So, why did Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party win yesterday’s Canadian election? It seems that voters wanted hope and change. In particular, they seem to have wanted a change to a Prime Minister with very little political executive experience. Sound familiar? … Continue reading →
Have you noticed it? Used to be that the term “RINO” was reserved for Republicans who really were very close to being Democrats—that is, Republicans who crossed the line to vote with the Democrats very often, argued Democratic causes, and … Continue reading →
Commenter “Ackler” poses the following hypothetical: …[S]uppose that tomorrow Obama announced he was canceling the 2016 Election by executive order. Either he would stay in power indefinitely or he would voluntarily cede the Presidency to the anointed Hillary (or Biden, … Continue reading →
Yesterday I read this article by John Hinderaker at Powerline: During our previous wave of mass immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both immigrants and American officials understood that assimilation into American culture, most importantly learning to … Continue reading →
This Politico article makes a very interesting point that I hadn’t heard talked about before, although you can bet your bottom dollar that the left has long been aware of it: the census counts illegal immigrants and other noncitizens equally … Continue reading →
Britain’s Labour Party commits suicide by electing extremist Jeremy Corbyn to be its leader, according to Dan Hodges of The Telegraph. If what the paper says is true, Corbyn makes our own Bernie Sanders look like Hubert Humphrey. I often … Continue reading →
Political definitions are tricky. The words we use are convenient shorthand for a host of characteristics, and not every person using them means the same thing by them. When I call myself “a conservative,” for example, what do I mean? … Continue reading →
Some of the responses to my post yesterday on activism had interesting suggestions, but others featured what I’ve come to think of as conservative whining (sorry folks). For example, one common complaint is that demonstrations don’t work because the MSM … Continue reading →
…or against illegal immigration, or any number of issues on which the majority of Americans oppose this administration? Those who were around during the Vietnam War protest days remember all those marches on Washington. I attended one, and it was … Continue reading →
Hugh Hewitt has a good interview with Carly Fiorina that focuses mainly, but not hardly exclusively, on Hillary Clinton’s problems with her server and her explanations about it. The following portion of the interview interested me in particular, however. You … Continue reading →
Here’s DaTechGuy: …[M]any political scandals involve complicated rules and laws that the American people either do not understand or have no interest in understanding that’s why a clever pol with the media behind them can usually get away with things. … Continue reading →
Claire McCaskill certainly remembers, because (as was strongly suspected even at the time) she helped engineer Akin’s win in the 2012 Republican primary for senator in Missouri, since she was well aware he’d be a weaker opponent against her than … Continue reading →