Emerging GOP defense on Ukraine: What Trump did was bad — but not impeachable
There are two ways Mitch and the gang might get Trump off the hook at a Senate trial. One, of course, is to acquit him on the facts. Democrats haven’t proven their case. Not guilty. And that’s that....
View ArticleSecret Service study: School violence is mostly preventable
The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center released a study of 41 incidents of school violence from around the country. The study concludes that few of the incidents happened on the spur...
View ArticleLindsey Graham: Did Gordon "Sunderland" change his story about the quid pro...
He means Gordon Sondland, of course. But remember, Graham's so frustrated at seeing Trump's "no quid pro quo" defense disintegrate in witness testimony that he's vowed not even to read the transcripts...
View ArticleVenezuelan death squads have killed an estimated 831 people, many who dared...
Back in February Reuters reported on murders being carried out in Venezuela's slums by a special police force known as the FAES. Wednesday the AFP published a follow-up on this story that reveals the...
View ArticleHoooo boy: Mike Bloomberg preparing to enter the Democratic primary. Is Eric...
As I write this, America's political media islosing its collective mindon social media over this evening's news. Unexpected drama in the Democratic presidential race! A late entry with all the money in...
View ArticleNew Biden attack strategy on Warren: Elitist "smarty britches"?
Joe Biden's hearing Elizabeth Warren's footsteps, and his team has decided to stomp her in return. CNN reports from "a campaign source close to Biden" that they plan to start attacking Warren on...
View ArticleNYT: Ukraine prez was two days away from announcing new Biden probe on CNN...
It's strange that Zelensky would back out of the CNN interview immediately after Ukraine's aid was finally delivered, no? He and Trump have insisted there was no quid pro quo or pressure applied. The...
View ArticleWhite House celebration: GOP take victory lap on judicial nominations
President Trump is quite pleased with his new best friend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as he should be. McConnell has made it his mission during the Trump administration to push through a...
View ArticleHonolulu sues ExxonMobil for ending the world or something
The mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii is very concerned about the effects of climate change on the planet and he wants everyone to know that he plans to do something about it. Will he be cutting back on his...
View ArticleHmmm: House Dems subpoena Mulvaney ... after declining to subpoena Bolton?
Curious indeed. Yesterday, House Democrats poo-poohed the idea of going through the subpoena process to get John Bolton's testimony, claiming that they didn't want to play Donald Trump's delaying game....
View ArticleZeldin: Yovanovitch "did not accurately answer" under oath about contact with...
This might complicate House Democrats' plans next week to use Marie Yovanovitch as a kickoff witness for public impeachment hearings. During her closed-door testimony, the former ambassador to Ukraine...
View ArticleSessions first 2020 Senate ad: No one's more loyal to Trump than me
Everyone expected Jeff Sessions to emphasize his support of Donald Trump's agenda in his new bid to reclaim his Senate seat. The extent to which his first campaign ad revolves around Trump seems a...
View ArticleThe new "Anonymous" book sounds like a book-length James Comey tweet
To be clear, I don't think Comey is "Anonymous."I think it's Jeff Sessions. That's the shocking finale to this season of "President Trump" -- Sessions wins the Alabama Senate race to complete his...
View ArticleGallup: Surprising GOP voter enthusiasm edges Dems
Is this despite the Democrats' push to impeach Donald Trump -- or because of it? Voter enthusiasm has already begun to spike upward for the 2020 election, Gallup's latest survey reports, but in an...
View ArticleLooks like we will have Beto to kick around some more
Robert Francis O'Rourke isn't going anywhere, you know. Thursday night during a phone call with supporters, he reassured them he "absolutely" plans to stay involved in politics. These are the first...
View ArticleGunmen murder a police officer involved in the arrest of El Chapo's son
Surveillance video from a shopping center shows a pair of gunmen pull up beside a white car, hop out, and begin shooting. The victim was a Mexican police officer named Eduardo N. Apparently the gunmen...
View ArticleChristian family planning clinics to fill vacuum of Planned Parenthood's...
The Lord works in mysterious ways ... but that's not true of healthy markets. In the years of battling over Planned Parenthood's access to Title X funding, its advocates insisted that defunding the...
View ArticleNY Times: There's something 'inherently cringe-y' about Elizabeth Warren's...
An MIT engineer named Misha Leybovich knows what Elizabeth Warren needs to win the 2020 election: Memes. Yes, those pictures with catchy sayings you see on the internet. In order to assure Warren's...
View ArticleTrump shocker: I won't campaign against Jeff Sessions in Alabama
Ed touched on this in his post earlier but I wanted to give it more play since it's so surprising. "Trump has repeatedly denigrated Sessions to allies and White House aides in recent days," said WaPo...
View ArticleBen Shapiro bashes the alt-right, gets protested by the far-left
Despite the best efforts of publications like the NY Times to claim otherwise, Ben Shapiro has never been alt-right. Last night, Shapiro spoke at Stanford and rather than talk about the far-left as...
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