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Friday, December 15, 2017
Alabama Stupidity
What happened on Tuesday in the reddest state in America — the state Donald Trump won by a landslide — was not a harbinger of the death of the GOP.
About That Insurance...
Lots of questions are being asked today about that so-called “insurance policy” Clinton loyalist Peter Strzok referred to in a text to his mistress, Lisa Page. Strzok and Page both worked at the FBI and were also part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating President Trump until their texts were discovered this summer.
Federal Bureau of Indignation: Texts Reveal Bias in FBI
Donald Trump may never get a fair shake from the media, but from the FBI’s liberals? Based on Wednesday’s House Judiciary hearing, that’s a long shot too.
Picking the Lock in Alabama
Turnout would be the key to which of the wildly conflicting polls would best presage the result of Alabama’s special Senate election, wrote Republican consultant Patrick Ruffini earlier this week.
Showtime vs. Christianity
The Golden Globe Awards nominations have been announced, and once again, the Hollywood judges really know how to find the worst junk to honor.
Political Journalists Have Themselves to Blame for Sinking Credibility
Maybe the problem is that too many people are working backward from a preconception.
GOP Needn’t Despair About Alabama
Republicans should not be disheartened by Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama, because the election had little to do with Doug Jones — and probably even less with Donald Trump or the Republican agenda.
If He’s Lost Fox Viewers...
The most important poll number to come out this week had nothing to do with defeated Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It had to do with Fox News and Donald Trump. We’ll get to the numbers in a minute.
The Media’s Democratic Ties
This past week, the Washington Post ran a pretty incredible story about the Democrat opposition research group, Fusion GPS.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Tracking Progressivism’s Progress
If the expression déjà vu had any competitors, likely they would be found in 2017’s proliferation of diatribes exploding from the lips of Donald Trump’s opponents.
Freedom of Speech and Forced Union Payments: Janus v. AFSCME
Unions have been on the decline since 1954 — which was their high point in membership as a percentage of the workforce. Today, unions represent a paltry 6.4 % of private sector employees.
Taking a Better Shot at Missile Defense
Thirty-three minutes. That’s all the time we’d have to respond to an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile from anywhere in the world.
Alabama Apocalypse
For the first time in a quarter of a century, the people of Alabama have elected a Democrat to the United States Senate.
Military on the Polarized Express With Trans Training
The Pentagon is about to deploy 23,000 troops — but not for the mission you’d expect.
By Endorsing Moore, Trump Sunk the U.S. Presidency to Unplumbed Depths
The first time ended badly, so when, 156 years later, Alabamians were incited to again try secession, this time from the national consensus that America is a pretty nice place, they said: No. No, that is, to rubbish like this:
It Wasn’t All Steve Bannon
Republican politics was starting to feel like a version of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers.” In the play, two scammers devise a tax write-off scheme in which they will make a killing by losing money on a Broadway show.
Trump’s ‘Abysmal’ Poll Numbers? What About Those of Merkel, Macron, May and Trudeau?
About a year into President Donald Trump’s first term, the jury for much of the country and for most of the major media has returned its verdict: Trump is a failure. Trump is incompetent. Trump cannot lead. Trump has no legislative victories.
The Revolution Eats Its Own
As I ponder the lengthening list of alleged sexual offenders drawn from Hollywood, the arts, the media and politics, I am moved to wonder why the overwhelming majority of the accused are prominent luminaries of the left.
Trump’s Accomplishments Obscured by Distractions
Side issues — some of them created by the president himself — have obscured the accomplishments of the Donald Trump administration during his first year in office.
Why I Secretly Wanted Roy Moore to Lose: Brooks 2020!
Rep. Mo Brooks was the true Trumpian candidate in Alabama, which is why I endorsed him in the primary. When the accusations against Roy Moore first arose, I proposed that the president make a deal to replace Moore with Brooks.