Republicans Have Overestimated the Conservatism of the Base– from David French in The National Review The GOP underestimated Trump in part because it overestimated the conservatism of its own southern, rural northern, and Midwestern base. It underestimated the extent to
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from the Wall Street Journal, Ending the Filibuster Would Hand Progressives a Huge Victory by Ben Sasse Here’s the problem. Progressives believe power—that is the government—is the center of life. We don’t. They place more faith in government than we
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from Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek The Sorry State of American Politics: I often struggle to find the best excerpt from a post. I give up here and post the entire content, as brief as it is. Here’s a letter
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Powerball Meme Mathematical Illiteracy Illustrates Bernie Sanders’ Appeal by Ed Krayewski at Reason Sanders previously experienced a bit of a surge in the polls over the summer but that didn’t get him past Clinton. Nevertheless, Clinton has been tacking leftward toward Sanders even before the
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from Kevin Williamson at National Review, From Sub-Prime to Sub-Prime: But Fannie Mae, the organized-crime syndicate masquerading as a quasi-governmental entity, has other ideas. Under its new and cynically misnamed “HomeReady” program, borrowers with subprime credit don’t need to show
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from Victor Hanson at National Review, Proper liberal credentials trump all the usual forms of identity politics. It is hard to be a progressive in a sea of capitalist lucre, or an idealist when careerism pays so much better, or
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What Trump Doesn’t Understand — It’s a Lot — about Our Trade Deficit with China by Kevin Williamson at National Review Our trade deficit with China isn’t a product of the Chinese getting rich — it’s a product of their
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From Brian Doherty at Reason, You Know Less Than You Think About Guns This is an excellent analysis of the sociology of the gun problem in America, and should be read in its entirety. It is a bit long, but
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from Kevin Williamson at National Review, People Aren’t Widgets Though they disagree, politicians in Beijing and Washington both think they know what the renminbi should be worth. Until Thursday, Chinese authorities thought they knew how much shares on the Chinese
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From Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe, The weakest economic recovery in modern times: The Great Recession formally ended in June 2009, just five months after Obama’s inauguration. Nevertheless, polls repeatedly find that large swaths of voters believe the US economy is still
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from Mark Perry at Carpe Diem, Why do progressives hate Walmart for low prices and its 3% profit margin but love high-priced Apple and its 24% profit margin?
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from Jonah Goldberg from National Review, The Term ‘Neocon’ Has Run Its Course At first, neocons weren’t particularly associated with foreign policy. They were intellectuals disillusioned by the folly of the Great Society. As Irving Kristol famously put it, a
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from The Spectator, The return of the fountain pen But the fountain pen should not be regarded as a historical curiosity: global sales are actually increasing. Last Christmas Eve I encountered a scene of utter mayhem in the pen department
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from Sultan Knish, America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem… Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans
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from Townhall, Loser GOP Candidates Need To Stop Making Asterisks of Themselves by Kurt Schlichter Rick Santorum, why are you even running? Here’s a thought: Dudes kissing is not a priority when we have a gargoyle poised to seize the
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from The Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens’ America’s Year of Living Dangerously The U.S. has lived through dangerous years before—1968 and 1980 come to mind. Hindsight is often the great redeemer, but both years ended with the American people making
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From The Daily Beast, How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump by Tom Nichols The great mistake made by both liberals and their most extreme wing on the American left is to assume that ordinary people, once corrected forcefully enough, will comply
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“What makes big government dangerous is not the augmentation of something wicked but the deformation of something fragile.” William Voegeli “Progressives often voice abstract anguish to win psychological absolution and political cover for their own moral lapses and hypocrisies: The
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from Charles C.W. Cooke in The National Review, Our Presidents Are Beginning to Act Like Kings The Constitution of the United States, Hamburger contends, represented a conscious attempt to banish from this country’s political structure a host of the insidious tools
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From The Weekly Standard, What Explains the Vicious Left? by David Gelernter: excerpts: It’s not just a question of civility versus rudeness—which of course is no small thing in itself. The deeper problem is that the left seems to have
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