Rep. Will Hurd questions Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, and National Security Council aide Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, November 19, 2019. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via Reuters) Representative Will Hurd (R., Texas), a frequent Republican critic of President

Believe it or not, I did have a tight outline I wanted to follow for this one, but I may have gotten a bit tangential. We’re all about just how wrong and misleading the socialist message preached by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders is in this episode. Please go and give my Kruiser Words Facebook

Missouri senator Josh Hawley might be the most interesting thinker the U.S. Senate has seen since Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Or at least, he’s the senator today who most resembles Moynihan as a sweeping and adventurous social critic. Last night, at a dinner held by the American Principles Project Foundation, … Read More

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently put President Donald Trump on notice about any possible retaliation against the whistleblower who filed a complaint against Trump. Pelosi warned: “I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower. I was there. I told the President, you’re in my wheelhouse when you come after the whistleblower.” But

Donald Trump greets Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former Vice President Joe Biden as former U.S. President Barack Obama looks on after inauguration ceremonies swearing in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States on the West front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson – HT1ED1K1JGTSG Claim:

A Little Bit of Everything Today OK, two things, because impeachment and the debate were all that went on yesterday. I often long for the simpler times, like earlier this year when so many people were devoting their outrage to the fact that Captain Marvel was a woman. Instead, we’re being fed a steady diet

Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Adam Schiff prepares to hear testimony during the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, November 19, 2019. (Shawn Thew/Pool via Reuters) After three days of Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry, we are left with only the monotony. We

I’ve been wondering for weeks just what about the famous July 25 phone call (VIP) was so threatening to LTC-yes-that-means-Lieutenant-Colonel Alex Vindman that his reaction to the call was to be “literally shaken” and then bring it up with counsel, the infamous first Eric Ciaramella whistleblower, and eventually with the Democratic staff of the House

This Thursday, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell told the House Budget Committee that there was “no reason to think, that I can see, that the probability of a downturn is at all elevated.” Not every economic indicator is perfect, but wages are rising (especially on the lower end), unemployment is still … Read More

As the Democrats’ impeachment efforts against President Trump continue to blow up in their faces (which is not to say they won’t succeed, given the establishment media’s indefatigable attempts to put a good face on the proceedings), it is useful to recall that we have been here before. No impeachment proceeding against a president has

Senator Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Rubio is exploring how levers of policy affect market conditions and behaviors, a discussion that is stretching the Right’s traditional vocabulary. Deep in the bowels of the National Archives, I gather, lie America’s true founding documents. On display for the

Welcome To Your Brief Impeachmentpalooza Break It’s time once again for the Democratic presidential candidates to get together and kinda/sorta debate. It makes no sense to call these forums “debates” anymore, but tradition dies hard. There are a couple of things I’m actually looking forward to tonight. Topping my list is that this will be

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) How to think about the Title VII cases In 1964, Congress adopted Title VII, which forbids employers to discriminate based on sex. No one suggests that any member of Congress or the public then understood Title VII to ban discrimination based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.” Did generations of Americans miss something

Whenever leftists are charged with not loving or even with hating America, they respond angrily, labeling the question absurd, mean-spirited and an example of right-wing McCarthyism. But there can be little doubt that the left has no love for America, just as there can be little doubt that liberals and conservatives love America. Love of

Senator Marco Rubio speaks at a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing Jan. 9, 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The senator offers a refreshing alternative to laissez-faire fundamentalism — and a new generation of conservatives is paying attention. Marco Rubio, whom many thought of not long ago as a poster-child for the Republican establishment, recently opened a speech

CRESCO, Iowa — If you come to this rural Iowa town, you’ll learn about a problem that may sound familiar. In The New York Times, for instance, you’ve learned that many residents in Newark, New Jersey, have gone nearly two years without being able to turn on the faucets in their homes to take a

A view shows Palestinian houses in the village of Ein Yabrud with the Jewish settlement of Ofra seen in the background, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 3, 2019. (Raneen Sawafta/Reuters) Final-status negotiations between Israel and Palestinians will be predicated on the reality of disputed land. Say what you will about Donald Trump’s mercurial foreign

By Their Chicken Ye Shall Know Them America caught a break on Monday, and was able to take the day off from a singular obsession with Impeachment Kabuki Theater. Not a complete break, but enough of one, thanks to Chick-fil-A making a shift in its corporate charitable donation strategy. The first part of the day

(Pixabay) Two residential facilities slated for closure serve those who prefer to live there. In August, Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services announced its intention to close two large state institutions for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The department said that closing the Polk and White Haven state centers was necessary to best “honor the

Three episodes already and we haven’t gotten together for a drink yet. What a world. We’re exploring the fact that conservatism is an inherently positive message, while leftism is just one constipated anger issue after another. We’re the fun people, let’s remember that. Here are the links I talked about. If they do get around

I  am a great believer in Senator Marco Rubio, in his excellent intentions, and in the undoubtable ability of Senator Marco Rubio and his excellent intentions together to screw up anything they touch. Senator Rubio, writing in National Review, joins the ranks of those who propose to reinvent capitalism — … Read More

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) addresses abortion rights activists during a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 21, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The New York Times is reporting this morning that the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) will refuse to endorse any candidate who doesn’t support the unlimited right

He Finally Did It In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. People either hated him or viewed him as social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the

(Thomas White/Reuters) On Friday, Twitter released details of its global ban on political advertising. The ban will go into effect on November 22 and prohibits any ads that mention specific candidates, elections or legislation. Also included under the ban are ads from PACs or 501(c)(4) nonprofits, a category that includes political messaging groups. However, Twitter

Watching the impeachment “inquiry,” something that keeps striking me is this: no one seems to be able to point to any evidence that Trump’s supposed pressure on Ukraine actually happened. It’s hard to keep up with the leaks, but what we know is that in two phone calls with Zelensky Trump congratulated him on his

Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) on Capitol Hill, December 13, 2018 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) His ‘common-good capitalism’ sounds a lot like Elizabeth Warren’s ‘accountable capitalism’ — and, for that matter, fascist economic thinking. I  am a great believer in Senator Marco Rubio, in his excellent intentions, and in the undoubtable ability of Senator Marco Rubio and his

(Shutterstock) 2014—For the second month in a row, the Supreme Court (in Frost v. Van Boening) summarily and unanimously reverses an opinion authored by Ninth Circuit judge Sidney Thomas. Thomas, a native of Montana, was trotted out in 2010 as a supposed moderate candidate for the Supreme Court vacancy that Elena Kagan ended up filling,

Sucking the Joy Out of Everything Some may say I dream too big, but I one day hope to be able to sit down, turn on my television, and watch something without fear of hearing a liberal talking point painfully shoehorned into the script. I also dream of living to at least 125, and having

Michel Houellebecq at the 2014 Venice Film Festival (Tony Gentile/Reuters) The French provocateur’s latest novel, Serotonin, comes as his longstanding concerns have begun to manifest in the liberal societies he so harshly criticizes. We are living in the imagination of Michel Houellebecq. The bête noire of French literature has spent decades deploring the erosion of

One of the most refreshing aspects of Resolution 296—which acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, and which the House recently voted for overwhelmingly—is that it also recognizes those other peoples who experienced a genocide under the Ottoman Turks.  The opening sentence of Resolution 296 acknowledges “the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and