Whatever one thinks of President Trump’s recent tweets about the late Senator John McCain, he is not gratuitously reaching into the past to sully the Senator’s reputation. He is responding to the most recent reports that it was a McCain aide – almost certainly with McCain’s permission or directive –...
The Clinton email scandal of the 2016 election – as well as the shouting masses demanding we ‘lock her up’ – might as well seem like eons ago in this political climate. However, thanks to newly released congressional transcripts from closed-door interrogations over the course of months, there appears to...
The Democrats got Robert Mueller to handle the Russia collusion allegations against Trump, and now Republicans want a special prosecutor to take a closer look at how the FBI handled the Hillary Clinton email probe. The FBI and DOJ’s treatment of Hillary during the email probe differs dramatically from their...
Roughly one third of Newark's 280,000 residents live in poverty, and Mayor Ras Baraka wants to solve that problem by giving everyone free money. During his state of the city address last week, Baraka said: “We believe in universal basic income, especially in a time where studies have shown that...
Massachusetts Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D) on Friday unveiled her plan to take down Facebook, Google, and Amazon. These companies have “too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy,” she wrote. “They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the...
I will try to arrest my cynicism and give this jobs guarantee a fair shake. But it is hard. One can understand a grocery store giving you a guarantee that your milk will be fresh for a week or so. That is good. However, when the government gets mixed up...
While his appointments to the courts and many of his policies have been dreams come true for principled conservatives, President Trump’s personality and character have been a serious problem for the Republican Party, for the conservative movement and for traditional American values of personal freedom and free-market capitalism. Trump did...
Here’s the latest on what’s going on. You decide where things are going to end up, because no one else seems to know. On March 12th, the U.S. orders the pullout of all Embassy personnel. The State Department is concerned about their safety, because dictator and usurper President Nicolas Maduro...
A substantial facet of President Trump’s foreign policy platform appears to be going relatively poorly recently. Despite Trump’s application of a myriad of tariffs and import restrictions on foreign goods and services flowing into American households, the US trade deficit for 2018 hit a decade high mark thanks in part...
Whatever one thinks of President Trump’s recent tweets about the late Senator John McCain, he is not gratuitously reaching into the past to sully the Senator’s reputation. He is responding to the most recent reports that it was a McCain aide – almost certainly with McCain’s permission or directive – that...
President Trump’s budget proposal for FY2020 sets up a bitter funding fight over controversial issues like military spending, the border wall, and GOP tax cuts. The proposal, released on Monday, includes significant cuts to environmental programs, transportation, foreign aid, and anti-poverty programs as well as a 5% cut to domestic spending....
Potential presidential candidate Howard Schultz had his first “town hall” event last month with CNN and has a second one...
