Shedding light on AARP
“Saturday Night Live” is known for many things, especially the commercial spoofs that for decades have lampooned merchandise and marketing trends. One of the most iconic featured Chevy Chase as…
Leaving Socialism Behind: A Lesson From Germany
The images of East Germans eagerly pouring into West Berlin on the night of November 9, 1989, have become symbols of the beginning of the end of the Cold War…
What’s Really at Stake in 2020
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has clarified what is at stake in the 2020 election. It is not, as some believe, democracy itself. Nor is it, as others assume,…
Ex-GOP Leaders Commit to $10 Million Ad Campaign Against Trump
A group led by former New Jersey GOP Gov. Christine Todd Whitman said Friday it would be spending “at least” $10 million on a digital, television, and direct mail campaign…
Democrats Cross the Line on Judges
Leave it to Michael Barone to point out to us all what should be obvious: It’s the Democrats, not the Republicans, who are being hypocrites when it comes to filling…
Faux Rage, Imagined Hypocrisy and Absurd Virtue Signaling
Some politicians and their followers are raging about the idea of filling the Supreme Court vacancy. They wax indignant about imagined hypocrisy. They virtue signal about multiple wrongs, not making a…
Minnesota Sued Over Mail-In Ballot Ruling
Republicans are challenging a move by Minnesota election officials to allow ballots to be counted past Election Day even if they are not postmarked. State representative Eric Lucero (R.) and…
The Case for Urban Charter Schooling
A decade ago, the charter-school movement was moving from strength to strength. As student enrollment surged and new schools opened in cities across the country, America’s first black president provided…
To Never-Trumpers: Now is the time!
The 45th President of the United States is opposed by several identifiable groups of people. True believers There are those who believe unquestionably the portrait of an evil man whose character…
Twitter Suspends True the Vote’s Account, Claims Military Ballot Deadline Tweet Violates Rules
Twitter, the social media giant that dominates online chatter, suspended Friday the account of the pro-ballot integrity group “True the Vote,” after alleging the group’s tweets about military ballots and…
Will ‘Silent’ Trump Supporters Swing Election?
With less than two months to go until the election former Vice President Joe Biden’s once considerable lead over Donald J. Trump appears to be vanishing. Polls are showing the…
The Dialectic of Woke
Last week a few sharp-eyed members of the audience for Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan noticed something ugly in the credits. The film’s producers thanked, among others, the publicity department of the “CPC…
On 9/11, We Failed to Remember
“Never forget.” That’s what we all said nearly twenty years ago while struggling to cope with our grief. Since the days of George Washington, we’d thought of ourselves as more…
Biden: ‘Firmly Planted to the Left’
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s deliberately projecting a moderate image in his campaign against President Donald J. Trump, was accused Monday of being “firmly planted to the left” by Republican National…
Secretary Of Education Betsy DeVos Issues Final Rule Protecting Religious Liberty On College Campuses
The Department of Education published a final rule Wednesday that expands religious liberty protections on college campuses and allows DOE to suspend or cut federal funding from colleges that violate the First…