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Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan: “As for Matt Gaetz being nominated as attorney general—well, this is just straight-out trolling, right?”

John Fea   |  November 15, 2024

Here is the former Reagan speechwriter and current Wall Street Journal columnist: The first wave of nominees to the Trump administration announced this week included normal Republicans—Susie Wiles as chief of staff, Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations, Lee Zeldin at the […]

Nikki Haley should “go for broke” and “gently smack that gum” out of Trump’s mouth

John Fea   |  January 26, 2024

Yesterday I suggested that Nikki Haley should, to use the words of writer Michael Wood, give Trump the “full Liz Cheney.” Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal seems to agree. Here is a taste of her column “Nikki Haley […]

Noonan: Pro-lifers failed to prepare for a post-Roe world

John Fea   |  August 5, 2022

The dog caught the bus. Now what? The leaders of the prolife movement–especially the conservative evangelical wing of the movement–spent so much time, energy, and money chasing the Roe v. Wade bus that it failed to think deeply about what […]

Noonan: “Liz Cheney Confronts a House of Cowards”

John Fea   |  May 7, 2021

The Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter pulls few punches in today’s column: It all comes back to the Capitol insurrection. It’s at the heart of the battle that is, four months later, tearing the House GOP apart. […]