J.D. Vance publicly broke from President Donald Trump's defense of the Iran war Wednesday after the Republican Party's deep losses in the midterm elections, attempting to distance himself from voters' clear rebuke of the president as the vice president faces questions about his own political ambitions.
More than a “thumping.” That’s what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining 6 Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. As this is written, before sunrise Wednesday, Democrats have won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have gained or […]
The Democratic Party’s sweep into power in the 2026 midterm elections means Democrats will spend the next two years planning the extreme power grabs they have been agitating for, to be carried out if they retake the White House in 2028. Democrats have secured 54 Senate seats and could add two more in Alaska and […]
The time is now for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to run for president on a freedom agenda. Paul can bring the Republican Party back to its small-government and free-market roots. The public did not vote in the midterm elections for Democrats — it voted against Republicans. Voters are unhappy with rising prices and the specter […]
Plutarch’s ancient riddle — a staple of Philosophy 101 — concerns the mythic ship of Theseus. The story goes: Brave Theseus crosses the treacherous Aegean from Athens to Crete, where he plunges into King Minos’s deadly Labyrinth and slaughters the vicious Minotaur that had been terrorizing the land. The conquering hero then boarded his galley, […]
Tuesday’s resounding defeat, a generational extinction-level event that swept Democrats into power not just in Washington but across the country in state capitals, needs to become the starting point for rebuilding a Republican Party that owes its voters, nominees, volunteers, and donors something more than personal loyalty. Republicans need an honest accounting of what went […]
Fresh off Tuesday’s electoral beatdown, some conservatives are arguing that it would have been better for Iran to have a nuke than for the Democrats to win the midterms. That’s a suicidal assessment. You can easily take back Congress in one or two election cycles, but a nuclear Iran is an irreversible crisis. Reflecting on […]
President Donald Trump’s Republican Party just suffered the worst midterm defeat since the Obama years, and everyone wants to know who or what is to blame. One popular explanation is that the GOP ran bad candidates, which it did, but that is not why it lost. If bad candidates were the deciding factor, the Democrats […]