Newt Gingrich tore into Mitt Romney in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, calling the former Republican presidential nominee pathetic, bizarre, and ineffective — principally for his efforts to derail Donald Trump […]
Donald Trump is well on his way to winning the Republican presidential nomination. This owes substantially to the party’s bias for “winner-take-all” and “winner-take-all-lite” primaries. Trump will come out of […]
HOT: The big dogs of the social conservative movement have voted, and their candidate is Ted Cruz. The effort among leading social conservative organizations to coalesce around one candidate – in […]
Peggy Noonan is the only Wall Street Journal op-ed regular who does not hyperventilate at the mention of “The Donald.” Despite hanging with the beautiful people in Manhattan, Ms. Noonan stays […]
Wednesday’s anti-Trump rant by George Will is far from his first. On September 9, it was “Donald Trump is a Malleable Mess.” On August 26, it was “The Havoc that […]
The Republican mating ritual is getting down to brass tacks: policy substance is of increasing importance, and the two candidates whose persona is most about substance are Ted Cruz and […]
Hot: Marco Rubio A gang of six is emerging in the Republican presidential field — which once sported 17 candidates. The six are: three outsiders (Trump, Carson, Fiorina), two senators […]
Walter Jones, Congressman from North Carolina’s 3rd district for the past 20 years, in a letter to Cathy McMorris Rodgers, chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, called on candidates for […]
Carly Fiorina is on fire. And to think she barely got into the Wednesday debate — only after CNN relented to pressure and changed their eligibility rules. We don’t know […]
And so there are 16, as Rick Perry effectively ends his campaign (they always say the campaign is “suspended,” in case they can get FEC matching funds down the road). […]
The latest CNN national survey puts Donald Trump in the lead among Republicans with 32 percent; Carson second with 19 percent. But Carson has gained more since the August CNN […]
Yesterday, Donald Trump (speaking at the Trump Palace, or Trump Mahal, or whatever it’s called in NYC) announced he had taken the non-compete pledge and said this: “I will be […]
Jeb Bush’s August 11th speech at the Reagan Presidential Library laid out a six-point blueprint for driving the remaining Christians out of Syria — unintentionally, perhaps, but effectively nonetheless. Each element of […]
Bret Stephens is sputtering so fiercely in today’s Wall Street Journal that spittle fairly flew off the page into my face. “If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, […]
Do you remember? February 23, 1980: George H. W. Bush had won the Iowa caucuses and now wanted a one-on-one debate with Reagan in order to solidify his status as […]
Rand Paul skipped the Iowa State Fair this week in order to perform eye surgeries in Haiti. Dr. Paul was using his God-given talents to help people — oh, and […]
Half of the Republican presidential field is a current or former governor (9 of 17 candidates). As you might expect, before the first Republican debate on August 2, a plurality […]
Positive public reaction to Carly Fiorina’s performance at the Republican JV debate last week — most of which was previewed in her speech at the Reagan Library on July 28 — […]
Let’s do “Who’s Not” hot first, because it’s an easier call: Fox News and the RNC. In a week dominated by the first Republican presidential debate, the biggest losers were […]
Jonathan Haidt – self-confessed liberal professor of psychology, now at NYU – is the author or a really fascinating book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics […]