Category: Politics

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I love the high-minded Mona Charen, I applaud the civil courage it took for her to make her CPAC speech, and I condemn any thugs who may have threatened her physically for speaking her mind and heart. (According to reports, she was quickly escorted from the venue.) But people like her have no effect on…

I predict that in a year or two we will hear no more about or from the Never Trumpers. They all will have changed their tune or slunk away.  Kesler: As for the Right’s reassessments, every conservative publication has been forced to admit, however grudgingly, that President Trump had significant accomplishments in his first year.…

Michelle Malkin: Two adult men, occupying lofty perches as law professors, argued this week that the voting age in the U.S. should be lowered to 16 because some high school survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting who want gun control "are proving how important it is to include young people's voices in political debate." Read…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Trump catharsis has shown that about 10 percent of the Republican Party, the NeverTrumpers, was largely apolitical. That is, former cornerstone positions of deregulation and tax reform, oil and gas production, charter schools, deterrent foreign policy, restoring friendship with Israel and moving the embassy to Jerusalem were apparently always secondary to the…

The hyperventilation of one Will Stancil at The Atlantic brought a wry smile to my face: There are plenty of ways to explain this creeping acquiescence. Institutions abhor abnormality; even in politics, parties would often rather fight along familiar lines. The passage of time makes Trump’s America seem less strange. Politicos are wary of challenging…

Unsure what FISA-Gate is all about? Victor Davis Hanson explains it clearly and how it differs from Watergate. His piece concludes: Barack Obama was a progressive constitutional lawyer who expressed distrust of the secretive "Deep State." Yet his administration weaponized the IRS and surveilled Associated Press communications and a Fox News journalist for reporting unfavorable…

Andrew Klavan: It now seems very likely the FBI and Department of Justice deceived a FISA court with an uncorroborated piece of Democrat-funded oppo research in order to obtain a warrant to spy on American citizen Carter Page. If, as seems reasonable to conjecture, the broader target turns out to have been the Donald Trump…

Ben Stein: Thank God that Trump won. Otherwise, this deeply disturbing behavior of the DNC/MSM/Deep State/Russia cabal would go utterly unnoticed and we would continue to snooze as the left emasculated the Constitution. Three cheers for Devin Nunes. And a special prosecutor now, if you please, to go after the people behind the phony dossier…

Our old friend Malcolm Pollack gets to the heart of the matter: It became very clear indeed that the actual state of the Union doesn’t really interest them [the Democrats] much at all; the only thing that matters to them is the state of their power over it — which is at a providentially low…

VDH: Stretching or breaking the law on her behalf would have been rewarded by a President Clinton.

An appropriately celebratory account of Trump's triumph in Davos. (HT: Bill Keezer) What does 'America First' mean? It is explained in this penetrating post.