Headlines

Progressives steamrolled across the Senate map

Biden to meet privately with George Floyd’s family and will record message for funeral

Minneapolis mayor booed out after refusing to defund police ...

Barr: Media’s big lie that Lafayette Park protesters were peaceful

Thousands protest in Brussels as U.S. movement sweeps Europe

Op-Ed: The future of U.S. leadership depends on how the nation addresses systemic racism

NYT: Bush, Romney will not support Trump re-election ...

National Guard members look for new hotel, after DC mayor boots them

Colin Powell: Trump ‘lies all the time’

Coronavirus live updates: AstraZeneca approached Gilead about a potential merger

Colin Powell to vote Biden ...

Police chief forced out after praising citizens armed against looters

Headlines

Democrats leave Doug Jones hanging as Senate map takes shape

Gilead CEO says Remdesivir available to coronavirus patients this week: ‘We've donated the entire supply’

Homeless commandeering LA hotels ...

Whither: MI protesters depict ‘some of the worst racism’

Kudlow: Administration is on ‘pause’ before deciding on additional virus relief

The US just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO

Michigan fatality rate over 9% ...

Donald Trump: Nicole Wallace ‘third rate lapdog’ for MSNBC

Gov. DeWine: My face mask order ‘went too far

Coronavirus live update: Kudlow says more PPP loans may be needed, Roche making more antibody tests

Bush jumps in ‘We rise or fall together’ ...

Turley: Democrats want China’s restrictions on free speech

Tough Decisions

All our presidents have faced making difficult decisions. Here might be the toughest tests for our last 14 presidents:

FDR - Declaring war on Japan AND Germany

Truman - Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan

Ike - Agreeing to an armistice in Korea

JFK - Embargo on Cuba during the missile crisis

LBJ - Handling the Vietnam war protests

Nixon - Watergate and his eventual resigning

Ford - Pardoning Nixon

Carter - Trying to rescue our Iran hostages

Reagan - Walking away from Helsinki meeting with Gorbachev

Bush 41 - Desert Storm war

Bill Clinton - Impeachment and fessing up to Monica Lewinsky affair

Bush 43 - America’s response to 9/11

Obama - Osama Ben Laden raid

Trump - Restarting the economy after the coronavirus shutdown

Biggest Presidential Lies

Our presidents tend to prevaricate. Here are the biggest whoppers of our last four:

- Bill Clinton: I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky ... not a single time.

- George W. Bush: Saddam Hussein was involved with the  9/11 attackers.

- Barack Obama: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.

- Donald Trump: I never shtupped Stormy Daniels. (Just one of a claimed 16,000+ lies. What he doesn’t achieve in the seriousness of his lies, he supposedly makes up for in their numbers.)

Headlines

Cornyn: Giuliani ‘not relevant’ to impeachment trial

2020 Democrat field outraising Trump by a huge margin — that didn’t happen to Obama, Bush ...

Report: Brady ready to meet with teams ...

Pelosi: I want Trump ‘to know that he is impeached forever’

Graham: Senate GOP doesn’t ‘have the votes’ to dismiss impeachment trial

An intensifying climate crisis threatens more than half of the world’s GDP, research claims

Cusack at Bernie rally: We have 10 years to save planet from capitalism

Lindsey Graham: ‘I predict a bipartisan acquittal of President Trump’

Schiff says House did its best to get Trump witnesses

Davos elite back corporate social responsibility, but ‘their words are bigger than their actions’

Mexican troops block US-bound caravan travelers ...

Salvini: Muslim immigration ‘main cause’ of rising antisemitism ...

Name Game

Ever since Bill Clinton won the presidency over George H.W. Bush, the candidates with the fewer letters in their last name generally have won at the polls — Bush over Gore (tie), Bush over Kerry, Obama over McCain, Obama over Romney and, finally, Trump over Clinton.

Before that ... there were a few modern exceptions to this rule ... Carter over Ford, Eisenhower over Stevenson, Kennedy over Nixon and Raegan over Carter ... all of which can be explained away due to extenuating circumstances.

