Trump’s Running a Performance Art Tour, Not a Presidential Campaign
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:Trump’s Running a Performance Art Tour, Not a Presidential CampaignIt’s insane. The Republican Party is trying to win a presidential campaign with a candidate who refuses...
View ArticleThe Odd Defenestration of Lewandowski
I look forward to the Trump-can-do-no-wrong crowd’s explaining the Trump campaign’s thinking here. Yesterday morning around 10:00 a.m., pretty much the ideal time to maximize bad coverage going into...
View ArticleSome Summer Reading
Summer is here, and with it the new summer issue of National Affairs. It includes, among other great essays, Alan Jacobs on what has gone on in our universities this year, George F. Will on why his...
View ArticleA Fable for Our Times
One of the oldest fables known to mankind tells of a dog going out for a walk in the forest. Meeting a wolf, the dog asked what it was doing there. The wolf explained that he was looking for something...
View ArticleAn Illegal Immigrant Tried to Kill Donald Trump. This Is a Big Deal, No?
You would think the headline “Illegal Immigrant Tries to Kill Donald Trump” would be a big deal.The man facing charges for attempting to grab a police officer’s gun, so he could allegedly shoot...
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Austin Bound with Pete Hegseth
The warrior (two Bronze Stars), veterans advocate, and author of the acclaimed new book, In the Arena: Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America, will be discussing...
View ArticleTrump’s Report
Our friend Ben Shapiro had a good tweet-storm on highlights of the Trump fundraising report:1. In May, Trump raised a paltry $3.1 million raised, By contrast, in May 2012, Mitt Romney raised $78...
View Article‘The Irrelevant Crusade’
I wrote about the gun-control debate today:Few policy proposals are as routinely irrelevant as so-called common-sense gun-control measures — and seemingly, the less relevant they are, the more...
View ArticleQuinnipiac Battleground Polls
A couple of things jump out:Pennsylvania and Ohio are basically tied, suggesting that the idea that Trump does better in the Rust Belt isn’t a fantasy.Trump is trailing badly in Florida, and it’s hard...
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The Map without Florida
Here is a real quick, generous electoral map assuming Trump strength in the Midwest (giving him Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa — Wisconsin and Michigan seem out of reach), giving him New Hampshire and...
View ArticleHow Unpopular Is the GOP?
According to the new CNN poll, slightly more unpopular than Donald Trump. Trump is at 38-60 fav/unfav; the GOP at 34-60 fav/unfav. Hillary is also unpopular, but not quite at that level: 41/56. The...
View ArticleIn Britain, Distrust Runs Rife
If anyone needed confirmation that the British EU referendum is revealing deep fissures in the fabric of civil society, a recent poll from YouGov should suffice. The numbers there are, quite frankly,...
View ArticleIs There Anything to a Lawsuit Accusing Donald Trump of Raping a 13-Year-Old...
As if Donald Trump didn’t have enough legal problems and bad juju, now he has another headache to deal with: a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in New York accusing him (along with billionaire...
View ArticleFederal Investigation of Bill De Blasio Fundraising Yields NYPD Indictments
The multiple investigations swirling around New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio - the New York Times in April could find no precedent for a Mayor under five separate investigations by six different...
View ArticleHillary's Tired Prescription: Infrastructure Spending... Call It a Stimulus!
Today Hillary Clinton offered her argument against Donald Trump on the economy:Slamming Trump for lacking a substantive strategy on job-creation, Clinton said: “But maybe we shouldn’t expect better...
View ArticleTarheeled
We all know liberal professors outnumber conservative ones–but it’s always good to see actual evidence of the imbalance, which is what Alec Dent of The College Fix supplies with respect to UNC-Chapel...
View ArticleAre Brexit Opponents Just Going to Ignore Recent Economic History Now?
I noted last week how economic intellectuals are studiously ignoring the lesson of the euro project — one they actually seem to have learned, that’s not just limited to the right, that unaccountable...
View ArticleRubio to Attend Fundraiser for Florida House Candidate
Another interesting data point as we await Marco Rubio’s decision on whether he’ll run for reelection to the Senate:On Wednesday, Rubio is scheduled to be the “special guest” at a Washington, D.C....
View ArticleSenator Murphy's Spin on Guns
I wrote today at Bloomberg about Hillary Clinton’s political exploitation of the Orlando dead. Like Rich Lowry, I mention Senator Murphy’s attempt, in a This Week interview, to deal with the awkward...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Trump Trying to Raise Money From Donors a 'Complete...
Charles Krauthammer says that Donald Trump’s donation-seeking is a complete flip-flop from earlier in the campaign: Well what tends to discount those numbers is the fact that McCain and Romney lost....
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