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Trump’s candidacy and, more, his behavior on the stump have wrecked the Republican Party. David Brooks, writing in the New York Times recently offered a cosmopolitan conservative’s hope that a new Republican Party could arise out of what he suggests is a likely Trump-driven debacle. But his words are unduly …

Supporters of President Obama typically argue that he has had to act alone in the course of his presidency because the GOP is preternaturally hostile to him. Most often the argument they offer comes down to this: Racism. They think that the underlying animus in the Republican rank and file …

I was going to write a whole article putting up a quiz using quotes from Mike Judge’s great, underrated movie Idiocracy. However someone at Flavorwire beat me to it, so I will copy their quiz here with full attribution. Watching him work the crowd at that first debate last month, your …

  Another day, another spate of brilliant and inspiring quotes from the keenest mind in real estate and reality tv: Why no more debates, Mr. Trump? “We’ve had 11 or 12 debates—I did really well in the last one, I think I’ve done really well in all the debates,” he …

This has been my take on the issue for years. of course, i’m met with attacks by so many of my liberal friends that want to defend the waste taking place at our colleges and universities today. The main way to fix the wildly expanding cost of a college education …

Writing on Facebook a female Trump supporter recently responded to several male opponents of the Great Chest Thumper himself: “. . . as a woman, let me tell you hot-shot men something. Women are sick and tired of lame weak ineffectual men who couldn’t win a bar room brawl! You …

  The results on the CNN Florida Republican debate point to one thing: when limiting the stage to four or five candidates and a network panel asking substantive questions leads to an informed electorate in advance to an upcoming State contest. In the future, if we could limit the participants …

A March 4th Wall Street Journal editorial sketched out the real risks to Hillary Clinton in her unfolding email-gate investigation: “. . . even the friendly State Department review has been damaging” the journal editorial staff wrote. “Of 30,000 emails Mrs. Clinton turned over to State, we now know that …

After another series of confusing results in state GOP primaries it’s beginning to look like this is a race between Donald Trump, the New York real estate tycoon turned television reality show personality, and Ted Cruz the first term U.S. Senator from Texas. Both are outspokenly anti-establishment and have antagonized …

Here’s my thinking on this Trump stuff: I became a Republican in the last year of George Herbert Walker Bush’s administration when, lifelong Democrat though I had been, I became convinced that the conservative agenda pushed by Reagan had largely succeeded while the mainstream media and Democrats in Congress had …