Richard McDonough

Nervous Nellies Fret as American Abusers Cave to Trump’s Tariff Threats

[E]conomists warn that [Trump’s tariffs will] negatively impact American businesses and consumers, many of whom are still reeling from the sharp rise in…

5 months ago

CNN News Night: Getting Trump Precisely Backwards … Again

Half of the Black students [at Cornell in my day there] were on academic probation … Something like one-fourth of…

5 months ago

Civilized Rational Responses to the Standard “Hack reflexes” of the “Legacy Media”

Americans with different perspectives are not talking to each other, but here we do. Abby Phillip’s standard opening for CNN…

5 months ago

Biden DOJ’s “Shock and Awe” Campaign Against the American People  

On 1/20/25, the [DOJ’s] “shock and awe” campaign came to an end as President Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th defendants.  4…

5 months ago

Biden’s “final terrible [Legacy Destroying] Decision”

President [Trump], … issuing presidential pardons [of family members] … would be a gross abuse of the presidential pardon authority.…

5 months ago

Facebook Still Censoring Conservatives

Democrats Love Censorship Because They Know They’d Lose Without It … Biden scolded Big Tech for [removing] ‘fact-checkers,’ a reminder…

5 months ago

Zakaria’s Non-Explanation Why University Campuses are no longer Vibrant Communities

At sunset on a beautiful spring evening on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh last week, conservative podcaster Michael…

5 months ago

Theatre of the Absurd:  Judge Merchan Sentences Trump not to be Sentenced

Judge [Juan Merchan] sentences Trump to unconditional discharge, no punishment in hush money conviction                                                 The Hill, Jan. 10, 2025…

5 months ago

The Democrats are Now Prisoners of their Own Hate

The case they’re making against Trump is not a case … against Trump.  It’s a case they’re making against you. …

5 months ago

The Democrat’s Continuing Lawfare Only Convicts Them of Impotent Pettiness

Finding no legal impediment to sentencing and recognizing that Presidential immunity will likely attach once Defendant [Donald Trump] takes his…

6 months ago

Progressive Elites who were “Part of the Crime”: The Gift that Keeps on Giving  

Democrats have missed what I consider a big opportunity.  They passed over Alexandria Ocasio Cortez [AOC] for the top Democratic…

6 months ago

Reasonable Democrats Reject “Toxic” Progressive Brand Biden-Harris Put “in the Toilet”

I am not a Democrat [any longer]. [Not in] the form of what the Democratic Party [under the “progressives”] has…

6 months ago

David Axelrod was Right about Racism and Sexism in the 2024 Presidential Campaign

There were appeals to racism in this campaign and there is racial bias … and sexism … in this country…

6 months ago

Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki Still “Smitten” with her own Fairytales

Half of America is smitten with [WH Press Secretary] Jen Psaki.  [Many] WH press corps [are] taken with how polite…

6 months ago

What a Difference a Day (Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024) Makes

[W]hat the Democrats did to Trump, impeach a guy when you know you have no chance of getting him removed,…

6 months ago