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March 2016

March 08, 2016

The Republican Party’s botched efforts to stop Trump

The Republican Party is trying to stop Donald Trump from getting its nomination, but every...

March 07, 2016

Making America great again through vocation

Mark Hemingway excoriates the left's denigration of work and says that the lack of respect...

March 07, 2016

Has the word “evangelical” become meaningless?

Southern Baptist spokesman Russell Moore said that he is no longer referring to himself as...

March 07, 2016

Supporting the Republican, even if it’s Trump?

In Thursday's debate, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich all ripped into Donald Trump. But...

March 04, 2016

The end of the religious right?

Nearly all evangelical leaders are opposing Donald Trump. And yet evangelicals are voting for him...

March 04, 2016

Romney’s plan to stop Trump

Mitt Romney is emerging as the point man in the Republican party's effort to stop...

March 04, 2016

Debate results?

I wasn't able to watch last night's debate. All right, I wasn't willing to watch...

March 03, 2016

Tonight’s Republican debate

Fresh off Super Tuesday and just two days before the next round of primaries, the...

March 03, 2016

Ben Carson drops out of the race

Ben Carson dropped out of the presidential race. The devout, humble, thoughtful black man who...

March 02, 2016

Super Tuesday results

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were big winners on Super Tuesday. In the Republican race,...

March 02, 2016

Voting for authoritarianism

Free and democratic societies, historically, come to an end when the people freely and democratically...

March 01, 2016

Super Tuesday

This is a critical day for the presidential candidates of both parties. Today nearly half of...

March 01, 2016

Who should I vote for?

Today I cast my vote in one of the Super Tuesday primaries, along with lots...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Political developments

(1) Former presidential hopeful New Jersey governor Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. This,...

February 26, 2016

Democrats too are voting with their middle fingers

Just as grassroots Republicans are voting for Donald Trump as a defiant protest against their...

February 26, 2016

Why so many evangelicals are for Trump

Why are so many evangelicals supporting such a flagrant non-evangelical as Donald Trump? Ben Domenech,...

February 25, 2016

Debate post-mortem

What are your thoughts on the Thursday night Republican debate? Who won? Who improved his...

February 25, 2016

Republicans debate tonight

The Republican presidential nominees hold their 10th debate tonight on CNN, starting at 8:30 p.m....

February 25, 2016

“We’re voting with our middle finger”

Donald Trump supports Obamacare, higher taxes, and gun control. He is weak on abortion, private...

February 25, 2016

Unappeasable

In a column about whether the president should replace Antonin Scalia (worth reading on that...

February 24, 2016

Nevada results

Donald Trump won big in Nevada, taking 45.9% of the vote and winning 14 delegates....

February 23, 2016

Tonight the Republicans caucus in Nevada

The Democratic caucus in Nevada was last Saturday. Nevada Republicans caucus tonight. Trump, being a...

February 23, 2016

Dirty tricks

First the Cruz campaign circulated a false rumor that Ben Carson was quitting the race,...

February 22, 2016

The delegate math

We focus on the number of votes candidates rack up. But an Associated Press story...

February 20, 2016

The GOP race after South Carolina

Donald Trump was the choice of nearly one-third of South Carolina Republican voters, winning the primary....

February 20, 2016

Jeb Bush quits the race!

Jeb Bush has dropped out of the Republican presidential race. From: Jeb Bush suspends his...

February 20, 2016

Today’s South Carolina primary and Nevada caucus

The presidential race may get a lot clearer after today. We'll announce the results when...

February 19, 2016

South Carolina primary & Nevada caucus

Saturday is a big day for the presidential race. The Republicans will have a primary...

February 19, 2016

Pope and Trump get into a fight

Pope Francis tore into Donald Trump, saying that anyone who is all about building walls...

February 19, 2016

Cruz trying to get Libertarian vote, but Ron Paul says “no”

Ted Cruz is trying to get the libertarian vote, now that Rand Paul has dropped...