[NOTE: This is such a huge topic that I’m splitting it into parts.] There’s a lot of derision on the right about the Green New Deal. It goes something like this: it’s so stupid, and so against what the American … Continue reading →
Or is it the other way around? From OAC’s Green New Deal [emphasis mine]: …[W]e are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases…we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas … Continue reading →
The Democrats’ new election and campaign finance bill may have escaped your attention and gotten lost in the shuffle. But it deserves scrutiny: Today [Feburary 6, that is], House Democrats are holding hearings on a monstrous, 571-page election- and campaign-finance-reform … Continue reading →
Just to recap—Democrats Northam and Fairfax and Herring—the governor and the first and second in line to replace him—are all in a heap of trouble. But next in line is a Republican who is House Speaker, Kirk Cox. But here’s … Continue reading →
Now, I don’t how far to the left Nancy Pelosi really is. Probably much further than she lets on. But my guess is that she’s not too happy about the radical wing of the Democratic Party, the one whose members … Continue reading →
The Democratic AG Mark Herring of Virginia, who is third in line for the governorship (first the embattled governor Northam, then the accused lieutenant governor Fairfax, and next AG Herring), admits he wore blackface at a college party in 1980. … Continue reading →
Here we go. “Hoping we will govern not as two parties, but as one nation.” The Democrats stand late, but they stand. What is the chance of that actually happening? Close to zero, I’d say. Later Trump announces Buzz Aldrin—who … Continue reading →
I’m going to assume most of you are aware of the brouhah around a photo that appeared on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page in 1984 that showed two young men, one in blackface and one in a … Continue reading →
I think it’s almost normal for at least one political side to hate a third-party candidate. And it stands to reason that the more appealing the candidate, the more that person will be hated by the side that feels threatened. … Continue reading →
Third-party candidates just about always strike fear into one party more than the other, and it’s the party that figures it stands most to lose. In the case of candidate Howard Schultz, that’s the Democrats. Schultz is (or was) basically … Continue reading →
That plea certainly isn’t being made by me. It’s being made by Monica Hesse, who is something called a “style reporter” at the WaPo. The reason?: Our collective consciousness has been raised and so we’ll begin by … excavating one … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson sums up what we now know about the Covington Lie, as he terms it [emphasis mine]: The entire psychodrama boiled down not to what the facts on the ground showed, but rather who each party was perceived … Continue reading →