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Ralph Z. Hallow

Ralph Z. Hallow

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Ralph Z. Hallow was the chief political correspondent of commentary, served on the Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Washington Times editorial boards, was Ford Foundation Fellow in Urban Journalism at Northwestern University, resident at Columbia University Editorial-Page Editors Seminar and has filed from Berlin, Bonn, London, Paris, Geneva, Vienna, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Belgrade, Bucharest, Panama and Guatemala.

Articles by Ralph Z. Hallow

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., defends Judge Brett Kavanaugh during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s. (Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP)

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.

October 2, 2018
Serena Williams talks with chair umpire Carlos Ramos after being defeated by Naomi Osaka, of Japan, in the women's final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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.

September 10, 2018
In this June 3, 2016, file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., greets the audience as he arrives to deliver a speech in Singapore. McCain, the war hero who became the GOP's standard-bearer in the 2008 election, died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He was 81. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

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.

August 30, 2018
Then-CIA Director John Brennan responds to a question as he speaks at the Global Security Forum 2015, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

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.

August 15, 2018
Members of the armed services stand among flags prior to the national anthem as part of "Salute to Service" during an NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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.

July 4, 2018
In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sentosa Island in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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.

June 13, 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.

April 18, 2018
This combination of two file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. Trump has accepted an offer of a summit from the North Korean leader and will meet with Kim by May, a top South Korean official said Thursday, March 8, 2018, in a remarkable turnaround in relations between two historic adversaries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

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.

March 9, 2018