Only in Trumpland America could we have the State of the Union address the night before the Senate is to vote on the impeachment of the President!  You can’t make this up.  But it illustrates how rapidly the impeachment issue has been relegated to the back burner and totally dismissed by most attentive observers–it was […]

The best quote of this week for me was an excerpt lifted from an editorial in The Wall Street Journal on the disastrous Democratic primary vote count in Iowa: “The college of cardinals at least lets the world know with white or black smoke how the vote for pope is going.  Here the party that […]

I closed the December issue by responding to a correspondent that, in the immediate aftermath of the impending House vote on two very weak articles of impeachment he should watch Nancy Pelosi’s next moves very closely and I suggested to readers that they consider this: Does Speaker Pelosi really want to preside over an impeachment […]

It was a long, bitter, and high risk fight, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson deserves a lot of credit for his dice roll in the UK in an election that will have implications far and wide.  This is a big deal in many more ways than Brexit.  Anyone who looks at these results in Britain […]

December is usually an open month for the Pilgrim, but I can’t resist some year end comments on the impeachment show trials along with a couple of personal items. First, the impeachment “inquiry”. The so-called Pelosi “moderate” Democrats couldn’t hold off their party’s hard left wing nuts, aided and abetted by a compliant media, and […]

Gerald Seib writes in The Wall Street Journal that it makes sense that, in an age of technological disruption, it figures that the most important trend in international politics is the rise of disruption in our traditional political system.  And, of course, the disrupter-in-chief is Donald Trump, who has now been joined by the new […]

Pundits go into big stage events like the State of the Union address looking for headline “takeaways”, specific proposals that provoke or those that can guarantee surviving at least one news cycle.  In this particular one last night, President Trump’s second, most were looking for a major pronouncement on the immigration stalemate and/or the declaration  […]

The feeding frenzy of 2020 politics began when the polls closed on election day last November, so get ready for an often nauseating daily diet of who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out, particularly from the Democrats, who it appears might field a primary competition featuring as many as 20 or 25 candidates, most […]

After reviewing the results for a couple of days and listening to a range of commentary on the outcome, I can’t seem to find many surprises in the mid-term elections.  Here are a few thoughts:  The progressive “blue wave” didn’t happen.  Substantially all of the flips by the Democrats were in blue states and/or by […]

Love him or hate him, and I have found very few who are indifferent, Donald Trump had a pretty good first year as President.  How much of what has been accomplished can be directly attributed to him is debatable, but the same can mostly be said of any President.  As Ramesh Ponnuru notes in National […]