Robert C. O’Brien, Trump’s good soldier
With the appointment of Robert C. O’Brien to serve as national security adviser, Donald Trump will once more disappoint his…
John Bolton is Trump’s latest distraction
Donald Trump is declaring that he has fired John Bolton as national security adviser. Bolton is saying he offered to…
Donald Trump goes Fox hunting
Has Donald Trump outfoxed himself? In the past few days Trump has been lashing out at the network for publishing…
Is it time for some 2020 Democrats to put party over country?
Would the Democrats be better off losing the presidency in 2020 and winning the Senate? If you think that the…
Trump heals the nation…by attacking Beto for his ‘phony name’
The Democratic party, mired in infighting only a week ago, has reunited over racial division. New Jersey senator Cory Booker…
Donald Trump, signed, sealed, delivered
Call it the Art of the Seal. When he spoke before several hundred youthful supporters at Tuesday’s Turning Point USA…
Biden and Trump converge on the middle ground
Are both Donald Trump and Joe Biden going to run to the center? Yesterday Trump delivered a fairly anodyne speech…
Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ is the perfect fusion of capitalism and patriotism
The Washington, DC city council is having none of it. ‘Tanks, but no tanks’, it tweeted at Donald Trump. Trump…
Trump is Joe Biden’s best campaign aide
They warn generals not to fight the last war. The same admonition might apply to presidential races. Donald Trump was out on the White…
Trump’s Mexican tariffs could wipe out his 2017 tax cut
Donald Trump likes to brag about his deal-making prowess. During his visit to the United Kingdom, he’s touting the prospects…
Trump: American Shogun
Japan has a new emperor, and so do we. Donald Trump isn’t merely president. He wants to be America’s shogun.…
The Wolff is at the door
The Wolff is once more at the door. The Guardian reports that Michael Wolff, the author of Fire and Fury,…
Joe Biden is already under Trump’s skin
During his speech today at the NRA convention in Indianapolis, Donald Trump shot himself in the foot. ‘Now we’re going…
The genesis of the #NeverBernie movement
Is a #NeverBernie faction starting to emerge among Democrats? Sanders is on a roll after his appearance at a town…
Donald Trump has been captured by the neocons
Until now Donald Trump has proceeded with relative impunity in foreign affairs. But his imposition of a terrorist designation on…
Is Barr really helping Trump by slowing the release of the Mueller report?
Poor Donald Trump. Even Mar-a-Lago may not provide much of a refuge from his cares now that it has been…
Could the Mueller report’s findings help Democrats in 2020?
In determining that Donald Trump did not engage in secret collusion with Russia, Robert Mueller may well have done Democrats…
Vice vs vice: Cheney barbecues Pence in Georgia
It was no cakewalk for Vice President Mike Pence. He had showed up in Sea Island, Ga., reckoning that he…
Donald Trump’s murky past is catching up with him
Washington, DC It was a petulant Donald Trump who appeared at a White House press briefing on Tuesday with the…
Going nuclear
Wednesday marked the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prompted…
Only one man can heal Donald Trump’s rift with the neocons
His choice of running mate could heal the rift with the neocons
The real winner at the US mid-terms: Hillary Clinton
Taking control of both houses of Congress may hand the presidency to Hillary Clinton in 2016
Impeaching Obama would be crazy. But the Republicans will probably try
The Republicans would be crazy to try and impeach the lame-duck President. It would only revive him
