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Dec 20 2019
Opinion
Understanding Democrats' March Toward Electoral Defeat
After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. Democrats started promising to do this before the president was elected. Still, it feels kind of weird, surprising, surreal even, that it actually happened. Why? Because impeachment is a terrible idea
Tucker Carlson
Oct 16 2019
News
The Eye-Popping Cost of Medicare for All
According to new figures: more than the federal government will spend over the coming decade on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid combined.
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s refusal to answer repeated questions at last night’s debate about how she would fund Medicare for All underscores the challenge she faces finding a politically acceptable means to meet the idea’s huge price tag—a
The Atlantic
Dec 05 2021
Headline Roundup
Bob Dole, Longtime GOP Senate Leader, Dies At 98
Robert Joseph Dole, a longtime Senate Republican leader and the party's presidential nominee in 1996, has died. He was 98.
Dole announced in February that he was battling Stage 4 lung cancer. The Elizabeth Dole Foundation confirmed that he passed away in his sleep Sunday. Dole was best known as the Republican nominee for president in 1996, when he lost by a significant margin against
NPR (Online News)
Bloomberg
Washington Times 
Apr 24 2019
News
Mueller’s ‘Scarlet Letter’ Impeachment Road Map
Nathaniel Hawthorne, call your office. Hester Prynne, your fictional protagonist, had a scarlet letter “A” imprinted on her dress, to wear in public and thus advertise to the end of her life her adulterous relationship. Hester was ostracized, a punishment visited on Donald Trump by various public- and private-life segments of the Never Trump coalition: academics, Hollywood and above all, left-
The American Spectator
Sep 23 2019
News
2020 Dems Love Obama, Hate Obama's Policies
For both good and ill, the Democratic field has moved so far to the left that 2012 Obama would have a hard time fitting in.
How does a political party replicate the electoral success of its most revered member even while repudiating a whole host of his policies? That's the riddle facing Democrats in 2020.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week put numbers on what has
Reason
Jan 07 2020
Headline Roundup
McConnell Ready to Bypass Dems, Set Rules for Impeachment Trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday he has the Senate votes necessary to establish rules for President Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial, saying the trial could proceed similarly to former President Bill Clinton's in which opening arguments were heard before a vote was held to decide if witnesses would be called. Democrats are adamant that witnesses should be
National Review (News)
Axios
Politico
Dec 19 2020
Analysis
In Georgia, GOP candidates hitch wagons to ‘fraud’ narrative
Gov. Brian Kemp was endorsed by President Donald Trump in Georgia’s 2018 Republican primary, and became a hero to many of the state’s conservative voters earlier this year when he refused to impose COVID-19 restrictions. A group of conservative economic experts recently ranked him second among the nation’s governors.
But at campaign rallies for Georgia’s two Republicans senators this
Christian Science Monitor
Nov 11 2019
News
Another Republican Congressman Has Announced Their Retirement Ahead of 2020
Republican Congressman Peter King announced Monday morning he will not seek re-election in New York's 2nd Congressional District.
"I have decided not to be a candidate for re-election to Congress in 2020. I made this decision after much discussion with my wife Rosemary; my son Sean; and my daughter Erin. The prime reason for my decision was that after 28 years of spending 4 days a week
Townhall
Mar 11 2021
Perspectives Blog
We’re on a Hill, They’re in a Valley: The Four Steps that Happen When Animosity Grows Toward the Other Political Party
What happens if animosity grows toward those in the other political party? What are negative ways we can feel about any group that is not our own?
These are not just academic questions, but they are important to answer in order to figure out how to reduce political polarization.
This article draws from social psychology to argue that when emotions between groups worsen, one
James Coan
Apr 02 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Biden Channels His Inner FDR
From the CenterThis viewpoint is from a writer rated Center.
When Joe Biden ran for president last year, there were times when it sounded like he was campaigning for Barack Obama’s third term in office. But at this early stage of his own presidency, Biden has decided that he would prefer to serve Franklin Roosevelt’s fifth term instead.
There is nothing in Biden’s
Dan Schnur