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Archives for December 2019

Why Vote for the Barbarian?

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A Quinnipiac poll this week shows support for President Trump’s impeachment and removal from office has gone down since October, to 45%. Why? Peggy Noonan in the WSJ offers “guesses:” … in the past 10 days the latest jobs numbers came out, and America has functional full employment. A Quinnipiac poll released Dec. 10 showed that since […]

Democrats Now Operating from a Base of Fear

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At his blog, Pat Buchanan explains that Democrats are now working from a base of fear. He writes (abridged): Schumer’s plea for new witnesses is an admission that the House’s case for impeaching Trump is inadequate and deficient and could prove wholly noncredible to the American people. After all, if you need more witnesses, you […]

SECURE Act Passed by Congress on the Way Out the Door

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You’ve read about the SECURE Act and the hidden taxes targeting your family that it contains. Now, while everyone is busy Christmas shopping, and just as Congress is about to leave town, the bill was smuggled into a spending bill, and pushed through the legislature. According to Barron’s the bill “means a spate of changes […]

What Happened to the Clear and Present Threat of Donald J. Trump?

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With what has been the most partisan impeachment in American history and “every step politically calculated,” Andrew McCarthy confesses to thinking that House Speaker Pelosi’s delaying delivering the articles of impeachment was a joke. For these last weeks, the Democrat-dominated chamber has been in a mad rush to impeach the president. Democrats even tacked on […]

Here’s How Not to Invest for Retirement

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Many of the public sector workers relying on pension funds for their retirement are being milked by exorbitant fees in an opaque fashion. Anne Tergesen and Gretchen Morgenson report at the Wall Street Journal: The pitch from the president of the Indian River County teachers union couldn’t have been clearer. Liz Cannon, who heads the […]

The House Lights a Rubber-Tire Bonfire

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Yesterday impeachment vote followed a three-year hysteria over Donald J. Trump, POTUS. There has been nothing like this since the feds nailed John Dillinger, mocks Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. Surveying the FBI Ruins Driven by the collusion narrative, the past three years have done significant damage to America’s institutions—especially the Federal Bureau of Investigation. […]

Nancy Pelosi Votes to Reelect President Trump

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Just in time for Christmas the House voted to reelect President Trump, “which reached a comic apotheosis,” writes Dan Henninger in the WSJ, “with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House-floor recital of the Pledge of Allegiance (shades of Aunt Bethany in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”). Meanwhile, President Trump was away from the D.C. madness in Battle Creek, […]

American Revolution Not About Equality of All Men

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Pat Buchanan explains at his personal blog that “It is solemnly declared today that our Revolution was about ideas, such as the equality of all men. But the author of the Declaration did not believe in equality.” He writes (abridged): Fresh from his triumphal “Get Brexit Done!” campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson anticipates a swift […]