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What if Trump runs ahead of his poll numbers – again

As I try to understand public opinion in yet another presidential election year with former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, I see an anomaly. On one hand, the polls look very much like the 2020 and 2016 election results. Trump trails Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.9 ...

Now the feds are spying on Congress

“Those who have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.”— Hosea 8:7 The federal antipathy to compliance with the Constitution is well known and well documented. Presidents have declared war in contravention of the constitutional command that only Congress may do so. Congress itself has ...

Wall Street Journal on judicial ethics, double standards

Progressives have made ethics scandals out of conservative judges mixing with conservative friends or speaking at Federalist Society events. So what are we to make of the Climate Judiciary Project working to enlist judges in its anti-fossil-fuel campaign, as detailed by the American Energy ...

Washington Post says EV sales stall, focus on hybrids

The recent announcement by Ford Motor Co. that it was abandoning plans to roll out a large electric SUV seems like another warning flag that the early electric vehicle craze has hit a roadblock. There have been other signs. Last year, Tesla, the EV trendsetter, was forced to offer deep ...

Harris must defeat Trump to save the democracy — that’s her job

Presidential elections of yore were not like this one. Would the media kindly get that into their collective skull? Many journalists seem to think that the reluctance of Kamala Harris to sit down for searing in-depth interviews on “the issues” is a major issue. The one she did with CNN ...

Why giant mergers harm workers

In front of the Federal Trade Commission building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., where I used to work, stands a giant sculpture of a runaway horse being reined in. It’s called “Man Controlling Trade.” The allegorical sculpture by Michael Lantz is one of a pair installed in ...