How Trump could monster Beto O’Rourke in 2020
The former Texas congressman ticks a lot of the right wrong boxes
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Tuesday
Tentative budget deal would cut ICE beds by 22 percent
But can it help avoid another government shutdown?
Conservatives shouldn’t get too excited about Tulsi Gabbard
You’re getting a reasonable, good faith opponent, not a political ally
Monday
Trust me I’m a Russia hawk — the Democrats are going too far
Kamala Harris’s Russiagate theory is pure conjecture
Why is Ilhan Omar still on the House Foreign Relations Committee?
The Minnesota congresswoman cluelessly trots out anti-Semitic tropes
Ilhan Omar is telling the truth. How is that anti-Semitic?
Money talks in American politics – of course some of it is from the Israel lobby
Saturday
Tulsi Gabbard is the perfect Democratic nominee…for 2024
If Trump continues to break his promises through a second term, the Hawaii congresswoman would be well poised to pick up the pieces
Candace Owens and the rise of the know-nothing public intellectual
She has no knowledge of Hitler, Germany or nationalism. But don’t let that stop her pontificating
Friday
Special delivery from Jeff Bezos
The Amazon and Washington Post mogul has thrown down the gauntlet to the National Enquirer
Tuesday
Stacey Abrams gave a dignified response to the debauchery of the SOTU
The Georgia Democrat looked eminently sensible
Judging by his State of the Union address, Donald Trump is out of ideas
It was essentially a recitation of his greatest hits
Donald Trump chooses greatness — and so should we
SOTU 2019 had a fuller agenda of things to be done and a more circumspect and humble offer to the other side of the aisle
Technology is damaging hands – not just heads
Manual dexterity is deteriorating – and smartphones are to blame
Wokeness eats the Virginia Democrats
Holding others to a high progressive standard can have its pitfalls
Monday
In ‘Executive Time’, the president is doing everything but presiding
Do Trump’s detractors really want him to take a more active role in the White House?
Abortion and the new covert culture war
The two sides of the debate don’t inhabit the same universe
The wrong Turning Point
The Charlie Kirk outfit’s expansion into Britain doesn’t seem a very good idea
Shouldn’t AOC have Googled Jeremy Corbyn?
She knows who Corbyn is, what he is, and the anguish he has caused the Jewish community
Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Corbyn
AOC is the acceptable face of socialism, washed clean of the crimes which New Left people like Corbyn have spent their lives explaining away
Sunday
Christopher Wylie is a hypocrite
His new job at H&M is hypocrisy on steroids
Friday
The Democrats’ phony war on corporate PACs
Corporate political action committee donations make up a tiny amount of most candidates’ war chests
Wednesday
Revealed: Steve Bannon’s ‘most influential Catholics’ listicle
Who are Steve Bannon’s top Catholic influencers?
Is Donald Trump losing even more allies?
If enough Republican senators decide that Trump is a political liability, then his goose is cooked
Tuesday
The Trump presidency is taking its toll…on the once fresh faces of CNN anchors
Usually it’s the president who looks worse for wear
How the shutdown helped Trump
A new poll indicates an increase in support for his border security plans in battleground states
Monday
#MeToo has hurt women in the workplace
High-powered men are now scared of mentoring women
BuzzFeed aren’t paying out unused holiday to their fired staff and People Are Freaking Out
OMG
Trump didn’t cave
Democrats and journalists are, as usual, far too quick to declare Trump ‘totally’ defeated
‘She’s got major ovaries’ – why people like Kamala Harris
If Kamala Harris is an act, she performs it well – and Republicans would be foolish to dismiss the threat she poses in 2020
Sunday
The NeverTrumpers never learn
The 2020 attempts to ‘primary’ Donald Trump will be even more pathetic than 2016
The rise and rise of the daddy big bucks candidate
Billionaire presidential campaigns are a great excuse for political consultants to try and flatter super-rich men
Saturday
Could Bernie bashers propel Sanders to the nomination?
Barring some unforeseen catastrophe, he’s obviously running
Friday
Roger Stone, Robert Mueller and the Shutdown Samba
Who will win this game of chicken? Unless Trump builds the wall, he loses
In ending the shutdown, has Pelosi brought Trump to heel?
His failure to procure a single cent for a border wall is already enraging his erstwhile supporters on the right