“Donald, you’re not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That’s not going to happen.” — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush during a 2016 debate with Trump. After watching too many of the Republican non-debates and the insults each of the candidates (and ...
by Jonah Goldberg The House Freedom Caucus is largely right about debt and deficits. Some members might be staggering hypocrites, given that they had little problem with Donald Trump’s spending when he was president. They’re also right that the budget deal worked out between ...
Some voters in recent elections have complained about being forced to choose between “the lesser of two evils.” In the 2024 election it appears we are heading for a worse choice — the evil of two lessers. Donald Trump continues demeaning and defaming anyone who disagrees with him. He ...
With a new year comes hope in the White House that Americans will eventually buy into “Bidenomics.” For instance, President Joe Biden would no doubt love to pose for pictures in front of some of the new projects funded by his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. Unfortunately, the ...
The headline in Tuesday’s New York Times caught my attention: “The Debt Matters Again.” The article by German Lopez draws attention to the growing problem of the national debt, which just passed $34 trillion. Lopez writes that “For years, many economists believed the country’s ...
by Jonah Goldberg This is the season for columnists to offer some new idea that encapsulates the year that was. I got nothing. But 2023 was the year I finally abandoned my opposition to an old idea — the horseshoe theory of political ideologies. The term is often attributed to ...