Author: Paul Gleiser

Animal spirits unleashed.

Freed from the prospect of more regulation and more economic micromanagement, businesses have resumed hiring and investing and planning for a bright future.

Keep Christmas well.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.

Our 17th amendment problem.

A senator today is really nothing more than a congressman who hangs around longer, gets paid more and is proportionally less accountable to any single voter.

More creatures from the swamp.

More creatures from the swamp.

That Rod Rosenstein put Robert Mueller in charge of investigating Donald Trump’s involvement with Russia would be laughable were it not so deadly serious.

le affaire Weinstein: More liberal hypocrisy.

Pretty much the entire galaxy of female stars in Hollywood have long characterized Republicans as brutish, war-on-women-committing misogynist pigs while long tolerating and even worshiping a liberal mega-misogynist pig right in their own midst.

Determined Trump vs. spineless Republicans.

Now that Republicans led by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have failed three times to repeal Obamacare, the biggest mistake they could make is to assume that President Trump will just drop the subject.

Riveting.

To the people of America’s heartland who put Donald Trump in office, his speech to the UN General Assembly was a ray of clear, bright, beautiful sunshine – perhaps his best speech so far.

Not up to the job.

Toughness is not an adjective that one would use to describe either of Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell. Yet with respect to leadership in the Congress, toughness has never been more urgently called for.