If you aren’t worried about the heavy-handed and histrionic reaction by the Democrats to the recent “insurrection” at the Capitol, including the farcical second impeachment of President Trump and the increasingly irresponsible use of words like “seditious” and “treasonous” to…
Here’s a scenario that, sadly, is a lot less implausible than it ought to be: let’s say there are 99 mathematicians who get together and agree that two plus two equals five. And then let’s say there’s a guy from…
Tuesday’s political theater before the House Get Trump Committee was more cantankerous, nonsensical, and downright outrageous than usual. I’ve seen more measured and to-the-point discussions in those old Marx Brothers movies. Get Trump Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York…
Jerrold Nadler historically was not a despicable person. For conservatives like me, his politics always dismayed and even repulsed me. But the man historically had a sort of fundamental decency. I come from a time in America when you could…
Adorable Jerrold Nadler tried to take off his mask on camera the other day, and the New York fire department almost had to intervene to free him from the messy tangle of his glasses, the mask cord, his nose, and…
With the 51-to-49 vote not to call witnesses, the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is on track to an acquittal. And so the Trump impeachment saga is coming to an end not with a bang but a whine. “We…
The Democrats are clearly frustrated by their failure to convince congressional Republicans that President Trump has committed any act approaching an impeachable offense. This was made plain when House managers Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) resorted to the…
I had to wait until Saturday nightfall, the end of Shabbat, to watch the opening speeches by President Trump’s defense team. At least YouTube had not blacklisted those (yet). I already am a huge Pat Cipollone fan because he is…
A political Halley’s Comet flew over the Capitol this week. Even politics junkies averted their gaze. The Senate impeachment trial of a sitting president, just the third such event in the history of the republic, strangely acted as soporific rather…