Ralph Z. Hallow
Articles by Ralph Z. Hallow
Justice Kavanaugh — Trump made it happen as Graham and Collins became unlikely heroes
President Trump is now the undisputed winner in the national "Wouldn't You Rather Not Drive This Ford" contest. Published October 6, 2018
Lindsey Graham to Donald Trump: Make Nov. 6 about Brett Kavanaugh’s honor
Sen. Lindsey Graham's brilliance is on display again. He says President Trump can make the November congressional elections about restoring Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's good name if the Senate, with its 51-49 Republican majority, fails to confirm his Supreme Court nomination by one vote. Published October 2, 2018
What Donald Trump and Serena Williams have in common
You can understand why President Trump may sometimes feel that hostile extraterrestrials already have landed and taken over all but one major TV network and much of what we used to call the "print" media. Published September 10, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh hearings can be salvaged by Donald Trump tweets
President Trump, if your consternation at Tuesday's Senate spectacle needs further expression, you might tweet a thank you to Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, and a Bronx cheer to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat. Published September 4, 2018
Why John McCain lies in state at the rotunda
John McCain was no saint. He didn't have to be in order to have, upon his passing this week, his body lie in state, first at the Arizona capitol's rotunda and then at the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Published August 30, 2018
The ‘uh oh’ embedded in Ron DeSantis’ Florida win
Uh oh. Republicans who think the nomination for Florida governor of Andrew Gillum, Tallahassee's leftist black mayor, was suicide for Democrats should think again. Published August 29, 2018
John Brennan and his security clearance finally get put on clearance rack
Sorry it took you so long, Mr. President, but that you finally got around to yanking the security clearance of ex-Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan is music to the ears of millions of Americans long fed up with his disgracing of U.S. intelligence and of the nation. Published August 15, 2018
Jake Tapper’s Trump-trashing medium for (mis)informing America
CNN did its part Sunday to illustrate the ever-worsening information crisis in America' mass media, so much of which misinforms America's masses. Published July 15, 2018
Donald Trump can rein in Kim Jong-un by kicking China’s Xi Jinping where it hurts
President Trump, fists cocked, landed Tuesday at the NATO summit in Brussels with an America-First determination the likes of which allies from Germany's Angela Merkel to Britain's Theresa May and U.S. foes such as China's Xi Jinping have never experienced -- or expected -- from a U.S. leader. Published July 10, 2018
Our patriotic songs display America’s difference from Britain
Looking for another point of pride on our nation's 242nd birthday? Well, unlike the patriotic compositions of our mother country Great Britain, our paeans to our native or adoptive land do not presume a haughty superiority over other peoples and lands. Published July 4, 2018
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointment can burnish legacy
Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement gives President Trump an opportunity to guarantee his legacy as the first Republican president to get it right for conservatives when filling Supreme Court openings. Published June 28, 2018
The deal is what Donald Trump does
If the always eloquent President John F. Kennedy, a suave and mannered Democrat, was around today and said what you're about to read, I suspect the distinguished members of our Fourth Estate would ask not what they could do for his words. The press would ask how it could quote his words more often every hour of every day. Published June 13, 2018
Charles Krauthammer, classic and classy neoconservative intellectual, leaves with no regrets
Charles Krauthammer jolted us Friday with the news that it's only a matter of weeks before the cancer he has battled since last summer takes him from us. It will leave us bereft of the one of best approximations of an "uomo universale" America has had in many years. Published June 10, 2018
Faith Ryan Whittlesey, Reagan White House alum and ambassador, dead at 79
Ambassador Faith Ryan Whittlesey died early Monday after a long bout with cancer. She was 79. Published May 21, 2018
Barbara Bush, as I remember her
From a first-floor window in the family's summer home on Walker's Point, Barbara Bush spied me standing bemused, shivering and overcoat-less. Published April 18, 2018
Bashar Assad’s strange time to poke Trump in the eye
By the time you read this, President Trump may have carried out his threat to bomb targets in Syria, some of which may host Russian troops. Published April 11, 2018
Mike Pompeo at State Department won’t turn Trump into an interventionist
War-cloud watchers in both parties can relax a bit. The Mike Pompeo era of no-nonsense diplomacy is unlikely to explode into another series of Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam-style military expeditions. Published March 21, 2018
Rex Tillerson was too big for his striped pants
President Trump's firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was crude, rude and way overdue. Published March 14, 2018
Kim Jong-un’s offer vs. his character
There's only one credible reason North Korea's murderous dictator Kim Jong-un would mean what he says about wanting to talk with President Trump about denuclearizing North Korea. Published March 9, 2018
Donald Trump’s tariffs critics have a point; he has a better one
Free-trade Republicans are boxing President Trump's ears as if he's a child who refuses to do his economics homework. Published March 9, 2018