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Friday, May 19, 2017
Tim Allen’s Hit Gets Canceled
In January, ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey told a Television Critics Association session in Hollywood that she wanted to retool ABC programming to include more shows for Trump-voting segments of the population: men, rural America and working-class families.
Special Counsel Takes Over
Late Wednesday afternoon there was yet another big development in a week of big developments. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment of a “special counsel” — former FBI Director Robert Mueller — to take over the investigation of Russian influence in the election and possible campaign collusion.
The OPEC Meeting Reminds Us: Pursue True Energy Security
This week, the energy ministers of petrostates around the world gather — yet again — in Vienna for the semi-annual OPEC meeting — an absurd confab in which the holders of the world’s cheapest and largest oil reserves discuss how they can manage global oil supply to their benefit. Let this meeting serve as a reminder to us in the United States that although our energy security has improved, there is far more to be done to protect us from the machinations of this cartel, and the other economic and security consequences of our oil dependence.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Dems, RINOs & the MSM Want to Overthrow Trump WH
The mainstream media hates President Trump. So do Democrats and Establishment Republicans also known as Republicans in Name Only. They want to bring down this presidency and will do and say anything to overthrow this duly elected leader. Anything. Some journalists are seething with so much rage and hatred, I would not put it past them to do whatever they deem is necessary to destroy the Trump presidency — even if it means writing fake news stories and using anonymous sources.
A Legacy of Leaky Justice
There are two men in the news today: one who is accused of sharing new intelligence with world leaders that might stop terrorists and another who risked countless lives by leaking America’s top secrets to terrorists. Can you guess which one’s being criticized?
‘Baumol’s Disease’ Explains Flagging Productivity
Although William J. Baumol, who recently died at 95, was not widely known beyond the ranks of economists, all Americans are living with, and policymakers are struggling with, “Baumol’s disease.”
Every Time I Try to Be Mad at Trump, the Media Pull Me Back
Every time I try to be mad at Trump, the media reel me back in by launching some ridiculous, unprovoked attack. This time, it’s the fake news story about Trump “leaking” classified information to the Russkies.
Trump vs. Waters — Who Should Be Impeached?
Almost from the moment President Donald Trump recited the oath of office, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) began a quest for Trump’s impeachment. But given Waters’ record of 26 years in Congress (plus a prior 14 years in the California State Assembly), she should worry far more about the possibility of her own impeachment for leadership malpractice.
The Russians Have Come
While contemplating the Democrats’ agitated preoccupation with the allegations of Russia’s intrusion into our 2016 presidential election, many thoughts occur.
‘Thin Soup’
Left-wing pundits and rabid progressives are foaming at the mouth, screaming for President Trump’s impeachment. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) took the House floor Wednesday morning and declared, “The president must be impeached.
Lessons From the Battle of Midway
Seventy-five years ago (June 4-7, 1942), the astonishing American victory at the Battle of Midway changed the course of the Pacific War.
Big Hack Attack and the NHS
The ransomware cyberattack that wormed its way into at least 74 countries recently exposed new vulnerabilities in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), as if it weren’t vulnerable enough.
The Dangers of Federalizing Hearing Aid Rules
One of the obstacles to reversing the tide of growing government is that so many of the laws and regulations advanced with the rhetoric of limited government end up expanding government’s scope and power instead.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Deep-Sixing the Paris Agreement
You wouldn’t think Al Gore and Donald Trump would have much to talk about, given their political divisions. Yet that’s exactly why the former vice president recently got in touch with President Trump: to urge him not to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
DNC on Abortion: We’ll Always Have Perez
Democrats dug themselves into quite a hole with the party’s hardline social platform last summer. And climbing out hasn’t exactly been easy. By almost everyone’s estimation (including Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif.), the Left’s extremism on issues like abortion and transgender bathrooms cost them the White House. But months after the loss no one saw coming, the party is still struggling to rebound.
Cruel and Stupid
President Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, ordered federal prosecutors to seek maximum penalties for drug-related crimes.
Democracy Dies in Anonymous Sourcing
On May 14, CNN host Fareed Zakaria offered a fiery secular Sunday sermon declaring that President Trump is a “danger to American democracy” and guilty of “gross violations of the customs and practices of the modern American system,” and that only the news media can “keep alive the spirit of American democracy.”
‘The Marketing of Evil’
“The Marketing of Evil” is one of the most important books of the last 20 years.
Who Has Absolute Health Care Moral Authority?
Here is what happens if you try to tell health care stories that defy big government orthodoxy:
Happy Legal Guardian of Unspecified Gender Day!
Mother’s Day marks an awkward time of year for those on the hard left.