[Hat tip: commenter “DNW”] Trump may have lost his EO battle with the courts for now, and the sanctuary city conflict is probably going to heat up. But he’s been winning a quieter battle (so far) on the southern border, … Continue reading →
…an airline can’t get off scot-free with this sort of heavy-handed action, which dominated the public chatter today. United Airlines and many other airlines overbook for perfectly understandable economic reasons. It doesn’t usually cause problems, because they also offer economic … Continue reading →
…remind me of flamenco dancers:
Continue reading →Last month I got William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich out of the library. I had actually read it many moons ago, when I was a teenager. But “read” is a bit of a euphemism. It … Continue reading →
No surprise here: The suspect in Stockholm’s deadly beer truck attack is a 39-year-old native of Uzbekistan who had been on authorities’ radar previously, Swedish authorities said Saturday… There is nothing that tells us that we have the wrong person,” … Continue reading →
I’m issuing a warning, and I’m not kidding: If you’re at all sensitive to disgusting stories, you might want to skip the entire rest of this post, and you certainly might not want to click on this link about a … Continue reading →
I want to call your attention to this article by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard on how McConnell twisted arms to get the Gorsuch nomination. Some of the usual suspects—Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Bob Corker were extremely hesitant … Continue reading →
Yesterday the Senate GOP did something a lot of people thought they’d never do: used the nuclear option in order to clear the way for the confirmation of Gorsuch. I’m certainly not going to defend all the actions of the … Continue reading →
There has been a truck attack on a crowd in Sweden. The modus operandi indicates that it almost certainly is jihadi terrorism. Truck attacks have become favored because they are lethal and frightening (two goals of terrorists),and cheap and easily … Continue reading →
Good. It wasn’t easy to get there, but it’s done. That’s one of the main reasons a lot of people on the right held their noses and voted for Trump.
Continue reading →After the Syrian gas attack, President Trump had a choice: do nothing or do something. It’s a choice all presidents face, because sooner or later they will be tested—usually sooner, and not just once but many times and in many … Continue reading →
Here’s a bit of nuclear option history: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was smugly looking ahead to the presidency of Hillary Clinton last October and the possibility that Senate Republicans might dare to filibuster the new president’s Supreme Court … Continue reading →