Ned Ryun

Trump Won the Schumer Shutdown, Time to Do It Again

Everyone wants President Donald Trump to “get tough.” Tough with special counsel Robert Mueller. Tough with North Korea. Tough with Russia, and Syria, and trading partners around the globe. Even tough with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). On any given day, as the mood may move him, Trump does exactly that, whether on Twitter, …

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We didn’t send Trump to DC to pass a bill ‘Jeb’ would have happily signed

President Trump’s signing of last week’s $1.3 trillion omnibus bill was “business as usual” in Washington, typical of the one-party ruling class of Republicans and Democrats. It was a triumph of the swamp, a big-government dream come true for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and many in Republican ranks who masquerade as “limited government” conservatives on …

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State’s abrupt switch needed to put US policy on track

While there were plenty of gasps, handwringing and pearl-clutching among some when President Trump abruptly fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, one would have had to be completely blind to not see if coming. Granted, the process of firing Tillerson could have been handled much better by Trump. Tillerson, by any standard, is …

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