Random Thoughts for an August Day in 2026
The primaries aren’t even done in 40% of our states, but all our minds are on the general election. Let’s look at three separate issues affecting the way we campaign, vote and think, this election year…
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The primaries aren’t even done in 40% of our states, but all our minds are on the general election. Let’s look at three separate issues affecting the way we campaign, vote and think, this election year…
On July 12, 1804, former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton died from injuries sustained in a duel against Aaron Burr. Burr had challenged Hamilton following a long string of overheard political attacks over the years. But who was right, and who was wrong?
The Graham Platner race for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat raises questions, not just for Maine voters, but for the entire country. What can we learn from this peculiar campaign, and what does it tell us about today’s Democrat party voters?
It is the United States of America’s 250th Anniversary, and the very patriotism of our American spirit is under daily assault by the Modern Left.
Federalist 68 describes the Founders’ concerns over choosing our Presidents and the dangers of doing so by “popular vote.”
The Left wants us to think that Texas voters cost themselves a Senate seat this week, giving Beijing a new member of the US Senate, but they couldn’t be more wrong.
America, we need to remember how to disagree without hating one another. When I was growing up, many of my neighbors and friends were Democrats. My family was conservative and Republican. We disagreed. Sometimes we argued politics at the dinner table. But when the weekend came, we still went swimming together, canoeing together, watching movies together, eating together, and living as neighbors. Political disagreement did not require hatred. It did not require destroying friendships. It did not require treating half the country as enemies.
We may not want to admit it, but… There is a reason why so many Democrats have tried to kill President Trump, and a Republican Congressional baseball team, and President Trump’s cabinet members, and members of the Supreme Court.
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It is now a half century since Governor Jimmy Carter took the Democratic primaries by storm in the spring of 1976, winning the Democratic presidential nomination away from much smarter, much more talented candidates
As the Left screams louder and louder that the taxpayers have no right to run our own federal agencies, all it does is embolden the rest of us to respond, “Oh, Yes We Do.”
Historians, political scientists, and philosophers alike often look at revolutions and ask the question “Was it a simple coup d’etat, or a real popular revolution? And if a real popular revolution, just how ‘popular’ was it, really?”
One of the classic parables, dating back hundreds of years (maybe even thousands?) concerns the story of a messenger, sent with instructions for the commander at a battlefield.
t is said that, when George III learned that General Washington planned to return to farming rather than take a crown, as any European general would presumably do, the defeated king said “If he does that, then he will be the greatest man in the world.”
Zohran Mamdani, the illegal alien soon to assume the mayoralty of New York City, shocked many with his declaration that “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no problem too small for government to care about.”
When a peculiar little Swedish girl burst upon the global political scene a few years ago, it was not to argue, not to educate, but to berate.
Would you agree to attend meetings for an entire hot, humid Philadelphia summer, from March 15 through September 17, without a working air conditioner in the conference room? That’s hard, but we’re not done.
As President Trump worked to find a solution to the Russia-Ukraine War this August, he organized a meeting of several European political leaders at the White House.
Among the more peculiar news stories of the week was the revelation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, Beijing) has spent the past 20 years making a fictional family the centerpiece of his political philosophy.
The conventional wisdom today is that President Trump is trying to “reinterpret” Amendment 14. Is that true? NO