Do Republicans also suffer from a “Superstar Losers” phenomenon? Jacob Stern of the Atlantic slapped that moniker upon Stacey Abrams and Beto O’Rourke even before their most recent political setbacks in November. “American politics doesn’t have anyone quite like Haru Urara,”…
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s “I’ve had a bad month” stands alongside Ron Burgundy’s “Milk was a bad choice” as an understatement. Investors put something close to $2 billion into his cryptocurrency outfit FTX only to see it evaporate along with SBF’s…
Any highly publicized election is going to have a juicy soundbite or two, and the midterm elections in Texas appear particularly succulent. Mike Collier, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, told delegates at the Democratic state convention that he intends…
If you missed it, Robert Francis O’Rourke, the privileged white leftist who pretended to be Mexican in an attempt to fleece the voters of Texas into a spot in the U.S. Senate in 2018 and the Democratic presidential nomination in…
Washington — Do you recall how often our friends, the progressives, have rushed to tell us how we can save conservatism from self-destruction? It seems just a year ago that they diagnosed sudden calamity for conservatism. Then they were quick…
Washington — One of my favorite candidates in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination has just announced that he is running for high office once again in 2022. He is Beto O’Rourke, and he is one of the great…
Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal is a dramatic affirmation of the right to self-defense and a huge blow to the gun control movement. This drama is a long way from over. If people such as Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and BLM activist…
Washington You might recall that nine years ago I wrote a book entitled The Death of Liberalism. It was an answer to Sam Tanenhaus’s suicidal 2009 book The Death of Conservatism. Sam’s book came out mere months before the conservative…
Even by the standards of the Washington Post, Sunday’s feature on Stacey Abrams was remarkable. And by “remarkable,” of course I mean, ludicrous. The hagiographic profile, which ran to more than 5,000 words, likened her to “a runway supermodel” and included…
