Victor Davis Hanson begins his new (Feb.17) essay "Autopsy of a Dead Coup" (Feb. 17) with a simple, yet ornate, sentence:
"The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed."
And although Hanson acknowledges that Mueller's investigation is still operating, he sees that the "momentum has passed":
President Trump delivered a rousing—and enthusiastically received--speech to the Venezuelan-American community in Miami on Monday, Feb 18. The president spoke out about the dangers and destruction of socialism in Venezuela--and in the US.
The President said: “Socialism is not about justice. It is not about equality. It is not about lifting up the poor. Socialism is about one thing only: power for the ruling class.”
He declared: “America will never be a socialist country," adding this vision: "When Venezuela is free and Cuba is free and Nicaragua is free, this will become the first free hemisphere in all of human history."
Seething Frog is urging US Patriots to make their own Yellow Vest Movement analogous to the one in France. His purpose is to start a National Movement "to take down the Deep State."
The Yellow Vest protesters In France represent a persistent group of French citizens who have been protesting throughout France for thirteen consecutive weeks. Their name comes from the yellow vests that their government requires drivers to carry in their cars at all times.
Kentucky Attorney Todd McMurtry has been hired to represent Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student, whose life was upended by a Twitter mob after his attending the annual March for Life last Jan. 19.
In an interview with Andrew Bolt of The Bolt Report/Australia, McMurtry reported that he was hired by Sandmann’s parents on January 20. He sees his advocacy on behalf of Sandmann as connecting his "profession" to his "principles and passion."
McMurtry says he and his legal team of seven lawyers have “viable claims” to sue media outlets, individual journalists, celebrities and Catholic organizations, i.e., those identified as defaming the 16-year-old online. These include--