ROGER L. SIMON:

“…When Chris Wallace — in all Deep State unctuousness — asked Mick Mulvaney on Fox News Sunday to comment on a “well-connected Republican” who allegedly told Wallace there was a 20 percent chance the GOP would vote to remove the president from office, he not only was aiding in that decomposition,  he was picking up a shovel and helping dig its grave.

Wallace didn’t identify who this “well-connected Republican” is or what he actually said in context, just the tidbit the host wanted to tell us. What Wallace was doing was engaging in propaganda, creating a smear based on the flimsiest hearsay.

But, as we all know, he’s not alone. This was only one of a myriad of cases and far from the worst. The employment of anonymous sources by media has been debated (and attacked) for years but since Trump was elected, their use has escalated into the stratosphere.  Barely a day goes by that we don’t hear something from some “source close to someone or other” or a “person in position to know” about things we learn, sooner or later, to be lies or, at best, half truths. Other times we read “experts agree” or other such terms of non-art. What we are really getting are leaks that are supposedly illegal but almost never prosecuted…”

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Dr. Sean Gabb:

“…Considered in itself, the European Union is a customs and regulatory union with a mild taste for political union. A customs union with our European neighbours is probably less in our economic interest than a set of free trade arrangement with the rest of the world. Many of the regulations are a nuisance, and we could make do very well with fewer of them, or with regulations more suited to our individual circumstances. The political union, so far, has been more spoken about than delivered. Why anyone should go white with anger on either side of these matters is a mystery in itself. If England has been ruined in the past half century, the ruin has been the work of our own ruling class, not of foreigners. The greatest threat to our freedom and our general ways of life is located not in Brussels, but in London. 

This being said, the Brexit debate that only began with the counting of the Referendum votes has been a valuable education. So far as it blurs the lines of accountability, membership of the European Union has been a useful entrenchment of our ruling class. It has also helped provide a mildly liberal and cosmopolitan gloss to a domestic project that has been anything but liberal. Its refusal to honour the Referendum has torn aside what remained of the democratic veil behind which power is exercised. These people are not our servants. They are a hostile elite. Their interests are not ours. They despise us. They fear us. They are determined not to give us even the shadow of what we were – perhaps unwisely – promised...”

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HILLARY CLINTON ASKED TO LEAVE COSTCO AFTER REPEATEDLY ACCUSING SAMPLE LADY OF BEING A RUSSIAN ASSET

Nancy Pelosi Says She Prays for Trump’s Mental Health. No One Believes Her

Hat tip Stephen Kruiser

I watched a portion of the Trump rally in Texas last night. The crowd was huge, something like 20,000 people inside a stadium packed to capacity with additional thousands outside the venue watching on big screen monitors. The crowd was raucous, as was the President. We are months away from any voting and a year roughly until the next election.  I don’t think reasonable people could watch that performance, and the crowd’s response, and come away with an explanation other than Trump is a phenomenon.

Compare the Trump rally to the latest Democrat debate. The Democrats don’t stand a chance. I think national Democrat political leaders recognize this. The nonsense with impeachment is now, and will be, a failure. I can envision a landslide electoral college victory for the President. Such a victory would be a rejection of the Democrat/MSM insanity on display for the last 3 years. Will it translate down ticket to congressional races? That is less clear.