Hong Kong election a big win for democracy candidates
Democracy advocates enjoyed major victories on Sunday after sweeping 17 of the 18 district council elections in Hong Kong. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong...
View ArticleSarah Huckabee Sanders: “I don’t like being called a liar”
Will Sarah Huckabee Sanders be the next Governor of Arkansas? It's a question that has been asked since she left the Trump White House less than six months ago and moved back to her home state. There...
View ArticleInterview: The scientists trying to catch UFOs
To bludgeon a quote from Mark Twain into a 2019 setting, UFOs are starting to seem like the weather. Everyone is talking about them these days, but nobody seems to be doing anything about them, or at...
View ArticleRick Perry: I told Trump that he was chosen by God -- just like Obama was
Perry's getting a bad rap on these comments this morning from the media, much of which is omitting the "Obama" part of what he said in their coverage of it. He's not claiming that Trump was chosen by...
View ArticlePolitico: Democrats ignoring ideas for identity politics
The Democratic presidential primary is becoming more and more about identity politics instead of whose ideas are better for the country. POLITICO reported this morning that candidates are becoming more...
View ArticleChinese reeducation camps are 'Cultural Revolution on steroids' (Update)
Earlier this month the NY Times published a story on leaked Chinese documents detailing the creation and administration of re-education camps designed to brainwash Islamic citizens. Sunday, NBC News...
View ArticleSheriff under fire for Kanye West's "church services" in local jails
Kanye West is bringing the gospel to the masses these days and that includes ministering to the incarcerated. You may have seen stories on West's latest career venture. His latest release, "Jesus Is...
View Article"Ethanol has forsaken us"
I realize that boring old governmental policy stories have taken something of a back seat to the impeachment follies this month, but there is one ongoing issue that shouldn't drop entirely off the...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg was released from the hospital Sunday and 'Democrats are...
Justice Ginsburg took a day off from oral arguments at the Supreme Court earlier this month. She was said to have a stomach bug and witnesses had noticed she appeared "shaky" the day before her...
View ArticleABC: Schiff's committee has photos, audio, video recordings from Rudy...
How many false alarms have we had already during the Trump era about recordings that were supposedly going to bring down the president? There were the reports after he fired Comey that Trump himself...
View ArticleReview/Preview: Hellier
The following is a review of the documentary series "Hellier" from Planet Weird Productions, with as few spoilers as possible, though some minor spoilers may be unavoidable....
View ArticleLindsey Graham responds to Biden: I'm not going to let our friendship stop me...
He's 99 percent right and I said so on Saturday in writing about Biden's whiny critique of him. Of all the shots Grandpa Joe could take at Graham, complaining that he's a bad friend because he won't...
View ArticleThe left's plan to counter Trump in swing states: Fake newspapers
After Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 election, progressive strategist Tara McGowan came up with a solution to winning future elections in battleground states: fake newspapers. McGowan left her job...
View ArticleIs this the "Anonymous" author of the new anti-Trump book?
Whether Guy Snodgrass really is "Anonymous," as this New Republic analysis proposes, or just the lucky beneficiary of a case of mistaken identity, he has every incentive to play coy about it. Why?...
View ArticleSNL's Pete Davidson: 'I refuse to do a college after this year' because of...
I missed this last week but SNL's Pete Davidson has now joined the chorus of comedians complaining about political correctness, especially on college campuses. In an interview with the magazine Paper,...
View ArticlePoll: Little change in public's view of impeachment after Sondland's...
Yes, yes, it's just one poll. There'll be more this week and maybe they'll say differently. But given the anti-impeachment trend in polling lately and the otherwise intense-even-for-2019 polarization...
View ArticleBias: Bloomberg News not investigating Bloomberg, Democrat candidates
When I first saw this story, I had to re-read the headline to make sure I read it correctly. A major news outlet's editor-in-chief sent out a memo stating that there would be no investigations into...
View ArticleSCOTUS blocks House subpoena of Trump financial records
The President had another good day at the Supreme Court yesterday, at least for the time being. The House Oversight Committee (formerly chaired by Elija Cummings) has been trying to get Trump's tax...
View ArticleHaving solved all other problems, NYC bans foie gras
Who cares about anti-police riots in the streets or a crumbling mass transit system? New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council have bigger fish to fry. And starting in 2022, Gotham...
View ArticleAmericans are paying for Chinese tariffs
A new study by the New York Federal Reserve Bank suggests Americans are paying for the tariffs on Chinese imports, instead of the Chinese. The announcement isn't surprising for any free trade advocates...
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