Conway: Trump 'Doesn't Hurl Personal Insults.'
One of Donald Trump’s amazing abilities is his power to somehow compel previously reasonably-clear-thinking surrogates to go out and say the most ridiculous things. Yesterday Kellyanne Conway said, “he...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for the GOP's Presidential-Nomination Process
One of the Republican’s great weaknesses this cycle was that there were too many cooks in the kitchen. Seventeen people jumped into the primary. It diluted the field and fractured the party. It’s death...
View ArticleFail U. Earns ‘A’
Our pal David Bahnsen has very worthwhile review of Charles Sykes’s new book, Fail U.: The False Promise of Higher Education. Here’s a chunk:It is my opinion that the basic “business” of higher...
View ArticleTwo Women, Two Views
Readers may remember a high-school English teacher from Sacramento. Last year, she rebelled against Common Core, refusing to teach her students Shakespeare — on grounds that he was “a long-dead,...
View ArticleColin Powell: HRC 'Trying to Pin Email Scandal on Me'
On Friday, the New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton told FBI investigators that former secretary of state Colin L. Powell had advised her to use a personal email account — which was true, but...
View ArticleKellyanne
I thought she performed ably yesterday on the shows, particularly given the rough sledding on her prior statements about Trump and on Trump’s non-apology expression of regret. A glaring deficiency of...
View ArticleSteve Bannon’s New Business Venture
I wouldn’t know Steve Bannon if he bit me, but the Bannon I’m reading about in my mostly anti-Trump Twitter feed doesn’t much resemble the guy in this Bloomberg profile. Bannon seems to understand...
View ArticleThe End of the Deportation Force?
The news that Kellyanne made yesterday is that there might not be a deportation force, after all. This and other reports and interviews over the weekend suggest that Trump’s policy is in flux. In an...
View ArticleWhat Is Trump Doing to Court Hispanic Voters?
Amidst the shakeups within its organization, the Trump campaign has been trying to expand its Hispanic voter outreach, along with help from the RNC.So far, the most tangible aspect of this outreach is...
View ArticleHow to Defeat the Terrorists: Step One
I have written several times in these pages about defeating Islamic terrorism. We need to do a number of things simultaneously, persistently, and (preferably) with some degree of bipartisan unity....
View ArticleThe Pivot
Twitter discipline is the least important part of the latest attempted pivot, but Trump’s new tweets slamming the hosts of Morning Joe— in a way that has to be seen to be believed — can’t be highly...
View Article‘FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe’
The Clinton e-mail scandal keeps on giving. Hillary Clinton Email Scandal -- FBI Uncovers 14,900 More Documents
View ArticleThoughts on Trump's African-American Outreach
The conventional wisdom is that Trump isn’t trying to reach out to African-American voters. Rather, he’s trying to signal to moderate and suburban whites, particularly women, that he’s not the racist...
View ArticleMassachusetts’s Shakedown of Uber and Lyft
Given an opportunity to drop expensive and not-so-consumer-friendly traditional cab companies, consumers in Massachusetts became fast adopters of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Obviously,...
View ArticleDoes the Truth Matter?
Not to Black Lives Matter. But this new edition of Prager University, entitled “Are the Police Racist?” and featuring Heather Mac Donald (author of The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order...
View ArticleJuncker: Jeux Sans Frontières
There’s a famous quote, attributed to Talleyrand, about the behavior of the Bourbons when they returned to the French throne after the fall of Napoleon:They had learned nothing and forgotten...
View ArticleTrump's Schizophrenic Base Strategy
The Republican base still has not united behind Donald Trump. This explains why he’s polling at or below 40 percent in the majority of surveys taken, both nationally and in battleground states, over...
View ArticleTuesday links
St. Bartholomew’s Day– some history (including the massacre), a brief documentary, and Monty Python.How sunflowers track the sun across the sky.Which bathroom stall should you choose if you want the...
View ArticleTrump: ‘Obama Got Tremendous Numbers of People Out of the Country.’
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:Trump: ‘Obama Got Tremendous Numbers of People Out of the Country.’Meet Donald Trump’s new immigration stance, which is to… praise how tough President Obama has been on...
View ArticlePriebus Must Go
I’ve taken some grief from my #NeverTrump friends over ReincePriebus and his stewardship of the RNC in the Trump era (short may it reign). Where the prevailing sentiment seems to be, “Off with his...
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