Morning Jolt: A Groundhog Day Miracle: Trump's Stellar State of the Union Numbers

Happy Groundhog Day! Or, as Mayor De Blasio calls today, DAWN OF VENGEANCE. Allegedly he is skipping today's ritual murder festivities, but we know that after-hours, when everyone has gone home, he will stalk the night, striking fear in the heart of every groundhog.

Look What Dr. Jekyll Can Do When Mr. Hyde Takes the Night Off!

Yes, Trump critics and skeptics are much less likely to want to sit through watching the State of the Union, so the audience is somewhat self-selecting. But the public assessment of Trump's Tuesday night address is gangbusters:

A combined 62 percent of speech-watchers called Trump's performance "excellent" ...

February 02 2018

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A Groundhog Day Miracle: Trump's Stellar State of the Union Numbers Jim Geraghty Happy Groundhog Day! Or, as Mayor De Blasio calls today, DAWN OF VENGEANCE. Allegedly he is skipping today's ritual murder festivities, but we know that after-hours, when everyone has gone home, he will stalk the night, striking fear in the heart of every groundhog. Look What Dr. Jekyll Can Do When Mr. Hyde Takes the Night Off! Yes, Trump critics and skeptics are much less likely to want to sit through watching the State of the Union, so the audience is somewhat self-selecting. But the public assessment of Trump's Tuesday night address is gangbusters: A combined 62 percent of speech-watchers called Trump's performance "excellent" ... READ MORE The Inadvertently Libertarian Trump Jim Geraghty Jonathan Chait wrote Monday, "The latest development in the relationship between the Kochs (right-wing heirs to a business fortune) and Trump (also the right-wing heir to a business fortune) is... New Mexico Lawmakers Want to Force High Schoolers to Apply for College, and That's Dumb Katherine Timpf New Mexico Lawmakers Want to Force High Schoolers to Apply for College, and That's Dumb ADVERTISEMENT Be Cautious, but Take the Nunes Memo Seriously David Harsanyi For more than a year now, half of America has been driven into hysterics on a weekly basis by highly selective, often partisan leaks fed to it in 900-word increments by Democrats using the... Law-Enforcement Unions Have Too Much Power Theodore Kupfer The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the largest union representing NYPD officers, took a bold step toward reform this week: It cut the number of "courtesy cards"... Positioning over the Nunes FISA Memo Continues Ahead of Its Release Andrew C. McCarthy It appears very likely that President Trump is going to allow the disclosure, in some form, of the memo on alleged FISA abuse authored by majority staff of the House Intelligence Committee under... When Democrats Wanted to Compromise on Immigration Howard Husock Editor's Note: The following essay originally appeared in City Journal. It is reprinted here with permission. There's little reason to believe that President Trump's State of the Union... ADVERTISEMENT Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations Ronen Bergman "Hands down the best book I've read on intelligence, Israel, and, for that matter, the Middle East...this page-turning book is indispensable for understanding Israel's fight for survival, with a revelation on every page.." — Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism LEARN MORE Super Bowl LII Countdown Carnival in Venice ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.