a common sense approach to a liberal world
An oft-repeated statistic is that 90% of the media is controlled by just six companies. While the full story is a bit more complicated, it’s nevertheless a pretty decent representation of what’s transpired in our media landscape.
I view media ownership as a tiered structure of influence.
First, we have the Big Five which own the majority of traditional media assets. They are:Continue Reading
President Trump did an Interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen on Thursday July 19, 2018.
Full Credit to the Conservative Treehouse for pointing this GREAT interview out.Continue Reading
“In ordering this blanket exception, President Obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with.….If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense…The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.” – George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley
“The executive branch, through DACA, deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions. Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.” – Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced the decision to rescind Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA on September 5, 2017:Continue Reading
Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz released his report on FISA abuse on Dec. 9, providing a condemnation of activities undertaken by the FBI.
The focus of the IG Report was abuse of the FISA process and the findings of the IG show numerous problems with the actions by FBI agents in obtaining the FISA warrant used to spy on Trump 2016 presidential campaign adviser Carter Page.Continue Reading
Should: used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness, typically when criticizing someone’s actions
Could: used to indicate possibility, used in making polite requests
During this election process I’ve had numerous political discussions with people from varying backgrounds and from both political parties. And, in doing so, I’ve noticed something. When talking to folks from the Democratic side of the aisle, their discussions typically start with the word “should”. As in we “should” do something about climate change, we “should” help the poor, the rich “should” pay more, the minimum wage “should” be higher, Congress “should” do something. Noble thoughts perhaps, but often misguided and always ignoring the unbreakable Law of Unintended Consequences.Continue Reading
Representative Jim Jordan has been one of the few in Congress willing to ask tough questions that many of us want answers to.
He has done so during Congressional Committee Sessions – requiring the questions and answers to become part of Congressional record.
Now he is asking those same questions in a more public forum.Continue Reading
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave an interview to Chris Wallace on August 6, 2017. The interview contained some very interesting comments on the DOJ’s investigations into leaking. Even more interesting were comments made regarding the Mueller Investigation. The full video is below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwoIMptFVBY
An older post of mine from December 15, 2017, The Inspector General’s Implied Oversight has been receiving some attention recently.
Several different points were made in the piece but three primary ones are as follows:
By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke
Originally Published 5/12/21
President Joe Biden over the past few months has added to his administration multiple Obama-era officials who had direct participation in “Russiagate.”
The latest addition is Susan Hennessey to the Department of Justice’s National Security Division.Continue Reading
If a country is buying more goods and services from the rest of the world than it is selling, the country must also be selling more assets to the rest of the world than it is buying. – Douglas Irwin
While awaiting the Inspector General’s Report, I came across an interesting exchange regarding trade and foreign investment.Continue Reading