By: Mike DeBonis – washingtonpost.com – October 11, 2018 Endangered Senate Democrats won their freedom to campaign for next month’s midterm elections Thursday and, in exchange, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got something he highly values — votes on 15 of President Trump’s judicial nominees. The deal struck by the two parties on Thursday allowed the Senate to wrap up its...

By: Andrew McCarthy – thehill.com – October 8, 2018 Is there any amount of fetching that goes too far for today’s Democrats? Shots across the bow about impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggest that we could soon find out. For the past three weeks, the Senate ground to a halt as Kavanaugh was subjected to the most intense, most...

By: Paul Koring – ipolitics.ca – September 9, 2018 It’s hard to imagine, but the party of Lincoln has a bigger problem than the man in the Oval Office. Texas, staunchly Republican since Ronald Reagan won it in 1980, is changing. And the Lone Star State, with 38 electoral college votes — the second most in the nation after California...

By: Brandon Morse – redstate.com – October 4, 2018 Republicans have always known the attacks against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were a sham from the word “go,” and with the FBI investigation out of the way, it’s now time to vote. That’s what Mitch McConnell has said, and is sticking by, despite the claims from Democrats that the FBI...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – October 4, 2018 Let’s begin with what should be a painfully obvious statement. Nobody — not even those who strive for fairness — approaches any controversy with a blank slate. The best you can do is acknowledge this reality and strive to control for it. You can read the best arguments from the other...

By: Brett M. Kavanaugh – WSJ.com – October 4, 2018 I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump’s nomination to succeed my former boss and mentor, Justice Anthony Kennedy, on the Supreme Court. My mom, Martha—one of the first women to serve...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – October 4, 2018 The polarizing atmosphere of the university has now spread to Congress. During the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we witnessed how college values have become the norms of the Senate. On campus, constitutional due process vanishes when accusations of sexual harassment arise. America saw that when...

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – October 3, 2018 You no doubt recall that during the 2012 presidential campaign, then-Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid accused Mitt Romney of having not paid any taxes over the past decade. It wasn’t true; Romney released tax returns showing that it wasn’t true. In 2015, CNN’s Dana Bash pressed him about telling a...

By: Dennis Prager – stream.org – October 3, 2018 When I was in graduate school, I learned a lot about the left. One lesson was that while most liberals and conservatives abide by society’s rules of order and decency, most leftists do not feel bound to live by these same rules. I watched the way leftist Vietnam War protesters treated...

By: Shelby Steele – WSJ.com – September 23, 2018 Even before President Trump’s election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.”...