[NOTE: This story brought me out of my usual Sunday blog-hibernation.] The news story of the Catholic high school students in MAGA hats who were captured on video supposedly harassing a Native American Vietnam vet was a tale I ignored … Continue reading →
The Steele dossier was a lie. Bruce Ohr told the FBI and DOJ at the outset that it was most likely a lie. The FBI used the dossier anyway to apply for a FISA warrant, and did not disclose its … Continue reading →
The left and Trump’s other opponents keep trying to find the fatal stake to drive through the vampire Trump’s heart. I have completely lost track of all the sequential stories that have gotten them so excited, thinking the task was … Continue reading →
Listen: My prediction: she won’t get into significant trouble at CNN for that howler. Nor, unfortunately, will she learn to stop citing “white privilege” about every white person she encounters—or thinks she’s encountering.
Continue reading →You may have already heard about the punishment meted out yesterday by Republicans to Representative Steve King of Iowa: House GOP leaders moved Monday to remove Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) from all of his committee assignments following a firestorm over … Continue reading →
Even before Trump delivered his short speech Tuesday night, the MSM had decided on its theme/meme of the evening: Trump will lie and we will tell you about his lies and correct them. I discussed the situation prior to the … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE on speech below.] He’ll be speaking from the Oval Office at 9 PM Eastern time. The media was hesitant to even broadcast the speech at first, but apparently they have deigned to do so. Kind of them. After … Continue reading →
In an article entitled “Why Trump’s Losing the Shutdown Fight— A simple political rule of thumb: Never hold the government hostage for anything, even if it’s a cherished campaign promise,” Josh Kraushaar writes; Here’s a simple, time-tested rule of politics: … Continue reading →
…for anti-Trump bias: Former ‘New York Times’ executive editor Jill Abramson rips her former publication, slams the media as “anti-Trump,” and complains that younger employees throw out standards in her new book, ‘Merchants of Truth.’ “The more anti-Trump the Times … Continue reading →
The con goes deep with this one: An award-winning German journalist who was recently found to have fabricated parts of stories may be facing more trouble. Claas Relotius, 33, is facing new accusations that he solicited donations for orphans of … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve heard of German journalist Claas Relotius. He wrote for the German periodical Der Spiegel and and had won “numerous awards such as CNN’s Journalist of the Year and Germany’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.” I guess you’d say … Continue reading →
Before I had my political change, I wasn’t particularly aware of which periodicals and newspapers were on the right. I knew of a couple—the WSJ and the Manchester Union Leader, for example. I knew who William F. Buckley was from … Continue reading →