IN AN ENCOURAGING SIGN for the economy, the Labor Department reported that new applications for unemployment benefits dipped to 881,000, the lowest level since mid-March. Forecasters had projected 950,000 jobless claims.
NY GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO, who thought President Trump was great before thinking he wasn’t, came unhinged Wednesday night threatening physical harm upon the president if he visits New York City again.… read more
MEMORIES – When I read the headline, “Is Biden the New Humphrey,” over William McGurn’s Wall Street Journal column, of course, I was interested in the comparison McGurn saw between the two former vice presidents, Joe Biden and Hubert Humphrey.
“Like Mr. Biden, Humphrey was a garrulous establishment liberal and vice president who had spent decades in the Senate. … read more
TWO WOMEN WITH DIFFERING VIEWS – Under the headline, “The GOP’s Wide-Open Arms,” in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Kimberley A. Strassel wrote how “the Republican Party that presented itself to the nation this week had a wide and welcome look,” as she described the minority voices at the RNC convention.… read more
YES, BUT, BUT what is he going to do for us in the next four years. We’ve heard it from the pundits, and I read it in e-mails from my friends, with lines like “I’ve been hoping Trump was going to talk more about what he wants to do going forward, and not the usual self-congratulation.”… read more
NOT EXACTLY A FULL-THROATED ENDORSEMENT of Joe Biden by his former boss, Barack Obama, is highlighted in an article, “’The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden,” in Politico.
Obama’s position on Biden was rather obvious when Biden said last year that he asked the former president not to endorse him. … read more
IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID continues to be President Trump’s best campaign statement. However, that didn’t prevent Kamala Harris from voicing an outright lie in an attempt to salvage the Democrat’s tired story that President Trump inherited the Obama-Biden economy.
“The president’s mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. … read more
Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.
THE PUBLIC VIEWS THE MEDIA – I find it interesting that media insiders are coming clean on media bias, supporting long-held public opinion on the subject.
“We are a cancer and there is no cure,” is the view of a top producer at MSNBC, who recently left the network. … read more
Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.
WE CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON Louisiana’s Republican Sen. John Kennedy to lay it all out there in colloquial terms, and didn’t disappoint during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Wednesday.
While Kennedy’s demeanor is always southern pleasant, you just knew he would be ready for Yates’ testimony. … read more