August 6, 2023

WSJ cherrypicks from the words and legacies of the Founders to attack President Trump

The lede sentence in Jeffrey Rosen’s The Wall Street Journal weekend essay is typical of media anti-Trump disinformation, indicating that WSJ is now galloping in full stride with the herd. According to Rosen, “The allegations in the indic...

July 31, 2023

Piling on Donald Trump

What if there is a "cover-up" but no underlying crime?  And what if the biggest "cover-up" in the history of the Republic was the first impeachment of President Trump, to thwart an investigation into allegations of Biden...

July 29, 2023

Biden's Inaugural Address was a big, fat lie

From President Biden's Inaugural Address, January 20, 2021 (the single-sentence paragraphs are from the original text): Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting...

July 26, 2023

A puzzling suggestion from Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has what he must consider a clever idea to stop Trump: the 2024 GOP presidential field should coalesce behind a single candidate — Ron DeSantis, probably — who would then become the Republican presidential candidate and g...

July 25, 2023

NYT’s Thomas Friedman publishes an astonishing open letter to Biden

The open letter to President Biden from Thomas L. Friedman that appeared in The New York Times, July 24, in the space usually reserved for editorials, was so filled with disinformation as to indicate that the paper has a two-tiered policy on disinfor...

July 24, 2023

Jim Banks on impeachment

Congressman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) hit the political nail on the head when he told Breitbart that President Trump incurred Impeachment "because he was right" to ask Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into the Biden involvement into th...

July 20, 2023

Trump's farewell

With word that President Biden's political hit man Jack Smith has sent former president Trump a letter targeting him for a Jan. 6 indictment, it is useful, I think, to call attention to passages in Mr. Trump's "Farewell" of January ...

July 18, 2023

Visit of Israel's President Isaac Herzog to Washington, D.C. an opportunity to expose the Jew-hatred among Democrats in Congress

On his latest trip to Washington, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog is to address a Congress that includes Democrats who will boycott his appearance, among them the anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar, deputy chair of the House Progressive Caucus....

July 15, 2023

Special Counsel Jack Smith, defender of two-tiered justice

Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to prosecute Donald Trump, would rush a persecution of a former president while Garland/Biden drags out the detention torture of January 6 political prisoners. YouTube screengrab (cropped) From UPI ...

July 14, 2023

Biden's new military boost in Europe foretells a new censorship state for Americans

Just what the most repressive U.S. administration since Woodrow Wilson's ordered: a military buildup to draw us closer into a hot war with Russia, which will have the bonus for this Despotic Clique of providing the excuse for FBI head Christopher...

July 14, 2023

Defensive FBI director insists: Bureau is not partisan!

The New York Times, in its July 13 account of FBI director Christopher A. Wray's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, July 12, briefly noted Wray's exchange with Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy.  This observer ...

July 12, 2023

'Crucified': Black Georgia state rep switches to Republican Party

Meisha Mainor represents District 56 in the Georgia state House of Representatives.  On July 11, Ms. Mainor announced that she was leaving the Democrat party to become a Republican member in the Georgia House.  Here is part of her stat...

July 10, 2023

Lost to MAGA

On July 8, New York Times columnist David French strained to apply a human face to Trump-supporters, but I don't think I am giving him too much credit when I infer a connection to Biden's vicious attack on Pres. ...

July 6, 2023

A valiant federal judge defends freedom of speech from its enemies in the Biden administration

The Introduction to Judge Terry A. Doughty's Fourth of July ruling in State of Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al. — 3 - 22 - cv - 01213, includes this observation: If the allegations made by Plaintiffs...

July 3, 2023

Trump draws 'em

The internet carried reports this weekend of a Trump rally drawing 50,000 people to Pickens, S.C. (pop. a bit more than 3,000) on July 1 — with temperatures in the 90s. The only way Chris Christie would see a crowd of that size wer...

July 3, 2023

The two faces of Paul Ryan

The self-proclaimed "Never Again Trumper" Paul Ryan once praised President Donald J. Trump on CNBC's Squawk Box, April 17, 2018 — chatting with Joe Kernen.  This is a dramatically different face from what Breitbart ...

July 2, 2023

William Barr: Upright defender of the law or snake in the grass?

First, this point from Elle Purnell: Between April and June 2020, when IRS agents were preparing to execute interviews and search warrants, it was “career DOJ officials,” Shapley said, who “purposely slow-walk[ed] investigative...

July 2, 2023

New York Times presses the delete button on the word ‘Democrat’

Does anyone doubt that The New York Times not only is virulently anti-Trump (in the manner of a William Barr or a Paul Ryan), but is committed to effacing embarrassing references to Democrats convicted of deplorable criminal conduct?   The ...

July 1, 2023

It's time to end the era of legal persecution of an ex-president

It's time to find ways and means to end the unequal treatment (persecution) of a former president. Behold the opening paragraphs of a June 29 Politico story on a decision by a federal judge in Manhattan that would effectively de...

June 29, 2023

For Trump, 'Sentence first, verdict afterwards'

The New York Times, June 27, published seven letters on Mr. Trump's trial before Judge Aileen M. Cannon in Florida in August.  Six of them reflected bias against the former president or Judge Cannon; one clearly hoped Judge Cannon would...

June 29, 2023

Does anyone care that we're holding political prisoners in a DC jail?

The New York Times, Sunday, June 25, published an anti-MAGA propaganda screed called "Far Right Pushes a 'Through-the-Looking-Glass' Narrative" by Robert Draper.  As his slant projects a "Through the Looking Glass...

June 22, 2023

Finally, a touch of comeuppance for Trump-hunter Adam Schiff

Finally, and this is stated without schadenfreude, the House of Representatives has censured Rep. Adam Schiff for, among other things, perpetuating the falsehood that President Donald J. Trump colluded with Russia — if by the partisan...

June 19, 2023

The real William Barr

At the end of the William Barr segment on the June 18 Face the Nation, co-moderator Robert Costa asked, "Trump was indicted and arraigned in the records case.  Do you believe he is a target, potentially, in the January 6 case...

June 18, 2023

All the anti-Trump propaganda fit to deceive

This Glenn Thrush article in the June 17 New York Times, "Special Counsel Aims to Dodge Distraction in Trump Case" (online "In Trump Prosecution, Special Counsel Seeks to Avoid Distracting Fights") was falsely labeled "N...

June 17, 2023

While the Deep State focuses on Trump case judge Aileen Cannon, what about Judge Beryl Howell, who overruled his attorney-client privilege?

With the unhinged forces of the Deep State now apparently intent on forcing Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon off his trial in Miami, attention might well be directed to a curious ruling by another federal judge, Beryl Howell, accepting t...

June 16, 2023

Times goes bonkers salivating over Trump in prison

Nicholas Kristof was certainly insightful when he wrote in The New York Times, August 2016, that America has become "meaner" with the emergence of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. But seven years ago, Kristof misdirected the sourc...

June 15, 2023

WSJ vs. DJT

Evidently, from the wording of the Wall Street Journal's two editorials on the Garland/Biden/Smith indictment that appeared in the June 10–11 and June 14 editions, there's a Democrat mole working on the editorial page.  (...

June 14, 2023

Paul Ryan opens mouth, re-confirms swamp status (again)

Paul F. Ryan declared on Black Tuesday that the federal indictment of former president Trump makes Trump unelectable in 2024. I hasten to put this backstabbing comment into context.  Last November, Ryan predicted that Mr. Trump would los...

June 13, 2023

TDS enters a new phase

Robert Reich, labor secretary under Clinton, wants Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to bar Donald J. Trump from seeking re-election to the presidency based on the provision banning insurrectionists from holding office.  It must...

June 12, 2023

A trifecta of anti-Trump vitriol in The New York Times yesterday

The title of the David French New York Times column, June 11 (print edition) was "Indicting Was the Right Call."  And how could a Garland/Biden/Smith indictment of former president Trump not be a "right call" to a New Yo...

June 11, 2023

The Indictment of Donald J. Trump continues the lies of Russiagate and Trump Impeachment I

The Deep State is continuing its campaign of falsely accusing Donald J. Trump of being a threat to national security, a false and despicable accusation that began with the Big Lie, as was made clear in The Durham Report.   The accusation th...

June 5, 2023

Zelensky turns against Trump to help Biden's re-election

Ukraine's President Zelensky apparently expects his bread will best be buttered by the anti-Trump cabal.  How else to explain his attack on the former president, expressing fear of his re-election?     Aske...

June 5, 2023

Apocalyptic Peggy Noonan threatens 'Trump Republicans'

If Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan decided to be a presidential candidate next year, she would be barred from the debates. The GOP debate rules include a pledge to support the Republican 2024 presidential nominee, and Ms. Noonan makes i...

June 3, 2023

Jim Jordan takes on a corrupt legal establishment

On June 2, the internet was filled with reports of House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan's letter of June 1 to Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking information as to the FBI's role in Special Counsel Jack Smith'...

May 29, 2023

Trump and Republican unity

Ronna Romney McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, has offered a weak call for GOP unity under a "Beat Biden" battle cry.  If Ms. McDaniel were guided by the need for Republican unity, she would...

May 28, 2023

Some reflections on the Stewart Rhodes 18-year prison sentence

Steward Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18-years in federal federal prison for seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and tampering with documents or proceedings related to the January 6, 2001 protests. Rho...

May 25, 2023

The Republican presidential candidates must unite in defense of fairness for the Jan. 6 political prisoners — and one another

Just the News reported that Christopher Grider, 41, a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the Capitol, has been sentenced by federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee, to 83 months (almost seven years) in prison, foll...

May 22, 2023

OK, Dems. Let's apply the George Santos standard to everyone

Democrats are trying to expel Republican George Santos from Congress, depriving the GOP of one quarter of its majority in the House of Representatives. The New York Times, in its May 21 editorial, calls on House Republicans to remove Rep. Geo...

May 21, 2023

Never-Trumps like Peggy Noonan 'can't handle the truth'

Wall Street Journal weekend columnist Peggy Noonan checked in, May 20-21, with post-Durham Report commentary called “Unanswered Questions About Trump and Russia.” The column started off by saying that the Report’s conclusions, in...

May 17, 2023

What the Durham Report is really worth

Kudos to The Washington Times for its May 16 story suggesting rescission of the Pulitzer Prizes that went to The New York Times and The Washington Post for reporting the (false) story alleging Trump-Russia collusion. Here is the description of the...

May 16, 2023

David French hits a foul ball on Jordan Neely and 'rule of law' in New York

David French, the newest NeverTrump columnist at The New York Times, cites relevant statistics about the late Jordan Neely — and the problems homeless (and mentally challenged) people pose to the general population — to conclude, "Ne...

May 13, 2023

Quite a portrait: The New York Times and E. Jean Carroll

Three days following E. Jean Carroll's unsurprising courtroom victory over former president Donald J. Trump in deep-blue Manhattan (for Biden more than 86%), The New York Times ran a story, May 12, requiring input from three reporters, on the pos...

