Commentary Powerline’s Scott Johnson quoted a TV Guide reporter who described the viewership of the first January 6 House Committee’s prime-time television extravaganza as “decent.” In context, “decent” means “dismal” since, as Johnson notes,  “the networks graciously handed their prime-time slots over to the committee’s motley crew in unison, Soviet style.” A show trial is…

Commentary The long-awaited opening of the Democrats’ final desperate extravaganza of Trump-hate finally came on Thursday, June 9. The battle lines are clear: One side claims to believe that the 2020 presidential election was clean and unquestionable and that the invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an attempted insurrection launched by…

Commentary The January 6 Committee may be Kabuki theater, literally stage-managed by an ex-corporate media executive. It may prove wholly futile, as House Democrats themselves have seemed to acknowledge. Americans do not seem interested in litigating the Capitol breach 18 months later. But we ought not to let the cynical spectacle of the hearings distract…