President Donald Trump just released a colossally bloated, ridiculously huge $4.7 trillion budget. Democrats and the Left – please pardon the redundancy – reacted as if it were a $1.7 trillion budget. ‘Dead on Arrival’: Democrats Dismiss Trump Budget Plan No matter how much government there is – the Democrat-Left remain a far-less-polite Oliver Twist. …
by Heather Mac Donald {city-journal.org} ~ The celebrity college-admissions cheating scandal has two clear takeaways: an elite college degree has taken on wildly inflated importance in American society, and the sports-industrial complex enjoys wildly inflated power within universities. Thirty-three moguls and TV stars allegedly paid admissions fixer William Singer a total of $25 million from…
Monday Top News Executive Summary Media Editors: “President Donald Trump on Friday issued the first veto of his presidency, defying a bipartisan rebuke of the national emergency he declared to circumvent Congress to get more money for his proposed southern border wall,” ABC News reports. “Attorney General William Barr was on hand to tell the…
by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ In California, history, like everything else, repeats itself as farce. Governor Gavin Newsom came into office announcing that he was canceling high-speed rail to nowhere, doubling down on high-speed rail to nowhere, and pulling the National Guard from, what he called, Trump’s “manufactured crisis” at the border to deal with…
Pompeo Heads to Israel Ahead of Contested Election by Adam Kredo {freebeacon.com} ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to head to Israel next week ahead of a contested Israeli election that is seen as no guarantee for longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… The timing of Pompeo’s trip has generated much speculation about whether he…
Friday Top News Executive Summary Political Editors: Fox News reports, “Four people were in custody — one of whom was charged with murder — after at least one heavily-armed shooter mowed down Muslim worshippers at Friday prayer, massacring 49 people in two New Zealand mosques while broadcasting a horrific live stream of the terror attack.”…
Thursday Top News Executive Summary Media Editors: “The GOP-controlled Senate is poised to pass a Democratic resolution Thursday blocking President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the Mexican border,” The Hill reports. However, Trump this morning stated, “I am prepared to veto, if necessary. The Southern Border is a National…
Isn’t judicial activism great? I kid. I’m a kidder. But our title is not an exaggeration. Qualcomm’s Fate In Judge Koh’s Hands As FTC Trial Wraps Who is Judge Lucy Koh?: “(A) United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California…. “On January 20, 2010, President Barack Obama…
Wednesday Top Headline Summary Media Editors: According to Reuters, “British lawmakers crushed Prime Minister Theresa May’s European Union divorce deal on Tuesday, thrusting Britain deeper into crisis and forcing parliament to decide within days whether to back a no-deal Brexit or seek a last-minute delay.” The vote was 391-242 and represented the second such rebuke,…
Tuesday Top Headline Summary Media Editors: “House Speaker Nancy Pulosi said in an interview that she opposes moving to impeach President Trump even though she believes he is ‘unfit’ for office,” The Washington Post reports. The Post infers that “Pulosi is well aware of the political risks of impeachment and how pursuit of the president…
