When President Obama nominated Merrick Garland as SCOTUS Justice Scalia’s replacement last March, it was eight months from the 2016 election. Republicans controlled the Senate, and they decided to punt and wait for the next president. This was somewhat of … Continue reading →
Since the election, Trump has been dominating the news even more than he did when he was merely campaigning, and that’s saying a lot. I’m not talking about straight news like his Cabinet appointments. I’m talking about all the hype … Continue reading →
It was inevitable, of course, that the MSM would mount this attack on Trump’s legitimacy, particularly their leader and still champ (despite its financial woes) the NY Times. They didn’t acknowledge the possibility of a Trump win. Now they are … Continue reading →
John Fund opines on the surprisingly conservative makeup of Trump’s picks so far: “This is a more conservative cabinet than Reagan assembled in 1980,” says Ed Feulner, a key Trump transition adviser. As president of the Heritage Foundation at the … Continue reading →
…take a look at France’s: In France, [pollsters] failed to see that former prime minister Frané§ois Fillon would win the race to become the conservative party’s candidate in April’s presidential election. A social conservative with liberal economic views, Fillon scrambles … Continue reading →
An interesting premise: I’ve read the Left’s indictments, including Chris Mooney’s bestseller, The Republican War on Science. I finished it with the same question about this war that I had at the outset: Where are the casualties? Where are the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a post in which I continue to explore the more extremist wing of the alt-right, because I think it bears watching and comprehending. That doesn’t mean I think it’s an enormous group. Nor do I think Donald … Continue reading →
Get ready for an awful lot of the f-word in the following video, which is by a guy who detests Trump and would have preferred Sanders. But this rant is actually very good. I think he may just be learning … Continue reading →
I mentioned earlier that Trump’s victory speech was good and hit the right tone. I have no idea whether he can sustain that tone, and what’s more whether he can follow it up with successful action. But when Trump walked … Continue reading →
I found the following comment on a thread at Legal Insurrection: …[I]ts hard to get excited or even care about who controls the Senate. I can expect a Dem controlled Senate will be firebreathing and ram through whatever they want. … Continue reading →
I was very much looking forward to reading this article with that title. It’s an issue I’ve written about myself, and one that interests me greatly. But alas, the article disappointed me. The author’s main thesis seems to be: Legutko’s … Continue reading →
Every now and then there’s a discussion in the comments section I want to highlight. Such as this one from yesterday, beginning with this from Geoffrey Britain: Progressive’ socialism’ inescapably evolves into communism. It’s incrementally happening in Europe as we … Continue reading →