By: Ben Shapiro – nationalreview.com – October 17, 2018 Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has been telling a story for years. It’s a deeply romantic story about her parents and their young love, fraught with the familial bigotry of an earlier time. Here’s how she told it this week in a video she released in preparation for her 2020 run:...

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – October 16, 2018 A detailed look at the numbers. How will the Senate races break? We have less public polling to go on than in recent years, so answering that question is harder than ever. But the news is more optimistic for Republicans than it was a month ago. Waves and Breakers Four years...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2018 Do you want to know what media bias looks like? Earlier today, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren released DNA test results that confirmed that she misled employers, students, and the public about her Native American heritage for years. Bizarrely, all too many members of the media treated the results as vindicating her....

By: Michael Goodwin – nypost.com – October 9, 2018 Two events from the last two days stand out. The first came Monday night with President Trump’s forceful yet compassionate speech at the swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The president opened with an extraordinary apology on behalf of the country to Kav­anaugh and his family “for the...

By: Jeremy Dys – wsj.com – October 11, 2018 Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. By Jeremy Dys As a lowly corporal, Milton Edward Hartman’s death shouldn’t have drawn much attention. But on a summer day in 1919, it seemed as if half the town of...

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...