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.
Nikki Haley gave a bad answer to an easy question: What caused the Civil War?
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 good news is the bad news is wrong. The bad news? The Harvard-Harris poll which found that 67% of 18- to 24-year-olds believe "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors."
Everyone knows that politics involves more truth-stretching than most professions. As the line (often misattributed to Mark Twain) goes, "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
According to a recent poll conducted by the Democratic firm Blueprint, only 5% of Americans say that Joe Biden is "far more conservative than me."
One of the remarkable things about our political and cultural battles is how many of them are fought on behalf of other people.
One of Joe Biden's favorite campaign lines is "don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative."
While the whole world is talking about Israel, let's take a moment to talk about China.
In normal times domestic political fights over foreign policy breakdown more or less along a conventional left-right divide. These are not normal times.
