01.04.2019

Cartoon: Monitoring

01.03.2019

Battle over securing border is about whether the U.S. can defend its borders at all

By Rick Manning The battle over securing the southern border is bigger than any wall.  It is about whether our nation will actually defend its borders against an unconventional invasion — one designed to play on our heartstrings through the inclusion of women and children — but […]

01.03.2019

Romney unintentionally reminds everyone why Trump was elected in the first place

By Robert Romano If Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is not running for President in 2020, his oped in the Washington Post was certainly a trial balloon to test the waters. In it, he says that President Donald Trump “has not risen to the mantle of the office.” Mostly, Romney’s evaluation of Trump […]

01.02.2019

Credit cards don’t kill people, either

By Rick Manning The New York Times unleashed a Christmas Eve “investigative” report on the use of credit cards by sick individuals who committed mass murders over the past ten years.  Their lead example was Omar Mateen who attacked the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in a fit of Islamic jihad rage aimed […]

01.02.2019

Trump gets the wall—if the GOP sticks together

By Robert Romano Tomorrow, on Jan. 3, the new Congress will be sworn in — and that’s when the government shutdown is bound to get really interesting. Lacking a majority in the House, with Nancy Pelosi now returning as Speaker, Republicans will be unable to block a […]

12.28.2018

President Trump needs to hold firm on the wall, shutdown

By Rick Manning Click here to urge Congress to build the wall now! President Donald Trump needs to hold firm on $5 billion of funding for the southern border wall. At the beginning of 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader McConnell defined fully funding the wall at $12 billion to $15 billion . The President’s current budget request for $5 billion for the southern border wall is a dramatic compromise from the amount originally […]

12.26.2018

Cartoon: Border Money

12.21.2018

How Trump can get the wall with the pocket veto

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump is threatening to not sign the government spending bill if it does not include $5 billion for the southern border wall. Upon signing the farm bill, the President made a brief statement about the wall, saying , “I’ve made my position very clear: Any measure that funds the government must include […]

12.20.2018

Congress cares more about securing Syria than securing the southern border

  By Robert Romano Congress apparently cares more about securing Syria than securing the U.S. southern border by building the wall. That’s about all that can be taken away from some of the Congressional outcry against President Donald Trump who has announced the U.S. will be withdrawing troops from Syria — something Congress never authorized in […]

12.19.2018

Art of the Veto: How President Trump can force a vote on the wall

By Robert Romano Click here to urge Congress to build the wall! There won’t be any vote on wall funding this year or any year at the rate we’re going — because nobody in Congressional leadership is apparently willing to stick it in a bill and simply vote on it. Even to defeat it. Until the […]

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