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by | Nov 3, 2022

So, this time it’s Jesse Watters. Once upon a time it was Barry Goldwater. The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the aftermath of the decidedly horrific attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul —…

by | Nov 2, 2021

Of course Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe played the race card. It’s what Democrats do. Democrats have been playing racist politics since their party was formed by slave owners in the 19th century and run by segregationists in the…

by | Mar 22, 2021

What happens now? Trump was defeated, but more than 74 million people voted for him, and Republicans won’t elect a president in 2024 if they leave the party. And yet that obviously won’t suffice. The party will need both the…

by | Dec 7, 2020

The Libertarian Party (LP) has been around since 1971, and over the course of 49 years the best that any of its candidates for president ever did was to win only 3 percent of the electorate. I used to rationalize…

by | Aug 26, 2020

In the summer of 1960, I was demonstrating outside the Republican National Convention at the Chicago Stockyards. My homemade placard read, “Out the Door With Eleanor,” a tribute to the wife of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eleanor was…

by | Aug 26, 2020

Before there was Ronald Reagan, there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry Goldwater, there was Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. From 1938 until his unexpected death in 1953, Taft led the Republican resistance to liberal Democrats and…

by | Feb 17, 2020

Sunday Wow, it’s cold here in Los Angeles tonight. It’s hard to believe how cold it is. But the heating of the Earth continues unabated as Trump plays golf. Anyway, speaking of presidents, isn’t it interesting how many Jews are…

by | Jan 27, 2020

The Democrats are clearly frustrated by their failure to convince congressional Republicans that President Trump has committed any act approaching an impeachable offense. This was made plain when House managers Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) resorted to the…

by | Jan 4, 2020

We have 2020 backwards: Not Trump, but his opponent, will be more determinant. In part, this is true because President Trump leaves few undecided: He has already had his impact. Therefore, 2020’s more influential variable will be the Democrat, who…

by | Nov 7, 2019

Liberals bellyache over what they call “whataboutism.” It’s a handy tactic they’ve embraced to counter conservatives who remind them of unseemly things their icons have done in the past, for which liberals conveniently look the other way. They want to…

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