Category Archives: Current Affairs

NY Times: The Court Ruled Correctly On The “Muslim Ban”, So Congress Needs To Restrain Trump’s Power

It’s funny, we never saw this type of opinion piece in the NY Times while Obama was POTUS. He was constantly being sued for implementing policies that went well beyond what were his Constitutional and legislatively given powers. The contraception mandate? It was invented out of thin air. There was no real statutory provision in […]

In Face Of Threats From Democrats, Trump Admin Officials Urged To Get Concealed Carry Permits

Liberals are increasingly advocating for violence against people who work in the Trump administration (as well as those who work for ICE, and, heck, anyone who is a Republican). This was especially true from Rep Maxine Waters. If even CNN is saying this is a problem (though they softened what she has been saying), it’s […]

Trump Signs EO To (Mostly) End Illegal Alien Separation, Democrats Shift Goal Posts

Democrats say it’s about the kids. It’s not about the kids (Daily Caller) Members of the media and Democrats are unsatisfied with President Trump’s executive order temporarily ending family separations at the border and are now urging him to end his zero tolerance policy on prosecuting people who cross the border illegally. President Trump announced […]

Obligatory OIG Report Post

I really don’t have much time today to delve deep into this whole thing, but, suffice to say, it doesn’t make James Comey, Loretta Lynch, or the FBI look very good “Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” IG report says. It cites Lisa Page text to Peter Strzok: […]

Washington Post: ZOMG, Trump Didn’t Come Home With A Deal!

OK, OK, it’s actually not that bad, but, you just knew that the Credentialed Leftist media (and some #NeverTrumpers) would be losing their minds and attempting to put what was essentially a meet and greet in the worst possible light. Some are just bat guano insane, such as Excitable Kathleen Parker’s (since I’m at the […]

Trump And Kim Meet, Sign Statement On Denuclearizing North Korea

We must still remember that Kim Jong Un is a brutal, torturous, murderous, repressive dictator in a country that has been running the same for over 70 years. There’s no freedom, everyone Must Comply, and so forth. So, there’s a long way to go. Remember, China wasn’t exactly a paragon of virtue and freedom when […]

NY Times: North Korean Meeting Is A Test Of Trump’s Dealmaking Swagger

This is actually a rather even handed, positive look at the situation by writer Mark Landler (NY Times) When President Trump declared that he did not really need to prepare for his legacy-defining meeting with North Korea’s leader, he drew sighs or snickers from veterans of past negotiations. But he had a point: In his […]

Oregon Group Looks To Pass Gun Ban On November Ballot

Remember, they don’t want to ban guns or take away your rights, they just want to make it harder for criminals to get guns Group approves wording for proposed gun control measure in Oregon The group working to ban some semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines in Oregon is taking another step forward. The Lift Every […]

Ohio Is Using Actual Law To Go After Actual Criminals With Illegal Firearms

See, on one hand, you have Vox pimping yet again an article of the Australian solution, which is banning and forced confiscation, but, remember, no one wants to take away your guns Australia responded to its own gun violence problem with a straightforward and severe solution: It collected hundreds of thousands of privately held guns. […]

Bummer: Gun Control Not What Young People Care About Anymore

Remember how this younger generation was going to go to the polls and vote to wipe out guns in America? Never mind (Daily Caller) Six percent of Americans aged 15 to 34 consider gun control the top issue facing the country, according to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV poll […]

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