With his customary cheekiness, Muhammad Ali responded to the reporter inquiring about his thoughts on Africa after his Rumble in the Jungle boxing match. It was 1974. Ali had just returned to the U.S. from Zaire, where he had beaten the previously undefeated world heavyweight-champ George Foreman. It was not for nothing that Ali thanked […]
The IRS—Trampling on the Rights of Citizens
The abuses by the IRS targeting political opposition during the Obama era are about to come to an end. The WSJ reports: President Donald Trump will nominate Charles Rettig, a California tax lawyer, to run the Internal Revenue Service, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Rettig will […]
Steele Dossier, FISA Warrants: a Big Deal or No Big Deal?
Today’s hysteria about the Trump administration was “already deeply seeded in the federal government throughout the 2016 campaign and the 2016–17 transition.” As Victor Davis Hanson explains in NRO, there seems to have been a number of powerful Obama officials who thought they had the moral right to nullify Trump. Many questions remain, “but Democrats, […]
Christopher Steele and the FBI’s Due Diligence?
Having trouble navigating through the non-stop spin on the 2016 government surveillance abuses? The House Intelligence Committee’s memo reportedly is to be released today. Just in time is the WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel’s non-partisan guide on what to look for and what to ignore. She writes: Rationale. Did the FBI have cause to open a full-blown […]
Federal Employees and the Rigged Game
In his SOTU speech, President Trump, advocating civil service reform, would like Congress to “empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.” According to Inez Feltscher Stepman, a senior contributor to The Federalist, it can take up […]
A Change in D.C.’s Tone?
Optimistic was the general tone of President Trump’s State of the Union speech, writes Gerald Baker in the WSJ’s The 10-Point. Optimism was a constant of the evening and part of a different Trump that the president wanted voters to see, writes the Journal’s Gerald F. Seib. His speech differed starkly from his darker tone taken […]
Schumer and Pelosi-Trump’s Immigration Wild Cards?
On the eve of Mr. Trump’s first State of the Union, the WSJ’s William McGurn asks an interesting what-if question: What if Mr. Trump looked up at the gallery full of Dreamers during his address and said, “I have offered a good-faith compromise that would not only resolve your place in America but open to […]
The Hypocrisy of the Global Elite
Immigration—Watching out for U.S. Citizens?
The purpose of government is to watch out for its citizens, especially so with our immigration policy. Tucker Carlson reminds viewers that U.S. immigration policies are in place to help Americans. The point of our immigration policy, the point of all of our policies is to help Americans. Watching out for our citizens is the […]
Donald Trump—Blurting out the Truth
In Impromptus, National Review’s Jay Nordlinger writes on what Jay calls President Trump’s refreshing candor: I’ll tell you something I like about Trump — his occasional bursts of candor. You remember when he fired the FBI director? His flacks said he did so because the director had treated Hillary Clinton unfairly and all that. Trump […]
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