Ed Morrissey: Policies and Platforms Matter

Ken Paxton won the nomination to the US Senate in Texas despite personal baggage from the end of his marriage. His estranged wife, state senator Angela Paxton, took the extraordinary step of endorsing the Republican ticket – and reminded voters what really matters in this midterm cycle. “In a gene…

Ed Morrissey: Republicans Must Make Midterms About Marxism

Democrats had one job to do in this cycle: Don't be crazy. But: Rather than offer a rational alternative to Donald Trump, the party has embraced Marxist revolutionaries and sympathizers of radical Islam as endorsed candidates. And voters have noticed. A CBS poll from this summer indicated that 60 …

Carol Platt Liebau: Polls and Predictions Don't Decide Elections

Pollsters and the media are predicting a blue wave. They point to President Trump’s low approval ratings and Democrats’ lead in congressional polling. But this election is no foregone conclusion. For one thing, summer Senate polls in recent election cycles have often overstated Democratic support…

Albert Mohler: Radio and the Things We Take for Granted

There are certain things we just take for granted, or at least those of us of a certain agetake for granted. Among those is the fact that when you get in a car, there’s a radio with the AM band.  In the United States, that’s not an accident. It is at least partly because of federal mandates—going …

Seth Liebsohn: Democrat Leaders Submit to DSA Radicals

Now that the Democratic Socialists of America and their allies have engaged a non-hostile take-over of the Democratic party, prepare to see more and more professional Democrats try to deflect and project. This week, Donna Brazile wrote an op-ed saying the DSA is not a concern because House Minority…

Albert Mohler: The Ugly Face of Islamic Terrorism

The ugly face of Islamic terrorism has showed that face again. I’m referring, of course, to the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai plane by the co-pilot. It was an extremely close call, averted only by heroism. This is an enormous worldview issue. It comes down to the fact that civilization is …

Hugh Hewitt: Who Really Leads the Democratic Party

Social media influencer Hasan Piker is now the face of the Democratic party. Piker wears his Mao jacket and hoses his Twitch audience down with absurd political takes. Piker uses social media to monetize the worst impulses of the extremes in American politics. In the course of doing so, he persona…

Seth Leibsohn: Yaniv Hayoun: The World Should Know His Name

One week after Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reminded the United Nations of the Entebbe terrorist attack, an international pro-Palestinian plane hijacking where four Israeli hostages and Netanyahu’s brother were killed, another hijacking of a civilian airliner destined for Israel was attemp…

Seth Leibsohn: Restoring an Appreciation of the Things That Matter

Ronald Reagan used to quote the philosopher Montesquieu: “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded.”  Reagan cited this point to warn us as more and more policies were enacted violating our principles of self- and limited government.  La…

Carol Platt Liebau: Released and Reassured?

British police arrested five young men near an air base used by American forces. They were suspected of explosives offenses and preparing a terrorist act. Today, all five are out on bail. Authorities call them British nationals but won’t release their names. Police are investigating possible forei…