Dear Republicans, the talking heads and the pollsters were very wrong about the definite red wave. Fortunately, you won control of the House of Representatives by a few seats. It will be a trying time since the loudest voices will seek retribution against Democrats through much-needed investigations. Undertake a few very well-structured investigations to expose…
If there is one thing Twitter has become since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, it’s entertaining. Musk reinstated popular accounts with large followings that had previously been suspended. This included former President Donald Trump, though he has yet to use it again. Musk has also prioritized the removal of child sexual exploitation material, calling…
Forty-odd years ago, Reagan defined the Republican coalition as a three-legged stool. These legs may not have pointed in entirely different directions the way that anarcho-communism, technocratic populism, or global nativism would, but they certainly didn’t hold the same centering base principles. Functionally, definitionally opposed and cross-purposed to one another, they all the same began…
Tuesday, the Missouri legislature passed SB 63, which upon receiving Gov. Mike Parson’s signature, will create a state-run prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP). The push for such legislation has been a decade long crusade for certain legislators in the House and Senate. They argue that PDMP, despite evidence to the contrary, will help prevent opioid overdoses…
Mary Rose Corkery on April 22, 2021 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed a photo of her father with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt while explaining that supporting D.C. “statehood is in my DNA” on Thursday. “I said this District of Columbia statehood is in my DNA,” Pelosi said while bringing out the framed photo. The…
Thomas Catenacci on March 18, 2021 Senate Banking Committee Republicans led by Ranking Member Pat Toomey urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell not to pursue environmental policies in a letter Thursday. Toomey and the other Republican committee members warned that the Federal Reserve potentially using regulatory authority to push an environmental agenda would be beyond…
After the 2020 election, there were several articles on the future of the Libertarian Party (LP) fighting to be heard in a controlled political duopoly system of Democrats and Republicans. In “Guerrilla Politics,” the author argues that the LP should admit it cannot win significant elections, that ballot access is a “vanity project,” and the…
We try to deny it. We like to consider ourselves a group of marginalized misfits. To relish the thought that we may embody the last remnants of the rebellious spirit from which this country was borne. Attacks from all sides for our principles of rugged individualism and personal freedom help us maintain the illusion that…
Andrew Trunsky Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they meet in hopes of finding some common ground, but the two proposals have far more differences than similarities. The $618 billion package only slightly resembles that of the Biden administration, whose proposal is…
Mary Rose Corkery on January 21, 2021 Will Wilkinson, vice president for research at the Niskanen Center and a New York Times contributing opinion writer said Thursday that President Joe Biden would lynch former Vice President Mike Pence if he desires unity. “‘Aha! Biden proposes policies I dislike. HIS CALL FOR UNITY IS A LIE!!!’…