The NeverTrump Dilemma
After “CBS Evening News” anchor Walter Cronkite said he no longer trusted America’s leaders regarding the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson supposedly remarked, “If I’ve […]
The Media
Media’s Defense of Ali Watkins Exposes the Swamp
In an attempt to defend its hiring of Ali Watkins, the young reporter caught having an affair with a now-indicted Senate staffer responsible for protecting […]
Yes, the President Is Guilty of Obstruction
The shocking Justice Department inspector general report confirms our worst suspicions about the president’s controversial action last year. In firing former FBI Director James Comey, President […]
Why Do We Need More People in This Country, Anyway?
As Capitol Hill Republicans attempt for—what, the eighth? ninth?—time in the past two decades to jam through an amnesty that their voters have explicitly, loudly […]
Trump Derangement Syndrome for Fun and Profit
For the afflicted, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is plumbing new depths during their secular Roman holiday known as “Because Trump!” Through the hateful hysteria, a […]
All Those Lies on the Border
Much of what has been said of the challenges the Trump Administration faces in its fight against illegal immigration—specifically when it comes to the treatment […]
The Jacket and the Jackasses
A lady wore a jacket, on a ramp onto a plane; Predictably, the media went instantly insane. There arose at once amongst them, quite an […]
What You Missed from Michael Horowitz’s Testimony
In the media’s rush to exploit the plight of migrant children this week, the public testimony of Michael Horowitz has been buried or, more likely, […]
Trump’s Message: Full Transparency to Restore Trust
Back in the day, I wrote for a president. Not speeches, mind you, but special correspondence and proclamations. Watching this entire nauseating mess with the […]
American Greatness and American Venality
One ought to be immune to what Roger Simon splendidly and succinctly called the “festival of hypocrisy” that is the current hysteria over separating family […]
Trumping the Rule of Law
The outrage over the “crisis at the border” raises a question about the principles of NeverTrump conservatives. They whine about President Trump undermining or attacking […]
Fake News Finally Scores on Trump
The media earlier this week reported breathlessly that President Trump was separating children from their parents at the border and placing them in cages. Trump […]
Trump’s Immigration Policies Aren’t Like Japanese Internment
I rarely feel sympathy for Members of Congress, least of all Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, but his tearful plea about separating children from their illegal […]
Scandals Sanitized with Linguistic Trickery
Throughout Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation are lots of strange things. One of the weirdest is […]
Delusion About Detentions: On Family Separation at the Border
Upstanding journalists, their fellow right-minded pundits, and progressive elected official friends are outraged! align=”right” Part one of two. According to them, the Trump Administration’s approach […]
A Comedy of Corruption? Or a Bureaucratic Horror Show?
If the stakes were not so high, the 568-page report issued last week by the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General (“A Review of […]
The Press Will Stop at Nothing to Get Scott Pruitt
When reporters work too hard to earn a Pulitzer Prize for orchestrating the political assassination of one of the president’s most effective cabinet members, sometimes, […]
Trump’s Moves With N. Korea Are Nothing Like Obama’s With Iran
In the wake of the Singapore summit with North Korea, many commentators and publicists, Democrats as well as figures from the NeverTrump Right, have argued […]
The Deep State is Winning
The Justice Department on Thursday released its highly anticipated inspector general report detailing how the FBI handled its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails during the […]
Tying Hillary’s Emails to the Russian ‘Collusion’ Probe
The 568-page report released Thursday by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz may help explain why the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the […]