The walls supposedly are always closing in on Donald Trump. The end is always beginning.
[Read more…]Civility is for suckers
It’s doubtful that a former American presidential candidate has ever formally endorsed incivility before, but Hillary Clinton is ever full of surprises. In an interview on CNN, the erstwhile advocate of “if they go low, we go high” switched around to unapologetically call for going low.
The battle over socialism is joined
It’s begun. We are having a debate over socialism.
Who knows what Trump will say about immigration next?
In the 1950s, the great neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy’s stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. “For there is one thing,” he wrote, “that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesman for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing.”
Chinese threat isn’t just trade
We are currently engaged in a high-profile negotiation that may or may not succeed in getting the Chinese to buy more of our stuff.
Donald Trump’s Jerusalem Triumph
In the second century A.D., Jewish rebels who had stunned the Romans and liberated a portion of Judea overstruck imperial coins with images and a message of their own, “Year One of the Redemption of Jerusalem.”
Rosenstein has botched Mueller probe
Rod Rosenstein is doing a star turn as principled defender of the law, but he’s performed abysmally as deputy attorney general, and President Donald Trump would be fully justified in firing him.
Trump’s Nobel can wait
Who would have guessed that a Trump crowd 15 months into his presidency would be chanting, “Nobel! Nobel! Nobel!”
The Republican high-water mark
If Republicans aren’t losing their congressional majority this coming fall, they are doing a good job of acting like it.
No one likes a prig with an ax to grind
James Comey did it, naturally, for the children.