron York: President Trump brings an outsider's perspective to the long debate over the Senate filibuster.He doesn't have a prayer of winning. But he's not entirely wrong.
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Slusher: Eclipse, Hurricane Harvey show our better nature
Aug 31, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Jim Slusher: Last week started with the a solar eclipse. It ended with a devastating hurricane that was historic even by hurricane standards. It's easy to see why primitive societies looked for messages from the divine in disruptions of nature.
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To brother Cromartie, with love
Aug 30, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Kathleen Parker: There is something eternally bonding about a shared near-death experience, which is how I first met Michael Cromartie.
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Keep Air Force One on the ground
Aug 29, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Ed Murnane: One of the most misguided, useless -- and possibly disruptive -- but common and typical events in American politics -- appears set to take place today.
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With the Arpaio pardon, Trump deepened the moral damage to the GOP
Aug 29, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Michael Gerson: Repetition is the enemy of maintaining proper distinctions. It is a short road from being serially outraged to being slightly bored to being completely inured.
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Trump risks military lives, political future in AfghanistanAug 29, 2017 1:00 AM - Columnist Donald Lambro: President Trump's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan means that our 16-year-old war against the Taliban terrorists will continue for years to come. -
Results of early-childhood programs last into adulthoodAug 28, 2017 1:00 AM - Guest columnist Kallie Skiles: I vividly remember the day I received my application to my college's education program. -
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Two decidely different ways of fighting body shamingAug 26, 2017 2:00 PM - Columnist Jim Davis: A Fox TV station and Bartlett High School student fight body shaming two different ways.
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