Yes, November of 2020 is far away – 16 months to be precise. This week, Jonathan Easley wrote in The Hill: Democrats and Republicans alike are skeptical of early polls predicting a landslide victory for Democrat Joe Biden over President Trump on Election Day 2020. Fake News from the Media To Trump and Republicans, the […]
Middle Class Finished With Progressive Liberal Elites
What in the world is going on? It certainly appears Western middle class citizens are angry. There’s the drama of Brexit in Great Britain, and the ongoing aftershocks of the Trump election in the U.S. The protests of the Yellow Vests have put a stepover toehold on French President Macron’s government, and the recent reelection […]
Joe Biden Promises to Cure Cancer?
On Tuesday, Joe Biden, one of the 20-odd presidential aspirants, held a campaign event in Iowa where he told listeners, if he (Biden) were elected president, “you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America: We’re going to cure cancer.” Mr. Biden lost a son to cancer in 2015. Cancer is a […]
Mike Bloomberg: No Need to Practice What You Preach
Mercifully, Mike Bloomberg has decided (for the moment) not to throw his name into the hat for a bid at the White House. Last week the former Mayor of NYC gave the commencement address at MIT, where, writes the Manhattan Contrarian, MB used the occasion to “proselytize for huge action of some kind to ‘save […]
Pelosi Would Have a Criminal in Most Powerful Position?
During a partisan gathering this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to prevent constructive dialogue between the executive and legislative branches of our government, reports Heather Caygle in Politico: “I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison,” Pelosi said, according to multiple Democratic sources familiar with the meeting. Rather than […]
The Real Losers Are “the American People”
Over the last two years, both parties – Democrats and Republicans – have been mostly concerned about “putting down, degrading and humiliating the other party,” writes Joseph Epstein in the WSJ. Since Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential election, the Democrats have been seeking a way to nullify Mr. Trump’s victory. (Trump) and the […]
Trump’s Speech for the Ages
Yesterday on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, President Trump delivered a speech, which Bright editor Ellie Bufkin called “evocative of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 speech to recognize the 40 years since the ‘boys of Pointe-du-Hoc’ scaled the Normandy cliffs to silence German guns.” We are gathered here on freedom’s altar, on these shores, on these bluffs, on this day […]
The Mood in America Is Anti-Big-Tech
Have Americans abandoned common sense as far as tech companies are concerned? Ned Ryun in American Greatness warns: We’ve allowed them to masquerade as something they are not while abusing personal and private data to pursue ends that many of us believe are not beneficial to the American people. Our leaders need to come to […]
Remembering D-Day 75 Years On
The men who crowded into small landing craft to assault the beaches of Normandy on this day 75 years ago didn’t deserve the hell they encountered as they disembarked and made their way toward the cliffs. Despite the munitions racing toward them from Nazi machine gunners manning Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, they endured, and won […]
Barring Former Lobbyists Violates the 1st Amendment
Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) and Dem. Rep AOC are united in their disfavor of former members of Congress becoming lobbyists. In a recent Gallup poll, the only group worse than Congress (20% approval rating) to the public was lobbyists (6%). Kyle Sammin reports in The Federalist that the only other group outside of Congress that […]
