The future of politics may well be that everything will have to get worse before it gets … worse, writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. “It won’t be pretty, and for many it may be painful.” In the United States and the United Kingdom—two of the world’s oldest democracies—national governments are at a standstill. This, […]
Trump Can Turn Around the SOTU Address
Before there was Obama, there was Woodrow Wilson, “the most dramatically progressive president we’d ever had,” writes Michael Walsh in American Greatness. Wilson morphed the annual State of the Union speech into what it has become today: “the hot air that keeps the Capitol dome inflated,” with its stupefying length and “a laundry list of […]
Weaponizing Racism
Brit Hume of Fox News is not holding his breath waiting for Rep. Steve King to win any award for being a civil rights leader. But as Mr. Hume notes, the NYT, which printed a long piece on King’s history of racist comments, should not be “throwing the word racist around with abandon.” Islam a […]
A Painless as Possible Shutdown
Regardless the outcome of the government shutdown – this weekend will mark the longest in history – the Trump administration has tried for “a painless as possible” approach, reports Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. That was the order from President Trump when the government closed, and the Office of Management and Budget was ready. Acting […]
More Than Just a 234 Mile Wall
The media would have Americans believe that President Trump cares only about a border wall. But as Mollie Hemingway notes in the Federalist, a reading of the proposal Trump sent to Congress on January 6, shows a lot more than a 234 mile barrier. 75 additional immigration judges and support staff to reduce the immigration […]
Serious Reform of Immigration and a Secure Border?
A painful truth: neither the Senate nor the House wants to address America’s immigration mess. And that goes for both parties in Congress. Government has failed to deal with immigration, as it has failed with health care, infrastructure, and even abortion, though it at least managed to fumble that into the lap of the courts, […]
The Paradox of Emergency on the Border
Andrew C. McCarthy explains in NRO: Because the president in the current instance is Trump, the commentariat is suddenly exercised, but this is a longstanding problem. Obama had his pen and phone, of course, and decided an emergency — namely, Congress’s refusal to do what he wanted — required an executive rewrite of immigration law. […]
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Respond to President Trump
President Trump is “manufacturing a crisis,” Pelosi said. (Pelosi in 2008: “We need to address the issue of illegal immigration and the challenge we have of undocumented people in our country—we certainly don’t want any more coming in.”) Trump’s border wall is “ineffective” and “unnecessary,” Schumer added. (Chuck Schumer in 2009: “630 miles of border fence” made […]
Philly’s Sugar Daddy Saves the Poor from Themselves
In West Philly, owner Jeff Brown is closing his ShopRite store, citing a loss of about 25% of its business over the last two years because of the tax on soda and sweetened drinks, reports the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable. Philly Mayor Jim Kenney evidently remains committed to the beverage tax. From the website of Philadelphia’s WHYY, […]
Not about Politics? A Fence or a Wall
What is the difference between a fence and a wall? On immigration, the position of the Nancy Pelosi House (along with many Senate Democrats) is that “fences between countries are sensible and worthy of 10-figure appropriations of taxpayer dollars, but walls in the same locations and serving the same purpose are immoral,” James Freeman notes […]
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