Tag: Commentary

A lot of things that the politics-obsessed believe will get people's attention just doesn't meet the cut. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Beltway Confidential

The Trump paradox: His Rust Belt ratings are right where they were on Election Day

David Freddoso · August 21, 2017 10:08 pm

The USS John S. McCain. Divers with the Malaysian Navy found "potential remains" that may belong to some of the missing U.S. sailors on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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The USS John S. McCain collision, and what’s wrong with the Navy

Tom Rogan · August 21, 2017 8:52 pm

A University of Michigan fraternity is groveling to progressive student activists after condemnations of their Egypt-themed party led them to cancel the event. (iStock photo)

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Cultural appropriation complaints quash Egypt-themed frat party at the University of Michigan

Emily Jashinsky · August 21, 2017 7:59 pm

Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks that owning a private jet is "normal." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks ‘normal people can afford’ private planes

Philip Wegmann · August 21, 2017 5:40 pm

It's been almost two years since radical student activists at the University of Missouri cast their campus into chaos, staging melodramatic protests that lead to the resignation of their president and chancellor and made national news for weeks. (By AdamProcter, via Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

Mizzou suffering brutal long-term impacts of 2015 protests

Emily Jashinsky · August 21, 2017 4:56 pm

Congressional campaigns, state parties, and the Republican Governors Association have wined and dined at Trump restaurants, hotels, and golf courses. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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Republicans wouldn’t let Democrats wine and dine at an Obama hotel, so why do they love Trump’s places?

Philip Wegmann · August 21, 2017 4:06 pm

This image made from video of an Aug. 14, 2017, still image broadcast in a news bulletin on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, by North Korea's KRT shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un receiving a briefing in Pyongyang. (KRT via AP Video)

Nuke North Korea now: It’s the only option

Kevin James · August 21, 2017 4:00 pm

This prominent liberal is not really concerned with the human losses America has borne in Afghanistan, he just doesn't think the war has been a good deal. (Flickr)

Beltway Confidential

Afghanistan, ThinkProgress, and the cost of war

Tom Rogan · August 21, 2017 3:58 pm

Kal Penn isn't a purveyor of peace and tranquility, he's a zealot for stupidity. And no one likes listening to morons. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Trump, the Kennedy awards, and pathetic liberal hypocrisy

Tom Rogan · August 21, 2017 3:31 pm

Terrorists will still be able to conduct the kinds of attacks we saw in Barcelona last week regardless of what Afghanistan's political system looks like. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s options in Afghanistan

Daniel DePetris · August 21, 2017 3:18 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice is officially putting an end to Operation Choke Point, the Obama-era effort to cut off from access to banking services a long list of lawful-but-disfavored businesses including gun dealers and makers of small loans. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans kill Obama’s awful ‘Operation Choke Point’

Walter Olson · August 21, 2017 3:00 pm

Lee was not being honored for fighting the wrong fight, but for fighting it honorably. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Robert E. Lee fought the wrong fight, but he fought it honorably

James Bowman · August 21, 2017 2:22 pm