February 8, 2024

What’s to Blame for GOP Fundraising Woes

For those confused by the odd paradox of the Democrats out-raising the GOP by a 3:1 margin despite historic unpopularity at the top of their ticket, consider this anecdote from October 2017. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) resigned from his congressional ...

October 18, 2023

Conservatives, Savor our Supreme Court

Amidst new turmoil in the Middle East, ever-lingering inflation, and an ongoing presidential primary, you could be forgiven if you missed the Supreme Court beginning its new term this month. Nonetheless, this represents an important annual political ...

July 4, 2023

Republican Losers and Donald Trump

“Loser. Loser. Loser,” was the attack leveled by 2024 GOP hopeful Chris Christie (R-NJ) at former President and current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, describing the electoral shortcomings for the Republican party under Trump in the 2018, ...

August 22, 2022

Stop Yearning for the 'Generic Republican'

As primary season finishes up and yields to general election season, once overconfident Republican pundits are getting nervous.  Those concerns aren't entirely unfounded: a recent poll finds that Democrats now have a slight lead over Re...

May 16, 2022

Why didn't the GOP Establishment vet Barnette 13 months ago?

As Pennsylvania's May 17 primary election draws close, conservative media outlets have begun lobbing intense attacks at one candidate on the ballot.  And no, it is not Lt. Governor John Fetterman, the far-left candidate who is pois...

May 4, 2022

What's Wrong With Moral Majority Republicans?

Donald Trump’s widespread support among evangelicals has been both a subject of interest and consternation among ardent anti-Trumpers.  “Is evangelical support for Trump a contradiction?” asked a July 2020 Vox headline.  N...

April 8, 2022

No, Trump Didn’t Cost the GOP the Senate

Last week, author and conservative pundit Andrew Klavan found a surprising culprit for the likely confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court during his typically superb podcast: former President Donald Trump.  “The reaso...

March 22, 2022

John Bolton Inadvertently Reminds Us Why We Need Trump

At the outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, establishment Republicans seized the opportunity to score political points by placing the blame for Putin’s aggression squarely upon the shoulders of their primary political rival: former pre...

February 12, 2022

When the Left Hates Green Energy

Combating climate change has become the most significant issue in the progressive movement, as evidenced by the $555 billion earmarked for "clean energy" in the so-called "Build Back Better Act."  John Kerry, the Biden a...

January 21, 2022

The New York Times is hiring! Wanna apply?

Liberal bias among prominent news outlets has been well-known for decades.  As a consequence, there has been a mass exodus of conservatives away from "legacy media" outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post ...

January 6, 2022

Can Libertarians be pro-transgender?

A staff op-ed from last year on the Libertarian Party website staunchly defended transgenderism, postulating that "those who long have declared themselves champions of limited government and personal freedom are seeking to insert their own ...

November 10, 2021

The rise of the conservative outsider

On an Election Day chock-full of surprising GOP victories around the country, the most stunning upset was trucker Edward Durr's all but assured triumph over long-serving Senate president Stephen Sweeney (D-N.J.) despite having little name recogni...

October 21, 2021

Shatner in space offers a chance to be proud of America

We conservatives tend to gripe about cultural degradation, and with good reason: with each passing day, our institutions lurch leftward, from our education system to our scientific establishment and yes, even America's pastime.  Yet poi...

September 13, 2021

How Conservatives Can Fight the Rabid Partisanship Plaguing America

You never voted on it. You never gave society your consent. Yet somehow every decision you make has political ramifications, from the fast food you buy to the ice cream you eat, the sports you watch, the movies you enjoy, the words you use, and even ...

August 2, 2021

How Many Paradigm Shifts Should We Expect with COVID-19?

Thomas Kuhn, a renowned philosopher of science, suggested in his 1962 work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions that scientific progress advances through a series of revolutionary cycles.  In each cycle, a dominant scientific model ...

May 4, 2021

Pursuing Serious Student Loan Reform

The first 100 days of the Biden administration have been marked by extraordinarily costly pieces of legislation, led by the passage of a  $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill, with another $2 trillion infrastructure proposal currently under congres...

April 17, 2021

Afghanistan Withdrawal is a Litmus Test for GOP Foreign Policy

On his final day in office, Donald Trump discussed some of his most significant accomplishments, placing a particular emphasis on his lack of military aggression. “I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no ne...