Category Archives: Republicans

LinkSwarm for March 17, 2017

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Insert your own Irish-related drinking joke here. President Trump’s approval ratings rise. Did Obama use a British intelligence agency to spy on Trump? (Maybe not.) Did the Obama Administration use Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac as … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 10, 2017

Welcome to Friday! (And welcome Instapundit readers coming in off Stephen Green’s link to yesterday’s border security roundup.) First up: Liberalism’s continued idée fixe on the “Russians hacked the election” fantasy. If Trump had actually been in the pay of … Continue reading →

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TPPF Looks at House’s ObamaCare Repeal and Replace Plan…and is Not Impressed

House Republicans have finally produced the long-awaited ObamaCare replacement bill. Chris Jacobs of the Texas Public Policy Foundation took a look at the plan and was distinctly unimpressed: The bill falls far short of making good on the promise to … Continue reading →

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Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus at CPAC

Considered including this in Friday’s LinkSwarm, but decided this panel with Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus at CPAC was important enough for a separate post. A few points: As previously reported, there’s none of the discord here between Bannon and … Continue reading →

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This is Trump’s World. We Just Live In It.

Reporter tries to spend a week without reading any media coverage of Donald Trump. Spoiler: He can’t. It is likely that no living person in history has ever been as famous as Mr. Trump is right now. It’s possible that … Continue reading →

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Milo Screws Up, Apologizes

Not gonna talk about it. Not gonna talk about it. Not gonna talk about it. Not gonna— DAMMIT! I wanted to avoid the whole “Milo Yiannopoulos Defends Pedophilia Controversy” because there’s too much squick factor and more heat than light … Continue reading →

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Trump Budget to Eliminate PBS, NEA, NEH, LCS, Americorps?

Let’s take a look at this New York Times piece titled “Popular Domestic Programs Face Ax Under First Trump Budget.” WASHINGTON — The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that President Trump could eliminate to … Continue reading →

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I May Have to Buy This Shirt

This one right here. And if there’s a Kickstarter to get that scene into Sharknado 5, I’m in…

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LinkSwarm for February 17, 2017

Welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! Absent from this roundup is who really got National Security Advisor Mike Flynn axed, because there’s not enough time in the world to read all those links… Illegal alien convicted of that voting fraud Democrats … Continue reading →

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Texas vs. California Update for February 15, 2017

Welcome to another Texas vs. California Roundup! California Governor Jerry Brown wants to hike gas taxes by 42% to bail out CalPERS. Brown’s pension reforms have failed: Since 2012 passage of his much-heralded changes to state retirement laws for public … Continue reading →

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