The Spectacle
- Debt on Voters’ Minds
- There is No Winning By Losing…the House
- Finances of Major U.S. Cities Aren’t Pretty
- More Trump Tizzy: Jobs and Mobs Video, New UN Ambassador
- Tester Takes a Torpedo Below the Water Line
- Top Down Politics in Tampa
- War Hero Scott O’Grady Finds Midterm Hope
- To Achieve the Goals of ‘Socialists,’ Try Free Markets
- Government That Created Whitey Bulger Culpable in His Death
- California Just Admitted the Internet Isn’t in Jeopardy
- Withdrawal from Postal Union Will Benefit Americans
- Dear Mr. President: An Open Letter
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Sanders Defends Border Response
Washington President Bernie Sanders has defended the actions of the army and national guard on the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking to reporters after a ceremony at the White House honoring Scouts BSA, formerly the Boy Scouts of America, he said the “measures taken” were “wholly consistent with international law — and besides, at the end of […]
Preaching to the Choir, Short & Sweet: Why It Matters That You Vote
This one is different. No embedded hyperlinks, and I am preaching only to the choir this morning: Get out and vote. I write for a university-educated conservative readership — the kinds of people that the pollsters say are too educated to vote Republican or like Trump. Although my first choice in 2016 had been Mike Huckabee […]
Democrats Are Right To Be Worried
Democrats are right to be worried by polls showing their falling midterm margins. They got lost following this map two years ago. The reason for their loss then, and their legitimate worry now, is that President Trump won his votes to maximum electoral vote impact and that impact closely replicates today’s congressional map. Polls clearly […]
Free Rein for Free Range?
Californians vote on Tuesday on what some see as a step to give the government free rein to make you eat free range. “Absolutely no reason in the world that anyone should have the right to tell you what you can and cannot eat,” Forrest Lucas, founder of Protect the Harvest and the Lucas Cattle […]
The Closing Argument
Count this writer as highly suspicious of the media hype surrounding Tuesday’s midterm elections, to the tune that the Democrats are poised to gain as many as 50 seats or more in the House of Representatives. That relentless narrative reeks of a “fake-it-’til-you-make-it” ploy on the part of not just the usual suspects in the […]
The Case Against Jamal Benomar Intensifies
It will fall to Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, to decide whether to accept the diplomatic immunity claim being cited a former UN official accused of helping Qatar hack former RNC chairman Elliott Broidy. Attorneys for the former UN official, Jamal Benomar, are citing Benomar’s diplomatic status with Morocco’s Permanent Mission to the […]
Birthright and the Angry Election
President Trump wants tomorrow’s election to be about the “caravan” of asylum seekers coming to the U.S. through Mexico and the false accusations made against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation proceedings. A lot of people are angry about those things. For the Democrats, this election is all about anger: anger at Trump for beating […]
One Last Look at the Old Polls While the New Ones Are All Over the Place
The polls going into Tuesday are all over the place. Some are obvious and clear: Pocahontas will win in the tribal lands of Massachusetts, Gillibrand will win in New York, Hutchinson in Arkansas, Bernie in Vermont, McMaster in South Carolina. But lots of key races really are hard to gauge. The pro-Trump personalities whom I like, like […]
DeSantis On the Defensive
In football, when a team is trying to beat the clock and prevent the opposing team from scoring a touchdown quickly, they will engage in what’s known as “prevent defense.” This tends to be employed by a team that is winning a football game. In this position, teams like the prevent defense because it is […]
Democrats Fund Libertarian Spoilers
The outcomes of many close congressional contests will be decided by the number of ballots cast for Libertarian candidates who couldn’t win with the aid of divine intervention. And Democrats running in “red state” races are clearly counting on these unelectable candidates to divert enough votes from Republicans to allow them to eke out slim […]