Category Archives: Politics

Head-Spinning Reversals

The lib MSM is certainly noticing, and actively encouraging the canning of Bannon. From WaPo: Trump also is increasingly embracing more mainstream policy positions championed by daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner and their allies, including ascendant National Economic Council Director … Continue reading

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BNN Radio Silence on Kushner: Day 2

Day Two of there not being a single Kushner story on Breitbart. It’s amazing how that works. After all, there was only this today in the Washington Free Beacon: White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is leading an unprecedented effort … Continue reading

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Trump Barometer: 4/12/17

Let’s see… 1) HEALTHCARE BILL: We know how the first round went, with Trump giving Congress an unrealistic deadline. Trump then blamed the Freedom Caucus for not signing onto an Obamacare Lite bill, one essentially written by the insurance industry. … Continue reading

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Andrew McCarthy on Syria

Andrew McCarthy has a good NR column about why the Syrian strike was a bad idea. (Hat tip: Punk): The U.S. has no vital national interest in joining its civil war. President Donald Trump has now done what candidate Donald … Continue reading

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ADL: Anti-Kushner Tweets Are Anti-Semitic

I take back everything I said about Jared Kushner. From the ADL, I just learned that criticizing him is anti-Semitic! (“Anti-Defamation League: Anti-Kushner tweets were anti-Semitic”): Hundreds of thousands of tweets about Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon exploded on Twitter … Continue reading

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Dems Winning Fight Over Border Wall

At this point in time, given Trump’s general trajectory of late, and the continued marginalization of Steve Bannon, I doubt a Border Wall will even be started, let alone completed. From The Hill (“Dems winning fight over wall”): Democrats are … Continue reading

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Bannon’s Bromides or Kushner’s Tentacles?

Business Insider reports: Employees at Breitbart News have been asked by senior editors to refrain from writing stories critical of Jared Kushner, two people familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Is this coming from Bannon himself, after his DT-arranged … Continue reading

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Buchanan: “Is Trump Joining the War Party?”

Pat Buchanan asks “Is Trump Joining the War Party?” By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to … Continue reading

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Trump & Syria – Pt. 2

At the Jewish Daily Forward, Sam Kestenbaum has a piece titled “The ‘Alt-Right’ Is Blaming The Jews For Trump’s Syria Airstrike”: President Trump’s Thursday airstrike against Syria may strip him of the support and adoration of his “alt-right” and white … Continue reading

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Esquire: Profile of Pat Buchanan

In Esquire, Sam Tanenhaus has a lengthy profile of Alt Right legend Pat Buchanan (“When Pat Buchanan Tried To Make America Great Again”). I never knew it was Pat himself who coined the phrase ‘silent majority’ for Nixon’s campaign.

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