Politics

By Bradley Jaye, Breitbart - Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) being Johnson’s own pick to chair the powerful appropriations committee, it defies reason that Johnson would appoint Cole without knowing his feelings on earmarks — if Johnson is, in fact, running the show. It seems unlikely Johnson would appoint Cole if the two were not simpatico on Cole’s first major initiative after being gifted the gavel... Johnson’s move also comes during widespread speculation regarding promises he may have made to Democrats to keep him safe if he brought Ukraine funding to the floor.

By Charles A. Kohlhaas, CNSNews - In spite of weak support from his own party, Trump did many good things: closed the border, avoided wars, cut taxes, lowered inflation, and negotiated the Abraham Accords in the Middle East. Now, Paul Ryan is long gone, the country is in the ditch, and the Republicans still refuse to grow up... An Italian colleague used to quote a jibe at is own countrymen’s penchant for long discussions when other things needed doing: “The Romans were debating the sex of angels when the barbarians were pounding on the gates.”... So went Rome; so goes the United States of America.

By John Zmirak, The Stream - How is treating Ukraine as part of NATO and arming it to the teeth any less provocative than the Soviets putting nuclear missiles in Cuba? You do know that John F. Kennedy was willing to risk a nuclear war with the Soviets to stop that threat to American sovereignty? That we came to the very brink of incinerating hundreds of millions of people over that issue? Why think that ex-KGB agent Putin would be less militaristic than playboy JFK? ....