May 10, 2023

Does E. Jean Carroll hate men or not?

Attorneys for Donald J. Trump, former president and candidate for president, say that he will appeal the finding of a federal civil jury in Manhattan that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll and, later, defamed her, resulting in a monetary award of...

May 9, 2023

William P. Barr: Anti-Trump but not anti–Trump's policies

The May 8 Wall Street Journal editorial, "Bill Barr's Warning on Trump," gave an incomplete summary of the former attorney general's appearance before the City Club of Cleveland, May 5 that amounted a distortion of his otherwis...

May 9, 2023

Advice from April 1940 for the House Judiciary Committee

An address by Attorney General (later Supreme Court justice) Robert H. Jackson to United States attorneys, April 1, 1940, drew my interest as I anticipate the deposition of attorney Mark Pomerantz, an anti-Trump zealot, before the House Jud...

May 3, 2023

E. Jean Carroll's Trump-bashing

According to the May 2 New York Times, on the last day of her testimony in her civil suit against Donald J. Trump alleging rape, E. Jean Carroll insisted that she was fired as advice columnist for Elle because President Trump called he...

May 1, 2023

For The New York Times (and its ilk), Donald J. Trump can't be hounded enough

The title of Katherine Miller's anti-Trump article in the April 30 Opinion section of The New York Times asked, "Are We Making an Example of Trump?"  Compare, however, the online title: "Donald Trump May Have Begun Losing...

April 28, 2023

Let the primary debates disappear

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, in calling, April 26, for Republican primary debates as a useful way of defeating Biden's bid for re-election, suggests a new-found hostility to the Trump re-election effort.   But then, the New Y...

April 27, 2023

Joe Biden's hate-speech re-election bid

Here is the NPR headline, April 26, for its Biden-is-seeking-re-election story: "Biden warns of rights under threat from Trump and 'MAGA extremists' in reelect launch." This headline provides eloquent evidence that our president ...

April 26, 2023

Michelle Goldberg, your slip is showing

It just could be that Michelle Goldberg does not read the business section of the propaganda sheet she writes for.  The only other explanation is that she intentionally ignored the miscalculation of Times colleague Jeremy W. Peters. ...

April 25, 2023

Bloody Monday

April 24, 2023: A day that will forever be known as Bloody Monday. Just consider:  Susan Rice is leaving her puppet-pulling job in the Biden White House, Tucker Carlson parted ways with Fox News, marked by a callous, very brief press rel...

April 24, 2023

The domestic purveyors of disinformation are the real threat to national security

We should not be surprised that former CIA deputy director and acting director Mike Morell was involved in a Deep State ploy to prevent the re-election of President Trump, as noted in this report from Kristina Wong at Breitbart: Ohio R...

April 21, 2023

A shocking judicial rebuke to Bragg's anti-Trump persecution machine

Right from the opening paragraph of her order and decision upholding the subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee to depose Mark F. Pomerantz, Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil let the hardcore left have it — hurling that battle cry "no one ...

April 11, 2023

The roar of a first term, but brashly wealthy, House Democrat

Let's concede that Republican officials are, generally, not welcome in Manhattan -- unless, like former president Trump, they are in this politically intolerant part of New York City to be charged with crimes before a judge. Still, it was...

April 10, 2023

New York Times goes full Trump Derangement Syndrome

The title of the April 9 Times Sunday opinion piece was "Four Opinion Writers on Trump's Indictment and 'the Borderlands of Illegality,'" but, for the purpose of precision, it should have been styled "Three anti-Trump ...

April 8, 2023

Let the House hearings on the false 'insurrection' of Jan. 6 begin

It is not that House Republicans are merely lukewarm in their support of former President Trump and his MAGA program and therefore, according to the instruction of Machiavelli, in The Prince, will fail in helping this innovator overcome the fier...

April 4, 2023

What if Bush and Obama defended Trump?

Have you seen a legal expert commenting on the likely circus of the Trump voir dire?  Where is public opinion on putting Mr. Trump in the dock?  Unless the district attorney and judge have conspired to deny Mr. Trump an impartial ...

April 3, 2023

A gag order on Trump could bring chaos

The Trump campaign, along with a number of astute legal observers, believes the judge hearing the case being brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, could issue a gag order. The UK Daily Mail reports: Donald Trump's legal team is ...

April 1, 2023

NYT editorial board gleefully reports on Trump indictment

The triumphal editorial in the New York Times on the Trump indictment provides this description of the editorial board above the high-fiving of the editorial's gleeful writer(s) — in the print edition, March 31, 2023: The Editorial Boa...

March 31, 2023

Indicting Trump means indicting the Constitution

Alvin Bragg, district attorney for New York County (Manhattan), has indicted former president Donald J. Trump, apparently accusing him of a crime in connection with allegations of hush money payments, or the manner of accounting for such alleged paym...

March 29, 2023

A biased Oath Keeper juror speaks

This March 28 Politico article by Kyle Cheney should be reviewed by counsel for cause to reverse the Oath Keepers' convictions. Juror in Oath Keepers trial reveals secrets from the deliberation room Cheney's article was b...

March 28, 2023

The New York Times and the origin of the word 'snob'

A David French March 27 N.Y. Times column exuded a derisive sense of superiority.  Online, the column was titled "Opinion | MAGA, Not Trump, Controls the Movement Now."  For the print edition, the title wa...

March 27, 2023

While former presidents might not be above the law, their status limits punishment to house arrest

Prior to events forcing The New York Times to report that the Trump indictment will not occur on Wednesday, March 22, after all, Times propagandists William K. Rashbaum and Jonah E. Bromwich reported, almost with glee, "How an Indictme...

March 22, 2023

Where is the GOP united front opposing Bragg's politicization of the justice system?

Will any House Republican member ask for the emails between the Bragg office and the special counsel for evidence of...collusion, as it does seem to this observer that the neo-totalitarian goal is to hound former president Trump to death? Here now...

March 21, 2023

A guy convinced Democrats they could vote by text, and the government is mad

Once upon a time, the goal in elections in a democracy was to get more votes than the other guy.  No longer.  Under the Biden administration, if a conservative tries to help his side win an election, he is liable, at least in the ...

March 19, 2023

A Trump arrest will just underline the Deep State's crackdown on freedom

From Just the News, March 18: Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Saturday on CNN that if prosecutors indict President Trump but fail to convict him, he could get back in the White House.  "Having very m...

March 10, 2023

Impeach Biden — and Garland, too

How long have Jan. 6 detainees been held in jail without trial?  They are slated to be visited by the indefatigable Marjorie Taylor Greene and other members of the House (including, it must be demanded, House speaker Kevin McCarthy and...

March 9, 2023

The NYT vs. Tucker Carlson

We should not be surprised that the New York Times ignored a report on Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 video disclosures. If Sen. Chuck Schumer, declaiming on the Senate floor against Carlson, opposed a second showing of Carlson...

March 5, 2023

At the New York Times, a tale of two headlines

Here is the Times headline atop a story in the March 3 print edition of the New York Times, claiming that witnesses  lied to  a House committee now looking into "Jan. 6":   House Panel Witnesses Push Jan. 6 Fa...

March 2, 2023

A reminder from a past Susan Rice column of Democrats' vicious COVID lies

It is more than serendipity, I believe, that I happened upon a Susan E. Rice column, nearly three years old, that I spied in a closet that I hadn't opened for years till this time of truth about the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. This partic...

February 23, 2023

When a leftist grand jury forewoman goes 'giddy' at the thought of arresting Donald Trump

The "giddy" (and arguably immature) 30-year-old forewoman of the Georgia grand jury, apparently charged by Fulton County district attorney Fani Wills to come up with some basis to indict former president Donald Trump, is just the latest cit...

February 21, 2023

A Heaphy-handed Jan. 6 lead investigator tells all, or at least too much

One of the arguments raised in opposition to the bona fides of Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 Select Committee (to end our two-party system) was its apparent lack of a legitimate legislative purpose.  This argument is proved unpersuasive with fe...

February 9, 2023

Julie Kelly of American Greatness could just be our George Smiley

How delightful that among the Republican members of the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the House Judiciary Committee is Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, and not the objectionable Liz Cheney.  ...

February 6, 2023

Ms. Noonan regrets...the House membership of George Santos

In her weekly op-ed rant in The Wall Street Journal, February 4/5, Peggy Noonan dedicates her concluding section to attacking the presence in the House of Representatives of Rep. George Santos, of New York's Third Congressional District...

February 6, 2023

The Sulzberger family and the New York Times held hostage

The public image of a "press baron" is one of tremendous arbitrary power.  Think of Charles Foster Kane, the fictionalized William Randolph Hearst of Citizen Kane, making his mistress into a star despite a conspicuous la...

February 3, 2023

Republicans shouldn't forget the leak that wrecked the Supreme Court's reputation

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz suggested on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal, February 2, that the House Judiciary Committee (now that Republican Jim Jordan is in the chair) might, by means of its subpoena power, come up with...

February 3, 2023

McCarthy still doesn't get it about Ashli Babbitt

For shame, Speaker McCarthy, for shame!   The following quote appeared in a recent posting at The Hill by Mychael Schnell (2/2/23):   Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) broke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor G...

February 1, 2023

The anti-Trump New York Times can't stand the truth

To vary, for sake of accuracy, the "You can't handle the truth" line blurted out by Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup, in the movie  "A Few Good Men" --   The New York Times, and its political reporters and c...

January 30, 2023

Kevin McCarthy parries CBS journalist pushing to expel George Santos from Congress

On Face the Nation yesterday, among other things, the embedded Democrat host Margaret Brennan pressed House Speaker McCarthy to remove Rep. George Santos from the House.   Here is just one of Brennan's comments telling the American peop...

January 26, 2023

Speaker McCarthy, don't let the anti-democracy Democrats gut the Constitution

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has excluded Rep. Adam Schiff from returning to the House Intelligence Committee as ranking minority member — in which position he would likely have again been regarded by the Sunday talk shows as chairman....

January 20, 2023

Senate Republicans: Time to ditch Mitch

According to a poll released earlier this month by Morning Consult, and reported by a number of websites, including The Hill, Mitch McConnell, the senior senator from Kentucky and Senate Republican leader, is not very popular in his home state. ...

January 18, 2023

Should Trump and Biden be 'treated equally' on classified documents?

The Hill reported in a headline, January 17, that Mitch McConnell, longtime foe of Donald J. Trump, "call[ed] on Department of Justice to treat Trump and Biden equally" on the matter of retaining classified information after leaving office....

January 15, 2023

Urging House Speaker McCarthy to let 'Saychel' be his guide

"Saychel" is a Yiddish word for common sense (Google spells it "sekhel").   Consider  this term simply aYiddish counterpart for Occam's Razor.    Here are two situations that cry out for ...

January 14, 2023

Congress needs this guy appointed to keep the MAGA spirit alive

House speaker Kevin McCarthy would be wise to name an arbitrator whose responsibilities would include settling intra-party disputes and recommending courses of political action.  The premise of establishing an Office to Resolve Differences ...

