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Saturday, May 4, 2019
Against Liberal Assaults, Barr Proves Unflappable
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee — some of them candidates for their party’s presidential nomination and hungry for TV exposure — battered Attorney General William Barr Wednesday with hostile and often insulting questions when he testified about his handling of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Grade School Bans ‘God Bless America’
Every day after the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, someone at Sabold Elementary School in Springfield, Pennsylvania, would proclaim, “God bless America.” But that patriotic tradition has come to an abrupt halt after the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a complaint — allegedly on behalf of a disgruntled parent.
How Trump Lost Half of Washington
The old ambassadors were willing to give him a chance. He destabilized the whole town instead.
Friday, May 3, 2019
The Farcical Bill Barr Scandal
An investigation into whether the president of the United States committed treason has devolved into a squabble over Attorney General Bill Barr’s brief letter saying that he didn’t.
A Tale of Two Obstructions
Every Republican remembers with disgust the video of Bill Clinton glowering into the camera and declaring: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false.”
The Barr Hearing Was Much Ado About Nothing
If Shakespeare had titled Attorney General William Barr’s appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he would have called it “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Why Vladimir Putin Is Still Laughing
So who was the big winner in Wednesday’s televised street fight at the Senate Judiciary Committee?
GOP Settles the Score on Girls Sports
When Mary Gregory swept nine events at the Raw Federation match last weekend, it shattered four world records in women’s weightlifting. There’s just one problem — Mary isn’t a woman.
The Worm Has Turned on the Democrats
The Democrats and their media colluders are belching last gasps of impotent protest as their dreams of interfering with the 2016 presidential election come to a screeching halt.
Fighting Over the Body
Read about a lot of high-profile deaths and you find families fighting over the corpses. They’ve long since stopped arguing about issues; they just want control over the body, and maybe an inheritance.
Barr Turns the Tables
Attorney General William Barr was scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. But he declined to appear.
Economic Nationalism Is Just Socialism on the Right
It has “invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing,” the philosopher and economist Friedrich Hayek famously wrote.
The Real Reason Democrats Hate Bill Barr
On the day of Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, there was, as always, a selective leak dropped into the fray.
The Clintons and the Kowtowing Comedians
Liberal comedians were outraged that the White House Correspondents Association brought on a Trump-bashing historian rather than a Trump-bashing comedian for its huge annual televised dinner on April 27— an exercise in narcissism if ever there was one.
Will Joe Biden’s Long Career Help or Hurt?
Joe Biden has been around a long time. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, at age 29 (he reached the Constitution’s required age of 30 before taking office in January 1973).
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Mainstream Media Deliberately Lying to Smear Trump as Racist
Democrats and the mainstream media have decided the best way to take down President Trump is to convince you that he is a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi.
Maximizing Pressure on a Terrorism Importer
“Maximum pressure.” That’s how the Trump administration describes its approach toward Iran — and lately, it’s really been living up to that billing.
Mueller vs. Barr
Attorney General William Barr testified yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his oversight of the Mueller report.
Fake News: The Post-Trump Economic ‘Disaster’
Many “experts” expected, predicted and warned of instant economic disaster under a Donald Trump presidency. But a funny thing happened on our way to economic oblivion. The economy took off.
Signs of the Times
It took a few days, but the New York Times finally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind President Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dog resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dog wore a Star of David around its neck.