Iowa in Absentia – Megyn Kelly’s “Minus-1 Debate”

Reveling in her star role in the making and management of the Iowa Republican Presidential Debate, Fox News’s diva prima donna, Megyn Kelly, star of the nightly Fox News show “The Kelly File,” eclipsed her two co-moderators, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier, and jumped from her assigned role as co-moderator, to acting the part of a candidate and active participant herself, by engaging in argument with candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, during last night’s event.

For those who witnessed this spectacle in Des Moines, last night, never have they seen anything like this performance by Ms. Kelly, who acted as though she were a judge presiding over a show called the “GOP Gotcha Game,” as she went beyond her role as questioner and assumed the role of prosecuting attorney, all in a determined effort to make fun of front-runner Donald Trump’s absence, take down the other two front runners, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and prop up the Fox News preferred candidate, Jeb Bush.

When a reporter becomes the story, to the extent that a fair and balanced debate is in question, then a debate has been replaced by nothing less than a feature show, starring a reporter whose looks have, in essence, become a substitute for fair and balanced journalism. Given her tremendous following, thanks in large part to what men perceive as her overall attractiveness, and her over-the-top persona which has propelled Ms. Kelly’s weeknight show high in the ratings, she has taken her lofty position and used it to assume an active role in presidential politics, by picking for herself the winners and losers in the GOP nomination of 2016.

It is true enough that leading candidate Donald Trump has only magnified Kelly’s role in this regard, by first demanding she be pulled from the moderating panel, and then abstaining from participating in the debate, itself, when this demand was rebuffed by Fox News director, Roger Ailes. This led to the misguided perception that he was “afraid” to answer questions posed by Kelly when, in actuality, much more was at play here. It is no secret that Fox News has played an active role in seeking Trump’s marginalization, first by downplaying his candidacy and then by actively criticizing his stances on immigration, his often boorish behavior towards his GOP opponents, and his advocacy of a temporary ban on Muslim immigration. However, behind the scenes, there is much more at play in this tete-a-tete between Trump and Fox News, given the fact that News Corp’s (the owner of Fox News) Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch just happens to also be co-chairman of the Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), a lobbying firm which advocates open borders.

As for the “debate” itself, Trump’s absence did manage to open up a venue for the “candidate wannabes,” Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Ben Carson and John Kasich, to turn in what can arguably be said as their greatest performances, to date. In their respective dust-ups with Megyn Kelly, Marco Rubio managed to fare better than Ted Cruz, both of whom were asked questions about their stances on immigration, coupled with videos of each of them addressing the issue several years before- a first for a presidential debate (surely, it would be a cold day in hell, before any network, including Fox News, would give such treatment to Hillary Clinton in a debate). It is also suspect that the questions posed to Jeb Bush, were comparatively grapefruit-sized “softballs,” which the former Florida governor managed to hit out of the park. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had a good night as well, especially when he said, “Let’s cut out the Washington ‘bull,’ and fix these problems, instead.”

Despite what all of the pundits are saying concerning Donald Trump’s absence from Megyn Kelly’s “Minus 1 Debate”, it will be left to the Iowa voters to determine whether or not “the Donald” made the right decision in sitting this one out. He’s not the first to do so. Ronald Reagan decided not to participate in the Iowa Debate back in 1980, and he ended up trouncing Jimmy Carter in a landslide the following November. Certainly, Trump is no Reagan, but alas, it has become obvious that he is also no fool for Megyn Kelly and Fox News, either.

Let the voting commence!

-Drew Nickell, 28 January 2016

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Cannibalism on the Right- National Review’s Hit Piece on Trump 

If ever there was a year for Republicans to win a presidential election, surely 2016 is the year. With Barack Obama’s popularity at an all-time low, and the chances, however small, that front-runner Hillary Clinton might be indicted for a ponderous list of felonies related to her handling of classified e-mails and influence peddling vis-à-vis the Clinton Foundation, one would think that this is the year for a Republican resurgence like no other. 