January 11, 2023

A New York Times 'Republican' expresses his contempt for his party

The New York Times is not merely the carrier of articles fouled by false news.  The Times is also a spreader of political hate speech.      For Exhibit A in this regard, I offer the comments of Bret Stephens, ...

January 10, 2023

Good riddance to Richard Burr and other Deep State swamp creatures

Thank goodness Richard Burr is an ex–United States senator — and can no longer promote Big Lies such as that Russia fomented chaos and discord in the 2016 presidential election.  See the text of an August 2018 Senate hearing, wh...

January 1, 2023

A political prediction for the new year

Kevin McCarthy, as the next speaker of the House of Representatives, will be a disappointing leader who will demoralize the MAGA majority across the land but bring joy and gladness to the Deep State. How can this observer be so certain of this dir...

December 20, 2022

The incoming Republican House speaker must clean the Augean stables

The parting shot from the Pelosi Inquisition Panel, calling for criminal charges against President Trump and attorney John Eastman, and for Representatives Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, and Andy Biggs to be brought before the House Ethics ...

December 17, 2022

In 2023, Republicans had better do more than just posture in the House

Republicans are currently making noises about investigating the Democrats’ illegal and unprincipled acts. There are many targets, and it’s to be hoped that Republicans make good on their promises to expose Democrat wrongdoing. On Janua...

December 8, 2022

A call to the good people of MAGA to denounce the left’s anti-Trump slanders

For the past ten days or so, Donald J. Trump, has been falsely vilified as a White supremacist who is comfortable in the company of anti-Semites, and attacked for his “calls” to abolish or “terminate” the Constitution (despite...

December 5, 2022

Is Chuck Todd, the liar-moderator of Meet the Press, anti-Israel?

Media reports of Prime Minister Netanyahu's interview on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd suggest that Israel's leader has turned on former president Trump due to Trump's recent dinner with Kanye West and 24-year-old Nick Fuentes. ...

December 4, 2022

President Trump is the hero of many a Capra film

DC Larson recently pointed out in an American Thinker publication that Donald J. Trump is a real-life John Doe, the populist hero from one of Frank Capra’s four great populist movies, “Meet John Doe” (1941). Larson is, of course, co...

December 2, 2022

Trump v. Biden, the FBI, and the Deep State

It's no secret that deeply and thoroughly embedded within our once well reputed federal agencies are members of what we colloquially call the Deep State — perhaps another moniker ought to be "American Stalinists"? Filed yesterd...

December 1, 2022

Creepy DOJ press release touts disturbing Jan 6 convictions

Here are three paragraphs from the press release issued by the Justice Department on the seditious conspiracy convictions for Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, the founder of the Oath Keepers, and Kelly Meggs, leaders of the Oath Keepers Florida branch....

November 30, 2022

Of an early Holocaust denier and the ongoing demonization of Donald Trump

I began by searching for a news story detailing the failure of The New York Times to accurately report the extermination of Europe’s Jews during World War II, and came across a book titled, Buried by the Times. It is remarkable that jus...

November 29, 2022

New York Times notices 'political violence' and blames...Republicans

Behold The New York Times, the Paper of Record for the dissembling, demagogic Democrat party. First the lie in the paper's assertion, above the November 27 full-page editorial, that "[the editorial board] is separate from the newsroom....

November 28, 2022

The coup-attempt party

A political light bulb went on regarding Adam Schiff's remark on CNN's State of the Union as reported by Breitbart's Pam Key.  In the interview, Schiff again mentioned the Russia hoax he has promoted for five years, if...

November 26, 2022

Red Waves are more likely when the GOP starting point in the House is low

The party division for the 117th Congress deserves, I think, consideration in analyzing the midterms for the 118th.   Seems to me that talk of a "Red Wave" for this past November 8 harkened back to the House results for Nov....

November 25, 2022

Bidenflation lessons, and another matter learned by a senior this Thanksgiving

En route, November 24, to the traditional Thanksgiving dinner given by dear friends on Manhattan's West Side,  I emerged from the Broadway  No. 1 train at West 86th Street.   Whenever I am at that location, I go to the ne...

November 24, 2022

Supreme Court smacks Trump

During my junior year in college, 1960–1961, I took the Constitutional Law course given by Dean Leonard W. Levy, one of the country's foremost con law scholars.  In addition to his immense store of knowledge, he acknowledged the w...

November 23, 2022

What Republicans need to do to restore order in the House of Representatives

As the courts have failed in their responsibility to serve as referees to prevent committees of the House of Representatives conducting themselves in rogue, illegitimate, and unconstitutional ways, the House Committee on Ethics should undertake inves...

November 22, 2022

Should MAGA Republicans give Kevin McCarthy a chance as House speaker?

This grassroots MAGA populist agrees that on January 3, 2023, House Republicans, every single one of them, must be unified behind the MAGA banner.  Reports that House Republicans will oppose Kevin McCarthy for speaker must not lead to a dis...

November 21, 2022

An economic explanation for anti-MAGA hostility among opinion writers at The New York Times and The Washington Post — among other media outlets

Let's begin with the current price of lettuce in the northwest part of The Bronx and monitor the salaries and net worth of media opinion writers sharply opposed to MAGA and Donald J. Trump Last week, I noticed — indeed, was shocked by ...

November 20, 2022

What happened to the New York Post?

At the end of the movie "Casablanca," after Rick hands Viktor the letters of transit for him and Ilse, Victor tells Rick, "Welcome back to the fight.  This time I know our side will win."  I thought of thi...

November 18, 2022

45, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the prospect of him becoming 47, too

When word traveled fast the night of November 8 about the huge re-election of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and word trickled out as  s l o w l y   a s   m o l a s s e s  about gains by Republican candidates i...

November 16, 2022

MAGA senators, yes; McConnell as leader, no!

If only this story reported at Breitbart were fake news.  But considering the first three paragraphs, it has "the ring of truth." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday on CNN's "This Morning" t...

November 13, 2022

Elise Stefanik for House Speaker

Perhaps Rep. Kevin McCarthy might serve the GOP (and the country) by mediating any difficulties in the relationship between The Donald (Trump) and The Ronald (DeSantis). He is, alas, not the member of Congress to stand up against the demagogic, demon...

November 5, 2022

Dems worried about the end of democracy are looking in the wrong places

Michael Beschloss, who has attained the sobriquet of presidential historian, went off the deep end while chatting with MSNBC's Chris Hayes.  He agreed with President Biden that democracy might come to an end in the U.S. if the...

November 2, 2022

Asymmetrical application of justice for Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows

About one year after former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows went to federal court for protection against a subpoena issuing from the Pelosi inquisition panel on Jan. 6, U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols, in the District of Columbia, dismiss...

November 2, 2022

Deconstructing the New York Times anti-GOP coverage of the attack on Paul Pelosi

Media reports on the incident at the Pelosi home in San Francisco in the early hours of Friday, October 28, exemplified by the coverage of the New York Times, seem to be attempting to fan the flames of an asymmetric application of justice.  The ...

October 25, 2022

No luck for Steve Bannon, so what about law and order?

Evita Duffy, writing about the sentencing of Steve Bannon, at The Federalist, October 24, led this observer to a Politico article last June, by Kyle Cheney, that bolstered this observer's understanding why the courts have tended to be unsympathet...

October 23, 2022

No sympathy for Steve Bannon? Really?

If Paul A. Gigot, editor of the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, had written his October 22 editorial, "No Sympathy for Steve Bannon" for a course in Trump-loathing, his editorial would have gotten an A.  If, howeve...

October 20, 2022

Intense Democrat denial as midterms approach

With less than three weeks until the November 8 midterm elections, Republicans would be remiss not to cite the "denial" problem of the anti-Trump leftists.  A good starting point would be in the letter to The New York Times (print...

October 15, 2022

Foaming at the mouth, the media try to run cover for J6 charade

It should come as no surprise that The Wall Street Journal, in an October 14 editorial, gave credence to the rogue, irresponsible, illegitimate, and unconstitutional "Jan. 6" House Select Committee comprising nine Trump-despisers, two ...

October 14, 2022

One more insult to add on to the Jan. 6 junk pile

Pelosi's rogue Jan. 6 panel has added to its previous illegitimate actions, violating the terms of the House resolution establishing the committee, by issuing a subpoena to former president Trump.  If this wayward action by this rabid, ...

October 5, 2022

For leftist media, Trump has to be guilty, no matter what

Wouldn't it be fun to get big bucks, every week, largely from chatting with a like-minded colleague?  That's the gig enjoyed by the Trump-loathing Times columnist Gail Collins and her faux conservative, Trump-hating colleague B...

September 20, 2022

The two-party system challenged

September 18, the day after the 235th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, which created the federal system, the front page of The New York Times print edition shouted, "DEMOCRACY CHALLENGED." (Worth noting, neither...

September 20, 2022

New from the Times: Russians hacked the Women's March!

The burden, after the hoax of Russiagate, is on The New York Times to prove that its reporting on Russia is not fraudulent, is not a forgery, is not an anti-Russian variation on the anti-Semitic theme of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. ...

September 15, 2022

New York Times: It's not worth printing if it doesn't insult Trump

The New York Times apparently never lets a story go to waste without inclusion of an anti-Trump remark. Accordingly, in the midst of Sarah Lyall's September 14 article that, in the print edition, carried this headline — "Finding Comfor...

September 13, 2022

Republicans, don't succumb to weak knees. Don't get rid of Trump.

The following is copied and pasted from the text of the president's remarks at a Democratic National Committee reception in Maryland, on September 8, one week after his demagogic harangue at the entrance of Independence Hall in Philadelphia: ...

September 6, 2022

All the pseudo-sophisticated NeverTrump language amounts to dumb insults

The Stalinists' arguments against Donald J. Trump come down, I believe, to two elements: MAGA is the worst thing since the Black Death, and Trump himself is a blankety blank-blank. These impure principles of political polemics are not that dif...

September 1, 2022

Et tu, Rupert Murdoch?

One of Rupert Murdoch's papers, the New York Post, recently, joined the jackals of the anti-Trump cabal.  The lead editorial August 31 — "Republicans Must Move beyond Trump" — indicates that the Post's Trumpoph...

August 30, 2022

The New York Times and its devouring obsession with President Trump

The first time The New York Times demanded a special prosecutor to investigate President Trump was less than a month after his inauguration. From the opening paragraph of its February 17, 2017 editorial, the call for a special prose...

August 26, 2022

Bill Barr returns to make every conservative seethe with frustration

Maybe former attorney general Bill Barr is not a snake in the grass.  He comes pretty close, though, to being a worm in the grass.  For evidence, please see the text of his conversation with journalist Bari Weiss.  In this...

August 18, 2022

Does Trump have the political savvy to succeed in a second term?

Perhaps it is Donald J. Trump's strong point, but the fact that there is nothing subtle about him also leads me to conclude that nuance-wise, he is definitely challenged. I am not among Kevin McCarthy's staunchest supporters, but he acted ...

