Or words to that effect. Here is what Bill Scher, in fact, writes near the end of a lengthy appeal at Politico for sad NeverTrump "conservatives" to give up their dreams of "fixing" the Trump-led Republican Party or starting a third party and just join the Democrats already: To the average conservative Trump-skeptic, the Democratic

Priorities! The Associated Press reports: San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to give plastic straws the cold shoulder, following the lead of Seattle, another eco-conscious West Coast city where a ban went into effect this month. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave unanimous approval to a measure that also takes the novel step of banning carryout

Is anyone surprised? VICE News on Wednesday reported that Twitter is "is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as 'shadow banning' — in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform." Uh huh. According to the story: The

When we last saw the junior U.S. senator from New Jersey, he was shedding "tears of rage" over President Trump's alleged comments about "shithole countries." On Tuesday, the ever-excitable Cory Booker gave a press conference about his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in which he . . . well, let's just go to

CNN reports that the Justice Department is dispensing with an obnoxious euphemism: The Justice Department has instructed US attorneys offices not to use the term "undocumented" immigrants and instead refer to someone illegally in the US as "an illegal alien," according to a copy of an agency-wide email obtained by CNN. According to the email,

Sometimes it’s useful to remember that while “the Left” can be useful shorthand to describe our political opposition, the Left isn’t an undifferentiated monolith. If you’re on the Right, you know we have our factions and schools of thought and internal disagreements. Well, if it’s true for us, why wouldn’t it be true also of

Michael Anton argues in the Washington Post today that "birthright citizenship"—the idea, which the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to affirm in 1898, that simply being born on U.S. soil automatically confers U.S. citizenship—should be ended. Anton calls the notion "an absurdity—historically, constitutionally, philosophically and practically," and built on a deliberate misreading of the 14th Amendment.

In case you missed it, the great British philosopher Roger Scruton published a commentary in the New York Times on July 4 headlined, "What Trump Doesn't Get About Conservatism." And I do mean great. Read Scruton on modern philosophy, religion, art, music, even wine. He's brilliant. But on contemporary American politics, I'm afraid he falls

Kansas State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, who is seeking the Republican nomination to replace retiring Rep. Lynn Jenkins, visited the July 2 meeting of the Leavenworth County Republican Party where he gave a wide-ranging, 30-minute speech in which he said, "We are being told that Western civilization is the problem in the world," Fitzgerald said. "Outside

Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday announced he would be leaving the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of July. You know what that means . . . (more below) Twitter, of course, has gone nuts . . . How very cool of Justice Kennedy to pour kerosene on the current dumpster fire that is America.