Republican Embarrassments
Free-marketers are right that tax cuts stimulate economic growth that in turn lead to expanding production and eventually more federal tax revenue. But the problem […]
Big Media
Why FISA-gate Is Scarier Than Watergate
The Watergate scandal of 1972-74 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American […]
Tear Down That Wall . . . of Silence
As the Obama wall of silence begins to crumble, the FBI’s reputation is befouled by its own rash actions, a politicized Justice Department stands revealed […]
Jail the Guilty, Repeal FISA
The House Intelligence Committee’s summary memo of highly classified FBI and Justice Department documents confirms what has been public knowledge for over a year: Some […]
‘The Final Year’ Is the Last Straw
The Final Year, a new documentary about President Obama’s foreign policy team during their last year in office, has a scene that is an apt […]
How to Outflank Everyone on Immigration
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie remark about the Republican primary in their recently published book, Let Trump Be Trump: We wanted none of the other […]
Cheatin’ Hillary’s Crooked Enablers
You don’t need to master some secret art of literary exegesis to see that the terse four-page Nunes memo—released Friday, despite unprecedented establishment apoplexy over […]
Nefarious or ‘Nothing Burger’? Our Oligarchy on the Nunes Memo
If you aren’t yet persuaded of the existence of a ruling class oligarchy in the United States today, the reactions to the release of the […]
Counterfeit Elitism
Those damn dairy farmers. Why do they insist on trying to govern? Or, put another way: Why are Republicans trusting Devin Nunes to be their […]
Hatred By the Numbers
How do they hate thee; let us count the ways. Critics of President Trump came up with a variety of numbers for their hatreds after […]
Media Fumble Their Latest Attack on Nunes Memo
The media and Democratic spinmeisters think we are stupid. Wait, check that. Not just stupid—illiterate. How else to explain their latest attempt—to borrow a promo […]
A Tale of Two Countries
Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-Mass.) had the unenviable task of rebutting President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address this week. Kennedy found himself […]
What If the Media Covered Sports Like They Cover Trump?
I don’t know one poll that suggested New England was going to have this kind of night,” said CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Nobody predicted this,” said […]
NeverTrump “Conservative” Michael Medved: A Look Back
Now that Donald Trump has had what is, by many accounts, an astonishingly successful first year—according to the Heritage Foundation, at any rate, an even […]
Jimmy Kimmel Hits a New Low
It was embarrassing to watch. In what might be a new low for broadcast television, as well as in the entertainment industry’s ongoing attempt to […]
Manhattan’s Shithole Museum
When Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, known for his quirky sense of humor, his bad taste and his sculpture of Pope John Paul II crushed by […]
The Media Octopus and How to Fight It
The unholy alliance between the Compromised Media and the Democratic Party is today inarguable. The two have become largely indistinguishable in both ideology and, often, […]
Bullying Booker and the War on Women of the Right
At a January 16, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) informally announced he’s running for president in 2020 by bullying Kirstjen Nielsen, President […]
Media Chickens of the Frankfurt School Have Come Home to Roost
This week’s press conference featuring the White House physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, ostensibly was about President Trump’s health. In reality, it was a physical […]
Another Week, Another Media Hatchet Job
Wendi Deng, the Chinese-American ex-wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is accused of serving Beijing’s interests in the United States. The Wall Street Journal recently […]