August 17, 2022

Liz Cheney goes down in flames, foreshadowing the fate of the Dems' Jan. 6 committee

Wyoming's Republicans have voted eloquently in their primary for the state's single seat in the House of Representatives, bestowing on Harriet Hageman a landslide defeat of incumbent Liz Cheney by a remarkable margin — greater than...

August 12, 2022

What if the Democrats want Trump to run for president again?

Susan Arnold, writing at Townhall, August 11, reported that Republican support for Donald J. Trump to seek a second term as president increased, significantly, in the aftermath of the FBI swoop-down on his Mar-a-Lago home, August 8.  What i...

August 11, 2022

FBI harasses a Republican congressman, and what will the GOP do?

A Washington Post account, August 10, of the FBI swoop-down at Mar-a-Lago included a report indicating that some 30 to 40 FBI agents in ten to fifteen vehicles were in the search party.  Isn't that a lot of personnel to serve a sea...

July 25, 2022

Bret Stephens's persuasion problem

The July 24 N.Y. Times column by Bret Stephens — "I Was Wrong About Trump Voters" — is not, well, "persuasive," even though he concludes the column stating that he is "in the business of persuasion....

July 24, 2022

Was Bannon found guilty because jury and judge feared a mob reaction if he were acquitted?

The spectacle, quite literally, of protesting crowds outside the homes of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, should prompt an additional questions during the voir dire (pretrial examination of jurors) for trials that are likely ...

July 23, 2022

A Trump announcement by Labor Day?

Politico reported on July 21 that Republican leaders will not pose obstacles to another Donald J. Trump campaign for the presidency in 2024.  Rather than staying passive on the subject of a second term for President Trump, Republican leaders sho...

July 20, 2022

McConnell crosses fingers, predicts 'crowded field' for Republican 2024 presidential nomination

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell indicated, July 19, that former president Donald J. Trump will not have an easy time winning the GOP's presidential nomination in 2024.  McConnell, who comes pretty close to being a card-carrying...

July 20, 2022

Prosecutor in Bannon trial lays the basis for jury to issue 'not guilty' verdict

In her opening argument to the jury in the government's case against Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress — not complying with a subpoena from the House Select Committee on Jan.  6 — prosecutor Amanda Vaughn said, according...

July 18, 2022

The NYT puts lipstick on a pig

On Sunday July 17; the New York Times debuted its "Sunday Opinion" section.  A note on the second page of this section, by opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury, pointed out that the section had been established in 1935, whe...

July 15, 2022

The real problem presented by the NeverTrump cabal

In a July 14 Wall Street Journal column, writer Daniel Henninger highlighted, "Responsibility for the public failure of this [Biden] government lies with the Democratic Party."  This assertion falls short of comprehensiv...

July 4, 2022

Leopards don't change their spots

Time-honored sayings are not necessarily to be dismissed as knee-jerk clichés.  They could equally serve to provide insights into character defects.  Consider, in this regard, the honesty-challenged demagogic representative...

June 19, 2022

Anti-Trump Peggy Noonan is out of control

What is it with Peggy Noonan? In her June 18/19 column at the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Noonan takes Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" slap at Trump voters and goes one — nay, two better.  She refers to voters who questi...

June 16, 2022

Speaking of two-tiered justice...

Citing the Justice Department's  lenient treatment of left-wing rioters compared to the harsh treatment of Jan. 6, 2021 rioters at the Capitol, including many who "are not accused of entering the Capitol or committing violence...

June 15, 2022

Jan 6 committee flouts the rules of Congress, delivers propaganda

The Jan. 6 House Select Committee has been marred by officials acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner.  The journalistic result is propaganda not fairly and honestly informing the American people on the conduct of this committee and i...

June 10, 2022

Jan. 6 committee: an exercise in brainwashing the American people

The title of this submission is actually a search request put to Google.  It seems to this writer that the hearings of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee are a desperate attempt by the Deep State, including Democrat officials and their media...

June 9, 2022

Apparently, Democrats (and the NYT) have no shame

The New York Times, in its online and print editions June 7, openly promoted the propaganda aims of the Democrats in connection with the politicized "Jan. 6" hearings, to begin June 9.  The headline for the online story ...

June 4, 2022

Navarro arrest is a Democrat assault on American liberty

The arrest of Peter Navarro by the FBI, shock troops of the radical Democrat party, should make clear to the most hidebound Republican member of Congress that the anti-Constitution cabal is confident it will maintain power after the November 8 electi...

May 23, 2022

Mitch McConnell, voice of the Deep State

The New York Times, in its May 21 print edition, and online May 20, published an edited interview with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The text of the article in the print edition was the same as online, but the headline for the online p...

May 22, 2022

What it means that Hillary Clinton did it

The Wall Street Journal ran a scathing editorial on May 20, called "Hillary Clinton Did It". This editorial began: "The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 was a dirty trick for the ages -- and now we know it came from the top...

May 20, 2022

Douthat due to discernment difficulties

Putatively conservative writer Ross Douthat, in his New York Times May 19 column, dismissed chances of Republican Doug Mastriano to succeed Democrat Tom Wolf as governor of Pennsylvania.  To this observer, Douthat's bias again...

May 19, 2022

Liz Cheney, ally of the 'despicable Democrats'

The lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal, May 18, "The Massacre Blame Game," began by taking note of "the transparently political attempt by Democrats and their media allies to blame political opponents for the murd...

May 17, 2022

In seeking to demean Trump, The Wall Street Journal demeans itself

"No good will come of the effort." That was the considered judgment of The Wall Street Journal in its May 16 editorial, "The House Subpoena Wars," calling into question the legality of the subpoenas issued to five Hou...

May 16, 2022

House Republican 5 should defy the Jan. 6 committee subpoenas

The following assertion appeared in a Politico article on unprecedented action by the "Jan. 6" inquisitorial cabal issuing subpoenas to members of Congress: "The panel believes that these five GOP lawmakers have insight into ...

May 13, 2022

Here is a fine example why New York Times 'reporting' is not to be taken seriously

In the New York Times' May 12 print edition,  reporters Chelsia Tose Marcius and Tea Kvenenadze wrote that a Bronx man was shot and killed by police after he wounded a police officer.  Their account is a good example...

May 9, 2022

As outrageous as the leak itself?

The institutional representation of the Supreme Court of the United States is, of course, the Supreme Court building. Accordingly, it would seem that the appropriate location to demonstrate on issues before the court would be the area of perm...

May 3, 2022

A decision based on 'privacy' leads to the end of privacy at the United States Supreme Court

Justice Harry Blackmun's opinion in Roe v. Wade, declaring abortion to be a right under the Constitution, was derived from the insertion of a right to privacy under the Constitution.  Disclosure in Politico of a draft opi...

April 29, 2022

Who has House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy under surveillance?

Two recent articles in The New York Times indicate that not only is the Times doing its best to keep "Jan. 6" alive as a distraction from the disastrous Biden presidency, but it has concocted an illusory scenario where the ...

April 27, 2022

A theory on Trump-loathing

Gerard Baker, in his weekly column in The Wall Street Journal, dated April 26, signaled that the paper hardly countenances a second presidential term for Donald J. Trump.  He writes: [T]he Republican Party is too important a po...

April 8, 2022

Stinging rebuke to woke Oberlin College

It might be said that an Ohio appellate court, on March 31, struck a blow against woke-ism by upholding a multimillion-dollar verdict against Oberlin College.  At issue was a tortious response by the college to a shoplifting incid...

April 6, 2022

Does Putin have cancer?

Early in 1971, I noticed a lump on the right side of my neck.  I called it to the attention of two physicians who told me not to worry about it.  But showing it to a third physician, a family friend, I was told to see Dr. Max Som,...

February 15, 2022

Liz Cheney, Peggy Noonan trot out the NeverTrump tropes

The Wall Street Journal's editorial page is up to its old tricks, giving aid and succor to the NeverTrump wing of conservatism in its never-ending quest to Get Trump. On Feb. 11, they gave Republican turncoat Liz Cheney op-ed space, ...

February 10, 2022

McConnell joins Cheney and Kinzinger in giving aid and comfort to the swamp's denizens

Mitch McConnell obviously has never met a conservative populist (AKA Trump-supporter) he liked.  That clearly is indicated by his gratuitous defense of GOP turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger.  Republican National Committee chair ...

February 7, 2022

WSJ censures the Liz Cheney censure by the RNC

In a February 5 editorial, "The GOP Censures Liz Cheney," the Wall Street Journal indicated that its ongoing nostalgia for the Bushies still clouds its political judgment.  The editorial insisted that the censure by...

February 4, 2022

Biden's Rule: Trust me, but don't dare verify because it's none of your business

President Reagan used to say "trust, but verify." Joe Biden has shortened that to everyone just trust. This authoritarian Biden "rule" was made evident in the course of the Feb. 3 briefing at the Department of State. ...

February 3, 2022

The US has a shameful history of meddling in Ukraine

The current narrative on Russia and Ukraine is simple: Russia is big and aggressive.  Ukraine is a small, harmless state just minding its own business.  Russia wants to reconstitute its old Soviet empire, and Ukraine is now in its...

January 20, 2022

Only one Supreme Court justice protected Trump's executive privilege from Biden's clutches

I won't say this opinion is the worst to come down the pike since Dred Scott.  It just offers a variation on Peter Finley Dunne's "Mr. Dooley," in that the Supreme Court follows the editorial pages (along with the election...

January 17, 2022

When NeverTrumps turn against Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. occupies the Oval Office solely because he is not Donald Trump.  He has no qualities to recommend him as POTUS beyond that.  Arguably, it was the support of NeverTrumps that provided his margin of victo...

January 14, 2022

When will the House GOP do something about its Liz Cheney problem?

Poor Ross Douthat, unable to chide the left without throwing in an anti-Trump comment to keep The New York Times' management happy.  This light bulb was switched on by his January 13 column, "Let's Not invent a Civil ...

January 12, 2022

Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan step forward to fight Pelosi's Jan. 6 witch hunt

Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Trump, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court, January 7, in support of the former president's claim that his official papers should be covered by executive privilege and ...

January 10, 2022

A century later, AG Merrick Garland revives the spirit of the Palmer Raids

History will record, once the storm clouds of leftist propaganda are dispelled by the winds of truth, that President Trump's remarks on January 6, 2021, were a defense of the Constitution, American democracy — and criticism of weak-kneed Re...

January 7, 2022

NY Times reporter wants Trump policies but without Trump

Thomas l. Friedman, senior columnist-provocateur for The New York Times, has deployed his January 5, 2022 space of haranguement for the dual purposes of incitement and intimidation. The online title of the latest Friedman  scre...

January 5, 2022

New York Times telegraphs the left's intent to use the January 6 anniversary to repress conservatives

With tomorrow the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol incursion, the New York Times is preparing the soil to plant seeds for a crop of hatred and repression of ordinary conservatives. The title of the unsigned editorial in T...

