Yesterday President Trump announced the signing of a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada. Renegotiating trade relations with the other two North American countries was a major plank of the president’s campaign strategy, and as has been his focus, he has delivered on that promise. Johnny Kampis, writing at The American Spectator, explains the […]
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The Democrats Weren’t Counting on This
Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, explains that Democrats rejected Brett Kavanaugh the day he was nominated. What they didn’t count on, however, was his forceful defense of his own reputation. The Democrats weren’t counting on that, and it just might have saved his nomination. Pat writes (abridged): Astonishing. With a quarter century in […]
Focus on the Bigger Constitutional Issues
Certainly, many Americans must be thinking that there is something much more important at stake here than what did or did not happen at some house in a D.C. suburb in the summer of 1982. Any of us would be forgiven for thinking that, Francis Menton writes in the Manhattan Contrarian. The Answer: A Simple […]
Feinstein and Flake Make a Mockery of the Confirmation Process
The fix was in back in July, set up by the negligence of Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office. It was delay, delay, delay from the start. Now that the Dems have their delay, do Republicans like Jeff Flake really believe they’re going to accept any findings that don’t remove Kavanaugh? Not a chance. And yet, […]
The Deep Flaws in Dr. Ford’s Account
In what was Republicans’ one and only chance to have questioned Christine Blasey Ford, Brett Kavanaugh’s principal accuser, they failed to highlight the deep flaws in Dr. Ford’s account. A lawyer, Andrew C. McCarthy points out, could have been completely respectful of Dr. Ford’s emotional distress and still have asked elementary questions. Elementary Questions Not […]
Liberals Seizing on Hate in Last-Gasp Effort to Retain Power
Robert W. Merry writes at The American Conservative that the Left is in crisis because, as he says, they are out of menaces to scare voters with. He writes (abridged): Few writers today on either Right or Left can come close to matching Shelby Steele in the depth of his thinking or the pungency of […]
Tapper: There’s no contemporaneous, corroborating evidence for any charges against Kavanaugh
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