… were pretty much as expected. That indicates that opinion polling still seem to work in Germany: With vote counting finished, preliminary results show the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and its sister Christian … Continue reading →
Trump has replaced the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who is black and highly devoted to DEI in the military. Naturally, this change is one of the many many things that the … Continue reading →
How symbolic: German police arrested a suspect after a stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial left a person seriously injured on Friday evening local time. Police haven’t yet given a motive or made any connection between the stabbing and the Holocaust … Continue reading →
Patel has been confirmed by the Senate, and this time McConnell voted yes, and Collins and Murkowski voted no. When Pete Hegseth was confirmed, I wrote this post about Murkowski and Collins, and what I wrote there applies to the … Continue reading →
And yet apparently it was considered just fine: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said on Feb. 17 that a total of $4.7 trillion worth of payments from the Treasury Department are almost impossible to trace because of missing account … Continue reading →
About a recent Gallup poll: A new Gallup poll reveals a growing divide within the Democratic Party, with 41% of Democrats now saying they want the party to move toward the center. Meanwhile, support for a more liberal direction has … Continue reading →
All the Republicans in the Senate voted yes, except their former leader Mitch McConnell. Interesting. Here’s a report: With the coordinated and persuasive assistance of Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Vice President JD Vance, crucial senators who had lingering concerns … Continue reading →
As my regular readers are almost certainly aware, I have a law degree from a university that’s supposedly not too shabby. But it was a long long time ago that I sat in a law school classroom. I didn’t like … Continue reading →
Commenter “JohnTyler” observes: Even in the edited version [of her 60 Minutes interview], Kamala comes across as a stupid, ignorant moron. I still do not understand how any sentient human could have cast their vote for such an incredibly dumb … Continue reading →
It may have been the most basic and early of Trump’s campaign promises, back when he was first running for president: to drain the swamp. Making illegal immigration less easy was another, of course, and the more general Make America … Continue reading →
I remember first hearing about USAID – the United States Agency for International Development – back in the 1960s. But I have no recollection of the context or the specific topic. Now that the Trump administration has focused on the … Continue reading →
Here are some of her remarks: ?Tulsi's opening statement at Confirmation Hearing Example after example of how the Deep State has operated in the past years. pic.twitter.com/lEhYsNJis3 — The New American (@NewAmericanMag) January 30, 2025 Gabbard is another example of … Continue reading →