With CNN taking a lot of flak for mocking 63 million Americans, Inez Stepman of The Federalist reports on Don Lemon “moderating” a discussion with “strategist” Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali. The self-labeled elitists “viciously mocked American voters as idiots and rubes.” CNN and other media outlets might want to meditate on why trust in […]
On Why the World Needs the U.S. President to Succeed
From former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s speech at the Heritage Foundation, 21 January 2020 (WSJ): I have to say that on this trip to Washington, I’ve noticed that respect for the office of the president is not so common, even here in the United States itself. That’s a pity, if I may say so, […]
Bernie – No Idea How Much His Progressive Plans Cost
A Free for All Norah O’Donnell interviewed Sen. Sanders last Friday for CBS Evening News and had questions for Bernie on free health care and free college tuition, as well as on his plan to pay off college loans. Norah O’Donnell: Your agenda has promised free health care for everybody, free college tuition, and to […]
Abolish the Electoral College, Dilute the Supreme Court
The progressive punch list for the past three years: Abolish the Electoral College Pack the Supreme Court Remove a presidential impediment from office “That’s their democracy,” writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. The Democratic Party is now defined by the faces it puts before us — Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Schiff, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jerry Nadler, Sens. […]
Will Voters Think One NYC Billionaire Is Already Too Much?
Why is Michael Bloomberg running, anyone might ask. Answers Conrad Black in American Greatness: “The incompetence of the present field of Democratic candidates has the virtues of both truthfulness and accuracy.” Gore, Bradley, Bush, McCain: Ready for Mount Rushmore? When Donald Trump was contemplating seeking the presidential nomination of the improvised Progressive Party in 2000, […]
Bernie’s Silence – His Signature Policy a Failure in His Own State
Bernie Sanders home state of Vermont failed at its own single-payer health care attempt. The Green Mountain State abandoned the effort after it failed to come up with a way to make the system work. In the Washington Post, Amy Goldstein notes that if there were any state offering ideal terrain to create a single-payer […]
What Happens after Impeachment Fails?
That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, as Friedrich Nietzsche would put it. At this year’s State of the Union address, will Donald Trump, “strengthened by the failure of his antagonists,” take a page out of Bill Clinton’s 1999 State of the Union address? Bill Clinton also went through the same process and came out […]
Wow. It’s a Grim America out There
Just listen to any of the Democratic presidential contenders, suggests the WSJ, and you’ll be scratching your head: Joe Biden: The middle class and working-class people are being clobbered. “The wealthy are the only ones doing well, period.” Elizabeth Warren: America is not working for Americans who “are sick of living in a country” that […]
Why People Hate the Press
Peggy Noonan in the WSJ outlines her “favorite” panel-candidate moment from Tuesday night’s Democratic debate. Bright Young Woman Journalist: “Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Sen. Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Sanders: “That is correct.” BYWJ: “Sen. Warren, what did you think […]
The Creepiness of Pelosi’s Impeachment Signing Ceremony
Media driven ceremonies usually are centered on big, happy legislation. And yes, with many pens, as Peggy Noonan points out in the WSJ. (A smiling Pelosi passed out golden taxpayer-funded pens as souvenirs.) Lyndon B. Johnson liked clutching bunches of them in his thick, meaty fist and handing them out personally. But the impeachment of […]
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