Jamaal Bowman is out. The two-term congressman from New York’s 16th Congressional District was defeated in the Democratic primary by George Latimer, a longtime Westchester County pol. But Bowman’s new career, that of a professional anti-Israel activist, could be beginning. If so, he would hardly be the first U.S. politician to blame his electoral defeat […]
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status. Still, Democratic power brokers have proceeded as though the Democratic National Committee has only until Aug. 7 […]
Over the past few years, public confidence in the U.S. military, which has been extraordinarily high for decades, has fallen precipitously. In a poll of attitudes toward the military, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute found that the percentage of people expressing a great deal of trust and confidence in that institution had fallen […]
Are you a gentleman of a certain age, looking to spoil yourself with a once-in-a-lifetime car? Your local Porsche dealer will show you the 532-horsepower 911 GTS, priced at $164,900 and up. This will impress your neighbors, local teenagers, and even your valet. Unfortunately, it will also earn you some gently dismissive smirks from the […]
There is not a flicker of the old Republican Party left. No embers of fiscal conservatism, global leadership, or moral decency. Reaganism’s ashes are stone-cold. Milwaukee showed us a MAGA movement confident of victory. No previous Republican National Convention has known such vindictiveness, paranoia, and hero-worship. Sporting bandages on their ears, delegates loudly insisted that […]
I have a confession to make: For more than a decade, I’ve been addicted to Canadian football. It’s not the slick, polished product you see on Sunday afternoons in the NFL. No, this is a grittier, quirkier version of the game that feels like it was cooked up by a mad scientist. Even though it’s […]
It’s time to play “Hide the Homeless,” the Democratic Party game where you take homeless people you have allowed to camp in public and shove them into a closet when a major event comes to town. This time the player is Chicago, which is in the process of clearing out a homeless encampment near where […]
Wearing a yellow skirt that reached just below her knees, a black and white shirt, and a sunbonnet, 15-year-old Amelia Staffeldt planned to pick dandelions. But after she crossed the road to the old Steitz farm, she was attacked and stabbed twice behind her right ear. It looked as if the murderer had also tried […]
“We need corporate welfare reform.” Near the end of a speech that included hyperbole, vitriol, and some straight-up attacks on capitalism, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told the Republican delegates something they needed to hear. “The biggest recipients of welfare in this country are corporations,” O’Brien said, “and this is real corruption.” Republicans understand well that […]
I was not sold on Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) when former President Donald Trump announced him as his running mate. I thought there were better choices available that would have been staunch supporters of Trump’s platform and ideology while also appealing to undecided voters that could help Trump win reelection. My feelings were reinforced and […]
MILWAUKEE — In a healthy political culture, a party’s voters and delegates would see a felony conviction as a reason not to nominate a politician. We do not function in a healthy political culture. The Republican Party has a cultural sickness that is its cult of personality. Former President Donald Trump has successfully recentered the […]
MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention brought about 50,000 people to this city for a week in mid-July. But of those, only one columnist ended up at County Clare Irish Pub on the night of July 16. “Shitty,” was how bartender Patrick described business that night. “It’s been bad all week.” County Clare is a […]