January 3, 2022

The New York Times publishes a column with a few nice things to say about Trump's policies

It has become a tradition at Thanksgiving time of recent years for The New York Times to allow Maureen Dowd to hand her space to her brother Kevin.  The ostensible purpose of the exercise is to let the paper's way-over-to-the ...

January 2, 2022

Did Linda Greenhouse give Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. the parting shot he deserved?

Linda Greenhouse covered the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times for nearly three decades, until 2008, and then, in late 2009, was invited to write a column, "centered on the Supreme Court," every two weeks, for the...

December 31, 2021

Project Veritas and the New York Times battle over press freedom and attorney-client confidentiality

There are, I think, only two possibilities with respect to the appellate arguments on behalf of The New York Times in its current legal bout with Project Veritas.  Counsel for the Times either are convinced that app...

December 28, 2021

New York Times howls after state Supreme Court smacks it

The New York Times, in what has become a rare, unsigned editorial — apparently written December 24, 2021, but published in the print edition on December 27, 2021 — has declared, effectively, that it is above the Rule of Law. The T...

December 26, 2021

Misinterpreting a federal judge's ruling denying Michael Flynn’s request for a temporary restraining order on Jan. 6 committee

In searching for media reaction to the denial by Hon. Mary S. Scriven, U.S. District Judge, Middle District of Florida, of Michael Flynn's request for a temporary restraining order against the House January 6th Select Committee, I noticed this he...

December 24, 2021

Enough, Karl Rove, enough: Put up or shut up

Enough of your kvetching about Donald Trump's "obsession" — your buzzword, not his — with 2020.  If Mr. Trump is nominated to run for a second term as president, will you vote for him?  That rea...

December 23, 2021

A paragraph that puts to shame the January 6 Select Committee of the House of Representatives

Lt. General Michael Flynn has filed a complaint against Speaker Pelosi and her Select Committee along the lines of the complaint already filed by former White House counsel Mark Meadows, but with an important difference.  ...

December 21, 2021

New York Times gives a platform to NeverTrump Matthew Continetti

Bias is immediately apparent in the title of Matthew Continetti's December 18 (December 20 print edition) New York Times guest essay: "Will Trump Ruin a Red Wave in 2022?"  Mr. Continetti, a senior fellow at the Americ...

December 16, 2021

Mark Meadows, an American patriot to the core

It occurred to me, quite suddenly, the evening of December 15, that Pelosi's January 6 Inquisition Panel is not really charging former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows with "criminal contempt."  That accusation serves a...

December 15, 2021

The Big Lie that Republicans threaten democracy

The January/February issue of The Atlantic warns that Donald Trump, in 2024, may bring about a "democratic collapse."  Hillary Clinton, the other day, predicted the end of democracy in 2024 with the re-election of Mr. Trump....

December 14, 2021

Mitch McConnell could stand to learn from James Madison

Donald Trump issued a statement, December 12, criticizing Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for caving in to Democrat demands for upping the national debt ceiling.  Here is the text of Mr. Trump's statement, in his typically dire...

December 10, 2021

Two positive developments pertaining to January 6

More than eleven months have elapsed since the events at the Capitol, January 6, 2021 — and many people arrested in connection with that physical intrusion into the Capitol building are still held in pre-trial confinement.  Congresswo...

December 1, 2021

The curious prosecution of Jussie Smollett

The trial of Jussie Smollett is finally underway for falsely reporting to Chicago police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in January 2019, but the prosecution seems to be conceding an important point to the defendant. For t...

November 27, 2021

If woke district attorneys do away with the bail system, then what?

Prior to the establishment of jails and prison systems, punishment included whipping, branding, and execution for a range of offenses not limited to murder and treason.  (There were also stocks, and dunking, I believe.)  Imprisonm...

November 18, 2021

House censures Rep. Paul Gosar for posting video with his face pasted on cartoon character

Paul Gosar, DDS, a Republican member of Congress from Arizona, has officially been censured by House Democrats plus GOP turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger.  He has also been stripped of his committee assignments by the Democrats plus the two tu...

November 17, 2021

The Steele Dossier indicted the media

This guest essay on "The Steele Dossier," by Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin, constitutes, arguably, a new development in ostensible expressions of regret: the attack apology.  Although Prof. Grueskin ackno...

November 16, 2021

Wyoming's GOP no longer considers Liz Cheney a Republican

An AP story, called to my attention by TheBlaze, November 15, reported that the Republican Party of Wyoming, on November 13, by A vote of 31-29, withdrew recognition of its lone congressperson, Liz Cheney, as a Republican.  Cheney's spo...

November 10, 2021

Time for Republicans to take a stand against Pelosi's Jan. 6 circus

When will the House Republican Conference (minus two members who should no longer be in the conference: turncoats Cheney and Kinzinger) rise up as one to denounce the Pelosi Select the Heretics Committee as unconstitutional — as have Representa...

November 8, 2021

Biden straining relations with Israel over plans for East Jerusalem consulate

President Biden's announced intention to reopen a U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem for outreach to Palestinians looms as a significant point of contention between the administration and Israel.  A look at the Vienna Convention on Consul...

November 7, 2021

Are Republicans trying to demoralize their voters?

Victor Davis Hanson is as articulate a defender of the American spirit of liberty as we have, but I have to take issue with the way he ended his October 29 article at The Federalist.   After asking a long series of questions along the lines...

November 5, 2021

Partisan leftist WaPo columnist blames Virginia Republican sweep on 'Trumpism'

E.J. Dionne, Jr., a Washington Post radical-left columnist, began his November 4 election analysis by warning that if Democrats don't "respond with urgency" to the "defeat" in the elections, "they will surrender the count...

October 31, 2021

Putin’s Remarks About ‘Woke’ Culture Deserve Serious Consideration

On October 21, 2021, Vladimir Putin addressed the Valdai Discussion Club, a Russian think tank established in 2004. His observations, especially about “woke” culture deserve attention even though he holds power as an autocrat and likely h...

October 27, 2021

Poor Bret Stephens reveals himself by sneering at Trump

First, permit me to make this suggestion about the left's aim on their mammoth spending bill: they always intended to pass a $1.5-trillion measure and started out at $3 trillion so as 1) to seem conciliatory by accepting reduction by half and 2) ...

October 25, 2021

Orwell's 1984 as manual for the woke

On learning that Twitter sanctioned Rep. Jim Banks for daring to refer to assistant secretary of health R. Levine as a man (and that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also referred, but without sanction, to Dr. Levine as a man), I turned, for insight on th...

October 22, 2021

The Democrat mob in Congress (with some Republican help) sets its sights on Steve Bannon

I have seen a report of Rep. Jim Banks's reaction that the move against Steve Bannon is aimed at a Democrat "bogeyman." Still, can Mr. Banks, who led the Republican opposition to the Bannon contempt citation, furnish the Am...

October 20, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene takes on the RINO elites

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks frankly and on the record.  At the end of Rep. Greene's phoner to me (honoring a commitment given me the day before by Nick Dyer, her press secretary), she said she was ...

October 13, 2021

Anti-Trump Republicans offer no 'wonderful life'

The New York Times hopes to incite Republicans to vote for Democrats with a much-noted column published Tuesday, "We Are Republicans. There's Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists."  Written by Mil...

October 5, 2021

New York Times screams louder: Jan. 6 protest was 'worse than we knew'

While the rest of the country comes to its senses and realizes that "Jan. 6" was a way overblown example of fake news intended to crush dissent from the vantage point of wokedom, here comes The New York Times to assert that "Jan. 6 Was...

September 16, 2021

Kevin Williamson does his best Trump-hating routine for the New York Times

One Kevin D. Williamson, writing for the rabid, radical New York Times, September 13, contended, "[O]ne thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the [Republican] party: We can't go home again."  The title of ...

September 11, 2021

So, NeverTrumps, are you happy now with Biden?

Five years ago, the Trump base could not understand the NeverTrump Republicans who were willing to have the horrible Hillary Clinton in the White House, not the Trump they loathed.  Thank G-d, that did not come to pass. But today —...

August 31, 2021

When two heads of state must combine their ages to beat Biden's

President Biden was originally scheduled to meet with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky on August 30, but as was the case of his meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the meeting with Mr. Zelensky was pushed back.  Wh...

August 30, 2021

Mental fitness, politicized psychiatry, and the authoritarian impulse

For criticizing President Biden's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has given up his commission and is having his mental health questioned by the Marine Corps.  Meanwhile, with the current POTUS showing signs...

August 26, 2021

Time for Congress to reassert its constitutional power to declare war

How about this for a poll question: Would Donald Trump, as president, have been more effective than President Biden in overseeing the evacuation from Afghanistan? Yes or no? Does anyone doubt that more than half of respondents would mark yes?...

August 21, 2021

Did Paul Krugman and the New York Times tip off the Taliban about Biden?

Four months ago to the day this piece is written, August 20, the print edition of The New York Times carried an editorial essay by rabid radical leftist Paul Krugman, with what is now this unfortunate title: "What's the Secret of Biden's...

August 16, 2021

The New York Times — the first draft of a movie script

The first page of the "Day of Rage" 8-page Sunday section in the August 15 New York Times stated, "For over four hours on Jan. 6, the seat of the United States government came under assault.  Here are the ...

August 12, 2021

January 6 political prisoners deserve much more outrage than they're getting

How long would it have taken rabid, radical leftists to respond if the Trump Department of Justice had held Antifa defendants in jail for seven months without trial?  Half a millisecond? Hundreds, yes hundreds of Trump-supporters at the ...

August 6, 2021

More Jan. 6 creative writing at the New York Times

Here is an example of creative writing. from a New York Times political columnist -- in this case Jamelle Bouie: "[T]here's no question that Donald Trump was determined to overturn the 2020 presidential election and end American constitut...

August 2, 2021

Relentless New York Times propaganda on the January 6 Capitol incursion

The New York Times is making absurd assertions about the occurrence at the Capitol on January 6 — assertions worthy of Soviet propaganda in Pravda under Stalin and his Soviet Union successors.  The article, co-authored by Lisa Le...

August 1, 2021

Lies of the left from former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan

The weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal for July 31 - August 1 carried a column by former Reagan chief speechwriter Peggy Noonan with this title: The Jan. 6 Committee Carries History's Weight."  Perhaps a more accurate title woul...

July 29, 2021

WaPo columnists disgrace themselves covering the 1/6 hearing

It was, arguably, The New York Times that first played fast and loose with January 6 truths when it printed a fictional account of the death of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, reporting, January 8, that the officer had died...

July 28, 2021

The January 6 hearings: Day one

One of the witnesses at yesterday's January 6 "hearing," Sgt. Aquilino Gonnell of the Capitol Police, seemed to threaten Donald Trump. He blamed Trump for creating the situation at the Capitol, adding that he would like t...

July 27, 2021

A true Republican cannot be a Pelosi puppet

Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican from Illinois, was one of ten Republicans voting to impeach Donald Trump, January 13, 2021.  That impeachment consisted of just one article: "Incitement to Insurrection," an arti...

