[NOTE: Today is the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election, so I thought I’d repeat a post I wrote about Trump in August of 2015, when it was beginning to dawn on me that he was a very serious contender.] … Continue reading →
I wasn’t very concerned about yesterday’s Virginia gubernatorial election, because I figured that Northam the Democrat would win and it probably had more to do with Gillespie being a poor candidate than anything else, plus I consider Virginia a basically … Continue reading →
Here are some reminiscences by political operatives and media people about Election Night 2016 (hat tip Ace). They vary from the delighted to the devastated. The surprise and shock was enormous for Hillary supporters, as you can imagine. Here are … Continue reading →
Hillary and Bernie and the DNC in 2015-2016: Consider, then, that a formal agreement signed by the DNC and the Clinton campaign was executed in August 2015… The agreement, according to Brazile, “specified that in exchange for raising money and … Continue reading →
In no surprise whatsoever, that fish is none other than Paul Manafort (along with his former business associate, Rick Gates): The charges all relate or derive from Manafort’s business activities that predate Manafort’s involvement with the Trump campaign (although various … Continue reading →
Fake news. Yes, there was a Republican publication—the Washington Free Beacon—involved in funding some research by Fusion right at the beginning, before Robert Steele or the Russians or the Trump dossier had anything to do with it. But Steele and … Continue reading →
This could certainly be interesting: The Justice Department on Wednesday night released a former FBI informant from a confidentiality agreement, allowing him to testify before Congress about what he witnessed while undercover about the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win … Continue reading →
I’m not sure I like the name, but this seems like an interesting idea: Start a Club It’s hardly possible to overstate the value of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves”¦Such communication has always been … Continue reading →
This piece in the NY Post by former NPR CEO Ken Stern caught my eye. The title is “Former CEO of NPR opens up about liberal bias.” It is about that, but it’s actually about something a good deal more … Continue reading →
It’s complicated. And it happened during the Obama administration. And it’s just coming out now: According to The Hill’s John Solomon and Alison Spann, the FBI began to piece together a Russian operation designed to advance Vladimir Putin’s control of … Continue reading →
Together again. Will the show of unity last? Will they manage to pass any important legislation? Or will the split GOP, with its barely-there, small, shaky majority, end up deadlocked again? Just to repeat: A fifty-two vote majority isn’t much … Continue reading →
It’s a trend: Angela Merkel’s misguided migration policy ”” which allowed nearly 1 million people from Africa and the Middle East to enter Germany in 2015 ”” has claimed another political victim. Her centrist Christian Democratic government lost a great … Continue reading →