Macron questions U.S. commitment to NATO: “turning its back on us”
French President Emmanuel Macron is voicing concern that the United States is not a reliable NATO partner. Macron wants France to have a bigger role in the Middle East, for example. President Trump's...
View ArticleNYT: Trump thinking about firing the IG for sharing the whistleblower...
Rashly firing a top natsec bureaucrat for "disloyalty," thereby creating a world of political trouble for himself and maybe inviting a charge of obstruction of justice?That doesn't sound like the Trump...
View ArticleMr. Erdogan goes to Washington
Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan is arriving in Washington today for a state visit with President Trump. If you find this news to be somewhat unsettling given all of the headlines about Turkey in...
View ArticleThe return of Kaepernick?
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, previously famous more for the amount of time he spent on his knees than the touchdowns he threw, might be on his way to a new contract with one of the league's...
View ArticleImpeachment launch: Can Dems make the case stick -- and make it quick?...
Last week, Bill Moyers demanded that PBS cover the public impeachment hearings as though it were still 1974. Today, House Democrats will have to operate an impeachment probe with an electorate that...
View ArticleColbert's impeachment eve tree decorated with Lindsey Graham's cojones
Christmas has arrived a bit early for Stephen Colbert. As much of America adjusts to colder temperatures moving in, Stephen Colbert is all fired up. For the likes of Colbert, ushering in the holiday...
View ArticleAt last: Mr. Kellyanne Conway speaks on Impeachment Day
He tweet-rants at Trump 24/7 but has remained notably absent from cable news over the past year, even as his audience online has grown. No doubt he's had offers given his new prominence as an outspoken...
View ArticleSchiff: Who, me? I don't know the whistleblower's identity
And we should believe Adam Schiff because of, er, his long track record of honesty about his contacts with the whistleblower? Come on, man. The chair of the impeachment inquiry hearings accused Rep....
View ArticleBoJo's Party now up by ten as British elections loom
Yesterday, Ed Morrissey broke down the recent developments in the upcoming British elections which could potentially deliver both a boon and a bust for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Tories. Now...
View ArticleIG Horowitz has asked witnesses to review his report, a final step before its...
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has asked witnesses to review his report on the Russia investigation which means the long-delayed report is finally getting close to release....
View ArticleBill Taylor: An aide heard Trump talking on the phone to Sondland while in...
The chatterati on political Twitter have determined that this is the news of the day thus far from the impeachment hearings (at least as of noon ET) although I'm not clear on what the bombshell is...
View ArticleWe have "concerns" over these transgender women, says... Hillary?
Oops, she did it again.Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea are still out on their book tour and providing interviews in support of the memoir's release. While talking to BBC Radio4, the Clintons...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg out sick with stomach bug
Chief Justice John Roberts announced today that Justice Ginsburg was out sick for today's oral arguments:The court said Ginsburg, 86, remained home because of a stomach bug. While not having the...
View ArticlePolitico wonders: Will the Democratic centrists' revolt succeed?
The answer to this question is undoubtedly no -- but it might still be pretty entertaining. Joe Biden's sudden weakness, polling and otherwise, has thrown a scare into the party's beleaguered moderate...
View ArticleThe UFO news has resulted in the resurgence of Bob Lazar
Ever since the news about U.S. Navy encounters with tic-tac shaped UFOs broke and made its way into the national zeitgeist, the mainstream media has been tearing into the subject in a way that was...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn: Arresting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would have been...
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says the United States should have arrested ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and brought him to trial before an international court. Corbyn did say that he didn't...
View ArticleReport: Deval Patrick tells Dems he's running. Did Obama encourage him to do it?
I can't believe Patrick's actually going through with it. I get the logic, sort of, as I explained in this post a few days ago: As a black former governor of Massachusetts, he could theoretically make...
View ArticleToobin: House Dems' first two witnesses had "a big problem"
Can anyone guess what it might be? C'mon, it's been known for some time, even if House Democrats and their media supporters on impeachment have been too, er, polite to mention it. These witnesses to a...
View ArticleNY Times: Campus protesters complaining about student journalism may have a...
The student newspaper at Northwestern University apologized this week for covering a student protest of an appearance by Jeff Sessions. The apology was a terrible idea and the dean of the journalism...
View ArticleTaylor and Kent: We think Giuliani was looking to dig up dirt on a political...
Not a great soundbite, which isn't to say that it can't be or won't be spun as irrelevant.But this line of questioning is dangerous to Trump insofar as it cuts right to the GOP's main remaining factual...
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