Editorial: Latest Reports from the Washington Posts ‘Right Turn’

Sunday wrap

Who said it? 1. “Why do we have to write a law every time we turn around in this country?” 2. “A more traditional campaign has to take place.” 3. “Our record is not going to be distorted. We are going to fight back.” 4. “ISIS was primarily the result of the vacuum in […]

How to spice up the Democratic debate

As with the Republicans’, the Democratic debates have become rather predictable and therefore un-revealing. The moderators ask variations of the same questions; the candidates give variations of the same answers. That does not mean there is a lack of material. There is plenty to ask at this week’s debate. From Hillary Clinton, we would like […]

Distinguished pol of the week

The contrast could not be greater. The GOP presidential front-runner is bombastic, ignorant and unable to conceive of solutions to real problems. Maryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, however, is showing himself to be able to accomplish big things in a deep blue state the old-fashioned way — listening to voters, working with the other party […]

Obama’s economic myopia has devastating consequences

You cannot make this up. Consider two headlines: “Economists Trim Estimates for Growth, Jobs After Early-2016 Turmoil” and “Obama Readies Flurry of Regulations.” Hmmm. Could these two things, you know, maybe, possibly be related? There in a nutshell is the problem at the root of liberals’ economic policy notions. The economy is limping along, as […]

Instead of the Vatican, Bernie Sanders should go to Israel

In a somewhat peculiar move, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced that he will be going just days before the New York primary to the Vatican to give a speech at a conference hosted by Pope Francis. Okay, it’s a scheduling choice, I suppose. If he is trying to bolster his credentials as a dreamy-eyed socialist […]

Who has the right stuff to win the wacky GOP race?

It’s a revealing week in the GOP presidential race when perhaps the least interesting and surprising development was a massive loss of a critical state by the front-runner. Consider what came into perspective this week. For his most important position for his most important undertaking, Donald Trump hired as his presidential campaign chief an infamous […]

Blundering Trump is running out of material

Donald Trump is spending his time chastising Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) for condemning “New York values.” When Cruz first made the remark, we argued that it was foolish for him to insult voters whom he would later need to court. He’s paying a price for that now, although Republicans in New York, he argues, understand what […]

Morning Bits

Setting the bar for Donald Trump: “If he doesn’t get over 50 percent, he should probably consider dropping out, like everyone else has when they don’t win their home state in a dramatic fashion,” says Jeff Roe, Sen. Ted Cruz’s (Tex.) campaign manager. Even if Ohio Gov. John Kasich isn’t barred from the first ballot […]

Democrats don’t know ‘nasty’

Liberal pundits, mainstream reporters and Democratic senators and activists are aghast that the Democratic presidential primary has become “nasty.” Hillary Clinton is accused of calling Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — gasp! — “unqualified,” which she did not (but if she had, she would have been on solid ground, if you go by his atrocious interview […]

Trump shuts barn door after delegates are lost

Elevating long-time establishment operative Paul Manafort to be Donald Trump’s “convention manager” — a barely disguised shake-up that shrinks the role of Corey Lewandowski (whose alleged battery threw the campaign off-track) — in effect confirms what media and political gurus have been saying for months:  Lewandowski lacks the emotional temperament and experience to win a […]

Democrats need not worry about beating Trump

Despite a raft of polling showing Donald Trump to be Hillary Clinton’s weakest opponent, publicly some Democrats appear nervous about the prospect of fighting off Trump in the general election. Maybe they are trying to bait Republicans into nominating him, or perhaps it reflects underlying concern about Clinton’s electability. Whatever the case, there is reason […]

Cruz woos Jewish voters

Today, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) meets with Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn. On Saturday, he will be the only Republican presidential candidate going to Las Vegas to speak to the Republican Jewish Coalition. As he faces primary battles in states with significant numbers of Jewish voters (New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, etc.), this is […]

Tumultuous Trump vs. ‘No drama’ Cruz

In 2008, power struggles, shake-ups, backbiting and dysfunction became a major storyline in Hillary Clinton’s defeat. It reflected her deficiencies as a leader/executive and contributed to her campaign’s demise. Meanwhile, the mainstream media gleefully pointed to the then-newcomer to national politics — Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois — as conflict-free and the model of […]

Sanders faces denunciations for ignorant remarks about Israel

As we noted yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) got slapped down by the Anti-Defamation League concerning his remarks in a disastrous New York Daily News interview. He characterized Israel’s response to Hamas shelling of Israeli citizens as disproportionate and exaggerated the casualty total in Gaza, a war provoked by Hamas’s targeting of civilians. Now historian […]

Morning Bits

Hillary Clinton, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), is running against a know-nothing. “Clinton said that judging by his remarks, it was clear to her that he ‘hadn’t done his homework and he’d been talking for more than a year about doing things that he hadn’t really studied or understood.’ The core of his campaign ‘doesn’t seem […]

This is the right election to be unlikable

To his credit, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) admits he is not a warm and fuzzy guy. In the town hall before Wisconsin’s primary, he acknowledged, “What I will say is I’m a pretty driven guy. That has pros and cons. I have always been a very driven guy.” In the October GOP debate, he offered, “If […]

Six ways to knock out Bernie Sanders in New York

Hillary Clinton is signaling she’s had enough of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). She is no danger of losing on the delegate count, but continued losses reinforce the perception she is a weak, vulnerable general election candidate. At home in New York, it makes sense for her to take off the gloves. Not so long ago she […]

Obama’s sneaky concession to Iran

The Obama administration, facing a violent backlash in Congress, swears up and down that it does not mean to give Iran direct access to U.S. banks. When pressed, however, it seems that the president is trying to achieve the same result, a unilateral concession to Iran that bolsters its economy, only by different means. The […]