Is there any number of illegal border crossings into the United States that would strike Democrats as an emergency? As they resisted President Trump’s efforts to stem the flow of illegal migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, many Democrats made the point that fewer migrants are coming today than years ago, during the Bill Clinton and […]

So Trump says the Mueller report proves his innocence: “No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.” As usual, he’s making it up. Nobody outside the Justice Department has seen the Mueller report yet. But even Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of the evidence regarding obstruction of justice specifically quotes its author: “(W)hile this […]

Thank you, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal (GND) she has unveiled is most illuminating. It is now unmistakably clear that AOC, Bernie Sanders, and other democrat socialists in the Democratic Party don’t want “socialism lite” but rather they want the federal government to take control of the “commanding heights” of the economy. Although […]

“Well that about tears it!” said Steve, twitching his walrus moustache. “How do they expect a guy to get by when they tell him what to do and to send money and re-up every dang thing in your billfold. It ain’t right!” We hadn’t seen our favorite cowboy so worked up over something since the […]

Whatever the polls say, Donald Trump could be re-elected. Both he and the Democrats have focused great attention on the Mueller report.  By finding that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russian meddlers, it may end up absolving Trump of many other charges or complaints.  Some voters are sure to see it that way. […]

There are only a few developments that have organized the way we see the world. There is the classification system of the life sciences, which separated the world into the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms. There is the Constitution of the United States, which created a delicate system of checks and balances. There is double-entry […]

In The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House former presidential speech writer, veteran journalist, and college professor Curt Smith provides a lively, informative account of our nation’s chief executives and America’s quintessential sport. Deftly interspersing engaging stories, statistics, and analysis of baseball with anecdotes and apraisal of the lives and tenure […]

Two things can be said with certainty about President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget request: It is DOA, dead on arrival, in the House; and it is a political document, catering to his loyal supporters, rather than a serious fiscal statement. What the budget request reveals is that Trump, left to his own devices, would further […]