Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame says about climate change, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.” He means, of course, that when all those lecturing Americans about…
Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute recently complained on Twitter that those who cared about cronyism when Barack Obama was president are suddenly very quiet about President Donald Trump’s bailout of farmers. There is some truth to his complaint….
I first ran into Heraclitus, a great Grecian shedder of tears, while writing in college about the fearful subject of Change. Heraclitus opined, in answer to my query about human disruptions: “The only thing permanent is change.”
As I wrote here last week, the Democrats’ weeks-long, baseless smear of Brett Kavanaugh wasn’t quite yielding the results that the party hoped it would. What they accomplished was the uniting and energizing of a Republican base that previously had…
They probably hadn’t planned it this way. A new poll suggests Republican voter enthusiasm has spiked amid the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, catching up with Democrats ahead of midterm elections. https://t.co/VPtdCplwf6 https://t.co/MfAvfNRBDC — NPR (@NPR) October 3, 2018 When Dianne Feinstein…
The Republicans in Congress prove yet again how hapless they are, this time in the confirmation battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. Just as with so much in American politics today, the Republicans…
I wrote this two days ago: The best insult going these days against conservatives: “tribal.” What’s most enjoyable about the insult is that it’s being hurled at unequivocal Kavanaugh defenders by other conservatives. The TruCons™, vaingloriously standing athwart history inspiring…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is seeing green. He wants to legalize industrial hemp, a highly versatile derivative of the cannabis plant, and that’s great news for consumers and entrepreneurs. He’s been joined in the fight by his fellow Kentuckian…
Nancy Pelosi recently handed the Republican Party a huge gift. The former Speaker of the House and current House Minority Leader announced she will indeed endeavor to reclaim the gavel and once again control the U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans…