The biggest failure of the Trump Administration continues to be its failure to present its own policies in perspective.
President Trump is being pilloried in the press for his ban on transgenders in the military, just as all conservatives continue to be pilloried in the press for opposing same-sex marriage.
While I am a political analyst more comfortable with legislation and policy, occasionally the personal lives of politicians become entangled with politics and even policy. The affair of Republican Assembly Leader Chad Mayes and former Assembly Leader Kristen Olsen is one such situation where personal lives intersected with politics. This is personal and difficult to write about however, it is necessary.
Currently, the United States “enjoys” a 39.1% corporate tax rate - the third highest corporate tax rate on Earth, and the highest in the Western world. Donald Trump has announced that he’d like to see that burden cut to 15%.
One of the Left’s favorite scare tactics is to claim that Republicans want to ruthlessly purge members of Democrat-friendly demographic groups from the nation’s voter rolls.
They claim Republicans want to do this because they hate minorities and the poor. This is simply propaganda but it persists election cycle after election cycle.
To the left, the big takeaway from President Trump’s speech to the Boy Scouts is that the Boy Scouts look a lot like the Hitler Youth.
They have uniforms. They cheer the leader when he speaks. They are proud of their country and way of life. They think they are preserving something important for tomorrow – or even a thousand years of tomorrows.
Strange as it may seem, the current rioting by Arabs in Jerusalem may be a blessing in disguise.
First, it will force the government to assert its sovereign authority over the Temple Mount.
Some rare good news came out of Washington this week when House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was released from MedStar Washington Hospital after multiple surgeries from a gunshot wound, and was in “good spirits” and “looking forward to his return to work,” according to a statement by the hospital.
Now this is good stuff. Today Imran Awan is known mainly as the former IT staffer to Debbie Wasserman Schultz who was busted trying to leave the country to escape charges of bank fraud. Rob covered it in detail yesterday, but while Awan’s name is relatively new to most of us, he’s an old friend of CNN.
Crafty Democrats blame “massive Federal Islamophobia” for Rep. Debbie (aka ‘Blabbermouth”) Wasserman Schultz’s , top IT Guy Imran Awan, who spread like a plague among her Democrat colleagues in the House, being outed by the FBI.
“Massive Federal Islamophobia”?
Arkancide Alert?
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’d IT guy, Pakistan-born Imran Awan was arrested on bank fraud charges at Dulles International Airport Tuesday while trying to make his way out of the country.
“The System” raised its brutal fist in the face of the world from Britain today. It conceded, not in words, but in action how the parents of Charlie Gard had run out of time to secure outside help in trying to keep their baby alive.
As some are speculating, I will also guess that Officer Mohamed Noor, after hearing what might have sounded like a shot, may have believed Justine Damon had a gun in her hand as she leaned toward the squad car in her pajamas. If that was the case, his allegedly firing the shots that killed the unarmed Australian woman was simply the worst of judgments in the presence of panic. In saying all that, I’m straining - times 10 - to give him some benefit of the doubt though obviously none is deserved.
The progressive lib-left’s growing obsession with coddling the transgendered is giving big ideas to ISIS terrorists.
The latest ‘minority’, granted sweeping special favors by uber politically correct governments, trannies are no longer just cropping up in school bathrooms and locker rooms, their props are now copied by terrorists on the run.
Montana ranchers who live and work within feet of the longest international border on earth, the Canada-US border, had it right in November of 2015: the unsecured border the U.S. shares with Canada should be a bigger worry than the Mexican one.
Don’t wait until someone falls gravely ill to pray for them. Pray every day for other people in the most sincere way of them all: prayers fervently offered on your knees in the privacy of silence, with no one but the Creator even knowing that you are at prayer.
According to the latest Rasmussen Report, ‘Voters Don’t See Pence As A Trump Replacement’.
Who, other than Rasmussen, says they ever did?
In these most trying of days when the Democrats’ ‘Take-Out-Trump-Movement-On Steroids’ keeps coming at us, along comes Lloyd Marcus, blowing the blues away in a song.
Today’s Marcus column is like a refreshing breeze on a muggy day.
Good Morning America’s MSM! from your largely ignored country next door.
It took almost two weeks for the American media to weigh in on the $10.5 million ($8.0 US) federal government payout to convicted terrorist Omar Khadr.
Heads up to Charles Ortel, Mike Cernovich and other brave souls who keep digging for the truth about the Clinton Foundation: Make public your own suicide note before your never-to-be-proven killers get to register “SUICIDE” as the cause of your untimely death.