July 26, 2021

The persecution of Garret Miller

Garret Miller of Dallas contends that  January 6, 2021 charges brought against him represent "selective prosecution."  Miller has retained the services of attorney F. Clifton Boyden, who, according to a report in the ...

July 23, 2021

Pelosi gets her puppets for partisan Jan. 6 commission

The partisan political propaganda is stunning to behold, even for the New York Times.  This observation refers to the July 22 New York Times story on the Pelosi ban on two Republican congressmen from her Jan. 6 select committee, w...

July 21, 2021

Will Facebook suspend Joe Biden

The July 19 New York Times featured this headline:  "Facebook Says Biden is Scapegoating Over Vaccine Falsehoods." According to this report, Biden even accused Facebook of "'killing people.'"  Strong stuff ind...

July 21, 2021

Pelosi's Jan. 6 commission gets its five Republicans

The ranking member of the "Jan. 6" Select Committee is Jim Banks of Indiana.  With Rep. Banks are Jim Jordan of Ohio, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, and Troy Nehls of Texas. Rep. Jordan, possibly the most...

July 18, 2021

Chief Justice John Marshall’s guide to combating the lies of the left

President Biden delivered a speech (transcript here), allegedly on voting rights, in Philadelphia, July 13 -- but the speech was, in truth, a call for the partisan weaponizing of the right to vote.   To appreciate the falsity of Biden...

July 17, 2021

Trump's out, but Trump Derangement Syndrome still dominates among the mainstream media

New York Times columnist David Brooks is a devout NeverTrumper.  He predicted during the 2016 presidential race that Donald Trump could not win.  See here for an example. Perhaps President Trump's 2016 victory agitated the ...

July 15, 2021

The Wall Street Journal could stand to exercise itself a little more over Democrat insanity

President Biden inflames political debate to demagogic levels by equating reasonable legislation to ensure the integrity of the ballot box to Jim Crow (white supremacist) laws, and all The Wall Street Journal can do is call Biden's invidious comm...

July 12, 2021

Will House GOP leader McCarthy appoint members to Pelosi's Jan 6 committee?

There is only one Republican on the House Select Committee on January 6, 2021: Rep. Liz Cheney.  That Speaker Nancy Pelosi picked Cheney to be on this committee suggests, arguably, an infraction of House protocol.  Typically,...

July 10, 2021

Social media, as a marketplace of ideas, must never discriminate against disfavored members of the public

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Donald J. Trump explaining "Why I'm Suing Big Tech," and The New York Times published a guest essay (the term op-ed has become verboten at the Times) by Kara Swisher tit...

July 9, 2021

Will the Democrats have broad smiles on their faces at the end of their Jan. 6 kangaroo inquisition?

For reasons not yet explained, the media refer to the date of the demonstration at the Capitol six months ago as "Jan. 6," not "January 6."  The forthcoming kangaroo inquisition on the event, under the aegis of Speaker P...

July 7, 2021

The Washington Post and The New York Times: PR agents for the Democrats

The front-page lead article in The Washington Post, July 6, carried this headline: In GOP, hopefuls focusing on 2020 The subhead asserted: CAMPAIGNS ECHO FALSE FRAUD CLAIMS Please heed the words "False Fraud Clai...

July 3, 2021

WaPo still hates Trump and needs you to know how bad he still is

Although the Supreme Court decision upholding Arizona voting rules made the front page of The Washington Post, July 2 — even above the fold — the lead story announced: "Prosecutors allege fraud at Trump firm." ...

July 2, 2021

Justice Alito devastates Democrat arguments in AZ voting rights case Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee

On July 1, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that Arizona did not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when it required in-person voting to take place in the precinct to which the voter is assigned and l...

June 25, 2021

A disgraceful judicial opinion suspending Rudy Giuliani from the practice of law

In an opinion replete with Trump Derangement Syndrome, a panel of five justices of the 19-member Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court, First Department, have ordered the immediate suspension of Rudolph W. Giuliani fro...

June 23, 2021

Does Curtis Sliwa have a chance to be the next mayor of New York City?

The media claim that the Democrat candidate who wins Tuesday's primary will be the heavy favorite to be New York City's next mayor, and the Republican candidate is not expected to put up much of a fight.  See this analysis from...

June 18, 2021

Israel's new government currying favor with US Democrats

Yair Lapid, Israel's new foreign minister and architect of the Bennett government that unseated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, indicated that he knows just how to curry favor with the Biden administration.  He lambasted ex-P.M....

June 18, 2021

WSJ former editor-in-chief willing to go only halfway in critiquing media malfeasance

Gerard Baker writes the "Free Expression" column, Tuesdays, in the Wall Street Journal.  (Previously, he was the paper's editor-in-chief, from March 2013 to June 2018).  His June 15 column, "Toobin, 1619 an...

June 11, 2021

NeverTrump-lite Wall Street Journal, meet Barbara Comstock, NeverTrump hardcore

The Wall Street Journal, in a June 10 editorial, "Barr, Garland and Lafayette Park," published a curious way of referring to the mendacious, mean-spirited anti-Trump media.  The editorial, citing false reports of vote manipulation...

June 6, 2021

Big Tech takes a giant step towards totalitarianism

Twitter has banned former President Trump for life, while Facebook has settled for a two-year suspension.  How proud these mammoth-valued censorious outfits must feel.  Well, the late Associate Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.,...

June 4, 2021

How New York Times' Nicholas Kristof fits into the Hamas Charter

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was given the editorial space in the paper's June 2 print edition to answer charges from some readers that he was unfair in "criticizing Israel as well as Hamas" in columns on their recent round...

June 2, 2021

Biden's Big Lies in Tulsa

A Reuters account of President Biden's Tulsa talk, June 1, reported that the "Intelligence Community" has "concluded" that white supremacists constitute "'the most lethal threat to the homeland.'"...

June 1, 2021

Why F. Scott Fitzgerald and Theodore Roosevelt Would Support a Second Run for President by Donald J. Trump

Something Nick Carraway, in The Great Gatsby, says about Tom and Daisy Buchanan seems to apply, these days, to our totalitarian-minded leftists.   What Carraway, the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, says is that the Bu...

June 1, 2021

NYT bemoans 'no panel' for Jan. 6 fracas, boils over with bias

The leftist bias, indeed dissembling, concerning the January 6, 2021 mêlée at the Capitol is evident in a front-page article in The New York Times, May 30.  The headline proclaimed: With No Panel, Riot Questions Sure to Li...

May 30, 2021

Be gone, Paul Ryan, be gone!

Paul Ryan, the last Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, gave a talk at the Reagan Library in violation of Ronald W. Reagan's Eleventh Commandment:  "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."  Indeed, it...

May 27, 2021

How can Biden be fair to Israel if he treats Hamas as a tolerable belligerent?

Except for a passing reference in a New York Times article, May 26, about the threat of a  U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution critical of Israel in connection with the recent round of fighting between the Jewish state and Hamas...

May 26, 2021

GOP House leaders pile on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't like the idea of vaccine passports, and she tweeted about it: Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi's forced Jewish people to wear a gold star. Vaccine passpor...

May 22, 2021

France, Germany offer Israel worst advice ever to deal with latest Hamas attack

The lead story in The New York Times, May 20, on the demand (really) on Israel that it halt its self-defense campaign against the evil Hamas criminal entity, referred to France and Germany as "strong allies of Israel."  Whom is Th...

May 21, 2021

House Republicans have yet to be fully vaccinated against Cheneyitis

The election of Rep. Elise Stefanik as chair of the House Republican Conference has already done wonders for GOP morale.  With Ms. Stefanik as third-ranking House Republican, the GOP has a leader who fights for Republican policies, not agai...

May 20, 2021

Biden plays to the international anti-Israel crowd

And so, Joe Biden has declared, effectively, that he is not his own man.  How else to understand this report in the May 19 lead story in the New York Times: "President Biden, who had publicly supported Israel's right...

May 19, 2021

Meeks makes a mess out of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Eliot L. Engel was a Bronx congressman, elected in 1988.  He served from 1989 until 2021.  A literal liberal Democrat, he was a reliable supporter of Israel. In his last term, he rose to be chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Co...

May 19, 2021

A sub-head to gladden Hamas hearts

The lead headline in the May 18 New York Times was bad enough, declaring that "BIDEN / BACKS A CEASE-FIRE." What must have been a source of glee to Hamas, however, was this sub-head: "He Avoids Placing Blame — Israel Vows to K...

May 18, 2021

There goes Biden, about to pressure Israel

Word that President Biden "supports a ceasefire" between Israel and the Israel-denying Hamas (May 17) indicates that the terrorist organization has read Biden right — that he will, eventually, pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu to halt...

May 17, 2021

The Jerusalem property rights dispute is a landlord-tenant issue, not a matter of forced eviction

Sen. Bernard Sanders had a guest essay in the May 15 New York Times rushing to blame Israel's "legal system" for "facilita[ting] ... forced displacement" of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah nei...

May 12, 2021

Wednesday May 12 — in 1948 and in 2021: Observations concerning the Middle East

May 12 this year falls on a Wednesday — as it did in 1948, 73 years ago, when President Harry S. Truman called a meeting to address the situation in Palestine.  At that meeting were the president's key domestic aids, includin...

May 11, 2021

Trumpism vs. Bidenism

Leave it to Madison, in the fifth paragraph of Federalist No. 57, to anticipate the current matter of whether Liz Cheney is to remain the third-ranking Republican member in the House of Representatives, as chair of the House GOP conference, or be rep...

May 9, 2021

With Cheney on the way out, the long knives turn on Elise Stefanik

Curiously, a typically anti-Republican propaganda piece in The New York Times, May 7, concluded with an insightful quote from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).  The title the Times' slanted article: “In Turning on Liz Cheney, G.O.P. Bows to Tr...

April 30, 2021

Ross Douthat's hardly novel idea for the Republican Party

Ross Douthat, wrote a signed op-ed guest essay for The New York Times, April 27: "Here’s My Novel Idea for the Republican Party."  In it he concedes that the populism that Donald J. Trump brought to Washington...

April 29, 2021

Obama's puppet spoke last night

Where in the first Biden address to (a coronavirus-denuded audience of) representatives and senators in joint session did the Edict-Pronouncer mention the Middle East, and within the area, the promise of the Abraham Accords?  He briefly pro...

April 25, 2021

Once, long ago, The New York Times claimed a commitment to diversity of thought

It has become mantra at The New York Times, whether in "news" articles or opinion pieces (but, as the cliche goes, I repeat myself) to assert the falsity of claims the 2020 presidential election "was stolen."  Now Republican ...

April 24, 2021

The Squad's newest member

Jamaal Bowman, M.C., has been my congressman since January 3 of this year.  He defeated Eliot Engel,  my previous member of Congress for 32 years, in a Democrat primary context.  Engel was ousted from Congress having rea...

April 23, 2021

Which party called the other party the enemy first?

