Jon Schweppe, Author at The National Pulse

Analysis

Biden’s HHS Pick Advocates Sex Changes for Kids.

On Thursday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a nomination hearing for Dr. Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s pick for Assistant Secretary of Health at…

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Biden Wages War On Suburbia

The housing policies of Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden would lead to American suburbs flooding with high-density housing and crime, while politically-connected developers profit. It’s straight out of President Obama’s…

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News

Justice Dept Threatens Yale’s Taxpayer Funding After Discrimination AGAINST White, Asian Students

Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded an investigation into the admissions process of Yale University and found that the Ivy League school had discriminated on the basis of…

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Coronavirus Pandemic Shows FCC Got It Right on ‘Net Neutrality’

Can our healthcare system manage the strain of potentially millions of sick patients? How will our economy cope with stay-at-home orders and millions of jobs lost? And what about our…

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Analysis

Kamala Harris Is a One-Issue Candidate

This article was originally posted at The Daily Caller. California Sen. Kamala Harris made a number of dubious claims and unrealistic promises in her presidential campaign announcement, but one line in…

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Analysis

Why Democrats’ New “Morality” Messaging Will Fail

This article was originally posted at Townhall. If you’ve been paying attention to the rhetoric coming from elected Democrats and progressive activists in recent weeks, you’ve probably noticed a calculated effort…

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Analysis

Senate GOP Takes Right Approach to Kavanaugh Allegations

When news first broke that Professor Christine Blasey Ford had accused Judge Brett Kavanaugh of committing attempted sexual assault against her when they were both teenagers — just days before…

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Politics

NEW POLL: Transgender Issues Are Toxic for Democrats

American Principles Project released a new poll this week showing that issues surrounding the transgender phenomenon are “toxic” for Democrats, especially when they involve children. The poll, conducted last week…

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Politics

Nancy Pelosi Just Denounced Antifa. Will More Democrats Finally Join Her?

It’s not every day we take the opportunity to write sweet nothings about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi here at The National Pulse, but this week she definitely deserves some…

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Culture

Transgender Madness Is Coming to a Kindergarten Classroom Near You

The slope is becoming so slippery you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a cliff. In California, a local school teacher spent the day reading sexual revolution propaganda about transgenderism…

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Analysis

Trump’s Approval Rating Plunges: Here’s Why It Doesn’t Matter

According to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll, President Trump’s approval rating has dropped in the wake of the Charlottesville controversy and hit a new low during the first year of…

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Analysis

PredictIt Plays of the Week: Cruz 2020 and the Alabama Senate Race

It’s been a couple weeks since I last wrote a PredictIt column, but I assure you I haven’t gone anywhere. If you’re wondering about my last LOCK, check out my…

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Analysis

BREAKING: President Trump Denounces White Supremacists, Political Violence

America suffered through a difficult weekend. In Charlottesville, Va., after “alt-right” neo-nazis and left-wing “antifa” protesters had been clashing violently for hours, an alleged neo-nazi committed an ISIS-style terrorist attack…

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Analysis

Will Someone Please Defeat Claire McCaskill?

The Senate map is very good for Republicans in 2018, and that is in large part due to the plethora of winnable Democratic seats. One such seat is held by…

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Analysis

PredictIt Plays of the Week: Trump’s Cabinet Shakeup Provides Big Opportunity

Sometimes, you don’t even need to be a politics whiz in order to win at PredictIt. You just have to read the rules. This week, I have a rules interpretation…

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Analysis

PredictIt Plays of the Week: Healthcare Is Back, and the GOP House Will Be Too

A couple weeks ago, when The National Pulse began this PredictIt-centric column, I promised that the healthcare bill had no chance of passing the Senate by July 31: This contract…

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Analysis

The Democrats’ “Better Deal” Isn’t Even Better Messaging

Despite the media’s nonstop obsession with President Trump and Russia, the biggest political story so far this year remains the unbelievable impotence of the Democratic Party. With a Republican President…

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Politics

Hillary Clinton Is Setting Post-Election Records… for Unpopularity

Bloomberg is out with a new shock poll: just 39 percent of Americans view failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton favorably. Meanwhile, according to the same poll, 41 percent of Americans…

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Analysis

PredictIt Plays of the Week: Trump’s Here to Stay, and So Is the GOP Senate

Last week, The National Pulse started a new feature where I take a look at the betting markets over at PredictIt and examine the best opportunities for investment each week.…

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