If this loopy trend holds, the only Democrat who has a chance against a Trump second term is (promising $1,000 per month per US resident) Yang ... while Biden ties. All the other possible Dem opponents ... Warren, Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders, Booker, Klobuchar, O’Rourke and Castro would suck wind.

It’s Mueller Time!

Today might be the day ...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s staff is departing for Greener-New-Deal pastures ... and the world is waiting with debated breath for his report that is supposed to finally drive a well-done steak through Donald Trump’s non-black heart.

Mueller has been charged with determining if Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to overturn the results of the last presidential election ... and, subsequently, obstructed justice in the investigation of this offense. Mueller is clearly a dichotomy. As a former head of the FBI under Bush ‘43 and Barack Obama, many swear to Mueller’s apolitical and impeccable integrity. While others, like myself, feel that Mueller is in the vanguard of a slow-motion coup against a sitting president. Absolutely shameful!

Why do I feel this way? Because during the last two years enough evidence has presented itself to suggest exactly the opposite ... that it was Hillary Clinton and her henchmen who conspired with Russia to affect the outcome of the 2016 election. Through a cut-out  law firm, the DNC paid for the infamous “PeePee Dossier,” a manufactured and unsubstantiated document which attempted to tie Trump and Company with the Ruskies. It was used illegally to wiretap the Trump campaign and collude with the main stream media to constantly besmirch Trump and destroy many around him.

If Mueller had been an honorable prosecutor, he would have, in the first months of his investigation, swung to investigation the obvious culprits in this drama, Peter Strzok, Bruce Orr, James Comey, Lisa Page, Rod Rosenstein, John Brennan, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and possibly dozens of others in this Deep-State cabal who came very close to pulling off this disgraceful spook coup.

Many of the innocent have been smeared by Mueller and his thugs ... and all the truly giilty are walking ... a forever stain on our Democratic governance.

Game Changer

Let us draw a few presidential contrasts:

Clinton,  Bush. and Obama did not try to address the North Korean nuclear threat ... Trump appears to be making some progress

Clinton,  Bush. and Obama did not effectively push back against the NATO payment slackers ... Trump has

Obama did nothing when Russia invaded the Ukraine ... Trump has armed them to resist

Clinton,  Bush. and Obama had ineffective and expensive Middle East strategies ... Trump appears to reversed both stumbles

Clinton, Bush and Obama had ignored Russian violations of the cruise missile treaty ... Trump hasn’t

Obama, with the Federal Reserve Bank’s help, was happy with GDP growth below 2% ... Trump has taken it above 3% even with the Fed working against him

Clinton, Bush and Obama had ignored the growing Venezuelan disaster, Trump hasn’t

Clinton, Bush. and especially Obama did not  address the Iranian threats ... Trump appears to have put Iran’s mullahs back in a box

Obama did not resist the Russian pipeline into Germany ... Trump has

Clinton, Bush and Obama had ineffective immigration policies and enforcement ... Trump is trying to fix things, resisted by Democrats and much of corporate America

Clinton and Obama were clearly anti-Israel ... Trump is just the opposite

ISIS was created due to Obama’s ineptitude and he would not defeat them ... Trump has

... Is this enough evidence that Trump is a game changer?

Headlines

California’s move to Super Tuesday hands Harris a big edge in 2020

As Trump ponders auto tariffs, free trade Republicans push back

Spending binge worse than under Obama, Bush

Washington Post: Democrats hid border security win from Trump

Dems prepare to force Trump to reveal private talks with Putin

Trade talks with the U.S. are ‘making a final sprint,’ Chinese state media claim

Kaepernick settles collusion case against NFL ... $60 - $80 million?

Trump decries catch and release as spending bill expands program

Vatican defrocks former Washington cardinal over sex abuse

Trump’s message is having an impact on NATO, secretary general says

Just 1 in 4 Americans pass US citizenship test ...

Lindsey Graham congratulates Trump on defeating ISIS caliphate

Headlines

Roger Stone won't shut up

No deal on car tariffs as White House backpedals, Volvo threatens to move jobs overseas

Digital-media bubble bursting ...

