One can argue that Trump cost Republicans the last three elections. His controversial presidential style while failing to fix health care helped Democrats take over the House in 2018. He lost the Covid-infused election of 2020, along with both Senate and House. This time, Trump-backed Senate candidates lost in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, giving Democrats the Senate again. And Georgia may follow. Trump’s larger-than-life stature cuts both ways. Now Trump again wants the White House. Republicans had the issues (except abortion, which fired up pro-choice women). What will 2022 now teach the GOP?   Mark Antony (facial reconstruction)                   “ I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. ”  — Marc Antony, “Julius Caesar”, Act 3 Scene 2 1. Dump Trump?   Peggy Noonan (former George H.W. Bush speechwriter): What I am seeing is the end of something. I am seeing yesterday. This is a busted jalopy that runs on yeste...

Democratic movers and shakers are obsessed with climate change and sermonize about ending fossil fuels. Diversity, equity, and inclusion -- all mandated equality-of-result agendas -- are their cultural religion , along with transgender advocacy, and abortion on demand in all 50 states. — Victor Davis Hanson , Hoover Institution Our atheist elite doesn’t believe in after-life judgments, or reincarnation to a higher life. Rather, in a democracy where the majority are supposedly sovereign, this ruling minority caught up in the moment, worries their high position is temporary, facing constant challenge. To stay on top, “the ends justify the means.” The ends justify lying. Michael Boskin of Stanford, a former Council of Economic Advisors chair, challenges elected leaders instead to pursue  a positive goal: “restore citizens’ faith in the superiority of capitalist democracy.” The tissue connecting free enterprise, democracy, and religious morality is “postponement of gratification.” Fai...

Ashley Morabito, who died of an overdose in June 2018 at 24, is one of the 92 people pictured on the Western Pennsylvania billboard shown below.              We earlier wrote : Our open border is the Democrats’ Number One crime. The size of the immigration rush slams border agents, forcing them away from interdicting drug shipments, even as the migrants themselves, including children, serve as cartel mules bringing illegal immigrants and drugs across the border. It is a coordinated, cartel-run operation serving the Democrats’ goal of expanding the U.S. nonwhite population, with the cartels profiting from moving both people and drugs into the country. Once [here], illegal immigrants move freely throughout the nation, helping boost crime in city after city, aided by government-supported, pro-immigrant, non-profit organizations displaying no concern about Covid or criminal records.
 PBS reports  that more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdose...

      Do you like top Democrats saying Republicans are people “who cling to their guns, their religion,” “deplorables.    .   . irredeemables,” “white supremisists, racists” and now, “(semi) Fascists”? To Democrat leaders, there may still be two parties, but only one is legitimate. Fascism's Look? Philadelphia's Independence Hall and Moscow's Kremlin In today’s social media world, platforms like Twitter “facilitate massive collective punishment for small or imagined offenses, with real-world consequences, including innocent people losing their jobs and being shamed into suicide ." This from  the liberal Jonathan Haidt, who adds today’s punishment that feels right is “not execution; it is public shaming and social death.”  How did we get here? We are in a place, as said earlier , where indignation is more powerful than gratitude . This because  To acknowledge that gratitude is proper is to acknowledge that there are others great...

Stasi Prison Berlin “My guess is that by the end of this process, you’re going to see indictments involving high-level people in the [Trump] White House, you’re going to see indictments against people outside the White House who were advising them with regard to the attempt to steal the election, and I think ultimately you’re probably going to see the president, former president of the United States indicted as well.”    — Eric Holder, August 4, 2022   Four days after Obama's ex-attorney general Holder spoke, the FBI raided Trump’s Florida estate. We have named  the Democratic Party a “criminal organization.” But crimes, committed while strongly believing the “ends justify the means,” will be forgotten if Democrats succeed in de-legitimizing their opposition. In one-party countries, only the losers are punished. The Party rules; its every action legal. The Federalist’s Joy Pullmann reminds us that Democrats called Donald Trump a “fascist, authoritarian, and wannab...

Lawyer joke: “What’s the difference between a good lawyer and a great lawyer? A good lawyer knows the law; a great lawyer knows the judge.” Washington D.C.’s June acquittal of ex-Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann for lying to the FBI — which he did — was, in Wall Street Journal writer Kimberley Strassel’s words , a “stench” that “lingers.” Special counsel John Durham lost. But his prosecution did expose how Washington protects its own. Prosecutor Durham            Defendant Sussmann Here, condensed, Strassel’s indictment of insider injustice: The 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign used the FBI to smear Donald Trump . Outside techies falsely linked Trump to Russia’s Alfa Bank. Clinton hired Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to funnel their infamous dossier to the FBI. Legitimized by two FBI investigations, insiders dished their fake dirt to the media. Sussmann was so tight with the FBI the bureau allowed him to edit press releases. O...

    How did we arrive at this mess? On the economy, the University of Michigan's Index of Consumer Sentiment hit its lowest point ever in June. The Index began in 1966 . On June 30, 2018 , President Trump had a RealClearPolitics average  unfavorable rating of -8.5%. That was terrible, but typical for him. On June 30, 2022 , President Biden has a RealClearPolitics average  unfavorable rating of -19.4% . Why? Back to the beginning. The real beginning. In Genesis, God creates the world, including humans. God is beyond understanding, we are humble , imperfect creatures. We remain not so far from the cave people, in awe of natural powers beyond comprehension, a part of the world’s Great Religions. But right away, the serpent in the Garden of Eden taught Eve and humankind the alternate religion , humans as gods with the knowledge to separate good from evil. Kings. Emperors. Priests. Philosophers. War generals. Marxists. Dictators able to use that power. Humility leads to ...