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The issue of out-of-control government spending, which once dominated the political discussion, has receded as an issue in recent years. But a new Washington Examiner/YouGov poll suggests it could be on the cusp of making a comeback. → Read More
Democrats have chosen to base the court fight on their Obamacare fairy tales. → Read More
As part of their preliminary attacks on potential Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, liberals have been pushing an old clip from 2016 to suggest that after Antonin Scalia's death, she advocated against replacing him during an election year. → Read More
When it comes to regulation of private businesses, I consider myself a libertarian. But as a realist, I recognize that when businesses become big and begin to be seen as abusing their power, they make it much harder for defenders of a pure free market to prevail in the regulatory debate. → Read More
In the second installment of the Naked Gun series, which parodied police films, officer Frank Drebin is invited to the White House, where President George H.W. Bush fetes him for having killed 1,000 drug dealers. → Read More
In the wee hours of the morning, when President Trump predictably dumped a truck worth of gasoline on the volatile situation in Minneapolis, Twitter took the extraordinary step of hiding the tweet with a disclaimer saying it violated rules against "glorifying violence." → Read More
Through much of the month of April, the U.S. was in a frustrating position. The number of new cases of the coronavirus had plateaued, but remained stubbornly at around 30,000 a day. This lack of a sustained decline has left many public health officials nervous as states began to ease up restrictions on activity. → Read More
Last week, I wrote about the logistical difficulties of a strategy to "isolate the vulnerable" so that everybody else can get back to normal. At few places is this more difficult than in nursing homes, which remain at the center of the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
The Congressional Budget Office now expects that the coronavirus will push the federal debt to the highest level in history, exceeding the previous record set during World War II. → Read More
The U.S. deficit is expected to be $3.7 trillion in 2020, according to the Congressional Budget Office, driving the federal debt to exceed the size of the economy for the first time since World War II. → Read More
The decline in air travel seems to be holding steady -- but at a staggering decline of around 96%. → Read More
As the coronavirus has ripped through the planet and ground the global economy to a halt within a matter of weeks, there hasn’t been much reason for optimism. While much of the news these days is discouraging, there are several reasons for hope. → Read More
If there’s a huge spike in cases all at once, it can overwhelm the system. → Read More
After a long period of flailing and offering false hope, President Trump's Monday press conference on the coronavirus pandemic was much more reassuring. And on one important point, he finally seems to be getting it. → Read More
The coronavirus outbreak has forced Ohio to delay its primary on Tuesday, which is a strong sign that the Democratic presidential race is likely going on hiatus for awhile. → Read More
President Trump’s bombastic style has served him well through many stages of his political career, but as the coronavirus spreads rapidly throughout the United States, it is exposing how deeply unsuited he is to deal with a genuine crisis that he can’t bluff his way through. → Read More
Super Tuesday results have exposed the dramatic divide among age groups in their support for Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, which could be a bad sign for Democrats in the general election, no matter who the nominee is. → Read More
Black voters in South Carolina confirmed that there is a huge generational gap when it comes to their support for Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders that should shape predictions about where this crucial voting bloc may go in future Democratic contests. → Read More
Joe Biden enjoyed such a smashing victory in South Carolina that the race was called as soon as polls closed. This is a much needed shot into the arm of a campaign that had been flailing for weeks, with his best performance before today being a very distant second in Nevada. → Read More
Sen. Joe Biden, reeling from a fourth place finish in Iowa, opened Friday night's Democratic presidential debate by predicting he would lose New Hampshire as well. → Read More