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CNN political commentator former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that going after President Joe Biden’s son Hunter with information from his laptop that was left in a computer shop is a “dangerous path.” Cooper said, “He has acknowledged that is his laptop, which he hadn’t done before. Your former Republican colleagues in the House expressed a lot of interest in holding hearings into Hunter Biden’s life and career. The information, whether it was legal or not to obtain it, it is out there from now from that laptop. Do you expect these legal moves...

The other day a friend asked me why no Democrats ever become the kind of back-stabbing weasels that the GOP seems to crank out in factories or assembly lines somewhere in Utah or Wyoming? It got me to thinking about this classic 1947 poem by Christina Rossetti: Who has seen the wind?Neither you nor I:But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.That came to mind as yet another alleged Republican jumped ship... this time in my state of Texas: Matthew Dowd—who served as a “strategist” in the successful 2004 re-election campaign of President George W....

When several hundred extremists mobbed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, they engaged in a deplorably un-American act of criminality. It was an embarrassing day for the nation, and a dangerous one for the many innocent people and officials engulfed in the mayhem. Here's what Jan. 6 wasn't: It wasn't the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Nor did it veer anywhere near the vicinity of being as dangerous as 9/11. Nor was it a "coup" or an "insurrection" -- not in any way we commonly understand those words. It wasn't a "putsch." Nor did it, as the...