With Omnibus, Trump Makes the Best of a Bad Situation
People are unhappy about the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill, and just so. But while this anger at the president for signing the legislation is […]
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This Monstrosity of a Spending Bill Will Hurt Republicans
The omnibus spending bill passed in the dead of night and signed into law Friday, on the eighth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, is […]
‘Never Again’? Omnibus Bill Is a Product of the Swamp
Thinking about the $1.3 trillion—that’s “trillion” with a “t” for “terrifying”—omnibus spending bill that President Trump signed on Friday, I wonder who is most unhappy […]
Burying the Lead: The Media Ignores Trump’s Victories
It’s no secret that the mainstream media loathes President Trump. The coverage of the Trump Administration has broken all records in terms of consistent, vitriolic […]
Total Political War
The election of President Trump made it clear that America is not engaged in politics as usual. We are in the midst of a political […]
John Bolton is the Wise Choice
President Trump has named Ambassador John Bolton as his new national security advisor. It is a wise choice in challenging times. Bolton will succeed outgoing […]
President Trump Betrayed—Again
Yet again, President Trump’s trust has been betrayed: a cretin from the White House’s inner circle has leaked that Trump was advised not to congratulate […]
Time to End Mueller’s Investigation About Nothing
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation into “Trump-Russia collusion” has devolved into a ludicrous media spectacle, a meandering situation comedy “about nothing” that is in […]
American Identity is Not Globalist
In a column this week for The Washington Post, Michael Gerson laments the passing, at least in his imagination, of a time when America was […]
A ‘Higher Loyalty’ to Their Inflated Sense of Virtue
Some portion of the reading public is eagerly awaiting A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, the aptly titled exercise in self-serving historical revisionism by […]
Of Course Trump Should Defend Himself
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Sunday suggested President Trump should not publicly criticize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his 2016 campaign. […]
President Trump: Rocking the Swamp With Who’s Next
The president’s administration was in chaos in a time of national crisis, one in which the very fate of our free republic hung in the […]
Safety is Not the Reason Democrats Are Pushing Gun Control
In his highly acclaimed book on the Left’s Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, Twelve Who Ruled, the late Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer […]
Man of Steel
If the American Dream was flat-lining, the Trump administration may be acting as a defibrillator. Against furious opposition from within and without, President Trump is […]
Americans Deserve a Full Hearing on the Trump-Russia Hoax
The House Intelligence Committee closed its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, concluding there is “no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between […]
Toppling Tillerson
Now that President Trump has knocked off Rex Tillerson, perhaps it’s time to have a serious conversation about the structure of the federal government. President […]
Russia is Destabilizing America with Democrats’ Help
Colonel Stanislav Lunev defected from Russia to America in 1992. He came with a warning: Never mind the end of the Cold War. Russia was […]
Russian Scapegoats at the Ready for 2018
Fearful that the highly touted “blue wave” of Democratic wins in the fall midterm elections won’t be powerful enough to sink Republican control of Congress, […]
The Woman in the High Castle
In a dystopian fantasy in The New York Times at the end of the year, the columnist Bret Stephens reminded us of the horror that […]
Donald Trump on Love and Justice
One of the most revealing moments of Donald Trump’s presidency so far went completely unnoted. “We all learned a lot,” he said following his recent […]