Good news! According to Democrats, you are not responsible for anything. You’re no longer responsible for your student debts, for taking care of your children, for putting aside money for retirement, buying health insurance, saving to put your kids through college. Nothing. Someone else, someone who is working hard to fulfill their […]
Cory Booker is no Spartacus. He doesn’t even have the guts, nor does any other Democratcompeting for black voters in South Carolina, to push the one thing that could narrow the gap between blacks and whites: shaking up our public schools. They all know our broken urban schools are holding back black […]
If President Trump wants another four years in the Oval Office, he needs to strike a deal with China. Soon. For Chinese President Xi Jinping, the stakes are just as high. What began as a trickle of firms moving production out of China could become a torrent; the threat to his authority from faltering growth and the […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden currently leads the Democratic herd running for president, because voters see him as the candidate most likely to beat Donald Trump. Are they kidding? After watching the energy, the excitement and the sheer numbers of people who turned out to cheer President Trump’s kick-off rally in Orlando, […]
Elizabeth Warren wants to forgive student debt. Nothing could better win millennials over to her campaign. That, of course, is the point. Last fall, as her quest for the presidency began in earnest, the Massachusetts senator found herself lagging way behind Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden with voters between the ages of […]
You have to hand it to Iowa Democrats. Faced with a bewildering bevy of candidates vying for their attention, voters are promoting those who may credibly challenge President Trump in the 2020 race while winnowing out the buffoons and publicity-seekers who are merely along for the ride. According to the latest survey, […]
Joe Biden just rolled out a plan to tackle climate change, the second big policy offering of his campaign. In its ambitions and approach, the program looks a lot like others that have been presented by his rivals and by leading environmental concerns. In fact, it looks so much like competing plans […]
During the Democratic Party convention that took place over the weekend in California, candidates not hewing to today’s progressive manifesto were loudly booed. John Hickenlooper, former governor of Colorado, was jeered by the liberal audience when he dared to say that “socialism is not the answer.” Similarly, former Maryland Representative John Delaney was heckled […]
Republicans running in 2020 need to address climate change. Like it or not, the dire warnings about cataclysmic global warming resonate with young voters, especially, who see the threat of climate change as real, and likely to impact their lives. But, GOP candidates do not have to buy into the loony Green New Deal, […]
Joe Biden leads second-place Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by 18 points in the Democratic primary race, in part because he commands such a large share of the black vote. Since 40 percent of Democrat primary voters are black, Biden’s rivals are trying to chip away at his standing with African-Americans, criticizing, for example, […]