By: Adam White – nationalreview.com – December 19, 2019 We have spent the last several weeks intensely debating the Founders’ view of impeachment. Now that the House has actually impeached the president, it’s time to pay attention to the Founders’ view of the Senate. We know that a Senate’s trial of impeachments is supposed to be more solemn and impartial...

By: Staff – dnyuz.com – December 19, 2019 The future of the House’s impeachment case against President Trump hung in doubt on Thursday, after the third-ranking House Democrat raised the possibility that the chamber could permanently withhold the articles from the Senate if it did not get assurances of a fair trial. The morning after the House impeached Mr. Trump nearly along...

By: Jonah Goldberg – nationalreview.com – December 18, 2019 One reason our politics are so chaotic is that neither Democrats nor Republicans can seem to govern as a majority party. Here’s a theory for why our politics are so confusing these days: Neither party wants to be a majority party. From an ideological perspective, majority parties are, by nature, weird. For instance,...

By: Jerry Newcombe – jerrynewcombe.com – December 12, 2019 How politically diverse is the Yale faculty today? According to an article by James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal: “0%.” He notes, “Nobody looks to the Ivy League for balanced political discourse. But a new report suggests that on at least one campus, the stifling of conservative views among faculty members...

By: Alan Dershowitz – thehill.com – December 10, 2019 House Democrats have announced the grounds of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on which they plan to seek the impeachment of President Trump. Neither of these proposed articles satisfy the express constitutional criteria for an impeachment, which are limited to “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Neither...

By: Dan O’Donnell – townhall.com – December 16, 2019 A funny thing happened on the way to President Trump’s impeachment.  Somewhere along the way, House Democrats lost the support of the American people. When they announced Articles of Impeachment against Trump on Tuesday, they did so with the support of just 48% of the American people (a number that is dramatically skewed by...

By: Peggy Noonan – wsj.com – December 12, 2019 Cedar Rapids, Iowa The famous caucuses are Feb. 3. Christmas is coming, the calendar tightening, and candidates zooming through the broad expanse in tinted-window SUVs. A surprise is there’s little surprise. Reporters say interest in impeachment is minimal, and it’s true: in three days not a single question from the floor,...

By: Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel – townhall.com – December 14, 2019 Thanks to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report, we now know for certain what has been, for those paying attention, fairly obvious. The Steele dossier played a central role in the genesis of the Russia hoax and was used to justify extensive spying on former naval officer and Annapolis...

By: Paul Bedard – washingtonexaminer.com – December 13, 2019 While the media and his critics focused on the bitterly divided House impeachment hearings, President Trump this week collected the most agenda wins yet, policy victories, including some backed by Democrats, that bolster arguments he’s making for reelection, according to advisers and analysts. From adding judges to foreign policy, trade, immigration, defense spending, and...

By: Laura Hollis – townhall.com – December 12, 2019 It’s a serious question. Other than hating Donald Trump, why would anyone vote for any of the Democratic candidates for president of the United States? They’ve given us precious few reasons to support them and plenty of reasons to conclude that they shouldn’t be given any political power — much less...