The House has voted to approve 5 billion dollars for the border wall, but there’s basically no chance it will pass in the Senate. When that happens, and another funding bill is passed that doesn’t include the wall money, will … Continue reading →
As presidents go, Trump is harder to predict than most. Will he veto the continuing resolution budget bill? The Freedom Caucus will support him if he does: …[W]e’re going to back you up if you veto this — back you … Continue reading →
The yellow vest protestors of France are not a unitary movement. The majority are peaceful, but there’s a fringe group (right? left? anarchists?) who have been a great deal more violent, and it’s that latter group who have declared war … Continue reading →
The death and funeral of George H. W. Bush caused NY Times columnist Ross Douthat to write a piece called “Why We Miss the WASPs.” It contains the usual digs at Trump, of course, but it also expresses some un-PC … Continue reading →
Curiouser and curiouser: U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is overseeing Michael Flynn’s case, demanded that the Special Counsel [Mueller] submit copies of FBI 302 reports from Flynn’s January 24th FBI interview as well as then-FBI Deputy Director … Continue reading →
Way back in 1996, when the Trump presidency was in the two-decades-distant future, Ruth Bader Ginsburg had this to say: The prospect remains that an overzealous prosecutor or investigator — aware that a person has committed some suspicious acts, but … Continue reading →
In the light of allegations from the left that Trump’s payments to Stormy Daniels vie Michael Cohen constituted a campaign law violation, this news is deeply ironic: Now Congress has agreed on a bill that members of Congress will be … Continue reading →
…says Vox’s Matthew Yglesias. Hey, why not? What could possibly go wrong? Oh, and if she’s not old enough—and she’s not—it’s time to “fix” the Constitution. Writes Yglesias: The constitutional prohibition on people under the age of 35 serving as … Continue reading →
Here’s how lawfare works when the FBI wants to get you: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who arranged the bureau’s interview with then-national security adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 — the interview that … Continue reading →
The fixer couldn’t fix it for himself: Before leveling his sentence, Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and “lost his moral compass,” adding that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE at end of post.] …is described here: Only days ago, May had to withdraw a vote on her Brexit Withdrawal Agreement from Parliament because it was universally recognized that she would lose it. Bear in mind that this … Continue reading →
In his recent testimony before the House of Representatives, James Comey presented himself as being something like a sleepwalker—he remembers nothing, knows nothing, and cannot even speculate on things he was involved in, much less ones that involved others in … Continue reading →