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Category: Donald Trump

  • The world may not like the U.S. but do they respect us?

    Essential to the art of the deal is to say ‘No Deal’ Photo of the day is Germany’s Angela Merkel in a cluster of Europeans going nose to nose with Donald Trump at the G-7 summit in Quebec, while Trump sits serenely with arms crossed. No need to translate that body language! The New York…

  • About that Blue Wave: Not so fast!

    Do Wisconsin Democrats want to remind voters of the 2011 Capitol takeover? All we know here at the Stately Manor is what we read in the Boys Weekly Reader, delivered to our marbled doorstep in a plain brown wrapper. But results from Tuesday’s primary elections across the country (but not here in Wisconsin) would seem…

  • ‘Obama was just too good for us’

    We were not worthy; so we replaced him with a rascal Is the worm turning?  • Talks with North Korea are back on. • The job market is the best in 18 years. Wages are up. • Even some Democratic strategists think Republicans could actually pick up seats in the U.S. Senate. • Trump’s approval…

  • Some hate speech is O.K., depending on the speaker

    Like the Roseanne show, this blog has been rebooted … but not canceled (so far) The party-line telephone here at the Stately Manor was ringing off the hook Tuesday with concern that this popular feature (Free! And worth it!) had been canceled by our Russian disinformation handlers — and that its Founder, Producer, and Chief…

  • Who is the racist now?

    Quiz time on this beautiful summer day to start the Memorial Day weekend. Who is the racist? Is it Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who posed as black and even scored a post as an NAACP official — to the wonderment of her red-haired parents? We thought she had enjoyed her 15 minutes of shame…

  • Traumatized by Trump, the Left says it’s time to fight dirty

    The U.S. Constitution is fueling a fiery hellscape? Democrats have their playbook. It is titled “It’s Time to Fight Dirty.” For real! Written by an associate professor of poly sci at Roosevelt University (located in greater Chicago and “committed to social justice”), It’s Time to Fight Dirty argues, in the words of a reviewer, that…