Democrats continued their years-long streak of making and breaking amnesty promises this week by refusing a deal to include a DACA fix in the omnibus spending bill. The streak began when then-candidate Barack Obama promised a comprehensive solution in his first year in office. “I cannot guarantee that it is going to be in the…
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It’s difficult to grasp the enormity of the opioid crisis, which is fast becoming the largest public health catastrophe of our time. Last year, nearly 64,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States, a figure that will surely rise this year. That total is higher than the number of deaths linked to guns…
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“This is a wake up call. Wake up,” Steve Stivers, the Ohio congressman who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, told his colleagues following Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory in a Pennsylvania special election. The race does leave Republicans with reason to be concerned. After all, Lamb was successful in a district that President Trump won…
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Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It’s a quote that resonates with our times given how often we are now asked to cede our privacy in order to, we are told, remain safe. Now, our generation is grappling…
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Democrats may have stumbled onto a narrow path that leads to success in 2018. A crafty Democratic candidate by the name of Conor Lamb, who is currently running in a Pennsylvania House special election, is crafting the perfect blueprint for the party’s midterm success. But as Democrats are wont to do, they are ignoring their…
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Here’s a sentence that was rarely, if ever, written during the Obama presidency: The latest jobs report blew economists’ expectations out of the water. In the years immediately following the Great Recession, when job growth should have been at its peak, the United States was nevertheless treated to a string of disappointing jobs reports. Economic…
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It wasn’t long ago that Democrats were predicting a wave election that would wash away Republican majorities and put Democrats back on the path to the permanent majority they’ve long dreamed of. The idea was silly at the time. Although Democrats’ advantage in the generic congressional ballot was 14 points a month ago—a lead that…
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Support for a carbon tax has become de rigueur in some conservative circles, an honest attempt to reduce carbon emissions and slow the increase in global temperatures. But trendy policy is often not good policy. So even if we accept global warming as fact, the idea of a carbon tax creates more problems than it…
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Democrats sit at an uncomfortable political crossroads. Does the party meddle from the top-down in winnable races in which they are threatening to field a losing candidate? Or do they back off and let the activist left learn the hard way what voters will and won’t support? As of now it appears they haven’t made…
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Republicans’ successful tax reform package is rightfully receiving a lot of attention for buoying the party’s midterm hopes. But one issue that isn’t receiving a lot of attention could very well be the GOP’s secret midterm weapon: President Trump’s dramatic reshaping of the judiciary. Judicial appointments don’t receive much publicity and yet the actively move…
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