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Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Godspeed, Charles Krauthammer – I read Dr. Charles Krauthammer’s letter on Friday with feelings fondness and sadness. I’ve been a big fan of his writing – and later of his commentary on the Fox All-Star panel discussions – for at least 30 years now, so the news that he has only a few more weeks to live in this life is something I find to be profoundly sad, although I’ve had a feeling for months now that this news was coming. Dr. Krauthammer won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his commentaries,...

A dozen House lawmakers have introduced legislation to remove President Trump's tariffs on Canadian newsprint so a study can be done on how much those tariffs are crushing local newspapers around the country. The bill, introduced by Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., is a response to the 22 percent tariff that the Trump administration has imposed on some Canadian newsprint since the beginning of this year. Noem said that tariff has led to rising costs for local newspapers, and are a threat to their survival. "In recent years, new tariffs on Canadian newsprint have increased paper prices by 20 to 30...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Here’s what 40 years of Democrats refusing to address the state’s water supply have done for California… – “Californians May Have to Choose Between Showers and Laundry with New 55-Gallon Water Limit.” That’s the headline of a PJ Media story detailing the looming impacts of two new bills just signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown, the provisions of which would impose draconian new water conservation measures on ordinary Californians, while naturally also providing exemptions for all the state’s wealthy, who are overwhelmingly white Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – I’ve never had much use for anyone named Kardashian, but damned if Kim Kardashian West didn’t finally do something positive with her fame. Of course, it took President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those three words) to bring out the #Winner she always had deep inside. On Wednesday, President Trump, based on a plea from Ms. Kardashian West, announced a full commutation of the life sentence that was despicably given to Alice Marie Johnson for non-violent drug offenses in 1996. In announcing the...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Irrelevant. Americans today need to know what too much #WINNING does to them. – The National Centers for Environmental Information (there’s your all-time politically correct name) issued a report on Monday that says that watching too much bad news can be hazardous to one’s health. So now you know why all of your Democrat friends are feeling so bad these days. Where were these guys when Obama and Kerry were surrendering to Iran’s Mullahs? – Senate Democrats, feeling a sudden need to pretend to care about U.S. national security – something that...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) That time when Bill Clinton accidentally stumbled into the truth. – Lifetime woman abuser (that has nothing to do with this story, but it should be repeated every time his name is mentioned) Bill Clinton told an interviewer over the weekend that – gasp! – the news media gave favorable treatment to Barack Hussein Obama. Go figure. Who knew? “They liked him. And they liked having the first African American president and he was a good president I think,” Clinton said about the media. Uh-ooooohhhhhhh. He went ‘there’, the place no one...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The rules, they are a-changin’. – This was the week we learned that the long-detested and off-limits “C”-word is now just fine to use in public. If you don’t think that’s going to be the net result of leftist celebrities like Sally Field and the execrable Michael Moore praising really bad comic Samantha Bee for her use of the term to describe First Daughter Ivanka Trump, you’re living in a dream world. After all, defining deviancy down is what left-wingers do best, and they’ve been doing it for more than half a...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Yeah, that? It’s not a good idea. But please go ahead and do it anyway. – The genius program managers at ABC, panicked over the loss of their highest-rated spring program thanks to Roseanne Barr’s Twitter meltdown earlier this week, have now come up with the not-so-brilliant idea of doing a spinoff of “Roseanne” focused on the daughter, Darlene, played by the career mediocrity Sarah Gilbert. Yeah, that’s not going to work, but I sure do hope they try. It’s always fun watching these network sleazeballs fail. Mr. Trudeau also requests that...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) “Ok, so here’s the strategy on this latest huge jobs report. We all do a 10-second report on it as soon as it’s issued and then just drop it like we always d…wait, what? The President just did what? He tweeted about it? You have got to be sh…ok, that’s a huge story – gotta go report on it!” – The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, got in one final troll of the fake news media before the weekend Friday morning when he issued a tweet prior to...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Democrats in Action! Part I – The Daily Caller reports this morning that an admitted pedophile who once threatened to assassinate President George W. Bush is now an “independent” congressional candidate thanks to the efforts of despicable former Virginia Governor and long-time Clinton bag man Terry McAuliffe. Per the Caller: “Nathan Larson is an independent candidate in Virginia who admitted to HuffPost that he’s a pedophile who bragged in blog posts about raping his ex-wife and fantasized online about having sex with young children. Larson is also a convicted felon who wouldn’t...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hey, remember that “Blue Wave” that was going to carry Irish Beto O’Rourke to a smashing victory over Ted Cruz in November?. – Yeah, that’s not really a thing, no matter how much some desperate media mavens in Texas want it to happen. The Blue Wave media lobby’s hopes were raised back in early April when Quinnipiac University issued a poll purporting to show the race between Irish Beto and Cruz within the margin of error, with Cruz holding just a 47-44 lead. But a new Quinnipiac poll issued on Wednesday now...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) This was inevitable. – Roseanne Barr self-destructed on Tuesday, sending out a racist tweet targeting Barack Obama’s loathsome toady Valerie Jarrett, which resulted in her show being cancelled by the end of the day by Disney’s CEO Bob Iger. Some of you have inquired over the last several weeks about why I haven’t said much of anything about the great success of Roseanne’s TV show revival, in which her character is a fan of President Trump. Now you know. Look, I never cared for Roseanne Barr to begin with and pretty much...

