Six competitors took the stage at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. The problem, explains James Freeman, was that nobody wanted to compete. Given a final opportunity to challenge rivals before Democrats begin selecting the party’s nominee, the candidates looked just as bored as the television viewers who were treated to stale recitations of campaign talking points. […]

At The American Spectator, Dov Fischer suggests that Nancy Pelosi will be the first Speaker of the House to lose control of the chamber twice. Fischer explains that Pelosi’s failure to quickly move the impeachment to the Senate has depleted what little reserves of political capital she maintained. With even close allies like Sen. Dianne […]

One has to wonder why former VP Joe Biden, likely the Democratic frontrunner for 2020, hasn’t explained or has not been asked to explain how son Hunter got a seat on the board of Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company. For seven-figures. Keep in mind, writes Bill Thomas in American Greatness, Biden was the previous […]

Are Democrats about to set themselves up for a George McGovern-type electoral disaster by nominating Bernie Sanders, or another leftist? An editorial at The Wall Street Journal explains that the data don’t show strong support for a leftist ideologue, and the demographics don’t bode well for future leftist candidates. They write (abridged): When Gallup began […]

In The Wall Street Journal, Gerard Baker outlines the many ways Joe Biden has been wrong during both his career in the Senate and as Vice President. He writes (abridged and annotated): “I think he [Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” […]