Michael Goodwin

Michael Goodwin

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Trump hit the ground running – but needs to tighten the ship after a series of missteps

In ordinary times, a post from President Trump saying that a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went well would be duly noted and quickly forgotten.

Left-leaning AP is out of step with the rest of the US

The AP has become just another outlet peddling leftist opinion disguised as straight news.

Harvard is jeopardizing $9B in federal funding to lead the radical left's anti-Trump agenda – so much for the best and brightest

The Democrats have finally found the leader of their resistance to President Trump.

Trump, Israel have Iran leaders shaking in their boots

The ensuing years of regional terrorism, threats of war against America, Israel and Arab nations and oppression at home provide mountains of evidence that Iran is not interested in normal...

Trump's given Iran a way out from impending war—they can do it the easy way or the hard way

“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war,” Winston Churchill reportedly said.

Trump bets the White House — and GOP control of Congress — on tariffs

Maybe all that winning was becoming boring. 

Anti-Israel lefty Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral campaign is a preposterous bid for a radical City Hall takeover

On paper, the mayoral candidacy of Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is preposterous.

Columbia's interim prez resigning is another Trump win against lefty insanity

Columbia University announced on Friday that interim president Dr. Katrina Armstrong has stepped down effective immediately.

The left's favorite yet deranged go-to insult is to label any opponent a Nazi

Politics ain’t beanbag, the saying goes.

Cash is king at America's lefty universities — and Trump is hitting them where it hurts

The screaming headline was prophetic: “Trump’s Policies Shake Academic World and May Reshape U.S. Culture.”

Cuomo greenlit progressive nonsense and royally fumbled COVID – but still refuses to admit he helped destroy NYC

For months I’ve doubted the poll-driven story line that Andrew Cuomo is unbeatable in the Democrats’ mayoral primary.

Trump is putting on a master class in power politics

The defeat Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer suffered in the spending bill battle was so bad that the left-wing media can’t even spin it as a victory.

Dems defending Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil is yet another example of how they and elite schools failed Jewish students

Watching Democrats try on different arguments to thwart Donald Trump, I’m reminded of a story involving the late Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.

President Trump, keep up the crackdown on campus antisemites

The speed and scope of actions coming from Donald Trump’s White House remain breathtaking.

Trump's rousing address puts Dems' bunch of clowns to shame

There was plenty of that this week, but an inordinate amount of the focus in Washington was on how Democrats would react to Donald Trump.

Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal

Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn).

Andrew Cuomo's biggest challenge in a mayoral run will be getting past himself – and facing his many lows head-on

Now that Andrew Cuomo is getting close to announcing he’s running for mayor, he needs a campaign slogan. 

Trump reveals how White House meeting with Hochul went after prez's admin axes NYC congestion pricing

President Donald Trump described his Friday meeting as not budging as to what Gov. Kathy Hochul presented to him on the effects of congestion pricing at the White House.

Gov. Hochul's cowardice is on full display as she surrenders to noisy anti-Adams, anti-Trump crowds

Gov. Hochul falls short on governing skills, but there is one area where she’s the absolute top of the heap: No politician shrinks faster in the face of big problems...

NY's resident 'blunderwoman' Hochul and her pile of failures are no match against Trump

It is dawning on more and more New Yorkers that Gov. Hochul is in over her head.