Where have we seen this before? Former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan has made it known he will not attend the 2024 Republican Convention if the nominee is former President Donald Trump. The convention is set to take place in…
One way to know when an internal Republican skirmish is something good is when Left media salivate over it. Oh my, how they delighted in 15 rounds of voting for the House speaker! How they reveled in watching the House…
It’s Thanksgiving week, and so something this column usually does toward the end of the week now appears closer to the beginning. Because even with things teetering on disaster on several fronts, there are lots of things to be thankful…
Pity Kevin McCarthy. He is out there flexing legislative muscle, anticipating his rise following the Congressional elections November 8. The pollsters believe that after voters go to the polls on that date, there will be a Republican majority in the…
We aren’t actually governed by Paul Ryan, whose brief time as House Speaker ended in what can only be described as a surrender. Ryan bolted from the Speaker’s chair the minute the 2018 elections were over. He was happy to…
If this is the most important election in decades, this is its most important moment. Thus far, this campaign has been a referendum on Trump; Tuesday’s debate will be one on Biden. Its outcome depends on which Biden shows up….
Benjamin Franklin is usually credited for observing that nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. As it happens, he didn’t originate the aphorism, and there is at least one certainty missing from the list — that the…
Wow. Take a look here at the Washington Post today. And take particular note of this story by “journalists” Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Rebecca Tan. It says this in the headline: Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of…
A dozen years ago I wrote a piece for this site entitled “Indentured Grandchildren” (August 26, 2009), in which I lamented that the national debt was approaching 54 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) and, per the Congressional Budget Office…