How bizarre it was to watch Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, being abused at his confirmation hearing by the Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Until Trump picked him for his cabinet, I didn’t…
In a couple of columns that have already run this week, plus the segments of The Spectacle podcast you should have already watched (and if you haven’t, then…seriously?), our regular followers will notice a distinctly optimistic strain in things in…
The accusations against Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, are lamentable but, in a strange way, oddly refreshing. They represent a return to normalcy in Washington after four years of the bizarro world of the Biden administration and…
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to serve as secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, is in the hot seat. I fear Hegseth, a combat veteran and Fox & Friends weekend anchor, is not up to the job. I’d rather see…
It all began with Robert Bork. Nominated for the United States Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987, Bork was superbly qualified for the job. In his career, he had been a professor at Yale Law School, solicitor general of…
We’re going to get character assassinations and sex scandals concerning Donald Trump’s presidential appointees, and sanctimonious chin-wagging from “thoughtful” and “prudent” members of the Senate GOP caucus as they simp for the discredited Propaganda Press and their pals at the…
When I started writing news articles for The Town Crier at Los Angeles’ Paul Revere Junior High School in 1978, our journalism teacher stressed the importance of getting sources on the record — if not all, at least a couple of…
For 20 days, MSNBC has accelerated its attacks on former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who made headwinds when President-elect Donald Trump nominated him as his defense secretary. On Monday, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough led with what he called…
Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become Secretary of Defense has reopened the women in combat controversy because of the nominee’s views on the subject. Hegseth is a veteran of infantry combat in Iraq, and has expressed concerns about using women in…