Nate Cohn, in a puzzling New York Times article, April 22, pronounced that America's politics was now divided into two hostile camps, each regarding the other as "enemy," not merely opponents.  The article is puzzling for its ...

April 22, 2021

How do we make sense of the George Floyd judge's bizarre behavior?

Prof. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law (emeritus), is probably right in remarking that the Derek Chauvin jury was intimidated into finding the Minneapolis ex-policeman guilty on all counts of homicide of George Floyd.  But does that not apply, ...

April 21, 2021

Black lives in Chicago don't much matter to Maxine Waters

A report from WLS in Chicago cited the office of the Cook County medical examiner for news that gun violence deaths reached a record 875 in 2020.  This lamentable figure apparently went without notice from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)...

April 18, 2021

The tyrannical transformation of America

Democrats seek an increase membership on the Supreme Court of the United States from nine to 13.  At present, the high court is divided among 6 Republican appointees and three Democrat appointees.   The four additional justices, presum...

April 10, 2021

Republicans must educate their base instead of sniping at each other

Kim Strassel's column in the April 9 Wall Street Journal calls to mind the observation of a Tennessean quoted in The New York Times, after the November 1994 GOP House victory, that the Republicans are "the party of the people now."...

February 11, 2021

Patrick Leahy's disgrace

The New York Times, February 10, has a "Trump on Trial" sidebar-type article, featuring Patrick Leahy, the four decades–plus Democrat senator from Vermont.  Leahy gets celebrity treatment from the Times b...

February 10, 2021

Calling out the Unholy Six Republican senators who voted to advance Trump's impeachment trial

The following is copied and pasted from the CBS News website, February 9: Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joined all ...

February 10, 2021

Rigged impeachment, contempt for due process

With the Senate "trial" on the House impeachment of former President Trump just underway, CBS News has come in with a poll asserting that 56 percent of Americans favor conviction, with 44 percent opposed.  According to CBS: ...

February 9, 2021

How the Times misreports the impeachment

The New York Times reported on February 8 that David Schoen, one of the lawyers representing private citizen Donald J. Trump in his Senate trial on impeachment, has asked that the Senate not to convene on Saturday because Mr. Schoen is a Sa...

February 4, 2021

Storm clouds for Trump: Yes, former presidents can be prosecuted without excuse of a faux impeachment

As Thomas Wolfe titled a chapter in his posthumous novel You Can't Go Home Again, "I have a thing to tell you." What I have to tell is not about the plight of a German Jew trying to get money out of the Third Reich, the con...

January 6, 2021

Donald Trump's Next Challenge

The problem with the first term of Donald J. Trump, arguably, is that he did not have the wholehearted support of congressional Republicans.  The proof, notwithstanding GOP majorities in House and Senate, the first two years of the Trump preside...

January 4, 2021

Donald Trump, authoritarian president?

The left, politicians (including, sigh, some Republicans) and media are quick to raise this question when confronted with claims that Biden's presidential "win" is fraudulent. But no one, not even Republicans, I believe, raises this ...

November 8, 2019

A Rough Outline of the Looming Political Campaign

House Democrats have been eager to vote to impeach President Trump  since January 3, 2019 when  they became the majority in the 116th Congress.  On that day, House Resolution 13 was submitted by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) for himself...

November 2, 2019

Restraining an out-of-control House

On October 24, fifty of the fifty-three Republicans in the United States Senate sponsored a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to initiate a formal impeachment proceeding that provided "due process" to the president and, amo...

June 29, 2018

NYT undercuts Mueller

Two New York Times writers have offered evidence that the actions of the Russians and former director James Comey may not have been so crucial to the defeat of Hillary Clinton after all, calling into question the raison d’etre of the ...

June 6, 2018

Trump and presidential pardons

There is no basis for anyone to get upset about the prospect of President Donald J. Trump ever pardoning himself; it cannot happen.  The Constitution makes it clear it can't happen. The Constitution, in Article II, Section 2,...

January 18, 2018

Abbas curses President Trump

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, now in the fourteenth year of his four-year term, delivered a speech to the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization that directs a curse at President Trump, insults the U.S. ambassadors to Israel ...

January 11, 2018

Civil war in the Senate Judiciary Committee

The unilateral action taken by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to make public the testimony before the committee from Glenn Simpson, cofounder of Fusion GPS, makes it clear that civil war has broken out...

January 6, 2018

For NeverTrumps, good news for America is bad news

With each report of good economic news, the public should expect that the establishment will grow ever more frantic in its rabid zeal to end the Trump presidency. On the front page of The New York Times, January 5 – but below the fold ...

December 28, 2017

The left and the politics of hate

Michael Goodwin, in his December 24 New York Post column, admitted to being surprised that the Democrats are continuing impeachment politics.  He commented, "I assumed it would last six months at most[.] ... But it's...

December 23, 2017

Morell didn't really regret

When the Politico interview of former CIA deputy director Michael J. Morell appeared, media reaction suggested that Morell regretted writing a New York Times op-ed endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. Morell ...

December 22, 2017

Rebuking the UN

The United Nations has rebuked President Trump.  That was the media's general theme in reporting the U.N. General Assembly resolution that expressed "with deep regret ... recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem."  ...

December 20, 2017

Adam Schiff now goofing around in the Wall Street Journal

If Trump foe Rep. Adam B. Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, writes about Russia-gate for the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page, does that mean we can expect to see The New York Times publish a defense of Presi...

December 16, 2017

On restoring public confidence in the FBI

A May 9, 2017 memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein titled "RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE FBI" recommended the removal of FBI director James Comey, noting that he could not defend Comey for "usurp[ing] the Attorney G...

December 8, 2017

Did the US follow Russia's lead on Jerusalem?

On May 14, 1948, President Harry S. Truman, over objections from secretary of state George C. Marshall, recognized the State of Israel.  The United States was the first country to extend de facto recognition.  Russia, ho...

December 7, 2017

A partial win for President Trump's travel ban?

One point should be clear from the Supreme Court's per curiam decision in Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project: references to campaign statements by presidential candidate Trump urging a halt in Mus...

December 5, 2017

AG Sessions must prosecute the leakers of Flynn conversations

When The New York Times reported the resignation of Mr. Flynn as President Trump's national security adviser, February 14, 2017, it referred to "a transcript of a wiretapped conversation" between Mr. Flynn and Ambassador Kislyak. ...

December 2, 2017

The New York Times: Voice of the swamp

The Times, in its lead editorial, December 1, 2017, "Help Wanted: Top Diplomat," is troubled about rumors that CIA director Mike Pompeo may succeed Rex W. Tillerson as secretary of state.  For the Times, Pompeo ...

December 1, 2017

Steve Bannon, friend of Israel

Former Trump aide Steve Bannon gave the keynote speech at the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) dinner, November 12, in New York City.  The event was covered by the Times of Israel and a publication called the Jewish Voice, bu...

November 30, 2017

The attempted CFPB coup

On November 28, Judge Timothy J. Kelly denied the request by Leandra English for a temporary restraining order to bar John M. Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, from serving as acting director of the Consumer ...

November 29, 2017

CFPB: The left's latest battlefield

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has become the latest battlefield in the left's war on President Trump.  Richard Cordray, the bureau's director, quit suddenly on November 24 an...

November 25, 2017

The Tea Party settlement

Finally, after four and a half years, harassment of conservative groups by the Obama IRS is put to rest, with the media downplaying the story. A William McGurn column in the Wall Street Journal, November 21, stated th...

November 18, 2017

Thanks, Bill O'Neill

Bill O'Neill, Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, citing a "national feeding frenzy" on decades-old sexual misconduct, alluded to his sexual past with a Facebook posting, a past alleged to have involved intimacy w...

November 15, 2017

A political reality moment at the NYT

  New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, in his November 13 column, "Democrats, Don't Be Fooled By Victory," reflected on Democratic election wins, particularly the re-election of a Democrat as governor of Virg...

November 8, 2017

Where are the FBI documents?

As of November 7, there has been no report that the FBI has delivered documents sought by the House Intelligence Committee since last May – and, by subpoenas, since at least August 24. 2017. House Intelligence Committee chairm...

November 3, 2017

Celebrating the eighth of November

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 marks the first anniversary of the election of Donald J. Trump, the people's president.  With the election of President Trump, the ordinary people of our great country reaffirmed their commitment to the legacy of ...

November 1, 2017

Keeping our eyes on the main culprits: the anti-Trump crowd

We are still waiting for the Justice Department and the FBI to produce documents subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee on the anti-Trump dossier compiled by British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, and funded by the Hillary Clinton...

October 11, 2017

Bob Corker, media-beloved Republican, to retire not a moment too soon

Maybe one day, if not now, outgoing Tennessee senator Bob Corker will be asked why he up-ended the Constitution's treaty ratification procedure. When Senator Corker appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on October 1, moderator Chuck T...

October 4, 2017

Leftist hate and the NYT

Michelle Goldberg had to hit her ad hominem attack computer key to match the anti-Trump venom of the NYT's columnists.  The very title of Goldberg's October 3 column, "An Unfit President Fails Puerto Rico," picked up on Kr...

October 3, 2017

Bernie on Sunday

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was a guest on ABC's This Week October 1, with George Stephanopoulos.  Here is an excerpt from the "This Week" transcript, with Stephanopoulos asking Sanders about  his Medicare-for-all...

September 30, 2017

A daily dose of Trump hate

  Michelle Goldberg made her New York Times debut on September 26 with a column titled "Tyranny of the Minority." Ms. Goldberg (onetime senior writer at the Nation) laments not only "the fact that Trump became...

September 20, 2017

New York Times shows glaring hypocrisy on blocking judicial appointments

In its September 15 editorial, The New York Times supported what it called the "informal Senate practice [that] allows a senator to block the nomination of a judge from his or her home state by referring to sign off on a blue-colored form."...

September 19, 2017

The left's and NeverTrumps' attacks on Trump come up short

The left's ad hominem attacks on President Trump are not working.  So reports Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere, September 13 ("Teflon Don Confounds Democrats"), based on data gathered for the Democrats "from a...

September 9, 2017

This is what bipartisanship looks like?

Senate Democrat Leader Charles E. Schumer, quoted in the New York Times, September 8, 2017 on the agreement that he and House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi reached with President Trump to fund government spending for three months: "'It was a ...

August 31, 2017

Free President Trump

Perhaps the media will not be able to fool all the people all the time with disinformation about President Trump. However low President Trump's opinion poll rating may be – it is said to hover at about 37-38% – the public's tru...

August 26, 2017

Donald J. Trump: Reviving the populist spirit

Will someone explain why the anti-democratic left keeps demanding clarification from President Trump on his position vis-à-vis neo-Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists, among others?  Would anything the president said on the subject of ...

August 24, 2017

Why the anti-Trump forces must not win

Above all, they – the anti-Trump forces – are liars, aggrandizing liars interested solely in their personal ambitions.  They don't have a patriotic fibula in their bodies. Assertions by his enemies that President Trump intends...

