This week, Judicial Watch released an email from Andrew Weissmann, a senior Justice prosecutor working with Mueller, in which he praised former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, writes Kimberely Strassel in the WSJ. Mr. Weissmann was praising AG Yates for “staging a mutiny against the Trump travel ban.” Of 15 publicly identified Mueller lawyers, nine […]
Offending America’s Idea of Individual Liberty
Repealing ObamaCare’s individual mandate will be a tax cut for many Americans (we know it’s a tax because Justice Roberts called the mandate a tax). This will be a relief to Americans, who paid more than $4.5 billion in penalties for failing to enroll in an Obamacare-compliant health-care plan in 2016. But that’s not the […]
Trump Restores Constitutional Order
President Donald Trump is quietly restoring constitutional governance with his court picks. As Cato Institute, Ilya Shapiro reminds readers, federal judgeships are for life. The most notable success here is Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Those who hoped for another smooth-writing originalist to replace Antonin Scalia got what they wanted. As of Nov. 20, Trump […]
Helping the Ravaged Florida Keys One Meal at a Time
Hurricane Irma may be a distant memory if you have no connection to Florida, specifically to Key West and the Florida Keys. But along iconic Rt. 1, from Key Largo to Key West, the aftermath of Irma’s destruction in early September is clearly present. Take any avenue off the main Keys highway, especially on the […]
Why Every U.S. Citizen Should Be Thanking Donald Trump
Originally posted June 6, 2017. Below are three comparisons showing why the United States’ commitment to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025, which is only 8 years away, is such a bad deal for the U.S., writes Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. China—With 1.3 billion people and emissions already about […]
Babar’s Guide to Paris–Au Revoir, Babar
Along with the Little Prince, the beloved Babar series is among the most widely read and enduring French literature of all time for children. Jean de Brunhoff created the character of Babar in 1931 with “The Story of Babar.” A young elephant sees his mother shot by a hunter and flees to the city to […]
Hillary’s Astonishing Display of Rage, Affected Humility and Myth-Making
If you have oodles of time on your hands over the Thanksgiving holiday, you might want to suffer through Hillary Clinton’s What Happened. But then again, you might want to spare yourself the trauma of what Conrad Black describes as “a sobering and disturbing read.” I [Black] was astonished by the venom, untruthfulness, and zealotry […]
How Climate Costs Are Driving Politics in Germany
In Germany, reality is triumphing over political posturing on climate, explains Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. Over the weekend, the talks among political parties in Germany to form a coalition government collapsed. As of now, nobody seems to know what is going to happen next. And — even though there is little overt dissent […]
The G20 Climate Thing—a Total Farce
Originally posted July 11, 2017. Want to know what some of the major countries in the world are up to as part of the Paris Agreement? Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian has done the legwork for you. Just Google the letters “INDC” (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution) and the name of a country to see […]
Bill Clinton’s Shamelessness
If President Clinton had done the decent thing, he would have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal and taken his shame on his own back. Instead, he defiantly brazened it out and made the country complicit in his classic harassment, assault, abuse of power, and perjury. How did Democrats handle their president having an affair […]
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