“By any metric,” Megan McArdle contends in her Washington Post column, “Trump is in trouble.” The headline of McArdle’s piece warns: “Poll by sinking poll, Trump inches toward impeachment. How much longer, she asks, can a president survive a “53.4 percent disapproval rating”? As she notes, “In January 1974, well into the Watergate scandal, Richard
Like a reluctant bride mumbling vows written by her eager but unwelcome groom, Nancy Pelosi read the words House intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D.-Calif.) probably wrote to further aggrandize his shiny new Ukraine hoax. “We do place ourselves in a time of urgency and the threat to the Constitution, a system of checks and
If you listen for just a second do you hear the deafening silence from the CIA, the agency that originated the Ukraine edition of the Get Trump campaign? If the CIA considers itself subordinate to the president—and whatever it thinks, it is—it should be howling with outrage at the leak of confidential diplomatic information for
Nobody is above the law, not even the former vice president. Not even a deep state leaker who is using his access to confidential diplomatic information to sway the 2020 election. Yet this is not the position of the recent leak disguised as a “whistleblower’s disclosure” addressed to Representative Adam (still waiting for “direct” collusion
Here’s a quick history quiz: Regarding which investigation did former FBI attorney Lisa Page write the following text message: “[X] might be our next president. The last thing you need is us going in there loaded for bear”? Was it, (a) a text warning an FBI agent to be careful about investigating former Secretary of
If you want to know why the New York Times recently disgraced itself with the flailing hit piece against sitting Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, you need look no further than the absolute disaster the last 12 months have been for the myths necessary to maintain public support for abortion in the United States. Here are
As we hurtle apparently towards another Middle East war, this time with Iran, now would be a convenient time to de-clutter our inventory of conflicts. So why not just leave Afghanistan? In the midst of all the controversy over whether, how, and where to negotiate with the Taliban concerning the U.S. withdrawal, let’s not lose
It’s simply hard to know where to begin to respond to the staggering chutzpah of Jennifer Rubin’s recent Washington Post opinion column accusing the president of undermining our intelligence community. Rubin used the recent leak regarding the exfiltration (a fancy word for “removal”) of an undercover “asset” in Russia as a hook to make the
Have you heard of “Sharpiegate?” Hurricane Dorian recently pulverized portions of the Bahamas. The loss in property and human life has not yet been tabulated but is sure to be historic. On September 1, President Trump tweeted: “In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much)
I have just heard from my source, who claims to be familiar with Lawrence O’Donnell, that the MSNBC host engages in some pretty shocking and weird behavior. If true, it places into context his recent journalistic blunder. O’Donnell last week took to the airwaves to report that Russian oligarchs tied to Vladimir Putin cosigned a
