Remember the Miller Analogies Test? It was one of those “this is to this, as this is to which of these?” tests that supposedly tapped into a person’s logical reasoning ability as well as the person’s knowledge base. Analogies can’t … Continue reading →
A good question, one asked by commenter “Cornhead” in the Republican unity thread: But why are the Dems so united? They rarely ”“ if ever ”“ break ranks. Nebraska’s Ben Nelson was a perfect example. Conservative state but he voted … Continue reading →
Charles Krauthammer thinks it did: On Friday’s edition of ‘Special Report’ on Fox News Channel, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer made the case that President Obama’s strategy for Obamacare was not to create a perfect health care system, but to create … Continue reading →
…on the left used the term “failure theater”* to describe what the Democrats in Congress are doing these days? That is, empty histrionics that are getting them nowhere so far in terms of stopping the approval of Trump’s cabinet? Is … Continue reading →
Interesting: Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned… Overall, the blueprint being used … Continue reading →
Here’s a comment from “SteveH” in August of 2015, about the future political prospects of the GOP. I noted it down at the time and planned to discuss it in a post, a post that I drafted but never got … Continue reading →
Molly Hemingway has written a great post with an excellent list of ten things to point out to the liberals in your life who might be exceedingly upset over the Trump victory. Just a sampling; the first two: 1) It’s … Continue reading →
When President Obama nominated Merrick Garland as SCOTUS Justice Scalia’s replacement last March, it was eight months from the 2016 election. Republicans controlled the Senate, and they decided to punt and wait for the next president. This was somewhat of … Continue reading →
Since the election, Trump has been dominating the news even more than he did when he was merely campaigning, and that’s saying a lot. I’m not talking about straight news like his Cabinet appointments. I’m talking about all the hype … Continue reading →
It was inevitable, of course, that the MSM would mount this attack on Trump’s legitimacy, particularly their leader and still champ (despite its financial woes) the NY Times. They didn’t acknowledge the possibility of a Trump win. Now they are … Continue reading →
John Fund opines on the surprisingly conservative makeup of Trump’s picks so far: “This is a more conservative cabinet than Reagan assembled in 1980,” says Ed Feulner, a key Trump transition adviser. As president of the Heritage Foundation at the … Continue reading →
…take a look at France’s: In France, [pollsters] failed to see that former prime minister Frané§ois Fillon would win the race to become the conservative party’s candidate in April’s presidential election. A social conservative with liberal economic views, Fillon scrambles … Continue reading →