However, thanks to a group of conservative malcontents including Glenn Beck, David Boaz, Brent Bozell, Mona Charon, Ben Domenech, Erick Erickson, Steven Hayward, Mark Helprin, William Kristol, Yuval Levin, Dana Loesch, Andrew McCarthy, David McIntosh, Michael Medved, Edwin Meese, Russell Moore, Michael Mukasey, Katie Pavlich, John Podhoretz, RR Reno, Thomas Sowell and Cal Thomas, the happiest politician in the United States is…Hillary Rodham Clinton. 

Why? Because it is this very group of conservative pundits who are effectively doing the dirty work for Democrats, who should otherwise be worried- very worried, about their chances to retain the White House in 2017. Look again at this list of writers, many of whom are well-recognized, long-time stalwarts of the conservative movement, going back decades- and yet… 

It seems that they would rather eat their own, than concede the Republican nomination to anyone who is outside the mainstream of establishment Republicans, the same establishment Republicans who allow President Obama to rule via fiat, the same establishment Republicans who concede budgetary discretion to the most spendthrift president in U.S. history, the same establishment Republicans who have oft-promised, yet never delivered, on campaign promises to promote a conservative agenda and who, once elected, blur the very lines that separate themselves from the Democrats, who always end up getting their way on the issues that matter most to the Republican electorate. 

These same sanctimonious and self-serving elitists, who never gave a second thought to Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, six months ago, who were all-but-convinced that Jeb Bush would become the inevitable Republican standard-bearer, a year ago, suddenly woke up from their collective New Year’s Eve hangover, and realized that it is highly probable that either Trump or Cruz will ultimately become the Republican presidential nominee for 2016- and they cannot stand either one of these two- albeit for very different reasons, except one- both of them can win a nomination and, perhaps even win an election, without having to genuflect to the Republican kingmakers and power brokers of yesteryear- and this irritates the excrement out of them. This is precisely why, a fortnight away from the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, they decided to get together in a last-ditch effort to place a hit on the GOP front-runner. 

While a Marco Rubio, a Jeb Bush, a John Kasich can take solace in the National Review’s condemnation of Donald Trump, it is none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton who dances the happy dance, that Republicans seem to be eating their own and, by publishing such hit pieces excoriating their own front-runner, are paving the way towards her own election, next fall- an election that she should otherwise stand not a chance in hell of winning, in any event. 

-Drew Nickell, 26 January 2016 

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A Most Disturbing Reincarnation

It was a news story that might have been easily missed, but a news story, all the same. For the first time since World War II, an all-new edition of “Mein Kampf,” the despicable and diabolical autobiography/manifesto of Adolf Hitler, and printed in German, was placed on sale in Germany, and was sold out (4,000 copies) in less than a week.

For more than seventy years, the publication and distribution of this book was banned by the German government, but on the expiration of the copyright which had heretofore placed this ban into effect, it became public property, which essentially allowed its republication. Worse, the German public has seized upon its availability, and it has become an instant best-seller in that country.

Nothing could prove to be more incendiary, nor have a greater potential for misuse, than the republication and distribution of Adolf Hitler’s political and social commentary as contained in this book, which includes his twisted vision of anti-Semitism, lebensraum, and militant Aryanism. Written during his imprisonment in Landsberg, following the failed “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich, on 8-9 November 1923, and dictated to Rudolf Hess, it sold more than ten million copies in Germany, prior to the end of the Second World War. In effect, it became the pro-forma bible and textbook of National Socialism, and poisoned the minds of Germans who came to regard their Fuhrer as something short of a deity, blindly following him and his henchmen into a holocaustic abyss, which resulted in the systematic slaughter of eleven million, including six million Jews.

Even more horrific than the Holocaust itself, is the fact that this nightmare took place a little more than seventy years ago- barely a second ago, on the proverbial clock that is the grand scheme of world history. Indeed, if it can happen as it did so relatively recently, it can easily happen again in the not-so-distant future, which is why the book’s republication has so much potential danger.

