After all, it’s probably the worst cyber-breach the U.S. has ever experienced, as Megan McArdle points out. And yet if you were to do a survey of most of your friends on the matter, many of them may be unaware … Continue reading →
… otherwise known as Obamatrade, I trust Jeff Sessions far more than I would trust Ryan. Sessions claims: If, as promoters amazingly suggest, the President had more powers without fast-track, he would veto it. The authority granted in “Trade Promotion … Continue reading →
I can’t say I have my finger on the pulse of Turkish politics, but it appears to me that this could be good news: Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, has suffered his biggest setback in 13 years of amassing power … Continue reading →
Let’s rename a couple of government agencies. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department (ICE) will henceforth be known as U.S. Immigration and Customs Non-Enforcement (ICN). The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will now be known as the Department of … Continue reading →
…Obama’s megalomaniacal book: it’s all about ME, and my opponents have evil in their hearts. I have fairly strong libertarian leanings myself, but I’ve never been a fan of either Paul. These latest comments from Paul the Younger during the … Continue reading →
When I first heard about the charges against Dennis Hastert, I was puzzled. There’s a law against withdrawing your own money from the bank in cash and not reporting the transaction? How many people have ever heard of such a … Continue reading →
“What difference does it make?” has become a joking ironic reference to something that actually is important but that is being treated as unimportant because it reflects poorly on a favored Democrat. Hillary asked the question two and a half … Continue reading →
I put the word “debates” in scare quotes because they aren’t really debates. What they are at this point is an opportunity for the MSM to play “gotcha” and elicit a series of sound bites that will make each Republican … Continue reading →
From Liz Cheney: When will the media ask @BarackObama & @HillaryClinton key question for 2016- Knowing what we know now, would you still have abandoned Iraq? Indeed.
Continue reading →Earlier this morning I wrote about the fact that even Nate Silver, pollster extraordinaire, got this one wrong, and by a significant amount. I was thinking as I wrote that post that pollsters had gotten the Israeli election wrong as … Continue reading →
It isn’t often you see a majority of this magnitude: The vote on cloture on the Corker-Menendez bill was 93-6; the final vote on the merits, 98-1. With that, the Senate rebuked the White House’s plan to avoid Congress entirely … Continue reading →
I was on the road most of yesterday and didn’t have time to respond to the comments at the thread with the Monty Python video till just now. Seems to me that the misunderstandings of what I was attempting to … Continue reading →