You might have seen the headline already. It comes from an X post by the Vice President, who was reacting to a photo op/attention-seeking stunt from the Democratic National Committee, which has somehow settled on a new line of messaging…
We begin this edition of the 5QT with a poll. Which perhaps necessitates an apology, because this column is highly skeptical of poll results. But seeing as though most pollsters are either leftists or are employed by them, polls can…
If you guys will forgive me, this is a bit of a drive-by 5QT. I’m juggling a couple of projects as I’m writing it, because a PAC that I run here in Louisiana is having its big annual fundraising event…
If you haven’t seen the delicious, burgeoning feud between the ancient James Carville and the infantile David Hogg, then boy, do I have a story for you. Over the last few days, this has turned into one of the most…
The conventional wisdom in Washington holds that President Donald Trump’s November victory, combined with the whirlwind of activity that has characterized his first several weeks in office, has created disarray among Democrats. Like most things “everyone knows,” however, this view…
If you’re a Republican, ya gotta love it. There is the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump by name, standing at the podium in the U.S. House of Representatives, delivering a decidedly serious address to the Congress and…
The Democrats who behaved disgracefully at President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, and the ones who broke ranks to censure Al Green, offer an explanation for the behavior of politicians. More on that after a description of…
Just last week, President Trump fired a large number of inspectors general. He had done much the same thing in 2020, seeing them as a major source of the swamp fever that plagued his rookie administration. In his reincarnated presidency…
During recess, I was invited to speak to three congressional staffs in Washington, D.C.: one from a dark-red district, one from a light-blue district, and one from that rarest of all artifacts from our gerrymandered age, a deep-dyed purple district….