In a present-day Germany, where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have been permitted entry, and where hordes of Muslim men have been engaging in mass rapes and other forms of sexual assault on German women in Cologne and other regions of that country, it is easy to see that such an environment can cause enough panic to lead otherwise thinking people to places that they should not venture- specifically, into ideologies that are as sick and twisted as those espoused in Nazism. History has shown that time and time, again, a void in the political power structure can lead to its replacement, by dangerous policies and ideologies that can lead to cataclysm.

All it takes is for a U.S. President to ignore his own “line-in-the-sand,” by effectively standing back and permitting a Bashar Assad regime to use chemical weapons to commit genocide on his own people, and a German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to open the door to a quarter million of these refugees- many of whom are young men whose twisted ideology, and radical interpretation of Islamic ideology, permits and sanctions the rape of “improperly dressed infidels”, to create a potential powder-keg in a European continent whose culture and Christianity is under constant assault from without, and within, as well.

Now, into that void has entered a book that should never have been published, a book which should have never been sold, a book whose most disturbing reincarnation, and regrettable re-distribution, is flying off the shelves of German booksellers- laying the groundwork for a reactionary response that will only serve to inflame and inspire an ideology that was once thought to be extinguished and rendered asunder.

-Drew Nickell, 18 January 2016

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Palmetto Posturing- Recapping the 2016 Charleston GOP Debate

…and then there were ten…ten remaining Republican contestants, each longing for a good showing in next month’s Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.

In the final run-up to those opening contests, ten of the eleven remaining candidates for the GOP presidential nomination participated in Thursday night’s debate in North Charleston, South Carolina. Included in the comparatively raucous crowd, was South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, fresh off of her response to the State of the Union where she attempted to tacitly assail front-runner Donald Trump for his stance on temporarily banning Muslim immigration, and the erstwhile-trailing candidate Lindsey Graham, who this very morning endorsed Jeb Bush (no shock, there), who is the ultimate mainstream, moderate go-along-with, get-along-with Washington insider, and who never had ANY chance of either winning the nomination or being elected, in the first place.

For his own part, Trump needed to tamp down the potential effects of Governor Haley’s comments regarding the “angry voices who would seek to ban immigration”. He also very much needed to rise above the fray, and certify his credentials that he can lead the party to victory, despite what the establishment Republicans and talking heads in the media would have the rest of us believe. On those scores, “the Donald” managed to make a good show of it, by “owning” the “anger” to which Governor Haley had alluded. His finest moment, however, occurred when he chastised Ted Cruz for his commentary regarding Trump’s “New York values”, reminding the Texas Senator of the greatness of New Yorkers’ response in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Going into the debate, Ted Cruz had the toughest job of all- to disencumber the notion that his Canadian birth to an American mother disqualifies him as a “natural born” citizen and candidate for president, all the while doing so with charm and charisma- the two things that so far have seemed to be his personal drawbacks, despite the fact that he is the most-consistently conservative and intellectually-savvy candidate running. He addressed the former well enough, but fell a bit short of cementing his legitimacy as a viable candidate, even though the fact that the circumstances of his birth indeed qualifies him as a “natural born” candidate. He also provided some good one-liners, but ultimately lost his dust-up with Marco Rubio, regarding Rubio’s charges that Cruz has repeatedly flip-flopped on immigration.

Marco Rubio, himself, needed to utilize his glib delivery and statesmanlike oratory to underwrite his credentials as someone who can take on Hillary Clinton without fear or a propensity to be shut down, if such a debate were to occur next autumn. In short, he delivered splendidly- quashing any doubts that he has the skills to effectively and aggressively take on both Hillary and Obama. Not one of the contenders can frame an argument, or deliver it more convincingly, than Marco Rubio, as he has consistently shown in the course of these debates.

Dr. Ben Carson needed to show that he is continuing to master the issues- something that was sorely lacking in his first few performances. He also needed to show a bit more aggressiveness, so that the voters can believe he has a chance to defeat Hillary in an election. As to the former, he has caught up with the rest of the field, in his understanding of the issues, and was quite masterful in delineating his platform regarding the same. Sadly, as to the latter, he is just not combative enough to take down Hillary Clinton, in the way that she would need to be taken down in a debate because, in this election year, a nice guy like Carson would come up short, in this regard.