August 9, 2017

Nixon and the dreams of #resistance

How quickly, indeed, the years go by.  It is forty-three years since the fall of Richard M. Nixon, August 9, 1974.  (By comparison, only 29 years separated that date from August 9, 1945, when we dropped a second atomic bomb, on Nagasaki.) ...

August 8, 2017

Is the swamp winning after all?

The appointment of Robert Mueller III as special counsel is simply a desperate move by The Swamp to pre-empt action from Congress and the administration "to get to the bottom: of" -- surveillance-gate; leak-gate; unmasking-gate; dossier-gat...

August 1, 2017

Leftist media, thy name is distortion

Chuck Todd probably can't help himself when it comes to reporting on members of the Trump administration.  But the contrast to what he ignores from the left is...well, breathtaking. On Meet the Press, July 30, Todd referred to "a pub...

July 26, 2017

Adam Schiff, master of innuendo

Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was given another opportunity to spew his anti-Trump innuendo, obfuscation, and disinformation in another solo appearance on the CBS News program Face the Nation, July 23. ...

July 25, 2017

The Trump Hate Campaign

The #NeverTrump set has morphed into the Surveillance for All set.  Consider this comment, here directed at Jared Kushner, from Hate Trump-monger Jennifer Rubin. The danger for Kushner – aside from embarrassment – is that he cou...

July 22, 2017

Presidential politics, briefly explained

A letter-writer in the New York Times, July 21, wondered: did President Trump give an exclusive interview to the Times because "he secretly longs for the legitimacy that only The New York Times can confer on him?...

July 21, 2017

American Leninism

In the July 20 Wall Street Journal, former attorney general Ed Meese called attention to the practice at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of smearing political opponents.  Mr. Meese pointed to a remark by the ...

July 20, 2017

Hijacking the 2016 presidential election

On July 18, an editorial in The Wall Street Journal put it this way (emphasis added): "President Trump cannot rely on Republicans in Congress to rally behind him," "and most of the media want him run out of office."...

July 18, 2017

Who made Mark Warner, Adam Schiff intelligence committee chairmen?

Chuck Todd and John Dickerson and Jonathan Karl, that's who.  When Meet the Press (NBC), Face the Nation (CBS), and This Week (ABC) invite a member from the Senate Intelligence Committee, or the House Intelligence Committee, to insinuat...

July 14, 2017

Trump-haters rallying Saturday

On January 4, 2017, The New York Times printed a full-page ad calling on the American people to "STOP THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME BEFORE IT STARTS."  Signers included Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Undergroun...

July 13, 2017

When聽will Congress probe the 'Steele Dossier'?

The Steele dossier -- named for Christopher Steele, the former (?) British MI6 agent who reportedly put it together -- first got public exposure last January when CNN reported its existence and the contents, salacious material targeting Donald J. Tru...

July 8, 2017

Trump and the 'bureaucratic underworld'

In her July 7 Wall Street Journal column, "Washington's Leak Mob," Kimberly Strassel wonders why special counsel Robert Mueller is not investigating "the crimes that occur constantly and actually harm ...

July 6, 2017

The strange silence of Paul Ryan

The Democratic Party has become the party of neo-Leninism.  Lenin, you will recall, was fond of denouncing political opponents in the most vitriolic terms, and when he attained power as leader of the USSR, there was room for only one political p...

June 30, 2017

'Actual malice' and The New York Times

For Sarah Palin to prevail in her libel action against the New York Times, she must prove that the Times knew that the following statement in a June 15, 2017 editorial was false, or was published "with reckless disregard of w...

June 27, 2017

Trump-hating circuit courts get a rude awakening

The Ninth Circuit, later joined by the Fourth Circuit, decided (illegitimately) to put President Trump in his place, broadly rejecting his temporary suspension on travel from six Muslim-majority states – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria,...

June 27, 2017

NYT op-ed: Trump assassination fantasies 'a social necessity'

Howard Jacobson, in his June 24 New York Times op-ed piece, "Why We Must Mock Trump," began by referring to the anti-Trump production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in New York's Central Park, as proof "that plays r...

June 20, 2017

How low can they go? Hillary may have trumped MSM

On Father's Day, at least three of the Sunday morning TV talk programs – Meet the Press, This Week, and Face the Nation – made clear their hopes for an end to the Trump presidency.  Chuck Todd, at Meet the Press, asked:...

June 6, 2017

The Times: Propaganda organ of the left

New York Times public editor Liz Spayd's tenure ended on Friday, June 2 – along with the post of public editor.  The Times' reported elimination of the public editor position in a June 1 article accompanies news...

June 6, 2017

Broadcasting's brazen Trump-bashers

The Meet the Press panel of June 4 consisted of conservative Hugh Hewitt confronted by the three anti-Trump zealots: the #NeverTrump conservative Michael Gerson and leftists Heather McGee and Stephanie Cutter.   Three against one ...

May 31, 2017

The Oust Trump Campaign: 聽Transforming Lies into Truth

It has become apparent that a coalition of former U.S. officials, current Democrats in office and the #NeverTrump contingent in the GOP is working to turn President Donald J. Trump into an American Viktor F. Yanukovych, the duly-elected presiden...

May 31, 2017

Who made Adam Schiff chairman of the House Intelligence Committee?

Martha Raddatz, of ABC News, that's who.  Anyone doubting how far to the left Ms. Raddatz is should see her interview with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on ABC's This Week, May 28.  He is the ranking Democrat on the committee, but Rad...

May 20, 2017

Democrats and the rule of law

Can we seriously believe that Democrats are interested in a probe of collusion between the Obama White House and the intelligence community to derail the 2016 Republican presidential campaign?  Whatever happened to a bipartisan investigation of ...

May 13, 2017

Have Republicans learned from the election?

Have the Republicans learned that "consultants" and leftists practice deception when they warn that Republicans must be "moderate" and attract more minority votes or they will never win political power? Have Republicans le...

May 10, 2017

Donald J. Trump: Our very own innovative armed prophet?

Evan Osnos has a rather long article in the May 8 issue of The New Yorker, titled "What would it take to cut short Trump's presidency?" This sort of question is second nature to leftists, who are always on the lookout for ways a...

May 9, 2017

Wish fulfillment vs. reality

In his May 8  New York Times column, Charles M. Blow (who prides himself on his loathing for President Trump) asserted that "[t]he obscene spectacle of House Republicans" celebrating approval of the Americ...

May 6, 2017

A call for common sense

A front-page story in the New York Times, January 20, 2017 reported: "American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible...

May 2, 2017

Leftist language and logic

Nancy Pelosi told this to Jonathan Karl on ABCs This Week, April 30, just before she confused President Trump and President Bush: I see everything as an opportunity. And I've never have seen [sic] so much willingness to help w...

April 26, 2017

Kicking over the constitutional traces

Alexander M. Bickel, the great constitutional law scholar and proponent of judicial restraint, noted at the time of the Watergate denouement that it would be difficult to keep a president from "kicking over the traces."  That phra...

April 22, 2017

Trump Derangement Syndrome sends NYT’s David Brooks off the deep end

See also: Longtime close Hillary aide confirms physical symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome widespread among Beltway journalists Once upon a time, David Brooks was considered the house conservative at the New York Times.  But in his April ...

April 14, 2017

NYT NeverTrumps: Let's use 'mockery' to bring down the president

As New York Times columnists David Brooks, Gail Collins, Nicholas Kristof, et al. go with their anti-Trump vituperations, there goes Bret Stephens, formerly of the Trump-agnostic Wall Street Journal, to join them. Surprise, surprise.  The ant...

April 11, 2017

Will Republicans regret ending the Supreme Court filibuster?

If Justice Neil M. Gorsuch follows the path of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the Supreme Court justice for whom he clerked, 1993-94, Republicans may come to regret that they ended to Supreme Court filibuster to put Justice Gorsuch on the court. ...

April 5, 2017

Can a president who does not instill fear be 'dangerous'?

Long before President Trump got to be President Trump, leftists warned that, in the White House, he would assume dictatorial powers – would be a Mussolini, perhaps even a Hitler.  An early promoter of this bizarre line came from Danielle A...

April 1, 2017

The Gorsuch nomination

This is to suggest that Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell take no action to end the use of the filibuster as weapon to block Supreme Court appointments.  If the Gorsuch nomination fails by reason of a Democratic filibuster, so b...

March 31, 2017

Will the Ninth Circuit nullify every Trump executive order?

So far, Ninth Circuit judges have rejected President Trump two executive orders on temporary immigration bans into the United States.  Now that the president has issued an executive order canceling President Obama's executive order sharply r...

March 30, 2017

How do you like the sound of 'Vice President Merrick Garland'?

The latest indication of the vast left-wing conspiracy against President Trump appeared in an article in The New York Times, March 29, on the emergence of Vice President Mike Pence as a significant figure in the Trump administration.  The a...

March 25, 2017

The Clintonistas' last throw

The following is copied from the Washington Post website, March 20: "There's a smell of treason in the air," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. "Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would h...

March 21, 2017

The Old Order strikes back

Appearing separately on Sunday television talk shows, Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and committee chairman Devin Nunes indicated that they are hardly in tandem as their hearings on Russian involvemen...

March 11, 2017

'Best guessing' Trump

New York Times Trump-phobic columnist Nicholas Kristof gave us a novel way of analyzing Trump developments in his March 9 column: the "Best Guess" Test – and its "I Wouldn't Be Surprised" Corollary. Kristof...

February 22, 2017

Hey, Chuck Todd, Leon Panetta didn't answer the question!

Chuck Todd, Meet the Press moderator, is never reluctant to insist that any representative of President Trump respond directly to his questions.  Mr. Todd seems to lose his zeal for answers when he chats with a Democrat.  Consider...

December 14, 2016

Briefing the Electoral College on 'Russian hacks'

Last week, writing for this blog about a faithless elector, I cited the passage from Federalist No. 68 (attributed to Alexander Hamilton) noting that the members of the Electoral College are bound by the Constitution to meet in their i...

December 7, 2016

A faithless elector

Christopher Suprun, an elector from Texas, writes in an op-ed published in  the  New York Times on December 6, saying he will not cast his vote for Donald J. Trump.  Mr. Suprun urges his Electoral College colle...

September 2, 2016

In the event of a Trump victory…

What if Donald J. Trump wins the presidency?  How will the anti-Trump left (ATL) and the Never-Trump Republicans (NTR) respond?  We know, of course, that Barbra Streisand will leave the country.  But what will the reaction of the...

July 15, 2011

Our Bully President in the Pulpit

What is a person who picks on the weak and helpless?   I think the appropriate  term is "bully." Why then haven't media sources denounced President Obama as a bully for picking on Social Security recipients -- threatening to cut off th...

June 8, 2011

Weiner resignation: Be careful what you wish for, GOP

The GOP is, perhaps, second only to the PLO in never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. No good can come of a Republican call on Rep. Weiner to resign.  A Republican with keen political instincts and populist  passion, would ins...