With great clarity, Andrew C. McCarthy just keeps churning out information-packed article after article on what we now are free to call Spygate. I don’t know how he does it, But I’m certainly glad he does. If you have any … Continue reading →
At least, that’s the way I see this announcement: “Please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place,” Trump wrote in … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley is another writer—a lawyer—whose viewpoints especially interest me because he doesn’t parrot any party line. He’s mostly a libertarian, and as far as I can tell he tends to vote Democratic or libertarian. At any rate, he’s not … Continue reading →
I spend a lot of time reading the work of other writers on politics. Some of them—probably the vast majority—purport to be objective journalists but write with an obvious bias. What’s so obvious about it? Well, one thing is that … Continue reading →
Unlike Watergate, the current crisis in government/spying/politics doesn’t have a memorable name. But for those of us who lived through Watergate it has a certain resonance with that event as well as major differences, imparting a strange sense of familiarity, … Continue reading →
Robert Mueller hasn’t exactly been covering himself with glory lately. Among other things: At the arraignment [of the Russian company accused by Mueller of having tried to influence the US election], Concord’s lead counsel, Eric Dubelier, was asked whether he … Continue reading →
The US embassy has officially moved to Jerusalem today. All that had to happen in the architectural sense (for now, anyway) was the sprucing up of a building that was already operating as a consulate, but in the psychological sense … Continue reading →
I’m with Iowahawk, who said on Twitter (April 30), referring to some of Obama’s foreign policy aides such as Ben Rhodes, “I have a hard time believing a foreign policy brain trust made up of America’s top failed novelists and … Continue reading →
I was listening to MSNBC for about 15 minutes last night, shortly after Trump announced that he was ending our participation in the Iran deal. The show featured a bunch of talking heads telling us in very dire tones that … Continue reading →
Commenter and forecaster extraordinaire “Cornhead” (aka attorney David Begley) writes about a question-and-answer session with Warren Buffett that he attended: In response to another question Buffett said that while he spent his own money backing Hillary Clinton, it would have … Continue reading →
That video is one of my favorites, and I’ve had occasion to use it over and over—and over and over—in the 13 years I’ve been blogging. And just about always, the reference is to something the MSM has done. This … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE above.] …and that at least one call with President Trump was recorded. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders referred questions about the wiretap to the President’s outside counsel. One of Trump’s attorneys, former New York City mayor Rudy … Continue reading →