Chris Christie, on the other hand, is the quintessential opposite of Dr. Carson as he has the fight necessary to put Mrs. Clinton on the proverbial mat. What Christie needed to do, last night, was to dissuade the notion that he is too moderate to gain the support of conservatives in a way that Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole and Gerald Ford could not, costing them elections in 2012, 2008, 1996 and 1976, respectively. There is no doubt as to Christie’s dedication to the mission at hand- that is to defeat Hillary Clinton in November. Yet, it can also be said that the Republican rank-and-file still has some doubts as to his stances on abortion, gun rights and immigration.

Jeb Bush and John Kasich turned in their best debate performances, to date, as did Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee in the preliminary event. For all intents and purposes though, Jeb Bush and John Kasich are through, along with the J.V. squad, if either of these five fails to win, place or show in Iowa and New Hampshire. Rand Paul, who chose to abstain from attending the preliminary event, did not do himself any favors in his absence, despite the ten-second chant “We want Rand”, by a dozen of his supporters, when moderator Neil Cavuto was asking a question towards the end of the evening.

There has been much talk as to how Americans have shifted their views on the most important issue of this 2016 presidential campaign- a shift from the economy to ISIS/Islamic terrorism. While very much true, the central issue confronting Republican voters, is analyzing who is best suited to defeat Hillary Clinton in the fall election, and will doubtlessly be zeroing in on that particular question, when they go to the polls in Iowa, New Hampshire and the “Super Tuesday” elections and caucuses on March 1^st. Unless the polling is very, very wrong, this race has largely come down to a three-man contest between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. The only thing left, is the actual polling to take place in those states- in the final analysis, regardless of posturing, those are the polls that really count.

-Drew Nickell, 15 January 2015

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Obama’s State of the (dis-) Union Speech and Thursday’s GOP Debate

Last night, President Barack Obama delivered what hopefully will be his final State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress. The “lecturer-in-chief” did his level best to embellish what history, true history, will view as a failed presidency- a presidency that will have been remembered as an existential exercise in narcissism and self-aggrandizement, taken to pathological extreme. To listen to the President is to come to one of two conclusions. Either a), he exists in a fantastic world completely devoid of any sense of reality; or b), he is a pathological prevaricator who knows no equal- with the possible exception of the former first lady who seeks to succeed him.

His list of “accomplishments”, such as they are, read like a platform put forth by the Democratic National Committee, rather than a Constitutionally-mandated report on the state of the American union, and his bloviating was only outdone by his condescension of the American people and the representatives and senators thus assembled. Predictably, the partisan nodding and nattering nabobs enthusiastically jumped to their feet, enthusiastically cheering their champion of chicanery, which seemed at times reminiscent of the speeches delivered by the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, considering the knee-jerk ovations provided by his cabinet and his party’s legislative delegation. Truly, any informed and level-headed observer would find this performance as effective at producing emesis, as a good belt of syrup of ipecac…but, alas, we digress…

Thursday night, in Charleston, South Carolina, ten of the eleven remaining Republican candidates will square off in the last debate prior to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. Senator Rand Paul, miffed that he was delegated to the Junior Varsity event, chose not to participate with the other J.V. players, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. On balance, this is certainly bad form not to show up. It also may be indicative that his campaign, like others, will soon be suspended for lack of support.

In the main event, scheduled for 9:00 pm, EST on the Fox Business Network will feature, in the order of their seeding, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich. Look for the possibility of a dust-up between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, while Jeb Bush and John Kasich will continue to attack Donald Trump, in a last-ditch effort to gain the credibility that so far has proved elusive. Just as Trump predicted in the last debate, Jeb Bush has been relegated to the end of the stage. A poor showing for him in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary will most certainly be the straw that breaks the back of his campaign, and the same will go for Kasich and the remainder of the GOP contestants in the earlier event- Fiorina, Huckabee and Santorum.

That leaves, for all intents and purposes, five real contenders- Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson and Christie who have much to gain, and everything to lose, in the night’s main event.

Trump needs to rise above the fray, and certify his credentials that he can lead the party to victory, despite what the establishment Republicans and talking heads in the media would have the rest of us believe.

Cruz has the toughest job of all- he has to disencumber the notion that his Canadian birth to an American mother disqualifies him as a “natural born” citizen and candidate for president, all the while doing so with charm and charisma- the two things that so far have seemed to be his personal drawbacks, despite the fact that he is the most-consistently conservative and intellectually-savvy candidate running.

Rubio, who needs more than two-and-half inch heels to rise to the occasion, needs to utilize his glib delivery and statesmanlike oratory to underwrite his credentials as someone who can take on Hillary Clinton without fear or a propensity to be shut down, if such a debate were to occur next Autumn. In short, he cannot be the timid Mitt Romney of the last election, because there will surely be another Candy Crowley ready to pounce on the GOP nominee, if they get close to landing a punch on Hillary.

Carson needs to show that he is continuing his mastery of the issues- something that was sorely lacking in his first few performances. He also needs to show a bit more aggressiveness, so that the voters can believe he has a chance to defeat Hillary in an election. Despite his many fine qualities, this is NOT the year for a gentle spokesman, and Dr. Carson needs to realize this- sooner, rather than later.

Christie, on the other hand, is the quintessential opposite of Dr. Carson as he has the fight necessary to put Mrs. Clinton on the proverbial mat. What Christie needs to do, is to dissuade the notion that he is too moderate to gain the support of conservatives in a way that Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole and Gerald Ford could not, costing them elections in 2012, 2008, 1996 and 1976, respectively. For all intents and purposes, Jeb Bush and John Kasich are through, along with the J.V. squad, if either fails to win, place or show in Iowa and New Hampshire.

That said, Thursday’s debate will be far more interesting, far more informative and far more substantive (thanks to the questioners being Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo) than the performance of the President, last night. No doubt, the ratings will prove this to be the case, which at days end, are really what these debates are all about.

-Drew Nickell, 13 January 2016

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Something to Cry About – Obama’s War on the Second Amendment

Anyone who has ever been the parent of a small child knows that there is nothing more effective at plucking the heartstrings of a parent, than a child’s tears. Whether genuine, or crocodilian, the “waterworks” are pretty effective at motivating a parent’s change of heart…that is, up to a point….that point being when a parent realizes that he or she is being “played”. That’s when a responsible parent, like the dad in the movie “A Christmas Story” scolds “Ralphie’s” younger brother, “Randy”, saying “I’ll give you something to cry about…”, or words to that effect.

Yesterday, we saw a stellar performance by the President of the United States- one worthy of an Academy Award nomination, as a matter of fact.

This president who has never publicly shed a tear for the hundreds of Christians being beheaded by ISIS, who has never publicly shed a tear for Americans being killed by the score, in America and around the world, by Islamic militants, who has never publicly shed a tear for the likes of Kate Steinly, killed by a repeatedly-deported illegal alien in San Francisco, or the many victims of Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood, Texas, would have us believe that he is so passionate about curtailing gun violence that he is suddenly moved to tears.

“Sorry, Mr. President, but thinking people from both parties aren’t buying what you’re selling. Your tears are no more genuine than a spoiled child who is not getting their way and, truth be told, it is you who should be given something to cry about- like impeachment, for instance”.

Having failed, on multiple occasions, to get the votes necessary to pass the gun control legislation he seeks, our petulant president decides to bypass the legislative branch, stomp his feet and create an entirely new set of crimes by changing the laws regarding gun distribution, and does so via fiat. Well, such a move would be fine in a dictatorship, or in an absolute monarchy, but the unfortunate and inconvenient truth for Barack Obama is that we live in a representative democracy, governed by a Constitution, the Second Amendment of which forbids ANY infringement on gun ownership by the government, period.