Brexit leader Nigel Farage quits UKIP

Wisconsin lawmakers weaken governor, attorney general

Internal Facebook emails show company discussed charging for access to user data

Warrior's salute: [Bob] Dole pays tribute [to Bush] ...

Pope Francis' There's 'no room' for homosexuality in priestly life

Trump asks South Korean president to deliver 'friendly' message to Kim Jong in

'Not to sound to to naive or anything': Trump says he believes 'every word' of Xi's trade truce

UK ON THE BRINK ... [Theresa] May's darkest hour ...

Bond market sends up a recession warning flare

Headlines

Pragmatism vs. puglilism: Bush death highlights Trump's global isolation

LA auto show brings wave of new electric vehicles to take on Tsla, but worry about finding buyers

GOOGLE employees debated burying conservative media is search results ...

Kudlow: Trump-Xi trade talks went 'very well'

Despite bitter family rivalries, Bush wanted Trump at his funeral

Trymp's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen adds to avoid prison time after plea deal in Mueller probe

'Yellow vest' protesters battle riot police in Paris; 200+ arrested

Putin urges 'necessary' Trump talks ...

House lawyer: Comey lawyer is legitimate

Facebook is making a huge mistake if it abandons its election wae-room, says former Obama official

Cohen [plea] deal intensifies scrutiny on Traimp business dealings ...

[Trump] cancels G-20 presser 'out of respect' for Bush, family

Headlines

Senators to Trump: It's do-or-die time for DACA

Trump to rally in Tennessee after Democrats sense a chance to take a Senate seat held by the GOP for two decades

Arlington Cemetery, nearly full, may become more exclusive ...

Meadows: We need to know who directed spy campaign

China steps up pace with new nuclear arms  race with U.S. And Russia

South may be angling its way into the Trump-Kim summit

Shock: Chelsea Manning Tweets suicide note, picture of self on ledge of tall building ...

Vegan extremists threaten to firebomb U.K. butchers

George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Maine

European Union moves to ban single-use plastics

Farrakhan changes his opinion of Trump ...

Iran energy official: We can make highly enriched uranium in two or three days

The Great Divide

Hillary Clinton, looking down her nose, spoke at Yale's commencement over the weekend, saying that resilience will get her audience though Trump's tumultuous presidency  ... see: CNBC Article. What elitist pap! What pandering pettifoggery! This woman, abetted by the ivory-tower twits in New Haven, is basically reprising her snobbish "basket of deplorables" comment that lost her the last election. She and many in the robed crown there feel that they know more and feel more than the rest of us irredeemables.

This scene was, I'm sure, repeated numerous times with numerous liberal luminaries across America's campuses ... reassuring the graduates that they were better and smarter than those who had labored to set out the chairs and laundered the robes for these august ceremonies. They were assured that only they were the ones who could grasp the depth of the lefty platitudes being offered by these biggies. Some day they would become the speakers and honorary degree recipients in this never-ending cycle of our ruling class.

Just one problem. Donald Trump has opened the eyes of those who are unwashed to what a rotten job our elites like Hillary and Barack and George have been doing managing our country and our interactions with the rest of the world. They have noticed the "let them eat cake" attitude of their betters ... and have said "enough!" The battle lines in this great divide are forming. And, unless our puddin'-headed elites wake up, they will end up taking more lonely walks in the woods, calling the other half "Nazis" and consoling themselves with fine Chardonnay like that Chappaqua doyen.

Headlines

Gary Cohn resigning as Trump's top economic adviser

Exclusive: NYT executive editor call opinion page 'far left wing' in private meeting

USA considers broad curbs on Chinese imports ...

Sessions pushes back: DOJ to sue California to find 'sanctuary' law as unconstitutional

Trump finds some friends on tariffs: Red state Democrats

Stormy [Daniels] sues Trump

ISIS-inspired teen tries to detonate bomb at Utah high school ...

George W. bush: Trump makes me look pretty good by comparison

Top Republicans urge Sessions to appoint special counsel to probe FBI

Joe Biden slams 'obscene' GOP tax cuts as he tries to win over Pennsylvania voters

Study: Trump TV coverage 91% negative ...

