It’s an odd thing that yesterday I wrote a post comparing Obama’s “bitter clinger” remarks to Hillary’s comments about “deplorables,” and almost immediately after that I I saw that she’d just doubled down on those sort of comments, this time … Continue reading →
Well, it’s been rumored almost as long as Rex Tillerson has been Secretary of State, and almost as often as those “chaos in the White House” stories have been published, and now it’s finally happened: Trump has fired Tillerson. And … Continue reading →
You probably remember something about that fundraiser speech that Obama gave in 2008 in San Francisco, the one that featured his infamous, insulting, condescending, and reductionist “bitter clingers” remark. But looking back on it, it strikes me that Obama’s approach … Continue reading →
…drives a lot of the Trump-hatred. Actually, the liberal fantasy of what’s in the mind of conservatives and/or Republicans drives a lot of the hatred for conservatives and Republicans. Most liberals don’t just engage in strategic name-calling, either, when they … Continue reading →
Italy just had an election: Italy was plunged into political uncertainty Monday after parliamentary elections delivered victories for populist, euroskeptic parties but left no clear path forward for a new government. No party or coalition received enough votes to rule … Continue reading →
Pass it around: Does he even take a breath? On Marxism’s appeal: Last summer I wrote a post on that latter subject. Here it is: When I first saw this tweet, I thought it very clever: Difference between Nazi and … Continue reading →
McCarthy says the Schiff memo is worse for the Democrats than for the Republicans. An excerpt from McCarthy: To be clear, the only reason Steele’s own biases have any pertinence is that the FBI and the DOJ relied vicariously on … Continue reading →
It’s even worse than you may have thought [emphasis mine]: The change took the people of the Keystone State unawares. While we dozed through a rainy three-day weekend, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared itself a lawmaking body, one over which … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see the update in an ADDENDUM at the bottom of this post.] Congress would like to know [emphasis mine]: House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued a subpoena to David Kramer, a former State Department official who, … Continue reading →
Actually, it appears that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rubber-stamped a professor’s redrawing of Congressional districts in the state. Here’s the story: Republicans probably just lost at least 4 or 5 seats in the House. This afternoon, the Pennsylvania Supreme … Continue reading →
Another highly recommended article by Andrew C. McCarthy. Here are a couple of excerpts: Mueller’s allegations will never be tested in court. That makes his indictment more a political statement than a charging instrument… Obviously, if there were strong evidence … Continue reading →
I’ve known about Russian internet political interference ever since I started blogging. Doesn’t everyone? Unless the FBI and the DOJ have been living under a rock (one wonders sometimes), they must have known about it, too. And that’s just the … Continue reading →