The dizzying ascent ofVice PresidentKamala Harris, from themost extreme leftist in the U.S. Senate, to also-ran 2020presidential candidate, tovicepresident of the United States, to presumptive 2024presidential nominee, and —for all we know —de factopresident of the United States in the accelerating dotage of President Joe Biden, has little precedent in American history. There are a...
Last Friday night, as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was lighting the Shabbat candles, he was the clear and obvious favorite to be tapped as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ running mate. But that was not to be. And on Tuesday, it sure looks like that is because he was a little too Jewish. Yes, the...
Crashing stocks, rising unemployment and escalating hostilities in the Middle East are about to pop the Kamala Harris bubble and could well put Donald Trump back in the White House. Democratic strategist David Axlerod says the excitement over Vice President Harris’ campaign is a sign of “irrational exuberance.” He’s right. So far, she has coasted...
Theprisonerswapwith Russia that made it possible for four high-profile Americans toreturn to the United States is obviously welcome news. Both they and their families endured enormous hardships that no American should have to face. But we shouldremember those who didn’t make it home – and continue to push for their timelyrelease. Onenotableexample is Marc Fogel....
Faster than a whiplash, identity politics returned to the forefront of the political culture wars the moment the Democrat Party anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee for president of the United States. Identity politics never went away; it’s always been there, the grease in the machine of America racial politics. But this time...
Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is a normal guy. I say this as a former Republican representative who served with Tim in Congress. In these times of bitter political division, America needs someone who can calmly and humbly serve the nation without all the unnecessary shouting and bluster that too often...
It is unusual for the fireman to actually pull the fire alarm, but that is exactly what Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has done in his new book, co-authored with Janie Nitze: “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.” Readers familiar with the excesses of the “Administrative State” will not be particularly surprised...
Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from“Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law,”by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze. In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama spoke of the growth of federal administrative agencies in recent years — and by implication the difficulty any president faces in trying to oversee...
The selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the vice-presidential nominee for Kamala Harris checks a number of important boxes for the Democratic nominee and is likely to draw none of the controversy that, on the Republican side, has been attracted by JD Vance or might have attached itself to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro or...
This past weekend, I stood on stage with President Trump in the very same Atlanta where Democrats have spent billions of dollars pumping lies through our airwaves and into our homes. But unlike the race-baiting and victimization we hear from the Left, President Trump spoke the truth to our community about the hard work and...
