New York Times to Biden -- Time to Go! By Patrick J. Buchanan
When President Joe Biden retired in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday night, he likely did not expect to find a severed horse's head under his bed covers.
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July 12, 2022
July 8, 2022
Who's Behind Joe Biden's Leftward Lunge? by Michael Barone
What's going on with Joe Biden? Why is a president who ran and was elected as a centrist Democrat supporting one left-wing proposal after another? What has prompted the politician whose sensitivity to public opinion was finely honed for four decades to take one unpopular stand after another?
July 8, 2022
Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation by Patrick J. Buchanan
In Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster," the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?"
July 7, 2022
High Courts, High Stakes 2022’s top state supreme court races by Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
-- State supreme court contests often attract little public attention, but they can carry significant weight on policy, especially in an era when courts are having to weigh in on such divisive topics as abortion and election administration.
-- About two-thirds of the states have some type of state supreme court election on the ballot this year, but as of now, 8 states stand out as the likeliest to have at least one genuinely competitive race this fall: North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Montana, Michigan, Kentucky, New Mexico, and Arkansas.
July 6, 2022
Change the Constitution? by John Stossel
This Fourth of July, watching people fight over what the Constitution means, I ask people, if you could change the Constitution, what would you change?
July 5, 2022
Biden's Green New Deal Is Increasing Greenhouse Gases By Stephen Moore
Here's an amazing but true statistic. After more than a decade of declining carbon emissions here in the United States, in 2021, President Joe Biden's first year in office, emissions rose.
July 1, 2022
United States of Diversity: The Founders and Dobbs by Michael Barone
DEI -- "diversity, equity and inclusion." University administrators, corporate human resources facilitators and politicians of a liberal stripe all assure us that America is now, suddenly, for the first time in history, a nation of diversity, equity and inclusion .
June 30, 2022
Notes on the State of the Primaries By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Before we get to our takeaways from yesterday’s primaries, a quick pit stop in the Ocean State is in order.
June 29, 2022
Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life By John Stossel
Now abortion law is up to states. Some will ban it, while most blue states will allow it in some form.
June 28, 2022
Biden Is the Economy's Supply Chain Problem By Stephen Moore
Joe Biden has become America's "it's not my fault" president. Whether it's the inflation, the border, the crime, the gas prices, the Afghanistan exit fiasco or the stock market collapse, Biden has become an expert at pointing the finger at someone else.
June 24, 2022
Can Government Build Things Again? By Michael Barone
Give the New York Times's Ezra Klein credit for identifying a problem with big government institutions. "Our mechanisms of governance have become so risk averse that they are now running tremendous risks because of the problems they cannot, or will not, solve," he tweeted. The subject was San Francisco's attempt to make permanent the parklets, or parking spaces used as outdoor restaurant space, through 60 pages of regulations.
June 23, 2022
Notes on the State of Politics By Kyle Kondik
House rating changes in Virginia, California, and Alaska
June 22, 2022
A New Kind of Comedy By John Stossel
A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she's allowed to drive there because her pronouns are "they" and "them."
June 21, 2022
The Great Biden Recession of 2022 Is Already Here By Stephen Moore
Last week, I was invited to testify before a House committee hearing titled: "How the Biden American Rescue Plan Saved the Economy and Lives." I am not making this up. Can you imagine taking a victory lap, given our current conditions?
June 17, 2022
The Secular Right Versus the Woke Left By Michael Barone
This month, I've come across two outstanding articles by writers I had not previously known on important trends on the political right and political left.
June 16, 2022
Governors: Escaping Public’s Wrath Even as So Many Others Draw Ire By Louis Jacobson
State chief executives continue to get high marks from voters even as party leaders, Congress do not.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Virtually every measurement of public opinion shows that Americans are in a foul mood about their political leaders and institutions. But one group seems to have escaped this wrath: governors.
— State-level job approval polls from Morning Consult show that 92% of governors are “above water” with voters in their states — that is, they have higher approval ratings than they do disapproval ratings. With a handful of exceptions, the data from other pollsters back up the general pattern seen in the Morning Consult polling.
— The polling suggests that several Democratic governors who are considered particularly vulnerable in a Republican-leaning midterm environment have managed to put some distance between how voters see them and President Joe Biden, which could improve their chances of winning reelection.
— The reasons why governors seem to be faring relatively well in this sour environment may have to do with the nature of the most worrisome issues for voters today (which include a number of policies that governors don’t directly control, such as inflation) and relatively flush coffers due to federal aid (which is sparing governors from having to make unpopular cuts or raise taxes).
June 14, 2022
The Swamp vs. America: Biden Policies Are Making America Poorer By Stephen Moore
I've been struck by the opinion divide on the state of the economy between people with real jobs in America and the elite opinions in Washington.
June 10, 2022
What Was the Left Thinking? By Michael Barone
Whether you're contemplating San Francisco voters' recall of left-wing District Attorney Chesa Boudin or the plight of Democrats nationally as they face voters' dismay at out-of-control inflation, immigration and crime, the question is liable to come to mind: What were they thinking?
June 9, 2022
How the House Landscape Changed: A mild decline in competitive seats, and a spike in safe Republican ones by Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
-- The new House landscape is fairly similar to the old one.
-- However, there is a notable increase in the number of super-safe Republican seats -- and a modest decline in the overall number of competitive districts.
-- New Hampshire, the final state to complete redistricting, kept its old map basically intact, which means the state should feature a couple of competitive races.
-- Now that redistricting appears to be complete for 2022, we have brought back our traditional House rating tables, which are available at the bottom of this article and at our Crystal Ball House page.
