It wasn't the speech I would have preferred, but I didn't really think we were going to get that. Given that President Trump choose the fairly traditional route for a State of the Union address, he came off about as well as presidents ever do. Even some of the schmaltzier elements were presented pretty well.
You have the right to protest. You don't have the right to invade people's work spaces, and when someone is having a meeting, the fact that you disagree with their action doesn't give you the right to jump up on their meeting table, sit there and refuse to leave. That does not make you a hero of free speech. It just makes you an obnoxious, petulant jerk.
Will the investigation of anti-Trump bias in the FBI turn into something even more ominous? Consider the well-established fact that President Barack Hussein Obama, using a pseudonym, knowingly exchanged emails with Hillary on her private unsecure server. He then lied about it. That’s why Hillary was spared. The FBI spared her to protect him.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement today:
“Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies.
Frank Luntz, as you probably know, has always viewed Donald Trump with disdain. He was baffled when his focus groups started suggesting Trump could win and, right up until Election Night, he kept hammering away at the President-to-be. His recalcitrance culminated in the following, now-infamous, tweet:
I actually don't think this makes the top 20 of Hillary's most egregious actions, if only because that's an exceedingly difficult list to crack. During her 2008 campaign, she had a "faith advisor" named Burns Strider who I guess would send her Bible passages. (We could go in a whole direction here for sure, but let's stay on point.) It turned out that Strider also liked to lavish unwanted attention on the ladies, and was quite obnoxious about it, to the point where one of them complained to the campaign and Hillary had to make a decision of what to do about Strider.
A tip of the garden hat to a few of those who have improved our gardens, health and lives in general: "Whoever could make two ears of corn grow where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Whoa. So far, this is probably the biggest retirement announcement we've seen. Trey Gowdy will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives and is leaving politics for an unspecified job somewhere in the Justice System.
A Vietnam vet friend of mine, who has since passed away, once opined that what America really needs is a good old fashioned "National Smack A Lib Day." Just to drain off some of that excess adrenaline, you know?
During last night's State of the Union address, President Trump spent considerable time telling the story of Otto Warmbier. He's the American student who was arrested in North Korea, was imprisoned and tortured, then died from his injuries upon his return to the United States. His parents were in the audience last night.
I know how this could turn out. Once the Nunes memo is public, it's guaranteed that the memo itself will face at least as much public scrutiny as those Nunes discusses in it. The media won't turn the heat on the DOJ and FBI officials Nunes accuses of abusing their power. They'll turn the heat on Nunes for daring to offer such a partisan slant on the documents he was allowed to view but not keep copies of.
Spine and heart surgeons will use augmented reality (AR) to simplify complex procedures. Autistic children will get relief from sensory overload with a calming virtual reality (VR) system.
Echoing the criticism of too much hype surrounding U.S. shale from the Saudi oil minister last week, a new report finds that shale drilling is still largely not profitable. Not only that, but costs are on the rise and drillers are pursuing "irrational production."
For the first time in Canadian history, our government is forcing citizens to sign a document to bear witness of support for Liberal ideology to get a summer job.
A letter in a November 1999 edition of the Oil & Gas Journal, "Running Out of Oil," written by an industry consultant, stated 11 facts and predictions. Far from unusual, his facts were generally correct and his prognostications mainstream.
Auckland’s iconic harbour bridge has been brought to life in a world-first battery and peer-to-peer powered light show.
The six-minute specially-composed light show sequence wowed crowds in New Zealand’s largest city watching and listening from different vantage points throughout the city on January 27, 2018.
The maddening problem facing conservatives fighting the growth of Big Government is that much of the growth is fertilized by former conservatives who start growing first. The phenomena is most evident in benighted lands that don’t impose term limits and have legislative bodies that meet year around.
When the sun is at the right angle most of us cast shadows. But former FBI director James Comey casts a gargantuan ego no matter where the sun shines.
"Fired FBI Director James Comey spoke out in defense of Andrew McCabe, the man who headed America's top law enforcement agency in his absence last May, suggesting on Monday that "small people were trying to tear down an institution." (newsweek.com, Jan. 30, 2018.