Republicans have found their platform for 2020, and they have Democrats to thank. After a month in which a partial government shutdown battered President Trump’s approval ratings, a string of self-inflicted wounds by Democrats has abruptly shifted the political landscape, resuscitating discouraged Republicans and also setting the debate for 2020. After the events […]
Alas for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., President Trump got to deliver his State of the Union address after all. And once again, America saw that Trump on the stump is very, very good. The speech Tuesday night was an important way for the president to reboot his standing with the American […]
The American dream is under attack. High-profile progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., don’t believe in the American dream, and they don’t want voters to believe in it either. What is that dream? It is the belief that no matter where you come from, no matter who […]
Is Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) oblivious to the truth about single-payer health care? In a recent interview, Harris enthusiastically endorsed a “Medicare for all” health-care system. She wants to abolish private insurance because with Medicare for all “you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the […]
Democrats want to make sure everyone votes, but they’re pretty darn picky about who runs. Howard Schultz’s recent announcement that he might run for president in 2020 as a “centrist independent” was about as welcome as a skunk at a picnic. Democrats everywhere immediately clobbered him, convinced that his candidacy would help reelect […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a victory lap, enjoying her “win” in denying President Trump funding for a border wall, and in particular celebrating the “unity” of her caucus. She should; it was remarkable that so many freshmen Democrats, electedon promises of reaching across the aisle in districts that Trump won […]
John Kerry to President Trump: “Resign”. That was the response from the former secretary of State when asked at the World Economic Forum in Davos what message he would like to give the president. Kerry preceded his inflammatory recommendation by saying that the president “doesn’t take any of this seriously.” This, from the fellow who […]
Barron’s reports that the cost of the partial government shutdown has now exceeded the $5.7 billion President Trump requested for his wall. That is how stupid Democrats’“resistance” has become. Two years ago, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. Almost immediately thereafter, Democrats fastened on obstructing […]
Is China about to overtake the U.S. as the world’s leading economy? That’s the message from Standard Chartered Bank analysts, who have written a report sure to cheer the hearts of the “America Last” crowd. Today’s progressive Democrats are perennially negative on the future of U.S. capitalism, convinced that income inequality and rapacious corporate greed will doom […]
Americans should be outraged. Ruling on a lawsuit filed by cities, states and immigrant activist groups against the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York has barred the Trump White House from asking about citizenship on the 2020 census. Why does it matter? […]