Trump’s budget proposal
I look on it as Trump’s opening bid in a series of negotiations. The MSM has predictably wailed about the meanness of it all. If you don’t want to wade through that, I think that Ed Morrissey has a fair … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Trump
Joyce Carol Oates, Trump, Twitter, John Lennon, and Jesus
Famous author Joyce Carol Oates is known for the number and length of her fiction output. But she’s also a Twitter-user, and yesterday she retweeted this pithy thought: “I could shoot 24 million people on Fifth Avenue & I would’t … Continue reading →
Rachel Maddow’s clickbait
Well, it wasn’t exactly clickbait, because it was on TV rather than online. But Maddow’s promise to reveal Trump’s tax returns was the sort of thing you see on the internet all the time, an ad that promises some amazing … Continue reading →
Boycotts and the law of unintended consequences
Boycotts can seem to be potent political tools. But they’re not an all-purpose tool; in organizing a boycott, the target gets a lot of free publicity. But although the intent is negative publicity, the word reaches both sides. And the … Continue reading →
The news cycle: FISAgate so far
By Andrew C. McCarthy: So, we will never have resolution on whether there should have been an investigation. And in any event, the suspicion that was under investigation ”” namely, the “Russia election-hacking” plot, in which Trump allegedly conspired ”” … Continue reading →
US-AttorneyGate: Bharara, the press, and the president
Andrew C. McCarthy explains the history of the most recent brouhaha, President Trump’s en masse firing of the US attorneys, and the reasons and history behind the move: In March 1993, Janet Reno began her tenure as President Bill Clinton’s … Continue reading →
Impeachment, now and forever
Donald Trump is the only president I’m aware of who was the subject of a great deal of impeachment talk even before he took office. And I’ve noticed that nearly everything he’s done since then has been met with a … Continue reading →
Spying on Trump Tower would fit in with Obama’s m.o.
This Boston Herald article points out that the FISA-spying accusation Trump has leveled at Obama fits in quite nicely with a pattern the Obama administration had demonstrated (although I want to emphasize that that doesn’t mean the accusations are true): … Continue reading →
Trump charges that Obama tried to wiretap Trump Tower
Well, if I thought I’d have a quiet Saturday in terms of the blog, I was sadly mistaken. But it’s not about me. It’s most definitely not about me. What is it about, then? Today’s news is loaded with stories … Continue reading →
SOTU: the Democrats’ dilemma
At last night’s SOTU speech the Democrats faced a difficult dilemma: to sit on their hands or not to sit on their hands, and if so when? Only Joe Manchin found it easy to applaud, although a couple of others … Continue reading →
The Times again, truth again, and Trump again
“Put independent journalism first. 50% off savings won’t last.” That’s the subject of an email I got today from the NY Times asking me to subscribe. I seem to have gotten on their emailing list long ago, back in the … Continue reading →
Trump, the MSM, and Swedish crime
So, first thing that happened was that Trump made an ambiguous and poorly-worded remark about Sweden’s crime and how it relates to immigration: …[T]here’s also a problem with Trump that I see in [his statement] “you look at what’s happening … Continue reading →