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Voters unmoved by impeachment

By Michael Graham InsideSources.com (TNS) The New York Times headline reads, “A President Impeached, and a Nation Convulsed.” But if you’re looking for evidence of a political convulsion — on either side of the aisle — you’ll need a microscope. The most newsworthy aspect of the “historic” impeachment of President Donald Trump may be how little effect the “historic” event has had on American politics. Supporters of Trump have repeatedly pointed to the fact that Democrats have been urging Trump’s impeachment since he took office — and they’re right. As ...

A different kind of celebrity on Twitter

RUSSELLTON, Pa. – Despite his natural shyness, Trevor Donovan has shined in an occupation that demands extroversion both on the job and off. The Hollywood actor, who is currently best known for his roles in the highly popular Hallmark Channel Christmas movies, overcame his social awkwardness by deciding to utilize his high profile for a greater purpose. This resolution ultimately brought the former “90210” star here to Deer Lakes Middle School, located in a suburban Pittsburgh school district, where he discussed his own experiences with being bullied and reminded children that ...

Ex-intel chiefs fit media culture

By Victor Davis Hanson Tribune News Service (TNS) Former FBI Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots of things in common. One, they ran the nation’s key intelligence and investigatory agencies under former President Barack Obama. They were deeply involved in the “Russian collusion” hoax. And they participated in the surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition. Comey and McCabe both signed applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants ...

Is Boris J. bad for Democrats? Not quite.

Right-leaning opinions have declared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s trouncing of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn a favorable portent for President Donald J. Trump in 2020. Not so fast. Other readings of the British election results see the very opposite. For starters, Corbyn was a despised figure, including within his own party. Trump is, let us say, also less than universally loved. Even a strong economy hasn’t lifted his approval ratings above the disapproval ones, which, according to reputable polls, remain quite high. Although Johnson, a populist Conservative, had ...

Where did impeachment go?

By John Kass Chicago Tribune (TNS) When House Democrats began selling tickets to their President Donald Trump Impeachment Theater — shouting their outrage, preening on those late-night talk shows — it was much meatier business. It would be full of collusion with Russia, blackmail of Ukraine. It would contain extortion and go heavy on bribery. Americans were to expect some giant roast, bone in, with a rich, thick gravy, to feed a nation longing for justice from Orange Man Bad. At least that’s what Democrats promised. But that’s not what they delivered for consideration for a ...

Saudi sympathies ring hollow after Florida shooting

If it walks like a duck … you know the rest. Following a shooting attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola by a Saudi national identified as 21-year-old Mohammed Alshamrani, the FBI issued a statement saying it presumes the incident was a terrorist attack. What might have given them that idea? If profiling were not politically incorrect, authorities might have done a deeper dive into Alshamrani’s background. First, he was a Muslim from Saudi Arabia, from which 15 of the 9/11 hijackers came. It is a nation that promotes the most radical form of Islam, known as Wahhabism, which is ...