President Obama’s administration deported a record 2.5 million people who were in the US illegally. The Obama administration did this without theatrical ICE raids or holding people in concentration camps across the southern border. Ice raids and concentration camps are very popular tactics with Donald Trump, who has demonstrated tremendous immigration incompetence. And let’s please remember that the numbers of…
Category: Current Events
Trump Independence Day 2020 Campaign Rally
Why are my tax dollars paying for today’s Trump 2020 re-election campaign event? The Republican National Committee doled out tickets to high-value donors, though none were distributed through members of Congress, as has been the custom. Trump gave a big political speech — the one he always gives — from the Lincoln Memorial. It’s nothing but another big Trump campaign…
Worth Of Jamal Khashoggi, Per Trump
According to the New York Times on June 23, 2019, “President Trump on Sunday shrugged off the brutal dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, just days after a United Nations report described how a team of Saudi assassins called Mr. Khashoggi a “sacrificial animal” before his murder. “The U.N. report urged an F.B.I. investigation into the slaying. But in an…
Democrats Should Not Impeach Trump in Summer of 2019
All the Democrats screaming to impeach Trump now are getting ahead of themselves. No one should move to impeach Trump in summer of 2019. It is too early to pursue impeachment, and there is not enough damning evidence available. Redaction riddles too much of the Mueller Report; too many investigations are still pending. Mueller farmed out those investigations to places…
Abortion Foes, What About IVF?
The latest gambit in the abortion wars opened today. On June 5, 2019, The New York Time reported this: “WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the federal government would sharply curtail federal spending on medical research that uses tissue from aborted fetuses. The move fulfills a top goal of anti-abortion groups that have lobbied hard for it, but…
Robert Mueller Speaks, Finally
After weeks of silence, Special Counsel Robert Mueller III spoke about the contents of his Mueller Report at a quickly arranged public appearance at the Justice Department on May 29, 2019. During his 10-minute presentation. Mueller didn’t clearly and obviously accuse the president of a crime. But he strongly implied he that he might have had DOJ policy not prohibited…
Ben Carson Is Out Of His Depth
During recent questioning in Congress, Ben Carson demonstrated that he is not familiar with the common term real estate term “REO,” which means real estate owned. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., on May 21 questioned Carson during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. “Do you know what an REO is?” Porter asked. “Oreo?” a perplexed Carson answered. “REO,” Porter repeated. “No,…
Karen Pence And Mayor Pete Buttigieg Trade Comments
Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, said on Tuesday, April 9, that people “shouldn’t be attacked for what your religious beliefs are,” responding to recent comments from South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Pence made her remarks while appearing on the radio show of Fox News host Brian Kilmeade. She was there to promote a children’s book…
The Behavior Of Joe Biden
People are once again examining the way former Vice President Joe Biden has behaved with women. Lucy Flores recently described how uncomfortable Biden’s kissing the back of her head made her feel. Flores was a member of the Nevada State Assembly from 2011-2015 and was running for lieutenant governor in 2014. According to the Washington Post, “A onetime Democratic nominee…
The Mueller Report And Attorney General Barr
The Mueller report has been the subject of a lot of discussion this past week. There has also been a lot of discussion about the length of the report. The report is the result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation into crimes or conspiracies between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Someone on Fox News said that it…