Fear survey ominous for Hillary

“Corrupt government officials” is the number one fear of Americans surveyed in Chapman University’s latest fears survey*, with 60.6 per cent reporting to be afraid or very afraid as reported by USA Today on-line. Certainly not a good sign for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, with all of the corruption around her years in government. Continue reading

Why the indictment of Hillary Clinton never had a chance of happening

“Hillary couldn’t be proven guilty without proving the president guilty as well.” – Andrew C. McCarthy

Most of us were puzzled by Hillary Clinton’s frequent insistence that she would not be indicted over the months leading up to FBI Director James Comey’s shocking statement that she would not be charged. Now we know why. Continue reading

Trump’s missed opportunities

The first debate is behind us, and from my point of view it was pretty much a draw, with Lester Holt, a partisan moderator, aiding a  heavily scripted-scripted Hillary Clinton. edging a rather ill-prepared Donald Trump  I must admit being disappointed in the opportunities Trump missed to score solid points. Here are a few. Continue reading

Noonan trumps Gates

“Mrs. Clinton was the senior-most advocate for using the U. S. military to bring ill-fated regime change in Libya, and further, failed to anticipate the chaos that would follow – the same failure she and other Democrats hung around the neck of the Bush 43 administration in post-Saddam Iraq,” – former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates

While Gates was forthright in his negative opinions of Hillary Clinton in his op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal, “Sizing Up the Next Commander-in-Chief,” I found his assessment of Donald Trump extremely unfair. Continue reading