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March 2018

March 13, 2018

Back to the Gilded Age

Celebrity business titans! Immigration controversy! Booming cities and dying rural areas! Yellow journalism! Political chaos! ...

March 05, 2018

All Politics Is National

"All politics is local." According to that maxim, both parties catered to local issues and...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

Gentry Liberals

America's major cities are being transformed by "gentrification," as affluent white people move in, bidding...

January 2018

January 10, 2018

President Oprah Winfrey?

Talk show host and TV tycoon Oprah Winfrey gave a powerful speech on sexual harassment...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

The “Yellow Dog” Political Fallacy

Republican Roy Moore lost the senate race to liberal Democrat Doug Jones in deeply conservative...

November 2017

November 07, 2017

A Democrat’s Exposé of the Democrats

The Republican Party is having its problems, but the Democratic Party may be in an...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

The Medicare for All Act

Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill that would give free medical care to everyone.

September 11, 2017

Trump turns to the Democrats

President Trump has formed an alliance with the Democrats, to the consternation of Republicans....

August 2017

August 08, 2017

The Democrats’ war against the working class

Donald Trump would seem to be very vulnerable politically, to say the least. But Democrats...

August 03, 2017

A man without a party

Before Reince Priebus was President Trump's Chief of Staff, he was the chairman of...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

Democrats announce their “better deal”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his "New Deal." Now Democrats have unveiled their "Better Deal." Senate...

July 20, 2017

The left’s “hamburger problem”

Go to lunch with a progressive and you may well be badgered about how your hamburger...

July 06, 2017

The Democrats’ dilemma

The Democrats should, theoretically, have a big opportunity running against an unpopular Republican president. But...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Data on why the Democrats lost

Now that the dust has settled from the presidential election and there has been time...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

All Democrats must now support abortion

The new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, says that all Democratic candidates...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Shutting down the government over the Wall & Planned Parenthood

Senate Democrats say they will shut down the government by filibustering any spending bills that...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The travails of pro-life Democrats

Who do you think said this? "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even...

January 2017

January 06, 2017

Democrats hope to come back by going left

Democrats strategizing over how to overcome their recent defeats now have a plan: go left....

January 04, 2017

The Democrats’ religion problem

Michael Wear is a pro-life evangelical Christian who was a staffer for Barack Obama, helping...

December 2016

December 13, 2016

Democrats lost because they raised religious liberty fears

The reason the Democrats lost, argues David Bernstein in the Washington Post, is that their words,...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

The Left’s support of Donald Trump

The Wikileaks e-mails of Democrats' correspondence show that the Hillary Clinton campaign feared running against...

November 10, 2016

Whither Republicans? Whither Democrats?

Last Summer, liberal pundits were looking forward to "the end of the Republican party." That...

November 01, 2016

CNN caught feeding debate questions to Clinton

Donna Brazile is a Democratic operative who landed a gig as a commentator at CNN....

October 2016

October 27, 2016

How to defeat conservatives

James O'Keefe, the undercover videographer who enrages leftists by recording what they say, has recorded...

October 13, 2016

What we learn from John Podesta’s emails

The emails regarding Hillary Clinton being released by Wikileaks are not from her illegal secret...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

If Clinton drops out, Democrats want Sanders

What would happen if Hillary Clinton really is having serious health problems to the point...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

Who’ll win the Irish vote?

We keep getting told that demographics favor the Democrats and look bad for the Republicans,...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

The party of the rich

Democrats are now the party of the rich, and Republicans are the party of the...

July 28, 2016

What’s been missing at the Democratic convention

What's been missing at the Democratic National Convention? (1) American flags. The first night, there...

July 26, 2016

Sanders supporters boo calls for party unity

The first day of the Democratic National Convention was marked by boos, shout downs, and...