By: Monica Anderson & Dennis Quinn – pewresearch.org – August 8, 2019 Well over a year before the 2020 presidential election, many social media users in the United States are already exhausted by how much political content they see on these platforms. Some 46% of adult social media users say they feel “worn out” by the number of political posts and discussions they...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – townhall.com – August 08, 2019 Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in the 2000 election, Bush had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. Democrats were still furious that Bush supposedly had been “selected” by the Supreme Court over the contested vote tally in Florida rather...

By: Dennis Prager – wsj.com – August 6, 2019 There is an understandable reluctance among conservatives to allow the government to pass any laws governing big technology companies as a result of their hostility to conservative voices. These conservatives, citing the fundamental American belief in limited government, argue that whatever the big tech companies do, they are not the government....

By: Reid Wilson – thehill.com – August 6, 2019 States with some of the most lenient gun laws in the country will debate new restrictions meant to combat mass shootings after two assaults in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left dozens dead over the weekend. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Tuesday proposed a 17-point plan to curb gun violence,...

By: Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel – dailycaller.com – August 1, 2019 Last weekend, the president got bored and decided to see if he could make Democrats defend one of the most dangerous, mismanaged places in the country. And of course, he could. It wasn’t hard. He just sent a flurry of tweets criticizing the city of Baltimore and Rep....

By: Mark Penn – thehill.com – August 1, 2019 The second night of the second round of the Democrats’ presidential debates was no eloquent dialogue between moderates and the left. It was an all-out panderfest and, at times, an old-fashioned slugfest. By the end of this endless debate, spooned out in one-minute dollops, I walked out with a $1,000-a-month check,...

By: Scott Rasmussen – townhall.com –  August 01, 2019 Sen. Elizabeth Warren has lots of big ideas to redesign the United States. She dreams of Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, forgiving student loans, waging war on corporate America and more. On the debate stage in Detroit, Warren pushed back when others raised doubts about her ambitious agenda: “I don’t understand...

By Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – July 30, 2019 Making the click-through worthwhile: A whole bunch of candidates need to throw punches at tonight’s Democratic presidential debate, meaning we could be watching Thunderdome this evening; a reminder that Twitter is a poor measuring stick for public opinion on political topics; a reminder about the folly of youth; and a demonstration of...

By: George Will – nationalreview.com – July 28, 2019 It will be especially entertaining if the presidential aspirants are asked some questions like these. The Democratic presidential circus pitches its tent in Detroit this week. It will be especially entertaining if the presidential aspirants are asked some questions like these: For Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders especially, but others, too:...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 30, 2019 Snopes just can’t stop ‘fact-checking’ a conservative satire site. I  used to love the website Snopes. It was one-stop shopping for fact-checking and debunking urban legends old and new. For years — to take one example — I had lamented the tragic death of Little Mikey of Life cereal fame. According to everyone...