Obama’s commitment to end gun violence might be more believable, if he had previously directed the many branches of government- the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to more stringently enforce the laws on the books, which address crimes committed with the use of firearms. His passion for gun control might be less suspect, had his own Justice Department, while under former Attorney General Eric Holder, hadn’t allowed the ATF to distribute thousands of firearms in the drug cartel regions of Northern Mexico, under Operation Fast and Furious, which led to the death of many Mexicans, as well as Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Sure, there are those- the mass of uninformed voters who truly believe that Obama’s passion for ending gun violence is genuine, and sincere, and benevolent, and that he truly cares about the victims of gun violence, and that we should support him in this effort. Yet, having had the experience of raising children, who tried many times to use their tears to get their way, “we ain’t buyin’ what he’s sellin’ ”…not us, and hopefully, not the vast majority of Americans who believe that the Constitution of the United States is something more…much more…than a quaint relic of distant history.

-Drew Nickell, 6 January 2016

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Constitutional Carousel- Obama’s Merry-Go-Round with Executive Orders

Amongst his many other “firsts”, President Barack Obama is the first U.S. President to have taught constitutional law at the university level, which he did at the University of Chicago from 1992-2004- first as a lecturer, from 1992-1996, and then as a senior lecturer, from 1996 until 2004. Ironically speaking, he is also quite possibly the most extra-constitutional president in U.S. history, which just goes to show that a university professor can, and often does, teach that in which he does not necessarily believe.

In short, Barack Obama’s presidency is nothing if not an exercise in wholesale contempt for the Constitution of the United States, as evidenced by the wide-ranging scope of his executive orders designed to circumvent the Constitution and, in so doing, by his habitual bypass of the Congress. If anyone should know that it is the exclusive venue of the legislative branch to enact laws, it is certainly a man who once made his living teaching constitutional law.

Yet, this is man who boasts of “having a pen and a phone”, and who carries through on his threats to impose his will when Congress doesn’t act on his priorities, accordingly. He gets away with this lawlessness, largely because Congress lacks the testicular fortitude to impeach “his royal arrogance” for doing so. Instead, they do what lawyers like to do- file lawsuits with the Supreme Court of the United States, and leave it to the nine “robed wonders” to do the right thing, and curtail Obama’s furtive finaglings. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don’t, but at least by doing this, they manage take the heat off of a Republican congressional leadership who would rather show that they can get along with the opposition, than act like a party of opposition, like they are supposed to do. It’s as if the GOP leadership was nothing more than a branch of the Democratic National Committee, based upon their overall lack of loyal opposition and the way they repeatedly cave in to Obama and the Democrats.

These same GOP “leaders” – a term which is used loosely, scratch their heads in amazement that three of the top five candidates in their own party’s presidential sweepstakes are outright congressional outsiders (Trump, Carson and Christie) and a fourth (Cruz) is treated like a pariah within his own Senate caucus. Here’s a news bulletin: the voters, namely the conservative voters who put them in power, are fed up with the go-along-with, get-along-with House and Senate GOP Leadership and desperately want a true conservative to lead the country, instead. If that means nominating a braggart like Trump, an ideologue like Cruz, a political novice like Carson, a bullhead like Christie, then so be it, but the days of “Republicratic” candidates like Jeb Bush, or John Kasich, or Lindsey Graham, or George Pataki are numbered, primarily because the rank and file of their own electorate no longer believe in their resolve to turn things around in a way that they desperately need to be turned around.

So while the President consults with his dubious Attorney General this week, on exactly how they can parlay yet another end run around Congress, this time by an all-out assault on the Second Amendment, look for the GOP leadership- the “Wonder Boy of Budgeting” who gave Obama a veritable blank check through next September, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and the “Blue-Lipped Wunderkind of Kentucky”, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to speak of filing yet another lawsuit with the Supreme Court, one that will not be adjudicated until “His Arrogance”, Barack Obama, has completed his second, and hopefully, final term of office. Meanwhile, the “Constitutional Carousel” continues to go merrily round-and-round-and-round, with Obama laughing all the way…

-Drew Nickell, 4 January 2016

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