I’ve long been troubled by the primary system, which has a number of flaws. Of course, the “smoke-filled room” system that preceded it had a number of other flaws. If it were still in place, people would be railing against … Continue reading →
The details get worse and worse: Highly classified Hillary Clinton emails that the intelligence community and State Department recently deemed too damaging to national security to release contain “operational intelligence” ”“ and their presence on the unsecure, personal email system … Continue reading →
We have another report at Powerline from David Begley, the commenter known here as “Cornhead,” this time on his experience attending a Trump appearance on the day before the Iowa caucus.
Continue reading →As a large-scale real estate developer, Trump has sometimes sued in his efforts to use government to condemn houses belonging to people of modest means whose homes—which Trump considers insufficiently attractive—have stood near his big developments and have chosen to … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP: Even though it’s Sunday and I don’t often blog on Sunday, I have some new posts below for today. I’m bumping this one from yesterday up, though, because I want people to read it if they haven’t already.] … Continue reading →
Now that I’ve got your attention, read this. Towards the tail end, there’s a Facebook book (January 20) by Robert Reich, who was Clinton’s Secretary of Labor. Reich makes it clear that he—and other liberal/left Democrats—should and do prefer a … Continue reading →
Those of you who think Hillary Clinton will be indicted may be mistaken: “That will be a decision made by the Department of Justice and prosecutors over there,” said Earnest. “What I know that some officials over there have said … Continue reading →
Oh, woe is me. First of all, I keep trying to stay away from so many Donald Trump posts—and mostly failing. Only two days from Iowa, I feel a certain sense of urgency to get the word out by writing … Continue reading →
And demographically speaking, 123 men to 100 women (as is now estimated to be the case in Sweden) is not usually a good thing, as China has already discovered : Under each of these scenarios, large numbers of young men … Continue reading →
There’s agreement on all sides that the EU’s state of health, and even its very existence, is threatened. Depending on what you think of the EU, that’s either good news or bad news (I think the EU needs to go). … Continue reading →
This is outrageous, and it’s shocking that it’s not more surprising: The Department of Health and Human Services placed more than a dozen immigrant children in the custody of human traffickers after it failed to conduct background checks of caregivers, … Continue reading →
Shortly after the debate last night, commenter “The Other Chuck” noted that some evangelicals and conservatives had endorsed Trump in Iowa, and then added: Should this con artist win Iowa he will be the nominee and probably president. Sorry, Other … Continue reading →