John McLaughlin, a presidential pollster, recently quipped that if public anger at impeachment continues to swell, worried Democrats will be inclined to pass more of Trump’s agenda in order to give them cover in their elections next year. According to the Washington Examiner: “Democrats in states and districts the president won are at serious risk […]
Preferred Pronouns Opening Pandora’s Box
It’s not just our citadels of higher education. Now Goldman Sachs, the white-shoe Wall Street behemoth, is imposing preferred pronouns on its employees. Seriously? Under the leadership of its new CEO David Solomon, Goldman is enforcing pronoun usage by “ensuring” that some of their employees can express their “authentic selves.” “But in doing so, the […]
Promises from Nancy – Quid Pro Quo?
There are nervous House Democrats, especially from swing districts, who are being encouraged to vote with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. James Freeman writes in the WSJ of Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis’s report in the Washington Post: “House Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a […]
Bribery and Extortion Gone Missing?
After weeks of talking about Donald Trump’s crimes – bribery and extortion – Democrats have abandoned those words like they dropped the hot potato “quid quo pro.” As the WSJ explains, the new charge is “abuse of power,” which is generally broad enough “for anything Congress wants to stuff into it.” (Democrats) don’t even pretend […]
Impeachment – a Simple Way to Discredit Trump?
Donald Trump has been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats in the House would impeach him for delaying lethal aid to Ukraine for one week. If President Trump can be impeached for this, then certainly President Barrack Obama and his VP Joe Biden “should have been impeached or doing something worse,” Victor Davis Hanson […]
Love Him or Hate Him, Why You Have to Vote for Trump
Historically tight labor markets, trade concerns and slowing economic growth? Not exactly Glad Tidings. Yet last month small businesses in the U.S. managed to accelerate hiring. According to the latest employment report from the National Federation of Independent Business: “Job creation jumped in November with an average addition of 0.29 workers per firm, the highest […]
When Will the Democrats Finally Pack It In?
Since impeachment is a political process rather than a strictly legal process, no actual crime “need be adduced,” writes Roger Kimball in Spectator.us. Andrew McCarthy’s explains this last gasp measure in his “superlative” book, Mr. Kimball continues: As everybody is repeating these days, impeachment is a political, not strictly a legal, process. No actual crime […]
From Anonymous: “I Am Part of the Resistance”
“Anonymous” claims to be a “senior Trump administration official.” Notwithstanding the dire warnings about Trump, Roger Kimball begs to differ with Anonymous that the “guardrails are coming off,” From Mr. Kimball in Spectator.us, 27 November 2019, on why the guardrails are pretty darn solid: The stock market closed yesterday at 28,121. Worse, unemployment, especially minority […]
The Real Sin of Donald Trump? Winning
Tuesday, Adam Schiff made his 100-page opus on Ukraine available to his House Intelligence Committee. Schiff’s report finds President Trump “guilty of playing domestic politics with foreign policy,” reports the WSJ. Schiff’s Pretensions to Nonpartisan Statesmanship “The decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry is not one we took lightly. Under the best of […]
President Trump, Compared to Whom?
In an amusing recap of the James Hankins family Thanksgiving gathering, Mr. Hankins, a professor at Harvard, announces that the impeachment hearings, despite family members’ lack of details, were front and center on the buffet sideboard. Only one beloved aunt was willing to declare her full support for President Trump. The rest had more or […]
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