October 25, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff

Turkey’s hypocrisy, and Jamal Khashoggi’s

Featured image “Under Erdogan, journalists in peril.” That’s a headline (paper edition) of an article in today’s Washington Post. Correspondent Chico Harlan provides plenty of evidence to support the headline. The most compelling piece comes from the Committee to Protect Journalists. It found that Turkey jails more journalists than any other nation. Indeed, it jails more than China, Russia, and Egypt combined. The U.S. under President Trump jails approximately zero journalists. Whining »
October 25, 2018 — Scott Johnson

Save the Senate: Loose ends

Featured imageWhile Paul Mirengoff was on vacation, I attempted to fill his accustomed role with a look at critical Senate races in three posts: Save the Senate: Takeaway opportunities, Save the Senate: On defense, and Save the Senate: Long shots. John has written several times in support of Karin Housley’s challenge to appointed incumbent Minnesota Senator Tina Smith. I want to revisit one race and note two that I should have »
October 24, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff

Are Chuck and Nancy overplaying their hand on political violence?

Featured imageEarlier this week, Chuck Schumer tweeted: Make no mistake: Despicable acts of violence and harassment are being carried out by radicals across the political spectrum—not just by one side. Regardless of who is responsible, these acts are wrong and must be condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike. Period. Today, President Trump did just what Schumer prescribed. In response to news that packages containing explosive devices were mailed to several high-profile »
October 25, 2018 — Scott Johnson

Speaking of turkeys

Featured imageThe Minnesota attorney general’s race offers a fascinating case study in the current state of the Democratic Party. DFL candidate is a radical leftist who is unfit for office. His political career is predicated on bald lies minimizing his long and active membership in the Nation of Islam hate cult. He is a long-time hater of the police, the record of which he has lied about in the current campaign »
October 24, 2018 — John Hinderaker

Here Comes the Caravan!

Featured imageIn an amazing coincidence, thousands of Central Americans, most, apparently, from Honduras, are making their way toward the southern U.S. border two weeks before the midterm elections. Someone has organized this “caravan,” and–evidently because it won’t otherwise arrive in time for the election–someone reportedly is paying for bus rides for many of the caravaners. Who? That question is met with the studied incuriosity we have come to expect from the »
October 24, 2018 — John Hinderaker

About Those “Apparent Explosive Devices”

Featured imageAs everyone now knows, someone sent or delivered packages containing explosive devices of some kind to a number of prominent Democrats, ranging from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Eric Holder and George Soros. Not much is known at this point about the devices, their origin, or the degree of threat they represented. Most importantly, we have no idea who sent them. I assume the perpetrator will most likely be »
October 24, 2018 — Steven Hayward

Only Trump Can Go to China (and Smack Them in the Head)?

Featured imageI don’t know why the stock market is suddenly having a case of the vapors. It could be the conventional explanations of the Fed slowly tightening, and/or the market is undergoing an entirely ordinary correction from rising too far too fast. The global economy is showing signs of slowing. Or it could be partially the ongoing uncertainty about Trump’s trade policy. I confess to remaining very nervous about Trump’s tariff »
October 24, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff

What Trump and Obama have in common

Featured imageDonald Trump and Barack Obama don’t have a great deal in common, but they share this trait: both love to talk about themselves when campaigning for others (and not just then). Obama was in Nevada on Monday, campaigning for Democratic candidates including Rep. Jacky Rosen who is trying to unseat Sen. Dean Heller in a race Democrats probably need to win if they are to gain control of the Senate. »
October 24, 2018 — Scott Johnson

Omens of Omar

Featured imageTwo years ago Ilhan Omar made headlines around the world when she was on the verge of election as the first Somali state legislator in the United States. She had defeated a 22-term incumbent in the DFL primary. She just needed to hang in there until election day in November to seal the deal, as she did. That August I got a tip that Omar had married her brother at »
October 23, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff

Polls suggest Braun might be pulling ahead of Donnelly in Indiana

Featured imageSen. Joe Donnelly has been running slightly ahead of his Republican challenger, businessman Mike Braun, throughout the campaign season. But now two polls show Braun with a 4 point lead over Donnelly. One of the polls is an internal survey released by the Braun campaign. It shows their guy ahead 44-40. I tend to discount this type of poll. However, the second poll is an Indy Politics survey conducted by »
October 23, 2018 — Scott Johnson

Ilhan Omar’s “disgusting lies”

Featured imageLong after it could have any bearing on Ilhan Omar’s pending election to Congress from Minnesota’s Fifth District next month, the AP’s Amy Forliti took a detailed look at the story that Omar had married her brother in 2009 for some dishonest purpose and only recently went through the exercise of divorcing him. The story is “Minnesota House hopeful calls marriage, fraud claims ‘lies.’” Omar actually called the claims “disgusting »
October 24, 2018 — Scott Johnson

Stuck on Stuckey

Featured imageAllie Beth Stuckey has penetrated the mind of the Democratic politician. She has achieved a deep understanding of the Democrats’ pitch to core Democratic constituencies. She puts it all together in this comprehensive advertisement for the campaign season. I can’t believe she has placed it before an unsuspecting world at no charge. Someone needs to sign her up! I made my very own campaign ad for the Democrats. Hope this »
October 24, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff

38 percent of Americans say they are better off financially since 2016 election

Featured imageA Bankrate.com poll found that 38 percent of Americans say their financial situation has improved since the 2016 election. 45 percent say their financial situation is about the same. 17 percent say it’s worse. The coverage of this survey tries to make these results seem like a repudiation of President Trump’s economic policies and claims of success. Bankrate blares: “Just 38% of Americans say their finances have improved since the »
October 24, 2018 — Scott Johnson

Gillum goes there

Featured imageYesterday the Tampa Bay Times reported on Florida Dem gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum: “Undercover FBI agents paid for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum’s hotel room and his ticket to the Broadway musical Hamilton during a 2016 trip to New York City, according to a bombshell trove of records that raises new questions two weeks before the Nov. 6 election for Florida governor.” There is much more here and the whole thing »
October 23, 2018 — Steven Hayward

The Opportunity Costs of Socialism

Featured imageWith socialism becoming the new fad for Democrats, good to see the Trump White House getting out ahead of it. Today the Council of Economic Advisers released a 72-page report entitled “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism” that clearly and succinctly lays out a powerful case against all of the leading Democratic nostrums that are likely to be the heart of the Democrats’ 2020 platform. Here’s a bit of the executive »
October 23, 2018 — Steven Hayward

Trump Uses the “N-Word”

Featured imageDid you hear? Yesterday in Texas President Trump proclaimed himself a “nationalist” as follows: “A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country so much. And you know what? We can’t have that. You know, they have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist. And I say, really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know »
October 23, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff

Under Alex Acosta, the Obama Labor Department rolls on

Featured imageIn 2016, the Obama Labor Department, under the radical left-wing leadership of Tom Perez, issued two notices of violation against Microsoft. It found that the company paid women in engineering and other unspecified tech jobs less than their male co-workers and that it passed them over for promotions due to gender. As I discussed at length here, the Obama DOL adopted a radical approach to finding pay discrimination based on »