Week in Review: The Trivialization of Impeachment

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October 20 2019

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The Trivialization of Impeachment Andrew C. McCarthy Our constitutional system will be damaged because impeachment will be discredited. That will not make it any less indispensable than Madison judged it to be. Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories The ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist Robert VerBruggen If Congress and the ATF can't write rules clearly ensuring that our basic gun laws apply to AR-15s, how well could Beto's confiscation drive possibly go? Small Policy Tweaks Won't Fix Facebook Kevin D. Williamson Facebook's immediate problem may be Elizabeth Warren, but its long-term problem is Facebook. Mitch McConnell Calls Syria Withdrawal 'Grave Strategic Mistake' Tobias Hoonhout McConnell also pushed back on Trump's defense that "the endless wars must end," a line the president has adopted in recent days after criticism of the decision. ADVERTISEMENT 'Texodus' Bodes Badly for Republicans George Will The spate of retiring Texas Republican representatives is indicative of the GOP's weakening grasp on its most important bastion of support. Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies Victor Davis Hanson If Donald Trump announced that he was going to send more troops to save the Kurds from the Turks, he would be immediately damned by his present leftist and Never Trump critics for tearing apart NATO and starting another undeclared Middle East war. The Titanic Sibling Rivalry that Propelled One of the Greatest Rock Bands of the 1990s Scot Bertram In "Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes," former Crowes drummer Steve Gorman gives an insider's history of the band. John Singer Sargent's Many Beauties, Male and Female, at the Morgan Library Brian T. Allen Sargent was the perpetual tourist. He saw things in snippets and had a good sense for the essence of his subjects. Gabbard Responds to Hillary's Russia Attacks, Challenges Her to Join Dem Primary Tobias Hoonhout In a fiery response to Clinton's accusation, Gabbard called the former secretary of state the "personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long." ADVERTISEMENT JOIN NRPLUS All Our Content. Fewer Ads. Members-Only Privileges. NRPLUS is everything you would associate with a digital magazine subscription, and a whole lot more ─ including up to 90% fewer on-site ads, access to our private Facebook group, full commenting privileges, and invites to our writer/editor conference calls. SEE MY OPTIONS Photo Essays Marine Corps F-35B Fall Colors ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.