Rubio urges revision of Obama school discipline policy which ignores student bad behavior

Headlines

White House tells agencies to prepare for shutdown

Strzok may have brazenly broken classified info rules while investigating Hillary's email server

Jobless claims drop to 45 year low ...

Hyperhype: Tesla Model 3 delayed until 2019 ...

FBI surveillance of Carter Page might hay picked up Bannon

China tanker had a container full of dead Americans

W. Bush in Abu Dhabi: We ought to say thank you to immigrants and welcome them ...

Congress excludes border wall funding from $290 billion budget deal

Mattis: 'Dreamers' in military will not be deported

Stock market value wiped out equals $2,5 trillion and counting

LAPD submits 3 Weinstein cases to DA ...

Report: FBI informant tells Congress Russia routed millions to influence Clinton

Reminder

From Powerline blog

Afterthought: The Bushes have a difficult choice between family loyalty and country loyalty. Perhaps Jeb Bush could have led the way by forgiving Trump for his name calling? When our ship of state is stabilized, he still might have a shot at the presidency ... but he was not to be the clean-up man IMHO.

Headlines

All from Internet news sites, Guess which from Politico?

China 30-year plan to rule world ...

[Gen.] Kelly lends Trump personal and powerful credibility

John McCain denies being Buzzfeed's Trump dossier source

Judge orders Mandalay: Don't destroy evidence ...

'Ten out of ten' Trump and Puerto Rican governor praise hurricane response

Obama in Virginia: 'Our democracy is at stake'

Florida Dem says she's 'a rock star' after White House attacks

PROSECUTOR: Mueller's staffing choices suggests not interested in justice ...

Senate Judiciary seeks info from FBI informant on Uranium One

GOP leaders reach deal to set up tax reform

North Korea is 'different this time' says Singapore prime minister

BushObama slam state of the nation

Bill asked permission from Hillary's State Dept. to meet w/ Russian nuke official

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Bannon plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents

Bannon: Comey firing was 'biggest mistake in modern political history'

Australians face coldest night in 45 years ...

Nearly half of U.S. men who dropped out of workforce on opioid painkillers

Merkel: Europe needs coherent foreign policy

Hillary stands by her 'deplorables' remark

NFL Hell: Opening weekend sees more Stars-Spangled Banner protests ...

Maher: Time for Hillary to 'get in the Winnebego' and do 'whatever older white people do'

McCain: 'Every life has to end one way or another'

Bannon worries Trump's DACA decision could cost Republicans the House

Nordstrom tries stores without merchandise ...

Bannon: I hold Bush admin 'geniuses' in complete contempt

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Steve Bannon takes his fight outside

Poll shows lots of support for Trump's stance on Charlottesvile

White House lawyer predicts quick end to Mueller probe ...

Stephen K. Bannon returns home to Breitbart News

Graham to Trump: Afghanistan pullout could cause another 9/11

Panicked New York set to remove subway tiles that vaguely resemble Confederate flag

NASA: 3-mile asteroid to graze past Earth [in] closest ever tracked

Bush: We're on the cusp of a second Civil War

Mother of Charlottesville victim: I won't speak with Trump

ACLU no longer automatically defends groups with firearms ...

Hero [Spanish] police officer shoots dead four terrorists ...

Finland terror: Two dead, several injured

Headlines

All came from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Politico?

Trump badly lagging Obama, Bush, Clinton in political appointees

Exclusive: Doubt surfaces about 'suicide' claim of Clinton investigator

Russians passed DNC dirt during Jr. meet

Dept of Energy doles out $46.2M for solar power project

Jared's lawyer Abbe Lowell  taking over Russia case from [Jamie] Gorelick

Erdogan marks anniversary of coup attempt by firing thousands of employees

Republicans exempt their own insurance from Obamacare rollback ...

Gay couple brutally attacked in German asylum home

Governors steer clear of Trump

Jerry Brown makes desperate pitch for California Cap and Trade [bill]

Amazon antitrust concerns emerge in Washington and Wall Street

Poll: 59% of French approve of President Trump's visit