This column doesn’t do a whole lot of gloating over its past prognostications coming true, for a couple of reasons. One being that most of them are derived from common sense, and so our readers often see affirmations of belief…
Consumers may be in luck with several new studies that claim to show that soda taxes have worked in cities where they have been implemented in such as Seattle’s $.0175-per-ounce tax (and its effects on Portland Oregon’s sales) and Oakland, California’s penny-per-ounce tax. The problem…
Pete Buttigieg is back in South Bend where he belongs, bending south. Tom Steyer is back home contemplating climate change and grasping that his world ended quicker than the 11 years he anticipated awaiting him. Kirsten Gillibrand is back in…
About half an hour into his speech Saturday afternoon at the 48th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), President Trump spotted a familiar face in the crowd. “My friend over there — you are the greatest,” the president said, and…
The chances of Bernie Sanders getting the Democratic nomination are decidedly better than the other declared candidates’, but that is not saying very much, according to the experts, who believe no candidate will win outright on the first ballot at…
Now that the DNC has cleared out the riffraff — Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, and all the other pretenders to the Oval — the most recent Democrat presidential debate offered an opportunity to get a clearer…
When it comes to a brokered Democratic Convention, the odds are good because the goods are odd. In Wednesday’s debate, former front-runner Joe Biden confused “moderators” for “monitors,” said “secondly” on a thirdly or fourthly, and talked about the five…
Finally, some pugilism! The candidates (save Bloomberg) have been at this long enough now that some real, heartfelt hatred has developed between the candidates. The masks came off in the Nevada debate. The overall impression is of angry, snarling socialists…
The attacks on Michael Bloomberg came early and often at Wednesday’s debate in Las Vegas, but none of them, of course, touched on his infamous “kill it” comment to a pregnant subordinate. No, the party of abortion at all stages…