Donald Trump Backs Down on Plan to Designate Mexican Cartels Terrorists

The president said that although he was fully prepared to take the tough step against the cartels, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked him not to. Trump said he liked and respected President Obrador, who has been working with him to help stop the flow of migrants crossing the Southern border of the United […]

 

Read the White House Letter to Jerry Nadler Ripping Impeachment ‘Charade’

“As you know, your impeachment inquiry is completely baseless and has violated basic principles of due process and fundamental fairness,” wrote White House counsel Pat Cipollone in a letter sent to Nadler. Breitbart News obtained a copy of the letter, which denounced the impeachment proceedings from the beginning, noting that Democrats failed to get a […]

 

David Brooks: ‘I was once a socialist’

David Brooks isn’t usually my cup of tea but yesterday he wrote an opinion piece about his own youthful socialism which I was happy to see appearing at the NY Times. Brooks says he began to change his mind about socialism while working as a reporter. It dawned on him that the people he was […]

 

Nikki Haley: The Charleston killer hijacked the meaning of the Confederate flag

People on social media are piling on her for suggesting that a racist atrocity somehow “hijacked” the meaning of a flag that was carried into battle against the United States by a regime founded to protect its citizens’ prerogative to commit racist atrocities. The Charleston killer knew what that flag meant to black Americans, which […]

 

NYT: Yeah, everything we knew about the jobs market was wrong

This admission is long overdue, but it’s less about the New York Times than on the media in general. For several years, media outlets claimed that we had reached peak employment in the latter half of Barack Obama’s presidency despite ample evidence of a massive overhang of discouraged workers weighing down the job markets. When […]

 

Harry Reid: These candidates ‘better be careful’ not to drift too far left

The Atlantic published a piece today about Harry Reid’s potential role as kingmaker within his own party. Reid is very ill with pancreatic cancer. The piece says bluntly “his pancreatic cancer was forecasted to prove fatal within weeks.” But Reid is hanging on and now there’s now some concern that he may be one of […]

 

How To Prepare For The Impending Justice Department Inspector General Report

The Department of Justice’s Inspector General announced on March 28, 2018, that he was going to look into the application to wiretap Carter Page, who had been an advisor to the Trump campaign. The review would analyze whether policies and procedures related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had been properly followed. Earlier that year, […]

 

Pelosi: I’ll have no regrets if impeachment leads to Trump being reelected

This is the opposite of the truth, needless to say. It’s almost as ludicrous as if Mitch McConnell had declared during the summer of 2016 that he’d have no regrets about holding Scalia’s SCOTUS seat open if exit polls that fall showed that his decision had driven high Democratic turnout that produced a Hillary Clinton […]

 

Saudi national responsible for Florida naval base shooting (Update)

No one is saying this is terrorism at this point but authorities are certainly going to consider that a possibility in light of this information. The mass shooting took place this morning at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida this morning. Three people were killed and several more were wounded. In addition, the shooter […]

 

Catholic Students Demand ‘Public Apology’ over Removal of Planned Parenthood from Resource List

Students planned to meet with Sister Mary Ellen Gevelinger Friday since she removed a link to Planned Parenthood from the school’s list of resources, reported school media outlet On the Edge News. Prior to the abortion chain’s removal, the Wisconsin school’s TFP Student Action organization, a group that describes itself as one that works to “proudly affirm […]