Bigger things need to be taken care of that tweets won't cure.

Mr. President, please shut up and just heal us from the Obama years

National Review has a good deal to say about Mr. Trump. However his ineptitude has in no way made me miss the feckless, petulant Obama. TD

Stop Talking, President Trump  "The president is his own worst enemy — and he may well destroy his presidency if he doesn’t change. 

"The virulent antipathy President Trump inspires among his political foes and critics may well exceed that of any president in the history of our republic. But if there is anything to be learned from what has happened in the days since he fired FBI director James Comey, it is that there is no doubt that the name of the president’s worst enemy is Donald J. Trump. 

"Trump’s inability to stay on message was a serious problem throughout the 2016 campaign and has at times derailed his administration during his first 100-plus days in office. His early morning Twitter meltdowns, such as his ill-advised attack on a Gold Star family or his wild claim that President Obama had ordered the bugging of Trump Tower, set off media firestorms that dominated the news cycle and distracted the public from anything positive he might otherwise have been doing. Yet nothing he has done has been so counter-productive as the things he has said and tweeted since dispatching Comey earlier this week. In an act of almost unprecedented stupidity, Trump has singlehandedly elevated what might have been a momentary tempest into a full-blown hurricane of national outrage that has stopped the country in its tracks." . . .  Read more.

On the Comey Firing, a Race to the Bottom  . . . "It is understandable that Democrats are screaming bloody murder about events of the last few days — certainly Republicans would be doing the same if a Democrat were in the White House and axed an FBI director the way Trump has. But the analogies to Watergate — ubiquitous in the media — are overwrought and obscure what the FBI’s investigation is about. This is worth explaining at some length." . . .

Trump’s Brand Is Crisis  

Trump doesn’t face crises so much as manufacture them. In a way he is the crisis, and his presidency is in danger of being defined not by any legislative or diplomatic achievement but by his handling of the multiplying and daunting obstacles he creates for himself.

Dems Angry About Trump Possibly Taping Comey Forget Obama Taped People

FBI former director James Comey was addressing an FBI gathering in Los Angeles Tuesday when the news of his firing scrolled across the TV screen behind him onstage. How it could it be more humiliating? It’s plain as day that Trump still hasn’t forgiven Comey for making him president.  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Dems Angry About Trump Possibly Taping Comey Forget Obama Taped People . . . "And when Judicial Watch has asked for all records on the multiple issues, have they ever gotten these tapes? 
"D.C. law says perfectly legal to record as long as the recording is made by one party to the conversation. Can we get all Obama recordings on Benghazi? And Iran? And every time he met with Democratic operative Robert Creamer who was encouraging fake protests against Trump and GOP?" . . .

Media outrage over Comey firing flops with the public

Does anyone in the media remember Aesop's fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”?

Thomas Lifson  "My friend Mark J. Fitzgibbons calls the media coverage of the Comey firing a, “Classic case of those whom the gods destroy they first make mad. The D.C. bubble is unhinged over Comey.  But it's no big deal for many Americans.”

The evidence?

"Axios cites data: from SocialFlow, and charts the amount of Faceook interaction on several Trump moves, showing the Comey firing ranks far below other stories:

"So the man whose catch-phrase is “You’re fired!” goes ahead and fires the man whose head the Democrats had been demanding, and they and their media pals go nuts with rage and Nixon comparisons.

"Does anyone in the media remember Aesop's fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”? "

Last Man Standing Falls to Trump Derangement Syndrome

Daniel John Sobieski  "The cancellation by ABC of Tim Allen’s hit comedy “Last Man Standing” comes on the heels of CBS’ Stephen Colbert’s obscenity-laced rant against Donald Trump and underscores how far the media thought police have gone in their war on conservatives, conservative thought, and even conservative comedy.

"Allen’s show, in which he plays the manager of a sporting goods chain, features Allen’s biting and genuinely funny witticisms poking fun at all things liberal. Its humor is balanced, with the show featuring a Canadian liberal son-in-law who gets his points across. But it is a rarity among sitcoms, in that any conservative viewpoints are represented at all. In its sixth season, "Last Man Standing" is doing quite well in the ratings. As the entertainment website deadline.com noted:" . . .

. . . "Can’t have sentiments such as those expressed on national television these days. As at Berkeley and other college campuses, conservative thought, commentary, and even comedy must be silenced. The goosestepping left used to burn books. Now they burn TV scripts."

Teacher Fired for Giving Student Bible -- Gets Job Back

Todd Starnes 

                                          

     "It was way back in 2014 when I first introduced you to Walt Tutka, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey - and a member of Gideon's International. 

     "Gideon's is a Christian service organization. They give people Bibles. You've probably seen one of their Bibles in a Holiday Inn -- on a bedside table.

     "Mr. Tutka also happened to be a substitute teacher in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. But he was fired from that job after he gave a student a Bible. 

     "The student happened to be the last person entering through a door. Mr. Tutka told the youngster, "The first shall be last, but the last shall be first."

     "The student later inquired on several occasions about the origins of the quote. He showed the student the verse in his Bible, which led to the student asking for a personal copy of the Bible. And being a good Gideon, Mr. Tutka gladly supplied the child with a copy. 

     "It did not seem to matter to the school district that the student had asked for a copy of the Good Book. 

     "First Liberty Institute took on Mr. Tutka's case - and eventually scored a victory with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They agreed that the school district had discriminated against Mr. Tutka on the "basis of religion and retaliation."

     "And on the eve of First Liberty's deadline to file a federal lawsuit, the school district agreed to a settlement. 

     "That means Mr. Tutka can once again become a substitute teacher -- effective today. " . . .

How ironic. On my shelf I still have a pocket Testament given to me in the 5th grade in 1949 by a Gideon visiting our school in Tillamook County, Oregon. (We seemed so much more free back then and my only regret is that freedom did not extend to African- Americans.TD)