The economic news is good: The jobs market turned in a stellar performance in November, with nonfarm payrolls surging by 266,000 and the unemployment rate falling to 3.5%, according to Labor Department numbers released Friday. Those totals easily beat the … Continue reading →
Democrats would love, love, love to get rid of the EC. Their rhetoric is to establish a “make every vote count” democracy (republic? who needs it?). But the actual motivation is that they believe a national vote would favor them … Continue reading →
I’ve had a number of conversations with Democrats in recent weeks that have all gone about the same way. The person asks me who is my favorite Democratic candidate (for the most part, these people think they’re talking to a … Continue reading →
Remember when Kamala Harris was the It girl who would lead the Democrats to victory in 2020? Well, not so much: Kamala Harris dropped her presidential campaign on Tuesday after months of failing to lift her candidacy from the bottom … Continue reading →
…is that at least it’s being honest about what it’s doing: ??? The Trump campaign has just banned Bloomberg News from getting event credentials. (The outlet has said that since Michael Bloomberg is running for president, it will stop investigating … Continue reading →
Interesting: Nearly two-thirds of Trump voters who supported Democratic congressional candidates in the 2018 midterms that flipped control of House to Democrats reported they would back the president over the three candidates currently leading in the Democratic primary, according to … Continue reading →
First Biden said it, back in June: Biden labeled Mr. Trump an existential threat to decency, America’s standing in the world, and democracy. Now it’s Bloomberg’s turn: We cannot afford four more years of President Trump’s reckless and unethical actions. … Continue reading →
I didn’t watch it. But I hear tell about it. See a whole bunch of links here, and also see this. I think that much of the country isn’t watching, even Democrats. It’s early, it’s confusing, it’s boring, and there … Continue reading →
In an interview with the BBC, Hillary Clinton said this: “I think about what kind of president I would have been all the time…How, obviously, I would have been different. How I think I would have been a better, more … Continue reading →
…the Nineteen Eighty-Four election, according to Victor Davis Hanson: It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism. I don’t think there’s any “becoming” about it. This has been true of elections ever since at least … Continue reading →
…that Michael Bloomberg seems poised to enter the presidential race as a Democrat. A few observations: —Bloomberg only recently became a Democrat about a year ago. However, he actually did what Churchill called “reratting”– that is, changing his political affiliation … Continue reading →
…and the results are not good: Elizabeth Warren has come up with a plan to pay for her “Medicare For All” proposal, which has a price tag in the tens of trillions of dollars. Part of the plan is a … Continue reading →