Joe Biden Faces Richard Nixon's Choice By Daniel McCarthy
Joe Biden has come to the same dead end Richard Nixon arrived at half a century ago.
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July 9, 2024
July 9, 2024
The Case for Draining the Swamp Is Stronger Than Ever By Stephen Moore
The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and government hiring has outpaced every private sector industry. It isn't just the IRS bringing on thousands of new workers. The bloat is everywhere.
July 3, 2024
Government and Freedom By John Stossel
Last week, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked me to moderate what he called "The Real Debate."
Kennedy was angry with CNN because it wouldn't let him join its Trump-Biden debate.
His people persuaded Elon Musk to carry his Real Debate on Twitter. They asked me to give RFK Jr. the same questions, with the same time limits.
July 2, 2024
Should President Biden Drop Out -- or Resign? By Daniel McCarthy
If Joe Biden is unfit to run for president, how can he be fit to continue serving as president?
July 2, 2024
Save the Cows By Stephen Moore
Enjoy your cheeseburgers and steaks when you fire up the grill this Fourth of July weekend, because they may not be available much longer.
June 28, 2024
COVID-19: Another Fail-Safe Institution Proves Not So Safe By Michael Barone
Between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year, post-Cold War decline in defense spending and at a time when government agency budgets tended to be increased marginally or carried over from previous years.
June 27, 2024
The ‘Somewhats’ Election: Soft Biden Disapprovers Key for Both Candidates By Dan Guild
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Despite an overall job approval rating hovering around just 40% in polling averages, President Biden retains a path to victory.
— This is because of his unusual competitiveness among voters who just “somewhat” disapprove of his job performance, a group among whom Democrats performed relatively strongly in the 2022 midterm and where polling shows Biden holding up reasonably well in 2024.
— Relatively similar numbers of voters strongly disapprove of Biden’s job performance and hold a strongly unfavorable view of Donald Trump. Biden’s “strong” approval is fairly low, though, compared to recent incumbents who ran for reelection.
— The “somewhat disapprovers” skew younger and nonwhite, which presents Biden with both an opportunity and a challenge.
June 26, 2024
A Candidate Who Cares About Freedom By John Stossel
Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party convention, asking delegates to vote for him, promising, "I will put a libertarian in my Cabinet!"
June 26, 2024
Climate Change Movement Goes to Court -- Will Judges Ban Fossil Fuels? By Stephen Moore
Things aren't going well at all for the global warming crusaders. Despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent on green energy over the past decade, the world and America used more fossil fuels than ever before in history last year.
June 25, 2024
Separate Sexual Identity and State By Daniel McCarthy
A new crime wave has gripped the country, and this time progressives are calling for harsh penalties, even charging teenagers with felonies.
June 24, 2024
The Question Trump Needs to Ask Repeatedly Until November 5 By Brian Joondeph
The upcoming election is unique in that both current candidates have a record to run on. Not as a senator or governor, but as the U.S. President, each having served a term in the White House.
June 21, 2024
The Numbers Show Voters Don't Want an Eight-Year Presidency By Michael Barone
Four weeks after former President Donald Trump's conviction in a much-criticized Manhattan prosecution and a week before the first and earliest-ever scheduled post-primary presidential debate, it's a good time to look at how these two unusually elderly and oft-reviled candidates stand in the contest.
June 19, 2024
You Owe $100,000! By John Stossel
America is now almost $35 trillion in debt. That means every American owes $100,000.
June 18, 2024
Nigel Farage Makes the Trump Moment Permanent By Daniel McCarthy
First came Brexit, then came Trump -- and now it's happening again.
June 18, 2024
Some 40 Years Later: A Nation STILL at Risk By Stephen Moore
School's out for the summer, so now it is time to examine the state of our education system.
June 14, 2024
European 'Far Right' Issues a Stinging Rebuke to Elites By Michael Barone
"The far right made big gains in European elections," reads the Associated Press headline on last week's European Parliament elections. Lest you wonder why you should dread gains by the "far right," the lead sentence of the article notes that the EU has "roots in the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy."
June 13, 2024
Electoral College Rating Changes: Half-Dozen Moves Toward Republicans in What Remains a Toss-up Race By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— We are making six Electoral College rating changes this week, all in favor of Republicans.
— However, we don’t really see a clear favorite in a presidential race with many confounding factors.
— We consider Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to all be must-wins for the Democrats. While one can hypothetically come up with paths to 270 electoral votes for Democrats without them, we don’t find those paths to be compelling.
— Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) remains a favorite in our ratings, but our shift of Pennsylvania to Toss-up in the presidential race prompts a concurrent change in his race, from Likely to Leans Democratic.
June 11, 2024
1984 in 2024: Orwell Was Right By Daniel McCarthy
Americans still read George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949.
June 11, 2024
Biden Housing Scheme Could Ignite Another 2008 Mortgage Crisis By Stephen Moore
Politicians in Washington have very short memories, so they repeat the same mistakes over and over.
