Kelly Riddell

Democrats ratchet up unprecedented partisanship over Trump Cabinet

The mainstream media loves to lament how our politics have become so partisan and divided, but they never seem to place the blame on the Democratic Party.

January 9, 2017

Meryl Streep, thin-skinned celebrities look to eviscerate Donald Trump at the Golden Globes

The Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday -- where decked-out celebrities congratulate each other with awards -- took a time out from the decadent fanfare and thank yous to other industry sycophants, to bash President-Elect Donald Trump.

January 9, 2017

GOP to use Democrats’ past votes against them; Feinstein, Schumer all voted to build wall

Republican lawmakers, making good on President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promise to build a wall along the southern U.S. border, may use Democrats' past votes and statements on the issue against them.

January 6, 2017

Record 95M Americans not in workforce, but let’s celebrate Obama’s job creation success

When President Barack Obama took office in 2009, a record 80,529,000 Americans were not in the labor force. In December -- the final jobs report of Mr. Obama's presidency -- that number grew to 95,102,000, according to the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

January 6, 2017

Russia hack: New concern reeks of partisanship and politics

A healthy amount of skepticism of our intelligence community, mainstream media and Democratic Party is warranted.

January 6, 2017

Donald Trump and the art of messaging

Call it digital diplomacy.

January 5, 2017

Donald Trump: Job creator-in-chief before even taking office

"I'll be the greatest president for jobs that God ever created." I giggled a bit when I heard President-elect Donald Trump first say that -- amused and intrigued at the ambition and confidence in the statement.

January 4, 2017

The Russian conspiracy theory

Did the Russians hack our election? Absolutely not -- although many in the mainstream media would like you to believe they did.

January 4, 2017

Obama has no intention of honoring the tradition of one president at a time

In November, President Barack Obama reminded President-Elect Donald Trump that "there's only one president at a time" and that he should be careful not to overstep his bounds before the formal transfer of power.

January 4, 2017

The anti-Trump celebrity PSA that will change everything

You've heard the old adage, that doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Apparently, celebrities don't think it applies to them.

January 3, 2017

The Russians invaded Vermont — not!

It's beginning to feel like the mainstream media has Russian hysteria -- which in itself is funny, given most in the press openly mocked 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney a mere four years ago for saying Russia was the greatest geopolitical threat to the U.S.

January 3, 2017

GOP missteps in gutting ethics office, should focus on larger issues

Oh, GOP lawmakers. The optics are bad -- clearly, even you can see that.

January 3, 2017

Obama’s graceless exit

In November, after Donald Trump won the election, President Barack Obama met the president-elect in the Oval Office and told him: "If you succeed, then the country succeeds."

December 29, 2016

Worst (and best) predictions of the 2016 campaign

The 2016 presidential contest was the year that all the pollsters and pundits got it wrong. Here are the best of the worst predictions -- and some, like mine, that got things right.

December 28, 2016

2016 election review: Five most treacherous quotes of the campaign

The election cycle of 2016 was epic -- and with it came some quotes from all the candidates that had a tremendous impact on their chances at the presidency.

December 28, 2016

Christians winning the war on Christmas

At a rally in Wisconsin last week, President-elect Donald Trump debuted a new podium placard captioned: "Merry Christmas, USA. Thank You Tour 2016."

December 22, 2016

Aisha Tyler slanders tea-party groups in false GOP reaction to Obama victories in ‘08, ‘12

Sometimes those in the entertainment industry should just stick to entertaining. This is certainly the case with comedian Aisha Tyler, who said those in the tea-party flooded Washington, D.C., in 2008 and 2012 to protest Barack Obama's presidential victories -- complete with their guns and assassination vows.

December 19, 2016

Huffington Post issues fake news poll, saying American public wants to delay Electoral College vote

The Huffington Post -- ever so willing to carry the water of the Democratic Party -- claims that a majority of Americans want the Electoral College to delay its vote today so that all electors can receive a briefing from the intelligence community on what impact Russia had on the U.S. election.

December 19, 2016

Anti-Trump left a threat to American democracy

The New York Times published over the weekend an op-ed questioning whether President-elect Donald Trump was a threat to our democracy.

December 19, 2016

Washington Post blames ‘church culture’ for why rape victims feel bad

What won't the left blame on the religious right? The Washington Post ran a column on Friday that was titled: "Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary. As a rape victim, that hurts me."

December 16, 2016