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 →

Bret Stephens for dummies

If you’re truly confident in American institutions, then we’ll ride out Mrs. Clinton just as we have Mr. Obama.” – Bret Stephens

This blog is my response to Bret Stephens’ column, “NeverTrump for Dummies, published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Stephens uses a hackneyed question and answer format in which he answers questions from an imagined inquisitor. Continue reading →