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Barrett and healthcare

Democrats and their media allies are warning that putting Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court will doom the Affordable Care Act. They predict tens of millions will be thrown off Medicaid and the sick will lose their preexisting conditions protections. Don't fall for this fear-mongering. ...

Trump will lead to civil war

What is America really fighting over in the upcoming election? Not any particular issue. It's not even Democrats versus Republicans. The central fight is over Donald J. Trump. Before Trump, most Americans weren't especially passionate about politics. But Trump's M.O. has been to force people ...

Supreme court: rules of the game

The United States Constitution's Article 2, Sec. 2, cl. 2, provides that the president of the United States "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers ...

Barrett’s strengths are many

What Amy Coney Barrett has in common with Ruth Bader Ginsburg WASHINGTON — Knives are being sharpened and armies of Democratic operatives have saddled up to try and ride Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett out of town. That's OK. She's been through the gantlet before and is up to the ...

Questions for Biden

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made himself largely unavailable to questions from reporters since before his nomination. In contrast, President Trump has made himself available numerous times per day to reporters and their often hostile and confrontational questions. This is ...

Our most personal vote

In the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the Democratic nominees, former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry, were both seen by the nation's voters as more knowledgeable and more intelligent than the Republican standard-bearer in both elections, George W. Bush. But those same ...