A key ingredient for a healthy democracy is an independent and (to the extent possible) an apolitical judiciary. Yet recent polls show public trust in the judicial branch of the federal government reaching its lowest point in decades.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 25, 2022 Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s Haystacks — a sublime series studying the changes in light and color on haystacks in a field — or Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers — a painting that...

The midterm elections are now two weeks away. Some political commentators have an interest in portraying them as one big, suspenseful, down-to-the-wire contest.

One explanation for why America is in such rapid decline with the woke normalization of censorship, cancel culture, division, unequal justice, and depravity is found in the theory of “elite capture.”

Most people probably think of homelessness as being a blue big city problem, but that’s not entirely true.

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – October 21, 2022 The polls are starting to show that a conservative “wave” may be forming after all for the midterm election. No kidding. Somebody should tell The Washington Post. They reported on Oct. 10 that “Half of voters say climate change is important in midterms.” Sure it is. You keep thinking that way....

A balanced focus group on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday morning surely didn’t go quite as producers expected when the Democrat and the independent voter both found themselves agreeing with the Republican on key issues, including “woke culture” in schools.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 21, 2022 The President is technically correct, but he leaves out a few salient details. One is that the deficit would have been less than $1 trillion if not for his unilateral student loan cancellation. The $426 billion present value cost of his loan forgiveness, which he declared without the consent of...

By: Jerry Hendrix – nationalreview.com – October 22, 2022 In the penultimate scene of this year’s theatrical hit Top Gun: Maverick, after Tom Cruise’s Maverick and his intrepid flight of attack pilots hit their target and climb out of the steep valley in which it was located, the commanding admiral, played by Jon Hamm, announces, “Now we’re in coffin corner,”...

By: John Dove – dailywire.com – October 19, 2022 In many parts of the nation, the blight of roadside tent cities has become an acceptable part of the deteriorating landscape of our great country. Most of these encampments have sprouted in or near crowded cities, where liberal Democrats have ruled for decades. Regardless of the reason these encampments exist, their...