The Banality of Barack
Capping off a week where Senate Democrats embarrassed themselves at what should have been the semi-serious vetting of a Supreme Court justice, along comes our […]
Deep State
Yes, the Mainstream Media Is the Enemy
If you are aiding, abetting, and protecting a saboteur who has infiltrated the highest echelon of the American government, then you are, in the words […]
Is Trump’s Cabinet Undermining His Agenda?
Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, has exposed something constitutional scholars might, at best, call outright insubordination. At worst, it amounts […]
Christopher Steele: International Man of Mystery
Who exactly is Christopher Steele? The answer depends on who you ask. According to our media overlords, he is simply a former British spy, well-regarded […]
The Old Rope-a-Dope
To borrow an old boxing phrase, it appears that no one has recognized that President Donald Trump is using a “rope-a-dope” tactic in his constant […]
The Spy in the White House, the Dogs in the Manger
The New York Times hit a new journalistic low on Wednesday with the publication of an anonymous op-ed, purportedly by a senior member of the […]
N.Y. Times Throws Up a Smokescreen for Bruce Ohr
If this weekend’s bombshell story in the New York Times is to be believed, the nation’s top law enforcement agency under Barack Obama was not […]
Credibility Is the Currency: How to Defeat Propaganda
Defending America against enemy information warfare is a worthy goal. There are some hard truths that should be told about why we are so vulnerable […]
Media Peddles Bogus Story on Nunes London Trip
One of the more satisfying sideshows of the Trump era has been the media falling on its face as it spins poorly-sourced—even fabricated—conspiracy tales about […]
Thank You, Lanny Davis
It was only a week ago that Democrats, journalists, and NeverTrump Republicans were (again) calling for the impeachment of the president. But this time, they […]
The Truth Will Set Us All Free
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was star-crossed from the start. His friend and successor as FBI director, James Comey, by his own admission prompted the […]
Campaign-Finance Charade Is Prosecutorial Abuse
Last week, in an otherwise incisive analysis of the Michael Cohen dumpster fire, National Review’s Andrew McCarthy wrote that it was “inconceivable” that “Cohen’s campaign-finance […]
America’s Crisis Is Three-Tiered Justice
Last week brought to the fore a serious problem now threatening to undermine the very foundations of America’s constitutional republic: we no longer have equal […]
NeverTrump Turns to Porn to Make Ends Meet
As Julie Kelly established in these pages last week, when stripped of its Oz-like bluster, Conservative, Inc. is just Bill Kristol behind a curtain pulling […]
Comey Lied: Most of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined
Editor’s note: This story appeared originally at RealClear Investigations and is republished by permission. When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton […]
Trump Has Already Won on Impeachment
Only the final descent of the Trump assassination squads to the supreme self-humiliation of the Michael Cohen-Stormy Daniels nothingburger could drag me from my sublime […]
We Don’t Care (and It Ain’t Pretty)
We Trump supporters don’t care about Paul Manafort’s conviction on eight of 18 charges nor do we care about Michael Cohen’s plea bargain, specially worded […]
The Sham Cohen Plea Deal
I’ve thought a little about the sham Michael Cohen plea deal. It is interesting to me that when the prosecutors announced the deal on Tuesday, […]
Crime and Punishment
One of the reasons so many people are confused by the operations of our self-appointed fourth branch of government—I mean in this instance the unending, […]
Clarity About Clearances
Last week, a dozen former directors and deputy directors of CIA in Democratic administrations (Robert Gates made the list bipartisan) chastised President Trump for removing […]