Monthly Archives: August 2018
August 25, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff
President Trump continued publicly to criticize Jeff Sessions, his Attorney General, yesterday. He tweeted: “Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.” Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the “other side” including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr. FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal
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August 25, 2018 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times, undeterred by its failure to find any nuggets by digging through Ashley Kavanaugh’s emails as town manager of Chevy Chase, Maryland–“the records were … mundane dispatches about town business, from snow removals to local newsletters”–has now served a request for the records of any 911 calls made from Judge Kavanaugh’s home for the last 12 years. The New York Times requests digital copies of all policing
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August 25, 2018 — John Hinderaker
I wrote here about the Democratic Party’s impeachment hysteria. 222 mentions of impeachment in 18 hours on CNN and MSNBC! Only problem is, President Trump isn’t going to be evicted from the White House via impeachment. If the Democrats go to the mat with him, he will win. And if they think he will be cowed or chastened by a Democratic vote in the House they haven’t been paying attention.
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August 25, 2018 — Scott Johnson
Kim Strassel decries the inherently one-sided nature of the Mueller Switch Project in her weekly Wall Street Journal column. Her column runs under the headline “When justice is partial.” She writes: If there is only “one set of rules,” where is Mr. Mueller’s referral of a case against Hillary for America? Federal law requires campaigns to disclose the recipient and purpose of any payments. The Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS
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August 25, 2018 — Scott Johnson
I first met Lanny Davis when he came up to Dartmouth, as I recall, in the spring of 1971. Lanny had come up to pitch students on the presidential campaign of Edmund Muskie. Lanny was the National Director of Youth Coalition for Muskie at the time. Judging by the turnout that night, it was a small coalition. He seemed like a decent guy. Even then I knew enough to keep
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August 25, 2018 — Steven Hayward
I was on airplanes and otherwise mostly indisposed this week. Anything much happen? Did I miss something? Did President Trump tweet about anything in particular? Did Mueller get anywhere with his off-Broadway audition to be Inspector Javert? Is CNN still in business? Well, at least we can look forward to a new NFL season about to start, a blissful respite from the grubby world of politics where we all come
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August 24, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff
I’ve written recently about polling regarding the impact of a vote for or against the Brett Kavanaugh nomination on Democratic incumbent Senators in two swing states. In West Virginia, polling by the Trafalgar Group found that if Sen. Joe Manchin votes to confirm Kavanaugh, it will help his reelection bid in a big way. In Indiana, polling by the same organization found that Sen. Joe Donnelly will be better off
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August 24, 2018 — Steven Hayward
As I said in the previous note, I’ve been on the road all week and mostly ill-informed about the breaking Trump stories, and much else. So all I have are some more Loose Ends to file. • With one caveat. I hadn’t been paying attention to the fact that Michael Cohen’s attorney is Lanny Davis. Lanny Davis??? Seriously? What is this—some kind of parallel universe remake of the Clinton sex
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August 24, 2018 — Steven Hayward
I’ve been on airplanes most of the week, and several of the flights the internet was down completely, while on the others the internet “worked” with all the blazing speed and connectivity of 1995 dial-up. So I’ve been out of touch more or less. Anything happening this week? What did I miss? Oh . . . Really? That happened? (It really helps to have the odd talent of being able
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August 24, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff
Last week, I wrote about how the Democrats were fishing for evidence that Brett Kavanaugh, when he worked for Ken Starr, leaked grand jury information regarding the independent counsel’s investigation of President Clinton. An outfit called American Oversight filed a request in federal court to unseal the special master’s report concerning allegations of such improper disclosure. I wrote that “this is almost certainly another dry hole for the desperate Democrats.”
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August 24, 2018 — Scott Johnson
My point, and I did have one, in placing the Michael Cohen plea agreement and related charges before readers here yesterday morning, was to note “the trouble down the road for others,” as I put it. First and foremost of “the others” I had in mind was the Trump Organization. Now the New York Times reports that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is mulling over charges against the Trump Organization
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August 24, 2018 — Scott Johnson
Barack Obama and his foreign policy team led us into an upside down world in which friends were treated as enemies and enemies treated as friends. President Trump has led the great undoing of Obama administration policies on the home front. Senior Trump administration officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton are instrumental to the great undoing of Obamaian foreign policy. When it came
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August 24, 2018 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday on the Laura Ingraham show, I interviewed Clay Travis, the only person to have been banned by both ESPN and CNN. Travis is one of the country’s best-known sports commentators–the host of a Fox radio show and founder of Outkick the Coverage. Travis is the author of a brand-new book, Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports With Politics. I had time only to skim the
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August 24, 2018 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll has traveled THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD that leads to her door. She writes: I love America and Americans – even the white ones who smell like wet dog and have bad teeth — and I especially love The Heartland. Still, there are only so many times – maybe 50? — you can go from I-35S in the Twin Cities to I-10W without feeling a profound sense of
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August 23, 2018 — Paul Mirengoff
This morning, President Trump attacked his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, once again. He complained that Sessions “never took control of the Justice Department.” Trump fails here to distinguish between taking control of the Russia investigation and taking control of the Justice Department generally. He also fails to recognize that it’s not the Attorney General’s job to protect the president or to promote his political interests — to be the president’s
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August 23, 2018 — John Hinderaker
As I wrote here, the Left is outsourcing censorship of the internet to the tech companies of Silicon Valley, all of which are happily–if you are a leftist–run by liberals. What the government can’t do, on account of the First Amendment, private companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can do with impunity. Increasingly, conservatives are persona non grata on social media platforms. The latest instance is Salena Zito, one of
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August 23, 2018 — John Hinderaker
We live in a schizoid time. In the world most of us inhabit, things are going extraordinarily well. We are in the midst of the longest bull market ever. Employment is at a record high, unemployment–especially among minorities, young people and women–at or near record lows. GDP is growing at a 4% clip, which liberal economists deemed impossible in the last administration. Wages are rising. We are at peace, but
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