Our readers, many of whom are of a certain age, generally are roused to reaction by the presence of one James Carville, the former Bill Clinton political fixer and guru known occasionally by such nicknames/epithets as the Ragin’ Cajun, the…
Over the past three years, Israel has had more elections for its head of government than any other country. It’s democracy on steroids. A country of just over seven million Jews (74 percent of the total), two million Arabs (21…
Oh, the horror! Over there at the Washington Post, reporter Amy Gardner is horrified at Republican candidates’ running on platforms of election integrity. So, what to do? Gardner and the Post’s editorial board sound the alarm that there is no such…
In 1980, when the voters of Arkansas denied Bill Clinton a second term as the state’s governor, he responded by apologizing to the voters for the poor decisions he had made and asking them how he could have done a…
So, after spending her time not representing the good people of Wyoming, Rep. Liz Cheney gets the boot from her constituents. She lost her reelection bid by almost 40 points, a staggering defeat. Good for them. Cheney, utterly obsessed with…
For many years, the struggle to protect unborn human life was understood as the struggle to overturn Roe v. Wade. That, after all, was the decision that in an instant overturned laws protecting the unborn in every state in the…
The state of Tennessee managed to count the vast majority of its votes in a single night, a strange occurrence that demonstrates the inadequacy of other states’ election policies. For the most part, Tennessee’s races were a sleepy affair. Gov….
Missouri Republicans can do the entire Grand Old Party a massive favor in today’s U.S. Senate primary: Keep Eric Greitens as far away as possible from the Republican nomination. The Show Me State’s former governor is a potential time bomb…
Former President Donald Trump told New York magazine on Thursday that he has made a decision about running for president in 2024. When asked by reporter Olivia Nuzzi about seeking the White House a third time, Trump responded, “I’ve already…
Biographer Robert Caro described in brilliant detail the life and campaigns of Lyndon B. Johnson. Caro allows his readers few illusions about the gritty reality of those elections. In 1941, as Caro relates, federal judge Jimmy Allred was listening to…