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As I may have noted here earlier, the replacement of Manafort with Ailes, Bannon, and Kellyann Conway turned the Trump campaign around. In particular Ailes and Conway seem to have found a way to make Trump look like a normal human being most (but not all) the time. Combined with the endless...

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A few weeks after the conventions, it looked as if Clinton was going to crush Trump. Trump's year of bat shit crazy comments, truth challenged twitter blasts, and anti-intellectualism seemed to have finally had some lasting impact...that seems to been a forlorn hope. IMO, Clinton was a horrible...

This may be one of those watershed moments in American political history...or not; tomorrow Mitt Romney will be making a major speech, putting himself on the radar map. http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/mitt-romney-elections-speech-scheduled-220133...

You know, in one life-time there are a limited number of opportunities to be immersed in cataclysmic events (for good or ill). Those of us who missed experiencing the collapse of eastern Europe, or the end of the Sandinista's, may yet experience some thrills in the bottomless meltdown of...

A dip into the bilge waters of the well heeled, contemporary student left...are these kids inspiring or what? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/02/19/ivy-league-crybullies-vs-survivor-of-a-soviet-labor-camp-guess-who-needs-emotional-support/

As Trump's nomination becomes inevitable, many of you have focused on Trump's style, rather than his substance. Here is you opportunity (if you have not done so) to look at 10 charts that show exactly where Donald Trump stands on the issues...

Bernie, for some odd reason, is astounded that a champion of the blue collar hoi poli would be earning huge bucks in making speechs to Fortune 500 corporate board packs and upper management hives. Unaware that she and Bill were "dead broke" upon leaving the presidency, Bernie does not appreciate...

As the Muslim predatory hordes and entitlement spongers continue to crash the borders into Europe, threatening to send millions more of their kind for occupation, a growing number of the Euro-White worms are finding a smattering of moral courage and affection for Western Civilization. European...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-court-guns-20160204-story.html It is likely to end up at the Supreme Court. The ruling establishes a conflict between the circuit courts, and unless the full-member 4th Circuit decides to hear and rule for the law, the Supreme Oracles will have to...

Six to eight months ago Max the Oracle read the entrails of a blue-bird and foresaw Hillary's fate. He made three predictions: 1) Hillary would likely lose the nomination, no matter who ran in the primary against her. 2) Emailgate would be a large part of the the "drip...drip...drip" of waning...

Inquiring Minds Want to Know...did the recent release (at 1:30 am) by the State Department Just Provide a Conspiracy Smoking Gun? The investigation grinds on, with the illegal harboring of 1000-1200 classified documents stored on Hillary's private system. Here-to-fore, Hillary's defense has...

Few issues gets our eternal partisan campaigner and lavish DECREE maker, in a rage quite like gun control. In an ad-lib speech today the angry, sarcastic, and disdainful "leader" was doing his best to contain heartfelt emotions, as well as channeling "der Fuhrer's" ranting. It was a roller...

Venezuela's Maduro and his party cadre has reminded the opposition that it may have won the elections by a landslide, but the process of a showdown battles with the actual rulers of the country has just begun...

After coming upon an interesting article on Chappaquiddick, and a new movie in the works, I thought it might make a pleasant diversion. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/12/first-truth-now-chappaquiddick.php They might be. Will they really show how Kennedy escaped political justice...

The COP20 thread has de-evolved into polarized opinions over nuclear power. That's fine, but its overdue that we have a thread where we report and comment upon past and recent developments...and not get pigeonholed. Begin here: THE UNSERIOUSNESS OF THE PARIS CLIMATE TALKS...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-regime-fights-back-against-surging-opposition-as-elections-near-1449191000 It seems that the government expects to lose, but are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the opposition legislature does not have enough votes for a supermajority. In spite...

“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic." (HL Mencken). In the wake of the San Bernardino it was...

Were Obamacare a normal creature of grand legislative hubris, poor design and really bad law, it would have died long ago. But the zombie still walks the land - to be repeatedly saved by Justice Roberts legal black arts in "SCOTUSCARE readings" and the many Dr. Frankenstein's of HHS that, when...

With slightly more than a year left in office, Barack Obama is leaving his foreign policy legacy of failure . The rise and terrorist successes of ISIS, and the growing Russian-Iran hegemony over the mid-east are merely the last year of "capstones" of failure, dating back to his (and Hillary's)...