"The New York Times, an organization devoted to gathering and publishing information, doesn't want others to gather or publish information inconvenient to it.

"A group of Trump-supporting operatives has been finding and archiving old social media postings of Times employees and other journalists for use in the ongoing brawl between the president and the press.

"There's no indication that this is dumpster-diving rather than an effort to scour readily available sources for stupid, embarrassing or offensive things that journalists have said publicly under their own power. ...

"It isn't clear what makes this different from what happens in our public life . . . every . . . single . . . day. Head-hunting based on past offenses, real and imagined, is the norm, indeed one of the Left's favored forms of ideological combat. ...

"The hounding of conservatives isn't considered beyond the pale; it's considered sport. Much of the Left would be rendered practically mute if it weren't braying for people to be fired."

"For a party invested so heavily in marketing government as the solution to every problem, the Democrats have been strangely reluctant to take advantage of opportunities to build trust in the institutions of government. But since Democrats won control of the House, government oversight has virtually gone into hibernation.

"Instead of prosecuting waste, fraud and abuse within the world's largest bureaucracy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has transformed congressional oversight from a government watchdog to the opposition research arm of the Democrat National Committee. It happened fast.

"As I explain in my upcoming book, 'Power Grab,' one of Pelosi's first moves when the she took the gavel was to rename the Oversight & Government Reform Committee to just the Oversight & Reform Committee. She literally took the government out of government reform. Suddenly the imperative to root out government waste, fraud and abuse was lost in the political goal to root out a sitting president and any business that supports his agenda.

"The new focus of the oversight role is twofold: to provide political advantage for the 2020 election cycle and to expand oversight reach deep into the private sector."

"Joe Biden has a major problem. Even among voters who support him, there is a complete lack of enthusiasm. People like him and everyone knows his name. Good old Joe has been around Washington forever and by virtue of that, people appear to trust him more than say a Kamala Harris or a Corey Booker. But try as he might, he cannot seem to energize his base.

"Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, recently told the New York Times, 'I did not meet one Biden voter who was in any way, shape or form excited about voting for Biden.'

"Murray added that, 'They feel that they have to vote for Joe Biden as the centrist candidate, to keep somebody from the left who they feel is unelectable from getting the nomination.'"

"Federal arrests of non-citizens has increased exponentially over the past two decades, and account for the majority of all federal arrests, data released by the Justice Department revealed.

"Non-citizens made up 64% of all federal arrests in 2018 despite making up 7% of the U.S. population, according to Justice Department data released Thursday and reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Between 1998 and 2018, federal arrests of non-citizens grew by 234%, while federal arrests of U.S. citizens climbed 10%."

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"With Americans working and with money in their pockets again, with the 2020 election approaching, Democrats are reaching for the race card the way a sick man reaches for the waters of Lourdes. Desperately. Their allies in media followed suit, with Trump called everything from a white supremacist, to a Nazi, and on and on. ...

"Watching our politics, as some Americans have their individuality stripped away by identity politics, as others are kicked to the margins of society, as I mourn journalism as I remember it, I'm reminded of something.

"Ernest Hemingway's explanation of how a man went bankrupt:

"Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly."

"It's tough to say which of the 2020 wannabes is the biggest phony, but you can make a strong case for Liz Warren.

"'I am sorry for harm I have caused,' Warren said Monday at a presidential candidates forum on Native American issues. She was referring to the fact that she spent much of her adult life falsely claiming she's part American Indian in an attempt to advance her career.

"Yet what action, exactly was she sorry for? ...

"For saying she was Native American? Or that she got caught?

"Fact is, Warren isn't really sorry for anything. She's already proven that she'll do or say anything to benefit herself."

"A mounting number of voter polls show that, despite shrill denunciations of the president by the Democrats for his alleged racism, Trump is enjoying a dramatic increase in his approval ratings among minorities. This isn't, as some liberal news outlets and pundits have suggested, wishful thinking based on outlier polls. The trend began showing up in surveys early this year and appears to be gaining momentum. Some polls now show his approval numbers at 25 percent among African American voters and 50 percent among Hispanic voters. If those figures hold for the next 15 months, they will render Trump unbeatable in November of 2020.

