Debra J. Saunders
Mike Pence is polling under 5 percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average; that low number placed the former vice president at a far end on the Fox Business News debate stage Wednesday night. Pence came in six out of seven…
Former President Donald Trump “deserves life in prison if my father is in prison for this long,” Peyton Reffitt, 18, told the Washington Post. Her father, Guy, was sentenced to seven years behind bars for his role in the Jan….
Impeachment now is just a gimmick; it’s no longer the first fearsome step taken to remove a president who committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” from office. It’s something leaders of both parties feel they have to…
The 2022-2023 school year, close to 10 percent of nation’s K-12 students did not attend classes on the average day, The New York Times‘ David Leonhardt reported in his newsletter. A quarter of students are chronically absent. “That’s a vastly…
It should come as no surprise that an enterprising San Franciscan came up with the idea to host a “doom loop” tour of the moldering city on a hill. The plot twist is that Alex Ludlum, who put together the…
Wednesday night, Republican voters had a glimpse of what could be: a 2024 GOP primary not held hostage by the insatiable ego and self-absorbed rantings of former President Donald Trump. Sure, many of the eight hopefuls who — unlike Trump…
In 2020, a small group of Montana minors filed a lawsuit to force Montana officials to consider climate change when they approve fossil fuel projects. Their lawsuit, Held v. Montana, argued that children are “uniquely vulnerable” to climate change; hence…
“Senator Tuberville, thank you for standing for life and against wokeness in the military,” read highway billboards in the GOP senator’s home state of Alabama. Shame on the Heritage Foundation, which paid for the ad. For months, the first-term senator…
How could 6,000 shelter beds be unoccupied in Los Angeles County? It’s a number, reported in LAist in July, that makes no sense given the miles of homeless encampments that occupy area streets and sidewalks. Looking for an answer, I…
