A Seesaw of Sore Losers and their Special Counsels
Just under a year from now, on February 3, 2020, Iowa will hold its caucuses. A month later, the Democrats and the Republicans both will […]
Deep State
After the Coup is Gone
As the perpetrators of one of the most shameful scandals in American political history begin slowly to retreat, we are left to ponder one overarching […]
A Clusterf%$# of American Proportions
We Americans like big things. The Big Mac, the big car, the big house. For their part, American leaders tend to love big foreign policy […]
Shutdown Revelation: Essentially Nonessential Employees
Did you even notice? Did anything in your life change? The federal government was partially shut down for 35 days, but was your life at […]
Trump Tower Collusion Storyline Backfires
It could be the most investigated and costliest 20-minute meeting in political history. I’m talking, of course, about the infamous June 9, 2016 encounter between […]
McConnell and the Iron Triangle vs. Trump and the Voters
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) aligned with the NeverTrump faction of Republican senators Thursday to introduce and pass a resolution to “rebuke” President Trump. […]
The Trump Effect
I have a friend who tells me that attempts to understand Donald Trump in the ordinary ways we understand politicians, even truly remarkable politicians, are […]
Who Do Our Intelligence Agencies Think They Work For?
It was a mistake to disband the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1945, just months after we had won World War II. Within just […]
The Real Reason Democrats Have Postponed Barr’s Confirmation
After what seemed to be a done deal following a relatively smooth public hearing last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee now has delayed until February […]
Stone Arrest Exposes the Cancer Eating American Criminal Justice
Last week’s arrest of Roger Stone at the behest of Special Counsel Robert Mueller incites me to recall Joseph Welch’s famous question of Senator Joseph […]
Census Fight Is About Dollars and Votes
While the national debate continues over how secure our border will be, another aspect of illegal immigration continues to snake its way through the courts. […]
Who Leaked the Bogus WikiLeaks Email About Don Jr.?
The Trump presidential campaign’s alleged ties to WikiLeaks have been a pivotal piece of the Trump-Russia “collusion” story since the beginning. In order to mitigate […]
The Media’s Selective Curiosity
Members of the mainstream media understandably resent President Trump’s description of them as purveyors of “fake news.” After all, they do the public a service […]
Depose the Deep State or a Wall Is Meaningless
Last week in the Russian collusion saga, we learned that the FBI opened an investigation into the president because it disagreed with him on a […]
Should the FBI Run the Country?
Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, “It depends on the president,” let us imagine the following scenario. Return to 2008, when candidate […]
Schiff for Brains Misleads Congress
It’s a good thing President Trump canceled the Democrats’ overseas excursion this weekend because Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has some work to do here at […]
The FBI Has Become Too Dangerous
If you’re not the first lady, being alone in the Oval Office with the president of the United States is a rare occurrence. Even visiting […]
Walls Are Closing in on the FBI—and Its Media Accomplices
Those of us who have closely followed the unfolding scandal at the Justice Department— particularly how the FBI abused its power not only to spy […]
The New York Times Proves There’s No Russia Collusion
The New York Times wants you to believe that President Trump “colluded” with Russian intelligence to swing the 2016 presidential election in his favor. A […]
The Media’s Trump-Russia Death Spasms
This week’s confirmation hearings for William Barr, the former U.S. attorney general nominated by President Trump to serve in that post once again, are expected […]