By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – January 10, 2020 Nine years ago I published a piece that asserted, “Voters around the country are concluding it’s better to be red than dead,” applying almost the exact opposite meaning to an old phrase referring to communism. New Census Bureau figures appear to confirm my prediction — mostly. My point was that many...

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – January 29, 2020 While many Americans were focused on Washington this week, I was paying special attention to Fort Bend County, Texas. What took place in that Houston suburb may reveal more about the 2020 election than the impeachment trial in the Senate does. Fort Bend held a special runoff election to fill a...

By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – January 28, 2020 A superb documentary delivers a measure of justice to an extraordinary justice. Among the most prominent figures in American politics, perhaps none is as poorly understood as Justice Clarence Thomas. Watching him tell his riveting story at length on camera for the first time, it becomes evident that the man has...

By: ESPN Staff – espn.com – January 26, 2020 Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among several people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bryant was 41. Drafted 13th overall in 1996 out of Lower Merion High School outside of Philadelphia, Bryant was a five-time NBA champion, a two-time NBA...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – January 24, 2020 Democrats on Thursday pressed their case for removing President Donald Trump from office by trying to turn the words of his own allies against him at his Senate impeachment trial. Their goal: to make the point that his actions constituted impeachment offenses, but that his fellow Republicans showed no signs of turning against...

By: Brad Slager – redstate.com – January 20, 2020 Nothing like proving your critics correct as you complain about their charges. When it comes to obliviousness and lack of self-awareness it is tough to find a group afflicted worse than our contemporary press corps. Maybe it is that they are charged with ferreting out and then delivering the facts that their...

By: Derek Hunter – townhall.com – January 16, 2020 MSNBC personality Lawrence O’Donnell made a mistake in liberal land this week – he told the truth. Allowing peeks behind the curtain in the land of left-wing politics is a no-no, audiences are not allowed to see how the sausage is made. Larry, a rich white guy, accidentally not only pulled back...

By: Bonchie – redstate.com – January 15, 2020 Happy impeachment day, part two. Nancy Pelosi finally decided to wave the white flag, call off her ridiculous gambit of stalling the process, and had the articles of impeachment targeting Trump over to the Senate. This came in the form of much pomp and circumstance, including trays of pens for her to...

By: Ben Shapiro – dailysignal.com – January 15, 2020 In 2008, Democrats nominated for president a first-term U.S. senator with no serious legislative experience, Barack Obama. They nominated him over the long-championed, long-celebrated presumptive heir apparent to the Democratic leadership, Hillary Clinton. Obama was, of course, the first black Democratic nominee, and he would be the first black president. Yet in...

By: Emily Larsen & Naomi Lim – washingtonexaminer.com – January 14, 2020 With Iowa polls showing a tight, fluid race between the top four candidates in the 2020 Democratic field, the last debate before the first votes are cast could be a critical moment for the White House hopefuls. Former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy...