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Back in 2019, it was a huge revelation that the president has to “hide” his phone calls from much of his own administration to reduce leaks. This move might seem to indicate guilt—and is certainly being spun that way by Democrats and the media—but for the knowledge that the president isn’t wrong to mistrust his own workforce. Federal employees are anything but neutral administrators of the law. Fully 95 percent of donations from those working for agencies went to Hillary Clinton in 2016. And a web of civil service laws built over the past century effectively inures them to the...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mary Starrett, a former talk show host who recently helped start an anti-abortion group, says she plans to run for governor as the nominee of the conservative Constitution Party. Starrett, 51, told The Oregonian newspaper Tuesday that she will seek the party's nomination when it holds a convention in Lake Oswego on Saturday. If Starrett wins the nomination, she would be the only anti-abortion candidate in the race. Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Democrat, and Republican challenger Ron Saxton support a woman's right to choose. Saxton, however, has said he would back some limits on the procedure,...