Wow: Strong majority now favors life in prison instead of death penalty for...
My first instinct with any poll that tracks trends in opinion over time is to look hard at the dates and try to find a "magic bullet" explanation. Did something memorable happen around the time that...
View ArticleRichard Spencer's unhappy Thanksgiving
One person who appears to not be in the holiday spirit this week is recently fired Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer. After putting on something of a loyalist face during the Eddie Gallagher...
View ArticleTrump surprises the troops in Afghanistan for Thanksgiving
A good show by the president, and not the first time he's done this on (or near) a holiday. He and Melania made it to Iraq the day after Christmas last year to say hello and defend his decision to...
View ArticleDCCC uses NRCC prank boxes in the spirit of Thanksgiving
In the spirit of the season, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) turned a silly prank into a goodwill gesture for the needy. Earlier this month, the National Republican Congressional...
View ArticleMcGahn House subpoena suddenly on hold... again
As you may recall, former White House Counsel Don McGahn had been the recipient of a subpoena ordering him to stop by for a chat with the House Judiciary Committee about his time working with the...
View ArticleBloomberg: Darned right we need to tax the poor
Our colleagues over at PJ Media have another blast from the past for former Big Apple Mayor (and newly minted presidential candidate) Michael Bloomberg. Demonstrating yet again his lengthy history of...
View ArticleDemand Justice attacks Federalist Society annual dinner sponsors
The Republican majority in the U.S. Senate is successfully filling judicial vacancies with conservative judges. The Democrats are not happy about that, especially the liberals associated with Demand...
View ArticleOle Miss pisses the game away -- literally
Well, not literally literally. No urine was expelled.Or rather, no urine was visibly expelled. Only Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore knows for sure."Literally the greatest ending to a game in the...
View ArticleBoris Johnson skips debate as poll shows widening lead
Polls are relatively finicky but a new one from Great Britain shows Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Tories are in a good spot to win the election. Via Bloomberg/Yahoo:Boris Johnson’s Conservative...
View ArticleBystanders tackle terrorist after knife attack near London Bridge (Update:...
This terrorist attack happened around 2 pm London time which is just a few hours ago as I write this. When I first saw the video of what happened, none of it made sense for reasons I'll explain....
View ArticleHannity to O'Reilly: When are you going to come back to Fox and reclaim the...
Via the Examiner. Come on, people. He's kidding! He's a kidder.I mean, I think he's kidding.Of course, this wouldn't be the first time he's floated the idea of O'Reilly returning to the network, like...
View ArticleThe New York Times' piece on Kamala Harris' campaign is something else
There is a fascinating piece in The New York Times this morning on the apparent failure of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. The exposé is quite stunning because it reveals the major...
View ArticleFar left troll sides with Chinese apparatchik: American cities are just like...
People on the left are sometimes accused by people on the right of having knee-jerk anti-American tendencies. Sometimes those claims are overstated but not in this case. A far left writer and Twitter...
View ArticleIf a SCOTUS vacancy opens up next year, how will Lindsey Graham walk back his...
Just a question I've been thinking about today in light of two NYT stories that are closely related even though the authors of the two pieces don't seem to realize it. One is about Lindsey Graham...
View ArticleWSJ: Trump "quietly" met with Gov. Kemp about Senate appointment
According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp quietly met last Sunday in the White House. Kemp brought along Kelly Loeffler, an Atlanta businesswoman who is...
View ArticleIllinois lawmakers attempting to reduce the impact of Janus decision on unions
Illinois lawmakers have crafted a bill designed to make it easier for unions to recruit new members and harder for current members to leave unions, despite the Supreme Court's Janus decision. According...
View ArticleWeek eight: Fire Drill Friday featuring Young Sheldon star edition
As everyone else is enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers and looking for some good deals during Black Friday sales, the work of the climate alarmists doesn't take a break. This week's protest on the steps...
View ArticleGiuliani: Hey, just kidding about that "insurance policy"
If this was a joke, it was told several times. I'm referring, of course, to Rudy Giuliani's comment to reporters about having "an insurance policy" in case Donald Trump throws him under the bus. But...
View ArticlePhiladelphia releases serial child rapist illegal alien *twice* despite detainer
Some good, but still sobering news comes to us from the Philadelphia office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). First the good news. They just arrested Hector Moran-Espinoza, an illegal alien...
View ArticleChina's preferred candidate in the 2020 election is ... Trump?
Seems counterintuitive. Are we or are we not in the middle of a protracted trade war between the U.S. and China engineered by the president? For years, American politicians talked tough about making...
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