By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – March 14, 2019 Whom will the Democrats pick to face Donald Trump in 2020? Polls this early don’t matter much: They just tell you who is well-known. Early money doesn’t ensure anything either, although the 2016 Republican race showed how quickly candidates without a huge fundraising base can go broke and drop out months before...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 13, 2019 I  want to begin this piece with a word of praise for Nancy Pelosi. In an interview with the Washington Post, she rejected (for now, at least) calls to impeach Donald Trump. But it’s not just what she decided that’s important; it’s also how she explained it. Here were her key words:...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 14, 2019 Earlier this morning, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke announced that he’s running for president, and there are two things I believe with equal intensity. First, I don’t want Beto to be president. He’s a culturally left economic progressive who may be the serious candidate closest to an actual open-borders position on immigration. Second, I don’t...

By: Elizabeth Vaughn – redstate.com – March 10, 2019 Intellectual giant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the SXSW by storm on Saturday with her socialist rhetoric. Speaking at the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, she opened fire on everything from capitalism to FDR’s “racist” New Deal. On President Reagan, AOC said: One perfect example, I think a perfect example...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 6, 2019 Don’t be surprised if either Paul Ryan or John Boehner has put in an empathy call to current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week. The former Republican House Speakers know all about willful backbenchers, and Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make the GOP Freedom Caucus look like powder puffs....

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – March 7, 2019 Trump ran as an outcast. He promised to ‘drain,’ not to perpetuate, the swamp. No one in Washington called Donald J. Trump a “god” (as journalist Evan Thomas in 2009 had suggested of Obama) when he arrived in January 2017. No one felt nerve impulses in his leg when Trump talked, as...

By: The Associated Press – usatoday.com – March 5, 2019 Three major Montreal radio stations have stopped playing Michael Jackson songs as a result of child-molestation allegations against the late musician that aired Sunday in an HBO documentary. A spokeswoman for the owner of the French-language stations CKOI and Rythme and the English-language The Beat says Jackson’s music was pulled starting...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – March 4, 2019 President Trump’s CPAC speech was spontaneous and endearing, and the media scolds hated it. When President Trump began the longest speech of his presidency by giving a full-body hug to an unsuspecting American flag at CPAC, it was one of the most cheerfully photogenic moments of his political career. What can...

By: Leah MarieAnn Klett – christianpost.com – February 25, 2019 Christian filmmakers behind the pro-life movie “Unplanned” have refused to alter the film’s message despite being informed by the Motion Picture Association of America that the film will be rated R — unless all scenes of abortions are removed. The film, from Pure Flix Entertainment, tells the true story of former Planned Parenthood...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – February 21, 2019 The Jussie Smollet situation is a mess. The actor concerned with living “truly” (see the video at the bottom of this article) was, it appears, all about the opposite of truth when it came to an egregious letter followed by an inflammatory megaMAGA assault (here, here, here, and here). Guilty parties: Jussie Smollett and his...