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 […]
Around Obama White House, Biden Known as the Sheriff
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 […]
VIDEO: President Trump Holds Massive Rally in Milwaukee Dwarfing Democratic Debate
President Trump held a massive rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin last night, dwarfing the Democratic debate in nearby Des Moines, Iowa. Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.
Poverty Rate for Blacks and Hispanics Lowest on Record
Although last Friday’s employment report showed fewer new jobs and slowing wage gains, there is still good news. The big picture is that the longest hiring expansion in 80 years is lifting lower-income workers in particular, reports James Freeman in the WSJ. As accumulating evidence shows, the jobless rate remains steady at 3.5% (labor participation […]
Are Democrats Set To Remake 1972 Presidential Disaster?
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 […]
Neutrality Almost Always Aids the Aggressive Carnivore
“The Soviet ambassador to Britain, Ivan Maisky,” writes Victor Davis Hanson in The Second World Wars, “recorded a conversation in November 1939 he had with Lord Beaverbrook, who illustrated British fears just ten weeks into the war: ‘I’m an isolationist. What concerns me is the fate of the British Empire!’” As Hanson points out, Beaverbrook’s […]
California’s Chickens are Coming Home to Roost
Editors’ Note: We’d like to welcome David Franke to Richardcyoung.com. David Franke was one of the founders of the conservative movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting his media career at Human Events and National Review (editorial assistant to William F. Buckley Jr.). His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington […]
Biden Wrong with Scary Consistency
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,” […]
Trump’s Erasing Soleimani Good News for Western Hemisphere
The killing by drone of General Soleimani is not only a blow to Iran’s theocratic efforts to assert its power across the Middle East, explains Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ. President Trump also did Latin America a big favor with the death of “a hero of hemispheric criminality.” Soleimani’s Friends America’s Enemies The dead […]
RIP Neil Peart: You Will Always Be Remembered as a “Modern-Day Warrior”
If you’re a Rush fan you’ve probably been asked a couple of questions. One: “Why do you love them so much?” Two: “Is that a girl singing?” But that goes with the territory of being a Rush fan, because being a fan is a badge of honor, of sorts, with the humor not being lost […]
