Hear Me Out Michael Bloomberg, the former seventy-two-term mayor/dictator of New York City, has encountered a new, seemingly unbeatable foe as he rises in the polls: his past. Politicians who have been in the public eye for a long time are target-rich environments when it comes to finding things from long ago to bite them

(Pixabay) Debt and deficits are not exciting issues, but they’ll have a huge impact on our future. In what was little more than a footnote amid the noise of impeachment and the continuing chaos of the Democratic primaries, late last month the Congressional Budget Office officially announced that for the first time since 2012, our

Largely unknown to and unreported in the West, a large, two-day conference was recently hosted by Al Azhar University in Egypt and attendant by the leading clerics and politicians from 46 nations on January 27-28.  Titled, “Renewal in Islamic Thought,” it is currently the most significant response to Egyptian President Sisi’s calls for reform, which

(Pixabay) Our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm — not with creating it by levying penalties for “offenses” that present no real risk to anyone.  The Virginia state senate has voted unanimously to approve a bill that would require art therapists to be licensed — citing concerns about the sharpness of scissors

In the latest edition of “The Rubin Report” podcast, two people I adore, Dave Rubin and Heather Mac Donald, dialogue about some of the great issues facing America. Interestingly, though both are secular, Dave opened the interview asking Heather about God and religion. She began by saying that she is not conservative because of religion

Congressman Daniel Lipinski arrives at the Chicago Ridge Metra commuter train station before campaigning for re-election in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, January 25, 2018. (Kamil Krzacznski/Reuters) Next month, U.S. representative Dan Lipinski (D., Ill.) will face a progressive challenger, Marie Newman, in the Democratic primary in Illinois’ third congressional district, which encompasses a large section of

The Return of the Paste-Eating Lightbringer President Momjeans decided to insert himself back into the conversation yesterday (which Megan wrote about here) and I have no doubt that he thought he was being brilliant. He does, after all, believe everything that he does is brilliant. The Trump economy took off upward about an hour after

Campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The Department of Education cracks down on alleged foreign funding of Yale and Harvard. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Education had opened investigations into Harvard and Yale for allegedly failing to disclose billions in donations from foreign governments. The department

WESTBY, Wisconsin — Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with him. It is likely one of the most misunderstood threads among this new conservative populist coalition. To get the real reasons

People wear protective masks at an Apple Store in Shanghai, China, January 29, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Apple said in a press release Monday that it will not meet its revenue projections for the quarter due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, signaling that its iPhone production and Chinese demand for its products were being impacted