This is the logical next step for the left on this, isn’t it? Well, let’s slow down on it a little bit and look at their big-picture strategy, since the left often thinks it’s won more people over to its point of view than it really has.
There’s no way to put a happy face on this. The Republican-controlled Senate is not 100 percent populated by frauds and poseurs. But it has enough of them that with only 52 members in the first place, there’s no way it can cobble together 50 votes to do anything serious to deal with ObamaCare.
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) filed an amicus brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express yesterday at the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals, which contends that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans gender discrimination, but does not include sexual orientation or gender identity, in the workplace.
Ever seen how a jackal kills its prey? Usually, it doesn’t kill it with one blow or bite? It surrounds it, it challenges it, it probes for points of weakness. It then gets its claws around the neck of its prey and won’t let go. Whenever the animal struggles it makes itself weaker.
Helium is essential for MRIs, the fiber optics that deliver images to our TVs, scientific research and of course, party balloons. In the past decade, helium prices have sky-rocketed due to supply shortages. But if small updates are made to an old law, the U.S. could boost its domestic helium output and help keep critical medical tests and electronics running, reports Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.
Many people select their shampoo based on smell. Unfortunately, that scent usually doesn’t last long on hair. Now, one team reports in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces a new way to help the fragrance “stick” to hair longer.
The sore loser cry babies who refuse to accept the results of American voters will do anything to make the vote of the people for Donald Trump appear illegitimate. Their lame attempts at frivolous recounts only exposed their own corruption and added votes to the Donald’s bottom line. So it is time for a new approach. Blame it on the Russians.
If there’s one thing the left loves more than the elimination of your 2nd Amendment rights, it’s increasing taxes. They never miss an opportunity to demand higher and higher rates, more and more confiscation, and ever-increasing penalties for success. All federal power flows from the government’s ability to take what you earn and, and the left adores federal power, so there’s rarely a tax they don’t like.
On Monday night, President Trump delivered a funny, idiosyncratic, and inspirational speech in classic New Yorker-ese to Boy Scouts gathered at the organization’s National Jamboree.
At the annual National Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, President Trump spoke to a massive crowd of 40,000 scouts. The scouts chanted “We Love Trump!” to the President.
“By the way, just a question,” Trump said. “Did President Obama ever come to a Jamboree?” The crowd roared back, “No,” Fox News reported. In his eight years as President, Obama was always too busy to attend a Jamboree of Boy Scouts.
Obama’s seditious Central Intelligence Agency director, the vile John O. Brennan, is calling for a coup against President Trump.
Alternate headline: Media upset as president makes substantive policy decision to distract from what they prefer to talk about.
This is a reversal of a 2016 Obama decision, the implementation of which had already been delayed six months at the request of Secretary of Defense James Mattis. It’s official now: Those of the “transgender” persuasion will not be permitted to join the military. And as has become standard with this presidency, it’s made official via Twitter:
That’s a legitimate question and one that surely requires an answer.
When I was born, many moons ago, I believe the average life expectancy of an American citizen was in the upper 60’s. Today the average life span is about 78 for men and approximately 80 for women. That’s quite a jump, don’t you think?
With summer officially upon us, we wanted to reach out to share this amazing staycation as the world’s largest Marriott - Orlando World Center Marriott - invites friends and families to stop squandering vacation days and live it up with a “Slide Through Summer” escape.
Many pregnant women undergo some form of prenatal testing before their children are born. The information that expectant mothers gain from these tests vary, from the baby’s gender to genetic defects. But the tests are often invasive, which can potentially harm the fetus and the mother. Now, one group reports in ACS Nano that they have developed a device that provides sensitive results but in a less invasive way: a blood test.
It is often voiced by conservatives disheartened by the changes in the Catholic Church that Vatican II was a good council, but that it was misinterpreted. If these good people were better informed as to what took place at the Council, they would never say any such thing. Though Vatican II started with the best resolves, it was hijacked in the opening session by rebel bishops because the pope had planned the Council without their advice and against their designs.
The Chevy Volt was unveiled in 2010 to great fanfare. Politicians hailed it. The media gushed over it. The first electric car manufactured domestically, it was instantly a cause celebre, and it was hailed as part of the resurrection of General Motors.
Many years ago I wrote, “The problem with laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery is it leaves the impression that tiny incisions mean a simple, uncomplicated way to perform an operation. Unfortunately, this is not always the case as catastrophic complications can happen.” Recently, a Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) survey confirmed the potential dangers of keyhole surgery. So what went wrong to cause a $ 1,000,000 settlement?
Really?... I was expected she’d be in the White House, too. How’d that turn out?