Free Republic

It’s all backstage now. This fraught moment, the power centers locked in the coldest cold of the year, the Spanish language lessons of Bad Bunny behind us, all the real action in the battle to save the country is out of sight, moiling and churning in the deep background. Everybody’s on edge waiting for shoes to drop, praying they don’t drop on their heads. You should have seen Senator Mark Warner (D-VA; Vice-chair of the Senate Intel Committee) on Face the Nation Sunday, frothing at the mouth over Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (DNI). He cannot believe she turned...

A few days before 25 European Presidents and Prime Ministers met in Brussels to try to ratify a constitution, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing had dire words of warning. Failure to approve the 265-page text, of which he had been the principal author, would be a disaster for the cause of a united Europe: "We would see the gradual falling apart of the European Union." Well, the summit did collapse in utter failure on Dec. 13. Poland and Spain, as feared, blocked a move by Germany and France to retain their influence in a bigger union. Thus Europe is...