When Congress Turned On to Globalism
July 1967. The Summer of Love. The Doors and Jefferson Airplane topped the charts. Young people flocked to San Francisco to turn on, tune in, […]
Democrats
A Fine and Dangerous Madness
To make sense of the recent spate of hysteria on the Left, it helps to understand how their minds work—or, as they like to say, […]
How President Trump Broke the Left
Whatever happens in the years to come, American politics can never return to what they were before November 8, 2016. Why, you ask? Because a brash […]
The Populist Sledgehammer Kills Amazon Jobs that Middle America Would Love to Have
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—Tito Brown can’t imagine driving a perfectly good thing out of a town that hasn’t had a perfectly good thing come its way in […]
The Cost of Democratic Socialism
A defining feature of the 20th century was the struggle between capitalism and three major types of socialism: Communism, national socialism, and fascism. All three […]
Adam Schiff: The Jussie Smollett of Trump-Russia Collusion
He helped conceive a hoax so outlandish that only the most gullible, craven, or witless person could believe it. The attack, as he called it, […]
Why the Media Can’t Stop Promoting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] By this point, not yet seven weeks into the current congressional term, the whole country has grown […]
Congress Sells Out Again
After spending the last 10 years debating border security—the last two of which were under unified GOP control—and then engaging in a 35-day shutdown the […]
The Left’s Collusion Delusion: Life Imitates Snark
As we bemusedly observe U.S. Representative Adam “Pathfinder” Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, continue to twist in his idiot […]
California Republicans’ Munchausen By Proxy Problem
To paraphrase the oft-misquoted Mark Twain, rumors of the death of the California Republican Party are greatly exaggerated. The results of the November 2018 elections, […]
Alexandria’s Suicide Note for America
Socialists have always had a problem with F.A. Hayek (The Road to Serfdom), Milton Friedman (Capitalism and Freedom) and other free-market economists. As the Democrats’ […]
Leftism Is Like the Cult of Cthulhu
The most merciful thing in the world, I think,” wrote the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft in the opening to The Call of Cthulhu, […]
A State of the Union 75 Years in the Making: Trump Answers FDR
No mere spectacle, President Trump’s State of the Union address will set the course of his campaign into 2020. The basic divide he sees—whether this […]
The GND: Glitter, Nonsense, and Devitalization
The latest public policy bandwagon is the “Green New Deal,” or GND, whose acronym could well stand for Glitter, Nonsense, and Devitalization. Some of its […]
The Mythologies of ‘Joe Being Joe’ Biden
Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning. Biden has […]
The Democrats’ French Dilemma
An eminent former cabinet member and I are having an amicable running debate about what level of concern is justified by the steadily more extreme […]
White Privilege Doesn’t Mean Anything—And That’s the Point
If you’re intimidated by a racially loaded term such as “white privilege,” as so many conservative leaders and commentators seem to be, then you don’t […]
A Surprise Virtual Visit From the President
WEBSTER SPRINGS, W.Va.—No sitting president has ever visited here before. So it was a pretty big deal when 14 local high school students in a […]
Own the Libs, or Let the Libs Own Us?
Brandon Weichert, whose excellent writing has caught my eye for a while now, exhibits his worthy independence from party orthodoxy with his article on Monday […]
AOC’s Literally Awesome Plan to Save the Planet!
The Scene: A Model U.N. competition, circa 2010. Boston University’s team has made the finals and its members, Brittany, Ashley, Tyler, Brandon and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]