A lot of people have opined about this comment by former acting director of the CIA John McLaughlin: McLaughlin embraced the term when asked during an event with other former intelligence officials whether a CIA whistleblower complaint that sparked an … Continue reading →
A UK vote is scheduled for December 12 in an attempt to break the Brexit stalemate. PM Boris Johnson is gambling that he will win a majority and be able to execute Brexit as promised, without Parliament blocking him as … Continue reading →
It is allegedly (and almost certainly) Eric Ciaramella, and he’s not exactly what you’d call an objective observer: Former White House officials said Ciaramella worked on Ukrainian policy issues for Biden in 2015 and 2016, when the vice president was … Continue reading →
The Democrats pretended to do something today, but it was nothing or worse than nothing. Byron York calls the resolution they passed “The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act.” But Schiff was already informally empowered to do what the act still allows … Continue reading →
Will it happen or won’t it? Steny Hoyer, the House Majority whip, refused to commit to an actual vote on the matter, even though Mrs. Pelosi insists that it is, in fact, happening on Thursday. “We’re going to have to … Continue reading →
An interesting discussion ensued in the “Being a Socialist means you never have to explain” thread. In the post, I had pointed out that both Sanders and Warren were promoting single payer health care and refusing to tell us how … Continue reading →
Commenter “mhjhnsn” writes, in the thread about the Democrats’ reaction to the killing of Baghdadi: …[W]hat this really says to me is that there is NOTHING that Trump can do to mollify, even for only a day, those who hate … Continue reading →
It’s a race: The race is on to see who will survive—the duly-elected president of the United States or a modern-day Praetorian Guard comprised of former law enforcement and intelligence officials tasked with taking down that president. As Barr gets … Continue reading →
You may have noticed that I’ve not been writing about every twist and turn of the current “impeachment inquiry” run by House Democrats. That’s because it’s a travesty and an obvious one at that. If the process is rotten, the … Continue reading →
From Stephen Miller, who is a senior adviser for policy to Trump: n 2016, President Trump ran against Washington’s “deep state” and “permanent bureaucracy,” said Miller, and they remain so angry that they are lying, leaking, and attacking the administration’s … Continue reading →
Clinton and Trump are both white guys, when last I checked. But many Democrats called the Clinton impeachment and trial a lynching, despite the fact that due process was strictly observed and the Starr report had listed evidence of actual … Continue reading →
…but not for more of his party. Actually, it was somewhat of a trouncing for Trudeau, although with all the parties involved he managed to be re-elected anyway: Not only was Trudeau’s Liberal Party forced by voters to accept a … Continue reading →