I remember learning about democracy back in grammar school. We learned about it in the context of the American Revolution: Britain’s King George III may have ruled as a capricious monarch, but the intrepid colonists fought for the then-novel concept…
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….
Terrisa Bukovinac is not your typical pro-lifer, and she isn’t your typical presidential candidate, either. Bukovinac is challenging President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary to protest the party’s pro-abortion stance and to bring attention to the victims of abortion. …
Imagine this scenario: It’s 2020, and a sitting Republican congressman has announced a primary challenge to President Donald Trump. What’s more, he has registered 16 percent support in a poll of New Hampshire voters just 12 days before that state’s…
Political polarization in politics is a feature of our political system today, but it wasn’t always this way. Conservatives began to dominate the GOP in 1964, and in 1968 the historic Democratic establishment began to be discredited and undermined. These…
Cornel West, a vocal left-wing scholar and activist who recently decided to sever ties with the Green Party and instead run as an independent candidate, has not been a favorite among fellow left-wingers, many of whom are concerned about his…
The United States Senate, once known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” will now permit its members to grace its chamber floor wearing whatever clothes — no matter how casual or unprofessional — they happen to fancy on any given…
In last week’s Five Quick Things entry, we discussed a wild, eventful, and, for conservatives, on balance pretty successful week. Well, that was nothing compared to what we’ve had the last few days, no? Put it this way — when…
Something changed last week inside the Beltway that suggests the people who run the Democratic Party now realize President Biden’s tenure in office is not sustainable beyond 2024. The “tell” was not, however, the latest revelation by IRS whistleblowers about…
I spent most of the day Monday trying to think of a fresh take on the news last week that the Biden Justice Department, personified by a partisan hack special prosecutor named Jack Smith, had secured a 37-count indictment of…