As the junior member of this team and kind of the light-hearted entertainment section counterbalancing the somber, intellectual heavyweights I’m surrounded with most of the time, I let the big dogs go first. In fact, I wasn’t going to write anything about it at all until I saw a Xweet that made my heart soar...
Judge Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge who helped escort a criminal illegal alien out of her chambers to evade arrest, was just suspended from her job by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, saying Tuesday that it is in the public interest...
The stunning collapse of the Conservative Party’s lead in the polls has led to this: The Liberals, having replaced Justin Trudeau with Mark Carney as their leader, are on the cusp of attaining an outright majority in the Canadian Parliament. That sucks. Before Trudeau bowed out of leadership and his role as Prime Minister, the...
Abundance is the title of the book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson which has been making some waves this year. The gist of the book is that if Democrats want to recover from recent failures, especially with the working class, they need to demonstrate they can actually get things done. And lately it seems...
It looks as if we could well be headed into one. In this instance, it looks like Trump and his tariff war aren’t the reason for the news coming out of United Parcel Service (UPS) today. Or shouldn’t be, however much they’ll spin it as such. According to the powers that be at UPS, Big...
Ed wrote a piece earlier today about his take on the first 100 days of Trump’s second term, and I thought I would throw in my $.02. After all, everyone expects the “First 100 days” piece, even though the time period is utterly arbitrary. There is nothing special about 100 days other than it being...
Fake news? Trial balloon? Big misunderstanding? At the very least, it sounds like Punchbowl News didn’t do enough checking on a “scoop” this morning. Earlier today, the DC-Media-insider site reported that Amazon had entered the tariff wars. Punchbowl alerted reader that the online giant would soon break out tariff price hikes, in order to make...
I am a big fan of DOGE, and even approve of cutting government with a meat axe instead of a scalpel. A decade or two ago, I would have preferred “reform” and a zero-based budget–the idea being that responsible representatives in Congress and the Executive Branch would do their jobs and separate the wheat from...
China’s system of crushing dissent internally through direct threats works pretty well. There’s a reason why there are almost never any public protests in China and it’s simple. If you protest, China will identify you and the police will come knocking no your door with some paper for you to sign. The paper will be...
One hundred days? In some ways, it feels as though we are 100 years away from the Joe Biden presidency. In others, it feels as though the new administration and Congress have barely gotten started. And for some, it feels as though they haven’t changed a bit. Donald Trump took the oath of office exactly...
When Democrats are in power, they style themselves Dr. Jekyll; when out of power, they are Mr. Hyde. To be sure, Democrats are not immune to protests from the far left, but in the main, we get lectures about norms and lectured by politicians like Obama that “elections have consequences.” CNN’s Chris Cuomo: “Please, show...
Oh, boy. There’s humanely and responsibly taking care of uninvited guests (read: illegal migrants flooding into your country). And then there’s indulgence to the point where you’re responsible for encouraging the flood itself, have done nothing to stem the tide, and have completely abrogated any responsibilities you owe your citizens/taxpayers by the wanton disregard of...
One has to wonder just how long Harvard will stand on its principles in this fight — especially when the main principle appears to be the right to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, and religion. And given how the Harvard Law Review operates, that’s not an exaggeration. On Friday, the Washington Free Beacon...
Yesterday, John wrote about David Brooks beclowning himself on PBS, but I couldn’t resist throwing in my $.02 about Brooks’ idiocy. Brooks, as you know, is the archetypical elitist who firmly believes that you can tell whether a man would make a good president by interpreting the cut of a man’s jib. He let the...
You know what they say … a billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking real money. (NOTE: Yes, I know it used to be million, but then Joe Biden happened.) Just how much work has Elon Musk and his DOGE team accomplished? Let’s ask the Democrats on the House and Senate Appropriations Committee....