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I just watched video of the FBI arrest of Roger Stone and I'm appalled. What in the world is the FBI doing converging on his house with multiple men with in tactical gear with heavy weapons in the early-morning dark. Stone is not on the run. He is not a violent man. One agent in a business suit...

I stumbled upon this article today which made me curious. Walmart wants to hire 900 truckers and pay them nearly $90,000 a year. Has the driver shortage become a real thing? Diane and drove ten years from 2003-2013 and there was talk the entire time about a driver shortage but it was not...

When an ordinary person in ordinary conversation -- say a neighbor in your neighborhood talking about his house or patio -- says I'm going to build a wall, and he shows you photos/drawings/examples of what the wall will look like, rational listeners would expect to see the neighbor build that...

That's a vital question, not because I'm the one holding Trump to a wall date, but because his base expects a wall. I've said above that impeachment proceedings will begin when it becomes evident that a sufficient number of Senate Republicans (20 of them) are no longer willing to support Trump...

This link takes you to a page that provides irrefutable evidence that Trump once expected the Mexican government to directly pay for the wall. It is a page from the Trump 2016 campaign web site in which Trump's very-specific strategy to make Mexico pay for the wall is presented. The page was...

Then as now, that's a meaningless distinction to everyone except Trump supporters who are fond of using it. It's used when Trump supporters defend Trump's otherwise indefensible statements. Instead of answering a critic's point that a particular Trump statement is contradictory or false or...

I'm pretty sure the wall was about the wall. Dozens if not hundreds of Trump quotes can be produced in which he describes -- in vivid detail in some cases -- not an idea about immigration but an actual, physical wall. That does not mean Trump is not also concerned about an immigration problem...

Coulter's point is that Trump did not try to get the wall built. He just talked about it. A related theme has recently emerged among some commentators. Some said Trump does not want the wall, he wants the fight. It's an interesting point, supported - it seems to me - by Trumps observable...

I have a reasonably good idea of the effort required to get something like the wall through and it is obvious that such effort was not exerted. It was for the tax cut. It was for justice reform. It was not for the wall. Reasonable conclusion based on results: Trump and/or his trusted operatives...

Soul-soothing? That's a difficult term to quantify and it is not accurate. I will admit that as a human being, I am subject to confirmation bias. So when anything surfaces that supports my hypothesis, part of me is given to uncritically accept it. But that does not mean I automatically give into...

That may be, but even an idiot says something worth thinking about every once in a while. I'm no fan of Coutler and I seldom align with her statements. But I found her above-mentioned blog post interesting because she casts Trump's post-election wall work in an interesting light. She raises a...

Prominent conservative columnist Ann Coulter’s recent blog post is instructive. She makes the case that Trump was never serious about building the wall. Gutless President in Wall-Less Country Excerpts: “If you were elected president after decades of politicians doing nothing about the...

Government shutdown drama dominated recent news cycles. Virtually lost in that mess was the news that Trump signed the criminal justice reform bill known as the First Step Act. This bill passed the Senate 87-12 and the House 358-36. The bill was championed by Jarrod Kushner who worked hard on...

Trump Wins Delay in Emoluments Lawsuit by D.C. and Maryland This case is likely to make its way all the way up to the Supreme Court as the opposing sides make their appeals. On Dec 20, it was stayed and moved up to a federal appeals court, where it will be argued in mid-March.

You are correct. I should have chosen my words more carefully.

Trump did not say Mexico would reimburse us for the wall. He said Mexico would pay for the wall. No public official in his or her right mind would appropriate billions to build a wall with the expectation that Mexico would pay for it by us simply presenting the bill. And, thankfully, no public...

Trump is not without his accomplishments as president. Just like I prefer to talk about the investigations and allegations against Trump in terms of hard facts, I believe it is best to talk about his accomplishments in hard-fact terms. Debating whether the U.S. became a laughingstock under Trump...

Two more hard facts emerged today out of two arenas. One relates to the Trump Foundation which is being investigated by the New York state Attorney General. Today, the foundation and the AG agreed to dissolve the foundation under judicial supervision. The investigation and related lawsuit...

As I said above, I have nothing more to add to campaign finance discussion. I just want to enter this link into the discussion record for future reference. Statement of Admitted Facts Item 3 mentions "at least one other member of the campaign." NBC News recently confirmed that includes Donald...

The prosecution of the campaign finance violations in question has reached a pause point for the moment. Despite his earlier denials, there is no question that Trump had the extramarital affairs in question, that he sought to keep them quiet, that he was directly involved in the now...