Why Trump’s Sunday Tweets Were Important May 28, 2018 by David Blackmon Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Today is Memorial Day and please, before you read this, take a minute to reflect on the men and women who have served and sacrificed to protect this great nation. It’s the very least the rest of us can do. Thanks. Having grown up in the ’70s, this headline seems counter-intuitive, to say the least. – Headline seen this morning at BostonGlobe.com: “Forget protein shakes. The newest workout supplement? Marijuana.” In other news, water is wet. – Lebron James is...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Your fake news media in action! – The last couple of days have produced one of the fakest fake news stories in fake news media history, typified by this blaring headline in USA Today: The Feds Lost – Yes, Lost – 1475 Migrant Children. Of course, the first fake part of this story is the headline – these aren’t “migrant” children, they’re illegal immigrants who crossed our border in violation of our nation’s laws. The story blames the problem entirely on the Trump Administration, yet these children are mostly unaccompanied minors allowed...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The North Korea Summit is cancelled!!!! Woo-hooooooo!!!! Kim wins!!!! Break out the champagne!!!! Oh, wait, it may be back on? Trump sandbagged us again? Isn’t there a plane crash or school shooting we can report on instead? – As we noted in Friday morning’s Campaign Update, Thursday was a day of anti-American celebration in the nation’s fake news media and among Democrat officials everywhere, as they all thought that President Trump’s letter “cancelling” the scheduled June 12 summit meeting with the Crazy Little Fat Guy in North Korea had produced a victory...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) You thought Wendy Davis was a disaster for Democrats in 2014? Lupe Valdez says “hold my beer.” – Texas Democrat gubernatorial nominee Lupe Valdez is making the closing of property tax “loopholes” one of her campaign’s major areas of focus. Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News reported that Ms. Valdez – a former Dallas County Sheriff – owes more than $12,000 in delinquent property taxes. Democrats: If they didn’t exist, nobody in their right mind would want to make them up. But..but…but…who are we gonna get to play the president in our next...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – Don’t look now, but Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, after running up the cost of his infamous Model 3 from $36,000 to as much as $100,000, is threatening to actually do something good for a change: Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk 16h Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda … Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk Create a media credibility...

The Evening Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) If you’re shocked at the utterly dishonest manner in which the entirety of the fake mainstream media is covering Spygate (thanks to President Trump for coining that shorthand term today), well, you need to pay closer attention to the Campaign Update and less attention to CNN. Here’s the short message about this 100% “Opposite Day” coverage: Get used to it, because it’s going to continue. At this point in the saga, fake media outlets who have served as nothing but leak receptacles for the Deep State Cabal within the FBI/DOJ for...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – Investors Business Daily reports that the median U.S. household income has now hit an all-time high of more than $61,000, and that President Donald Trump (I still never tire of typing those three words) is getting credit for it from the public. Cool. It’s where all the Clinton-era bodies are buried. – A big sinkhole has opened up on the White House grounds. Life comes at you fast, Democrats. – In a Campaign Update barely 10 days ago I told you we would start seeing...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – The deep state Obama flunkies were in full-on panic on Monday, as the details of their conspiracy to fix the 2016 election and then bring down a duly-elected POTUS continue to come to light. Obama CIA Director John Brennan, ex-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and ex-Attorney General Eric Holder all took to their Twitter accounts or favored media support outlets to threaten various Republicans and say stuff that just isn’t true. Fresh off of probably perjuring himself again before another congressional committee on Friday, Brennan...