At the Thursday night presidential debate, CNN’s Jake Tapper acquitted himself, if not more fairly than expected, at least more subtly. Although the question Tapper posed to former president Donald Trump on the subject of January 6 seemed straight up,…
According to the latest Morning Consult survey of 1,183 potential Republican primary voters released on Friday, Sept. 29, support for former President Donald J. Trump increased two days after the second Republican presidential debate last Wednesday. All but one of…
Mike Pence is polling under 5 percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average; that low number placed the former vice president at a far end on the Fox Business News debate stage Wednesday night. Pence came in six out of seven…
I like many of those who were on the GOP debate stage last night. I like 98 percent of Trump’s policies very much. (He is weak on the lives of the unborn.) I love the once-in-a-century conservative-yet-populist agenda he implemented…
Former vice president Mike Pence has virtually no chance to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination for many reasons, not the least of which is that he was scapegoated by former president Trump because he refused to set aside the…
Wednesday night, Republican voters had a glimpse of what could be: a 2024 GOP primary not held hostage by the insatiable ego and self-absorbed rantings of former President Donald Trump. Sure, many of the eight hopefuls who — unlike Trump…
Last week, retired conservative federal appeals court judge Michael Luttig said that there is no Republican Party. He added that the political parties are the guardians of democracy and without them both our democracy is in great peril. Asked why…
Friday’s announcement that the United States would send $345 million in military equipment to Taiwan from existing US stockpiles under President Biden’s “presidential drawdown authority” was pretty much ignored by the media. It shouldn’t have been. It should have gained…
It is hard to feel bad for Donald Trump. He is richer than most of us ever will be. He has been president of the United States, an honor limited to five or fewer people in a generation. He doesn’t…
