Category Archives: Republican Party

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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Jared Kushner’s Bed

The more one reads about Jared Kushner, the more intriguing things become. Kushner, it turns out, was the person responsible for who blocking Chris Christie from consideration for VP, and then (it is believed) purging Christie and denying him any … Continue reading

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Trump, Syria, & Other Things

Laura Ingraham’s Twitter feed is full of ‘WTF Trump?!’ tweets, as is Ann Coulter’s. Nigel Farage tweets: Military intervention has opened the door to ISIS across the Middle East. Many Trump supporters will be worried by talk of regime change. … Continue reading

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Chabad’s Role in Things

The #2 trending story on Politico is “The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin”, about the (apparently) influential Jewish organization called Chabad: Two decades ago, as [Putin] set about consolidating power on one side of the world, he … Continue reading

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Kevin Hassett

“Trump to nominate pro-immigration free-trading globalist as CEA chair” is a piece on: Kevin Hassett, the economist who will be nominated by Donald Trump to be the next chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. The latest reports of internal … Continue reading

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