Stuart Lyle You have heard of the “October Surprise,” that unexpected turn of events, sometimes manufactured or timed, sometimes just random, that has out-sized influence on the results in November due to its close proximity to the election. Think Comey’s 2016 announcement of reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, or Kissinger’s announcement that…
Dan Mason After the spectacular failure of Hillary Clinton to win a shoe-in election for one anointed and “whose time had come,” someone who deserved to be rewarded for past service to the people, the country, and the entirety of humanity at large, the Democrat Party elites tried to grapple with the reality of the…
Julian Assange is a divisive figure. He’s been cheered and then reviled by progressives over the course of the last five years. Like the ACLU’s effort to defend the Nazi march in Skokie IL in the late 70s, Peter Van Buren sees past Assange’s feud with Hillary Clinton and his intent to hurt her presidential…
Stuart Lyle While it may seem trivial, even a little adolescent, I want – to use a phrase that has gone out of favor – to call a spade a spade. Don the Con made a lot of mileage choosing unflattering nicknames for his opponents, ones that had a ring to them that helped them…
b. traven Merriam-Webster definition. PEEVED: irritated, exasperated, nettled, provoked, riled, peeved means to excite a feeling of anger or annoyance. irritate implies an often gradual arousing of angry feelings that may range from mere impatience to rage (constant nagging that irritated me greatly). exasperate suggests galling annoyance and the arousing of extreme impatience. My pet…
A couple of days ago I ran into an acquaintance who happens to be a millionaire. I was curious about how he felt about our new president. The first word out of his mouth was “fascist.” I was astounded to say the least! I knew that he was ‘liberal,’ but most liberals seem to be…
Peter Van Buren In this article, Peter uses his 24-year State Department experience to examine the “Deep State” meme based on his background and using his satirical literary style. Andrew Bacevich, with a military background, rounds out the same theme in this article. The “Deep State” meme has been kicking around for several decades as…
b. traven How ridiculous can this be? The Clinton/Obama effort to Blame it on Putin (BOP) is more of a ‘reach’ than the illusory WMD was. Will James Clapper get a national Medal of Honor for letting the CIA carry water for this, like Tenet got for helping Bush’s lying us into Iraq? Who knows…
Alex Dunn Alex Dunn is TCP’s European contributor. His post explores the confusion in Europe wrought by the election of Donald Trump. Hopefully, Winston Churchill’s assessment of the US will turn out correct: “You can count on Americans to do the right thing… after they have exhausted all other possibilities.” – Ed. It is only…
Stuart Lyle Commentator Stuart Lyle writes about the “game” of democracy. There are plenty of instances in recent history of democracy being “gamed.” The mechanisms of electoral democracy were used by the Nazi Party in pre-World War II Germany to gain power, as by the fascists in Italy. When one of the dominant US political…
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