As an election year dawns, Republicans and Democrats should stop to reflect on why our politics seems so stagnant. No one expects President Biden to earn a mandate even if he wins re-election — it won’t be a victory for Biden so much as a defeat for Donald Trump. Progressives…
Democrats were dealt another blow from within their own ranks this week as yet another state lawmaker declared he was leaving the party. According to a Monday report by The Advocate, a Louisiana-based newspaper, state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe announced he had left the Democratic Party and would be registering as a…
It’s sure starting to look like New York’s progressives are simply anti-Asian. Their latest cause célèbre, the “Good Cause Eviction” bill, aims to effectively bring some 2 million apartments in the city alone under a new statewide rent-control regime. On top of being a sure housing-killer, it’s gotten the city’s…
A line from legendary manager Casey Stengel fits the moment: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” He was talking about his hapless 1962 New York Mets, but the damning question can be fairly directed to both political parties and Washington itself. In one of the most worrisome signs of our…
News that Elon Musk brought his 2-year-old son — one of 10 children — into key meetings at Twitter headquarters, after taking over the social media company in the fall, might make it less of a mystery to lefties why his “Priority #1” has been to banish child sexual exploitation…
Fowl play! Gov. Kathy Hochul has farmed out the task of distributing thousands of turkeys to the state Democratic Party after deciding that the Thanksgiving tradition violates new ethics rules. Last November, Hochul traveled across the state to personally participate in the annual turkey giveaway to the needy and noted…
The Issue: Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s decision not to run for a Democratic leadership position with in the House. Someone should tell Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and all politicians in her age bracket, regardless of party affiliation, that it’s time to retire (“Nancy: I’m done leading Dems,” Nov. 18). I’m a long-time…
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is asking Elon Musk to stop Twitter from becoming the “Wild West of social media” after the billionaire changed his newly acquired social media site’s verification process to allow anyone with $8 to obtain the sought-after blue check mark. “Your Twitter takeover, rapid and…
A new poll finds that Democrats’ lead over Republicans in a generic congressional ballot has dropped threefold since August in yet another sign of the GOP’s momentum advantage with less than a week to go until Election Day. The Yahoo News/YouGov survey has captured the downward spiral of the Democratic…
As we draw closer to polling day, there is really only one question anyone needs to have in their head. Are things better or worse than when America last went to the polls? The problem is that you can answer that differently state by state. A lot of people who…
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