Despite the bend-over-backwards effort by certain members of the faux-conservative media to dismiss Tuesday’s election results as having nothing to do with Trump (*cough* Laura Ingraham *cough*), it’s an indisputable fact that the anti-Trump/GOP momentum that began in the 2017…
In 2010, Rand Paul, a self-described Constitutional conservative with Libertarian leanings, was elected to the U.S. Senate to represent the state of Kentucky. As a supporter of the then-emerging Tea Party movement — he wrote a book entitled The Tea…
The 2016 election included the strongest third-party campaign since Ross Perot in 1992 and it looks like the two major parties have not gotten any more popular in the intervening three years. A new poll shows that just under 40…
As I wrote last week, Trump’s recent arbitrary and capricious decision to unilaterally abandon our Kurdish allies in Syria to pave the way for a Turkish offensive against the freedom fighters who helped us reign in ISIS, was motivated by…
A couple of aphorisms come to mind when looking at the Ukraine whistleblower scandal. At its core, the scandal is about unintended consequences and deception weaving a tangled web. While there have been many unintended consequences of President Trump’s request…
In his Washington Post opinion piece yesterday, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) threw down the gauntlet to his fellow Republicans and challenged them to “risk [their] careers in favor of [their] principles” concerning Donald Trump’s unworthiness to be re-elected in…
When Ben Sasse rode the TEA Party wave to victory by defeating Mitch McConnell and the GOP establishment to win the Nebraska Republican Party primary for the US Senate in 2014, it was viewed by many as another notch in…
