The Trump economy, like Obama’s, is a big, fat, ugly bubble
If the Democratic party were smart, or genuine, they would be going after the lies underlying today’s boom
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Tuesday
Monday
Rod Rosenstein survives another day in Crazytown
The Deputy Attorney General has become the bête noire of House Republicans and Trump’s inner circle is clearly thirsting to oust him
Ronan Farrow, chief inspector of the sex police
Is there nothing Senate Democrats won’t stoop to?
Springtime for Woodward
Bob Woodward, in his own peculiar way, has used Trump as a vehicle to solidify establishment maxims
The pro-Kavanaugh pundits who make him look guilty
What won’t help Brett Kavanaugh are the kinds of arguments that many right-leaning commentators have made over the past week in response to Ford’s claims
Saturday
Friday
When did the conservative moral outrage machine get so quiet?
The Evangelicals who were triggered senseless by the Monica Lewinsky affair have been silent about Trump’s transgressions
Is Rod Rosenstein proof that Trump is right to be paranoid?
After the New York Times story, Trump is surely weighing a purge of the Justice Department
Thursday
Christine Blasey Ford has mastered the art of the deal
Ford looks reasonable. It appears that she’s only asking for a few more days to prepare
Tuesday
Thanks to Stormy Daniels, Trump’s problems are, well, mushrooming
Stormy Daniels vividly describes her sexual encounter with the President in her new book
Monday
With Christine Blasey Ford, the Democrats have descended to new lows in politicising justice
They tried the same thing when they wheeled out Anita Hill during the hearings on Clarence Thomas
If Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination collapses, so might the GOP
Left-wing foes of Republican judicial philosophy would be encouraged by the GOP’s humiliation
Saturday
The curious case of Ron Unz
The former publisher of The American Conservative is a case study in contrarianism gone haywire
Friday
If Donald Trump hires only ‘the best people’ — why Paul Manafort?
Any move Trump makes to protect Manafort is likely to damage further the GOP’s electoral prospects in November.
Never mind Paul Manafort, the Mueller inquiry is the biggest scandal in US history
Mueller’s activities are meant primarily to intimidate, pressure, and co-opt associates of Donald Trump in order to convince them to bear witness against him
Thursday
When did Senate Judiciary Committee hearings become an audition process for a presidential bid?
Hearings have always been barbed partisan affairs
Is Trump underestimating the approaching disaster?
The President seems to regard hurricane cleanup efforts as being as easy as mopping up a bathroom floor after the tub has slightly overflowed
Wednesday
Andrew Cuomo’s last chance saloon in Buffalo
The New York governor makes a trip out west and tries to talk tough to Trump
The case for a conservative labour movement
A labour movement that cooperates with conservatism would broaden the benefits of a strong stock market and reduce the drive to radicalism
Will Cruz lose?
Tipping point for Ted