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Spectator A.M.
by | Mar 7, 2024

Nikki Haley’s most enthusiastic supporters all voted for Joe Biden. That’s why she never gained much traction and dropped out yesterday. She did better than all of the Republicans not named Donald Trump, and she represents a constituency within the…

by | Feb 27, 2024

Today’s primary in Michigan offers us a potential forecast for November. Rashida Tlaib, the congresswoman representing a heavily Muslim and more heavily Democrat district, encourages those in her party to vote “uncommitted” in protest over the Biden administration’s support for…

by | Feb 12, 2024

A few things seem clear, and much else murky, after the seismic shift that occurred on Thursday. Donald Trump, more because of Thursday than by encouraging public polling of recent weeks, runs as the favorite in the 2024 presidential election….

by | Feb 9, 2024

Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin for over two hours. Watch the conversation, at times a filibuster, here. He seems more coherent than our president. At the same time, KGB agents, former and present — whatever the agency currently calls itself —…

by | Jan 11, 2024

Chris Christie won his campaign. He only ostensibly ran for president. He really ran for token Republican on panel television shows. He dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday night. This inevitably boosts Nikki Haley’s chances…

by | Oct 24, 2023

Do you want the speaker of the House to speak, or do you want the speaker of the House to herd cats? If it’s the latter, and it usually is, a congressman in his second term seems like the wrong…

by | Oct 2, 2023

By averting a government shutdown, Democrats and more moderate Republicans ensured bigger government, further indebtedness, a greater percentage of the federal budget allocated toward paying interest, and inflation worse than otherwise. Given that the government never really shuts down —…

by | Sep 28, 2023

The same conservatives who condemn Washington for unconstitutionally funding education beseech it to send billions to a country at war 5,000 miles away. Where in the Constitution does it sanction this? It seems fewer rank-and-file conservatives endorse the idea of…

by | Sep 20, 2023

The headlines read: “Ray Epps Charged With Jan. 6 Crime—After Conspiracy Theory Claimed He Worked For FBI” (Forbes), “Ray Epps Charged Over Jan. 6 Riot, Dealing Major Blow to Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracy Theory” (Mediaite), “Feds charge Jan. 6 protester at center…

by | Sep 19, 2023

Donald Trump, who described himself as “very pro-choice” on Meet the Press in 1999, came almost full circle on the same program this weekend. He called Florida’s ban on abortions after six weeks “a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.” He talked of brokering a…

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