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The Democratic Party and Clinton campaign’s attempt to smear the Trump campaign for collusion with Russia has badly backfired. It is now likely that the Trump dossier that Democrats and the Clinton campaign paid for — and got the FBI to swallow — was stuffed with smears provided by a Russian government disinformation unit (paywall). […]

For a few days after Senate Republicans passed a 2018 budget, there was high optimism that Congress would now be able to come together to pass a significant tax reform package. That was then. The reality as we go to press is the unedifying spectacle of a junior high school cafeteria food fight between President […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just won a major victory “after his gamble to call a snap election on Sunday (Oct 22) paid off handsomely. The LDP-led coalition is on track to secure a two-thirds “super majority” in the powerful Lower House of parliament, The Strait Times (Singapore) reports. Only three months ago, Abe was […]

British exit from the European Union (“Brexit”) initiated over a year ago is now acknowledged as having been the harbinger of a tsunami of national-patriotic rebellions against the over-centralizing European Union (EU). Donald Trump as a presidential candidate hailed Brexit, much to the delight of its U.K. supporters and possible help to his own campaign. […]

The largely completed victory over ISIS merits a victory lap by President Trump and his administration. Candidate Trump made this a key plank of his election campaign. As an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal notes, “This humanitarian and military success wouldn’t have been possible without U.S. air power, intelligence and special forces assisting the […]