7 Highlights From Trump Team’s Defense in Impeachment Trial
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7 Highlights From Trump Team’s Defense in Impeachment Trial

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump gave a significantly shorter presentation Friday in his defense than the Democrats’ House impeachment managers did the previous two days in acting as prosecutors.  Day Four of Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial began around noon and Trump’s legal team yielded the balance of its 16 hours of allotted time…

Journalist Compares Covering Trump to Fighting Nazis
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Journalist Compares Covering Trump to Fighting Nazis

One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump’s presidency was that anti-Trump journalists would eventually feel a heated rush of nostalgia about their heroic crusade to keep democracy from dying. But it came earlier than expected. Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote a piece for the Democrat-endorsing website The Atlantic…

Maxine Waters, Racial Insurrectionist, by Michelle Malkin

Maxine Waters, Racial Insurrectionist, by Michelle Malkin

What a sick joke. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of the loudest mouths leading the impeachment circus against former President Donald Trump over the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a brazen racial insurrectionist. The sixteen-term Democrat from South Central Los Angeles has been pouring verbal gasoline and tossing rhetorical Molotov cocktails into the……

Julian Gallant: Politics can support the arts without disturbing the artist

Julian Gallant: Politics can support the arts without disturbing the artist

Jullian Gallent is a conductor, composer, pianist, impresario and Treasurer at Conservative Friends of The Arts (Instagram; Facebook). I’ve been actively involved in Conservative campaigning since 2013, fought the 2019 GE as candidate for Ealing Central and Acton and am currently a Londonwide candidate for the GLA. My profession, though, is music and I’ve never quite…

Profile: Nadhim Zahawi, vaccines minister and a rising star who also knows what it is like to fall

Profile: Nadhim Zahawi, vaccines minister and a rising star who also knows what it is like to fall

Nadhim Zahawi is a rising star who has taken a long time to rise. By making him Minister for Vaccine Deployment, Boris Johnson has at last given him a tremendous opportunity to show what he can do. Robert Halfon, who chairs the Education Select Committee and knows Zahawi well, says of him: “He’d get you…

Ryan Shorthouse and Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield: Domestic abuse is everyone’s business

Ryan Shorthouse and Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield: Domestic abuse is everyone’s business

Ryan Shorthouse is the Founder and Chief Executive of Bright Blue and Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield is a Researcher there, whose work focuses on the inequalities of remote work, and integration and immigration. The necessary national response to the threat of Coronavirus has come at high cost in myriad different ways. However, among those paying the highest…

4 Takeaways From Democrats’ Second Full Day of Arguments to Disqualify Trump
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4 Takeaways From Democrats’ Second Full Day of Arguments to Disqualify Trump

In a second full day of making their case for disqualifying Donald Trump from running again for president, House Democrats reminded the Senate of the Charlottesville riot in 2017 and a plot last year to kidnap Michigan’s governor.  The nine House impeachment managers, or prosecutors, kept most of the focus Thursday on a mob’s Jan. 6 …

Call Transportation Bailouts What They Are: More Welfare for Labor Unions
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Call Transportation Bailouts What They Are: More Welfare for Labor Unions

Congress is moving full steam ahead on ramming through a bloated, wasteful, and debt-exploding $1.9 trillion legislative package. Although it’s supposedly justified by the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the spending is designed to appease progressive ideological causes and politically connected interest groups. A prime example is the $57.5 billion currently earmarked for various parts of…