"If this claim seems over the top, it should be remembered that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite garnering only about 8 percent of the black vote and 29 percent of the Hispanic vote. Put another way, Clinton lost the election despite winning nearly 90 percent of the African American vote and two-thirds of the Hispanic vote. In other words, they simply can't beat the president if he holds them to significantly lower percentages of these key voting blocs. The Democrats and their media enablers understand this, of course, which is why they have worked so diligently to discredit polls that confirm the president's gains among minority voters."

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"This weekend we were treated to the latest installment of a new kind of political performance art created by Antifa and their white nationalist rivals. It may seem strange to call it art, but really that's what it is. Neither of these groups is an actual political force in America with policies or representing large constituencies. Neither are they true revolutionaries who are engaged in some war they can win.

"Both groups are, more than anything else, performers. They have costumes, they have painted signs, and they have scripts. Also, like any true artists, what they crave more than anything else is attention -- not votes, not money, not even influence, mostly just to be looked at and admired, or even hated.

"I struggled over whether to write this article because I believe both groups represent such an insignificant threat to the country that they should probably just be ignored. Stop pointing cameras at them, and they might just go have dinner or watch Netflix or something. But obviously, for myriad reasons, that isn't going to happen. So if this weird new strain of performance art is something we have to deal with, we should try to understand it."

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"It needs to be stressed that Tlaib and Omar aren't mere 'critics' of Israel, as the media incessantly claims. Critics would find fault with policies of the nation's government -- which, in Israel's case, has oscillated from left to right, from hawkish to dovish, for more than 70 years. Critics have been traveling to Israel forever. Critics of Israel serve in the nation's parliament and openly and freely take positions against the ruling government.

"Tlaib and Omar actively support a movement with the strategic aim of rallying the world to destroy the Jewish state economically. They aren't critics, they're enemies. The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS) not only challenges Israel's right to exist, it relies on age-old antisemitic tropes, conspiracy theories, and blood libels to propel the message. Its most famous champions in the United States are Tlaib and Omar.

"Moreover, these congresswomen aren't merely random pundits prattling on about an imaginary apartheid state. They have power to enact policies that undermine the Jewish state. Omar sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It is Tlaib and Omar who are accelerating the Democratic Party's abandonment of our ally. As we've seen, no matter how odious their remarks, no matter how outside the norms of American political discourse they fall, Democrats will rally to defend them.

"Worse of all, the two were almost surely planning some provocation. Which is not something elected officials should be doing to allies."

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"There really was a collusion plot. It really did target our election system. It absolutely sought to usurp our capacity for self-determination. It was just not the collusion you've been told about for nearly three years. It was not 'Donald Trump's collusion with Russia.'

"Here is the real collusion scheme: In 2016, the incumbent Democratic administration of President Barack Obama put the awesome powers of the United States government's law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus in the service of the Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, the Democratic party, and the progressive Beltway establishment. This scheme had two parts: Plan A, the objective; and Plan B, a fail-safe strategy in case Plan A imploded -- which all the smartest people were supremely confident would never, ever happen . . which is why you could bet the ranch that it would.

"Plan A was to get Mrs. Clinton elected president of the United States. This required exonerating her, at least ostensibly, from well-founded allegations of her felonious and politically disqualifying actions.

"Plan B was the insurance policy: an investigation that Donald Trump, in the highly unlikely event he was elected, would be powerless to shut down. An investigation that would simultaneously monitor and taint him. An investigation that internalized Clinton-campaign-generated opposition research, limning Trump and his campaign as complicit in Russian espionage. An investigation that would hunt for a crime under the guise of counterintelligence, build an impeachment case under the guise of hunting for a crime, and seek to make Trump un-reelectable under the guise of building an impeachment case."

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