…and the MSM won’t be reporting in the same way. Because it favors Trump: A top National Security Council (NSC) official who listened to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky testified to Congress today … 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 →
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 →
Lindsey Graham says “This is a moment where President Trump’s worst critics should say, ‘Well done, Mr. President.’” That Lindsey Graham, always making with the jokes. Because obviously that’s not going to happen. And as proof, we have: Trump went … 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 →
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 →
The title of this CNN story got me curious enough to click on it: “Why some say Mexico already built Trump’s wall — and paid for it.” Well, not exactly. And certainly not in the sense of the actual physical … Continue reading →
Beto O’Rourke got a lot of attention when he suggested that churches opposing gay marriage should lose tax-exempt status: “There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone … that denies the full human rights and the … Continue reading →
I wonder what the limits of propaganda are. That is, how many of the people can you fool how much of the time if your propaganda is relentless enough and complete enough? I think it depends on whether people perceive … Continue reading →
Mitt Romney is a strange case for a politician. He lacks the common touch completely, which is probably the main reason he lost in 2012 and helped us get four more years of Obama. Although Romney was far from my … Continue reading →
As I wrote recently, I don’t trust most analyses of the Turkey vs. Kurds situation right now. I’m not just talking about the left, either. Just as one small example, we have this article in the WSJ yesterday, with the … Continue reading →