Feb 2, 2018 – to discuss the growing tensions in the competing battles to retake one of the remaining Islamic State strongholds in Syria. … Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon Friday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted if the U.S. finds hard evidence to back up the claims … Given that removal of Assad is an integral part of the administration’s Syria strategy, I think we should view Mattis’s statement as…

Feb 2, 2018 – The White House working, under its statutory authority, with the Intelligence Committee to review “the memo” is obstruction. … Note the sourcing. … Speculations to the contrary are just fantasy.” I’m very much of the Alan Dershowitz view on this.…

Feb 1, 2018 – , and downsize the diversity visa lottery that many conservatives view with suspicion. … rate), the politics will kill the deal altogether. … The entire point of an immigration bill is to solve two problems: to secure the border, and avoid the mass deportation of the Dreamers…

Feb 1, 2018 – That Nunes has altered the document and is now going to release the altered document as though it is the same document Schiff and the … to the memo, including grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the FBI and by the Minority themselves,” Langer said. … To suggest otherwise is a bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo, which the public will hopefully soon be able to…

Jan 31, 2018 – The CFPB fought the ruling, asking the court to rehear the case en banc, meaning that it wanted the entire court to hear the case, … “In, in our view, the panel correctly applied severability principles and therefore properly struck down only the for-cause removal … I view this as one of the many politically charged “we hate Trump so screw the law” decisions that have been handed down over the past…

Jan 31, 2018 – just as divisive as the rest of the presidency. … However, polling done by CBS seems to indicate that the pundit class did not have the same view. … state of the nation’s economy, up from 51 percent before they watched the State of the Union.…

Feb 19, 2018 – Democrats are pretty darn sure that Russia cost Hillary the election. … You might think that’s silly based off dumb things like polling of the electorate or the fact that people use more than Facebook to … It’s time for you to open your eyes to the truth.…

Feb 19, 2018 – Namely, what the hell was the deal with all this shoehorned-in girl power? … that the problem wasn’t with the film, it was with the audience. … “We’re not asking to take away the male point of view or male artistry or male contribution,” he said in an interview with IndieWire…

Feb 19, 2018 – As time moves on, since the news broke that President Trump would like to show off our military might to the world with a parade, … The Pentagon are reportedly stressing over not just the costs, but the disruption the type of parade Trump desires would cause. … They’re now citing costs well into the millions. And what about the preparation required to put on such an event?…

Feb 18, 2018 – Wouldn’t it be ironic if the very document that started the whole Russia-collusion story (sorry, no, I don’t believe that an alcohol-fueled bull session between George Papadopoulos and an Australian diplomat set off the investigation) ends up making a large portion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation completely public?...

Feb 18, 2018 – “Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal … The real question, of course is when did Trump refer to the entire investigation, as opposed to the Russia collusion part, as a hoax … The article itself notes that Trump admitted over a year ago that the Russians did attempt to meddle in the election.…

Feb 18, 2018 – In my view, there were two salient findings in the unsealed indictment brought in by special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday. … They view the world as a zero-sum game where anything that’s good for us is bad for them and vice versa. … being more public and aggressive at the time at least in my view But, this is an amazingly lucid statement from a usually deranged…

Feb 17, 2018 – “The proposed package is deficient in the government’s view, in light of additional criminal conduct that we have learned since the … court’s initial bail determination,” the prosecutors wrote in the court filing rejecting the bail proposal. … Manafort offered the Fairfax home as collateral in the bail agreement.…

Feb 16, 2018 – The recent garbage commentary spewed by garbage comedian Joy Behar on the garbage television show The View has gotten nearly as much … attacks against VP Mike Pence for his Christian faith by The View cast members Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar are unacceptable. … You have to get to the daytime programming lineup and choose The View.…

Feb 16, 2018 – The View host Joy Behar has proven to be something of a bigot when it comes to people’s religion…well, certain people’s religion, … Nor does the left, which thought Pence’s conversations with God were the laugh riot of the week. … Which brings up the question of how the left can square its anti-Christian bigotry with the fact that the person on top of their candidate…

Feb 16, 2018 – One of the developing strategies of the left, the media, and the anti-Trump faction is to tie anything they don’t like to Russia. … I presume the Russians were sharing the article the Washington Post ran debunking the story: In 2015, The Post’s Fact Checker awarded … A lot of us hold the view that policing in poor minority neighborhoods, and in downscale white neighborhoods is often a lot more adversarial…

Feb 16, 2018 – A 2016 article in the Atlantic describes the tension, and the arguments in favor of following local laws: Google’s move to pull the … What if local laws required promoting the ideology of ISIS and removing any material that questioned their murderous view of Islam? … BONUS COLLUSION CONNECTION: One interesting side note in the story about Navalny: the YouTube video that is at the center of the firestorm…

Feb 16, 2018 – We saw during the 2016 campaign the way he relentlessly sucked up and promoted Donald Trump only to turn into a hero of the anti-Trump … Here’s the backstory. … The NRA must elect & support candidates who will view the gun rights issue as a constitutional battle.…

Feb 15, 2018 – Having heard certain arguments made repeatedly from the left, I made a video addressing some of the most common things gun-control … The original video was made shortly after the San Bernardino shooting, but after the shooting in Broward county, I noticed these same … video where you can now view it below.…

Feb 15, 2018 – The least important first: If you recall, the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee authored a memo to counter the view of … The White House did not deny that the release of the Democratic memo. … the myth that the Russians interfered in the election with the cooperation of the Trump campaign.…

Feb 15, 2018 – Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2018 Naturally, this brought out the crazy and the dishonest and the slappable faces: … Washington Post described it at the time: Last year, when the Social Security rule change was proposed, the Consortium for Risk-Based … As the Supreme Court has made clear in the past, the Second Amendment to the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms,…

Feb 15, 2018 – “Take everything you’ve heard and multiply it by 50,” Priebus said, according to an excerpt from the book “The Gatekeepers: How the … “The Mooch” did himself in, after a profanity-laced tirade to a reporter from the New Yorker, where he slammed other members of the … “I still love the guy,” Priebus said in the book.…

Feb 15, 2018 – The worst would be the Virginia Tech shooting of April 2007, which was listed as not just the worst school shooting, but the worst … Then, of course, there are the super-hot takes of the anti-gun left. … It’s always the fault of guns, never the fault of the person wielding the gun. It’s only February.…

Feb 15, 2018 – The loss is breathtaking and incomprehensible. … The hole left in the lives of the families and parents of the deceased is beyond reckoning, inconsolable, unbelievable. … I won’t go into the details here. I didn’t know it happened until after I graduated boot camp. Until after the funeral.…

Feb 14, 2018 – on TV when he heard a police officer yelling, “Get on the ground, get on the ground, get on the ground!” … Murray said he raced to the school only to be stopped by authorities under a highway overpass within view of the school buildings. … so the kids would come pouring out of the class rooms…