If the Vaccine Works, Why Are We Still Wearing Masks? By Brian C. Joondeph
One important lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps not realized now but in the future, is to keep politics out of medicine and public health.
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May 10, 2021
May 7, 2021
Some Rotten Underpinnings of Biden's Positive Rating By Michael Barone
On the surface, Joe Biden seems to be doing pretty well. But underneath, there are signs of problems, areas where partisan overstretch threatens the underpinnings of what some are hailing as the new order of things.
May 7, 2021
Where Did All Those 'Capitalist Pigs' Go? by Patrick J. Buchanan
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson.
May 6, 2021
How the Senate’s Long-Term Equilibrium Could Shape Democratic Decisions on the Filibuster By Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— A majority of states are now either solidly Republican or solidly Democratic on the presidential level, and the party a state prefers for president increasingly has a big edge in winning the state’s two Senate seats. Given these patterns, it’s possible to game out the basic contours of what the Senate “should” look like in the near future, barring some unexpected upheaval.
— Allocating Senate seats based on current presidential preferences produces an equilibrium of about 53 seats for the Republicans and 47 seats for the Democrats.
— This complicates the Democrats’ decision on whether to ditch the filibuster, because in a chamber where they may end up spending a lot of time in the minority in the future, ending the filibuster may destroy one of the few points of leverage the party would have.
May 5, 2021
Successful Without College by John Stossel
Americans took out $1.7 trillion in government loans for college tuition.
May 4, 2021
Why Did Biden Census Bureau Add 2.5 Million More Residents to Blue-State Population Count? by Stephen Moore
There is something very fishy about the new 2020 Census Bureau data determining which states picked up seats and which states lost seats.
May 4, 2021
Biden vs. Biden on 'Is America a Racist Country?' By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country."
May 3, 2021
Big Media Propping up Biden with Propagandist Polls By Brian C. Joondeph
Ahead of a presidential election, opinion polls are a major news item. Most of these polls are not designed to reflect public opinion but instead to shape it. As most big media leans left, such shaping is always to the benefit of the Democrat party.
April 30, 2021
The 2020 Census: Small Republican Gains in a Nation Hunkered Down by Michael Barone
The COVID-delayed results of the 2020 census are finally in, with totals for the 50 states and the District of Columbia at nearly one-third of a billion -- 331,449,281 -- and with surprises having to do with the short run and what French historians call the "longue duree."
April 30, 2021
Biden Bets the Farm -- to 'Change the World' - A Commentary by Patrick J. Buchanan
Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this writer has lately seen.
April 28, 2021
Liberty Winning? A Commentary by John Stossel
Do I live in an alternate universe?
The media tell me my side is winning.
April 27, 2021
Unions Sell Out Their Own Workers for the Biden Energy Plan By Stephen Moore
Another pro-President Joe Biden union just told it's rank-and-file members: Sorry, guys, you are all fired.
April 27, 2021
The DC Statehood Power Grab by Patrick J. Buchanan
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?" asked President Abraham Lincoln, who answered his own question:
April 23, 2021
The Ebbing of 'the Misperception That Bigotry Is Everywhere' by Michael Barone
How will future historians explain this? From 2001 to 2014, majorities of Americans, including supermajorities of blacks and non-Hispanic whites, told Gallup pollsters that "race relations" were either very or somewhat good.
April 23, 2021
Is America Led Today By Anti-Americans? By Patrick J. Buchanan
How can America unite again to do great things if we are led by people who believe America suffers from a great sickness of the soul, an original sin that dates back to her birth as a nation?
April 22, 2021
Checking in on Biden’s Approval Rating as Hundred Days’ Mark Nears By Kyle Kondik
Steady on average, but individual pollsters vary greatly.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Joe Biden’s approval rating has been steady and positive, though many other presidents had better early numbers.
— The “honeymoons” of past presidents may have been stronger because of a less partisanized and polarized electorate.
— Individual national pollsters disagree on Biden’s approval rating.
— Some pollsters who were overly bullish on Biden in the national popular vote last year are a little bearish on him now.
April 21, 2021
Go Green, Go Nuclear by John Stossel
This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about "the climate crisis."
April 20, 2021
GOP Trustbusters Are Embracing Progressives' Agenda By Stephen Moore
It's not too often that Republicans embrace the agenda of leftist Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But it's happening.
April 20, 2021
Who Will Be the Next "America First' President? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, GOP hawks like Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham responded predictably.
April 16, 2021
J&J Vaccine Pause – Prudence or Politics? - A Commentary by Brian C. Joondeph
The FDA and CDC this week recommended a pause in COVID vaccinations of the Johnson & Johnson single shot vaccine due to a small number of reports of blood clots in individuals receiving the vaccine.
