California’s descent into a one-party state accelerated in 2018. Golden State Democrats picked up seven seats in the House. They now control almost 87% of the state’s congressional delegation—46 of the 53 representatives. Orange County, one of the original strongholds of the conservative movement, is now a liberal bastion. Democrats hold both U.S. Senate seats […]
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Better Living Through Chemistry
In an age of technological wonders, few can equal the life-altering and life-saving drugs that have poured forth from laboratories and research teams in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Anti-psychotic drugs have emptied mental hospitals. Antibiotics have added years to average life expectancy. Birth control pills have transformed sex lives—and mores. Seeming miracles can […]
Gray Wolves to Lose Endangered Species Protection Under Trump Administration Proposal
Proponents say the species has rebounded after 45 years of government support and threatens cattle herds, but environmentalists disagree The Trump administration is moving to delist the gray wolf from Endangered Species Act protections in the Lower 48 states, setting the stage for another potential clash over environmental policies with green groups and Democrats in […]
Why Service Is Lousy in High-Tax States
Shortly after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy proposed steep tax increases last year, his Texas counterpart, Greg Abbott, wrote an op-ed in New Jersey’s biggest newspaper inviting residents to consider moving to the low-tax Lone Star State. Mr. Murphy countered with a piece in the Dallas Morning News touting the new investments his government planned […]
The Identity Crisis Facing Both Republicans and Democrats
Sometimes the most momentous shifts in American life happen in plain sight, but in such slow motion that they aren’t fully appreciated until complete. Such a shift is happening right now with the country’s two major political parties. Both Republicans and Democrats are in the midst of—and in fact, may be near the end of—significant […]
The Democrats’ Socialist Gene
How did the Democrat Party move so far left so fast? No convention, retreat or caucus was held to designate Medicare for All, tippy-top tax rates, arcane identity litmus tests, free college tuition or a Green New Deal as Democratic dogma, but here we are. So far, every major Democrat who has declared for the […]
Mexican Meth Fuels as American Crisis
The opioid crisis grabs the headlines, but what about the meth crisis? Methamphetamine, produced by Mexican cartels and smuggled over the southwestern border, killed 10,333 Americans in 2017, more than in any previous year. Worse, preliminary statistics show an increase to more than 12,000 in the year ending last July. President Trump says there’s a […]
Bernie and Burlington College
Sanders is no longer the only socialist in the Democrat crowd. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he’s running for President again, and we trust this time no one will sell his chances short. Having come close to winning the Democratic nomination in 2016, the Vermont socialist should get the scrutiny he dodged last time. Among 2020 […]
Capital Punishment
A Push to End Executions Republican lawmakers in at least six states are pushing to eliminate the death penalty, signaling a broader reversal by many conservatives on an issue that has ·tong been a bed-rock for their party. In Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, · Montana and. Wyoming, Republicans in legislatures controlled by their party have sponsored […]
The U.S. Is Ceding the Pacific to China
The way to deal with China, and thus North Korea, its naughty but wholly dependent vassal, is not by a failing and provocative attempt to weaken it, but by attending to America’s diminishing strengths. Unlike the short-focused U.S., China plays the long game, in which the chief objective is a favorable correlation of forces over […]