Serious Question: Why Did The ‘Birther’ Issue Reemerge?
The resurgence of this issue felt like a non sequitur
View Article‘Liberty’s Kids’ Writer Jay Abramowitz On Teaching Kids American History
With 'Liberty's Kids' writer Jay Abramowitz
View ArticleHarry Reid’s Legacy Of Shameless Partisanship
He has done serious, lasting damage to our political institutions
View ArticleGlenn Reynolds, Ross Douthat, And The Liberal Onslaught That Created Trump
Once considered the counterculture, Hollywood, social media, and the news media have become the establishment.
View ArticleDaniel Ruddy: Theodore Roosevelt, The Conservative Crusader
The author of Theodore the Great: Conservative Crusader, Daniel Ruddy, analyzed Theodore Roosevelt as a true conservative who used progressive policies to please the public with TheDC’s Matt Lewis in a...
View ArticleBetter To Be Over-Prepped Or Under-Prepped For A Debate?: It Depends
There's a fine line between being prepared and being over-prepared. And tonight, when Tracy Flick meets Jeff Spicoli, we're going to find out which extreme is the worst.
View ArticleWho Won The Debate?: It Depends What Media Outlet You Visit
We are living in a fractured media world where different audiences seek and receive different information. We no longer enjoy a shared consensus. In this paradigm, the "facts" are increasingly subjective.
View ArticleWhy Opposing Trump Is A Dumb Career Move
For the vast majority of us, refusing to back Trump is anything but a shrewd career move
View ArticleElon Musk Groks Mars Colonization
At some point, we quit reaching for the stars. But there are good arguments for taking on such challenges.
View ArticleIs America Prepared To Handle An Outbreak?
Andy Card interrupts her briefing, and says, "This is all great Fran, but if there is a flu outbreak, who should the president call?" And she looked at him and said, "Mike,"—again, surrounded by Mike...
View ArticlePence Versus Kaine: Born To Be Mild
Game recognizes game, and I have to hand it to the Baltimore Sun for their lede yesterday about a “high-stakes, but seemingly interminably-long competition” coming down to “a single,...
View ArticleIs Mike Pence The Future Of The GOP?
Yesterday, I tweeted that Mike Pence’s performance in the vice presidential debate, coupled with his general performance as Donald Trump’s running mate, effectively positions him as the leader of a...
View ArticleHow John Quincy Adams’ Wife Got Him Elected
In my own life, I’ve tried my best to help popularize the Angela Duckworth maxim that you should “choose easy” and “work hard.” (Dr. Duckworth authored Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.) I...
View ArticleTrump Stems The Bleeding At Debate
Overnight polls are showing that Hillary Clinton won last night’s presidential debate, but I scored it differently. Plagued by scandal, Donald Trump stemmed the bleeding. Instead of Trump’s campaign...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Downstream From Beyoncé
The internets are having a good laugh at a Trump supporter who is calling Beyoncé fan Hillary Clinton hypocritical for criticizing Donald Trump’s sexually aggressive rhetoric. In case you missed it,...
View ArticleTrump Fights Authority (Authority Always Wins)
I’m accumulating a growing list of “lessons learned” from the Donald Trump campaign, and here’s one sure to make the top ten: The mainstream media still matters. Some history is in order: The notion...
View ArticleWhen Character Was King
In 1998, Dr. James Dobson was stunned by the public’s ability to “rationalize” Bill Clinton’s behavior. In a public letter, he lamented the fact that as long as Clinton did a good job in office, many...
View ArticleA Populism We Can Live With
In his Friday column, Matthew Continetti notes that paroxysms of populism are cyclical and that economic growth is the cure. He’s correct, but there’s no guarantee that will happen. It’s also true that...
View ArticleDanger: What If Russia Helps Trigger A ‘Rigged’ Election Scare?
It's very easy; you just compromise the polling stations. You compromise the polling boxes. You compromise the portal that reports the news. And we saw all of that take place in Ukraine in 2014."
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