It seems like long ago, but only three short weeks have passed since House Democrats assured Americans that a rush to vote was necessary before Christmas. President Trump, they claimed, posed a clear and present danger. At the time of the House Impeachment shenanigans, House Democrats argued that former national security adviser John Bolton need […]
President Trump’s Peace through Strength
In his response to the Iranian missile attacks, President Trump on Wednesday used strong but conciliatory remarks: “Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned,” Trump also announced unspecified “additional punishing economic sanctions” while the U.S. considers other responses to Iran’s attacking U.S. bases in Iraq. Trump’s goal, […]
Obama’s Nuclear Deal Empowered Soleimani
Joe Biden, on Tuesday, delivered remarks on President Trump’s strike against General Qassem Soleimani. The former VP “wrapped himself tightly” in Barack Obama’s Iran policy, reports the WSJ. (Biden) went on to offer a potted history of the Middle East B.T.—before Trump—when Iran was peaceable, its nuclear ambitions vanquished, and “there was a united front […]
Trump Says “Yes We Can” to Tehran
Give Praise to Fracking? In 2013, when President Obama sent forces to help Iraqi Kurds repel Islamic State, disapproving commentators talked oil “front and center” as the motivating force. As Holman Jenkins in the WSJ reports, “A writer at the New Republic assured readers that oil lies near the center of American motives for intervention.” […]
Has Trump Averted a Benghazi and a Jimmy Carter Debacle?
“This will not be a Benghazi,” vowed President Trump to reporters on New Year’s Eve. “This will never, ever be a Benghazi.” A Little History On 4 November 1979, Iranian extremists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran: 66 hostages seized 52 hostages held for 444 days A Military Fiasco When Carter informed a sleepy nation […]
Proven Wrong: Krugman, Summers, Rattner
Unethical experts abound in every discipline, but no more so perhaps than in the media and DC think tanks, warns Victor Davis Hanson in National Review. A supposedly clueless Donald Trump had the lemmings racing toward the abyss in an attempt to trash his economic plans as gravely absurd. Mr. Trump was bound to destroy […]
Winner of “Adult of the Year” – Attorney General William Barr
In what she calls a new award category, Kimberley Strassel at the WSJ would bestow her prize on “a person’s willingness to speak truth to power—whether to the press, the boss, or to partisan operators.” When President Trump nominated William Barr as AG in December 2018, the press, who demeaned all Trump nominees, was stymied […]
Why the Media Is Lying about U.S. Embassy Attacks in Baghdad
President Trump has gone a long way to dismantling Obama’s legacy in the region. But much more remains to be done, explains Erielle Davidson in The Federalist, “including a halt to American taxpayer money that has been flowing into Iranian-controlled governments in Iraq and Lebanon.” For those on the left, Ms. Davidson notes, there is […]
Happy New Year – and Don’t Forget the Good News
Despite the negative news from our left-leaning media, we are awash in good news. John Fund reports on what he calls the best article that you probably haven’t read this year. It is from Science writer Matt Ridley in the British Spectator. “We’ve Just Had The Best Decade In Human History. Seriously.” (Ridley’s) thesis is […]
The Most Underreported Story of 2019 – Trump’s 45% Job Approval Rating
A new Gallup report shows a rise in support—and even admiration—for President Donald Trump, details James Freeman in the WSJ. For more than 70 years the survey organization has been asking Americans which man and which woman in the world they admire most. Jeffrey Jones of Gallup reports: Barack Obama and Donald Trump are tied this […]
