Mexico’s presidency is going communist, following in the footsteps of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, and Hugo Chavez. But Mexico is not a thousand miles away like Venezuela or tiny like Cuba and Nicaragua. It’s huge — 1/3 the size of the US — and shares a long border with us.
As Republicans approach the congressional elections of 2018, they need to beware of the pitfalls that may lie ahead.
It goes beyond chutzpah, arrogance, and myopia. Former Attorney General Eric Holder has dared to condemn President Trump’s decision to pardon anti-Obama author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, saying he was not a “good candidate” for a pardon.
Modern financial and secondary sanctions are the financial equivalent of papal excommunication during medieval times. We now have a really viable alternative to war in our sanctions policies.
Over the past five months, President Trump’s ratings, according to the realclearpolitics.com moving average, have flipped from 38-58 to 44-52 — a growth of six points in approval and a drop of six points in disapproval.
As he appeared at President Trump’s side on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell derided conservative insurgent candidates for the Senate saying that they might win primaries but could never win general elections. Implicitly knocking the efforts of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon to mount primaries against incumbent senators, he said: “our primary approach will be to support our incumbents and in open seats to seek to help nominate people who can actually win in November… That’s my approach. That’s the way you keep a governing majority.”
The following excerpt is from “Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump” by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, published by arrangement with All Points Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers.
Stanley Greenberg and James Carville claim that the Republican Party has peaked too soon. Incredibly, Greenberg says that “when we look back on this, we’re going to say Massachusetts is when 1994 happened.” Stan’s only claim to expertise in the
We don’t have to wait until we have a Republican in the White House to rid this nation of the shackles of Obamacare. We can do it next year if we win simple majorities in one or both houses of
Beyond a pleasing sight for the heart, what would Ted Kennedy’s seat going Republican really mean? A lot. First, there would be the psychological effect. On Democratic donors — it would discourage them from opening their checkbooks. On Republican donors
First, a brief congratulations to all on having seemingly killed the public option. Without our efforts, it would be en route to becoming law. Now there will not be a government owned, government run and government subsidized insurance company that
As the Congress prepared to vote to let us enter the world of waits for doctors, waits for specialists, waits for testing and waits for surgery, radiation and chemo, we should pause to consider the relative records of the private