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Once again, Donald Trump has raised questions about America’s commitment to NATO, this time in an interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. Carlson asked a variation of the typical question about American military commitments overseas: Why send our kids to fight in obscure foreign lands? Membership in NATO obligates the members to defend any other member that’s attacked. So let’s say Montenegro, which joined last year, is attacked. Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from attack?

The president’s fiercest critics still do not grasp that Trump is a symptom, not the cause of the GOP’s internal strife. For all the talk of a Civil War in the Republican party over Donald Trump, 90 percent of Republicans ended up voting for him.   Bitterness Over the 2016 Election? So a vocal Never Trump Republican establishment had not much effect on the 2016 election. Voters do not carry conservative magazines to the polls. They are not swayed much by talking heads, and on Election Day they do not they print out conservative congressional talking points from their emails....

We hear so much about the NeverTrump “Republicans” who are so principled they have to support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in order to save America. The Atlantic magazine has published a list of some of them. Here we go: Mitt Romney: A loser in every way; abandoned us and the fight for the last six weeks of his loser’s campaign and gave us Barack Obama for another four years. Karl Rove: is UNDECIDED Does anyone really care? Larry Pressler: Who? Michael Bloomberg: Failed gun grabber who didn’t have the courage to enter the race – who cares?) Sally Bradshaw:...

The internet truly is the eye that never blinks. Twenty five years ago it would have been fair to say about 500 people in America were doing some form of political research. Today that number is easily 500,000. Almost every day we see the fruits of the labors of these, mostly amateur, sleuths splash onto the internet; and today is no exception. Today’s gem is a copy of an article that appeared in the New York Times on May 17, 1988 which was dug out by an unknown amateur. The similarities between the spring of 1988 and the summer of...

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that Jonah Goldberg actually lives in America. Reading his ravings one would think he is in a NASA space capsule, floating around the planet, blissfully ignorant of the danger we are facing. Goldberg’s fantasy dreams of a world in which only “pure conservative knights” get to save the country make it more difficult to see the clear and present danger we are in. This is a time for clarity of purpose, not demands for perfection over the serviceable. You need to be addressed directly, Mr. Goldberg, so there can be no ambiguity: Mister Goldberg, given...