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Editor of @NRO. Author of Fear Your Future, Overcoming Obamacare. Formerly Executive Editor, @dcexaminer
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Nov 11, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
New: "Democrats’ Spending Bill Breaks Biden’s Tax Pledge, Analysis Finds" nationalreview.com/corner/democra… Tax Policy Center -- hardly a conservative source -- finds that BBB would break Biden's tax pledge: “Taking into account all major tax provisions, roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022,” nationalreview.com/corner/democra…
Nov 10, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Biden Won’t Be Able To Spin His Way Out of Inflation Crisis" nationalreview.com/corner/biden-w… BLS on inflation: “the increase was broad-based, with increases in the indexes for energy, shelter, food, used cars and trucks, and new vehicles among the larger contributors.” nationalreview.com/corner/biden-w…
Oct 29, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Why Biden’s Social Agenda May Prove Less Resilient Than Obamacare" nationalreview.com/corner/why-bid… Liberals hope -- and conservatives fear -- that Biden's welfare state expansions will survive just like Obamacare. But I'm not so sure. A future Republican Congress wouldn't have to actually pass anything -- they could simply let Biden's agenda expire nationalreview.com/corner/why-bid…
Sep 2, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
My column on the dire warnings of the Social Security and Medicare Trustees, which Democrats are preparing to brush off in their race to spend another $4.1 trillion nationalreview.com/2021/09/anothe… Soc. Security trust fund depletion, which was 37 years away when Bush tried to reform the program, is now 12 years away. nationalreview.com/2021/09/anothe…
Mar 24, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
New: “Unlike Obama, Biden Doesn’t Even Pretend to Care about Tackling Our Historic Debt” nationalreview.com/2021/03/unlike… Days after Obama passed his stimulus, he held a "Fiscal Responsibility Summit" in the WH, vowing to get long-term spending under control. In contrast, Biden is pivoting to pushing for trillions of dollars in new spending nationalreview.com/2021/03/unlike…
Nov 11, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Donald Trump is acting like a bigger sore loser than Al Gore" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/donald… I still have my Sore-Loserman merch. But even Gore was challenging an election that came down to a few hundred votes in 1 state. Trump is contesting an election he's trailing by tens of thousands in multiple states. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/donald…
Oct 6, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Trump's reckless victory lap is a slap in the face to victims of COVID-19" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps… Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died or suffered long-term health effects from COVID, not because they weren't warriors like Trump, but bc they lacked his presidential resources ...or were simply unlucky washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps…
Feb 4, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
I’m at First Presbyterian Church in Des Moines. When I came here in 2016, Hillary won easily. Eyeballing it this time it looks like Bernie will crush Biden. People still arriving though. Will update when I have hard numbers. This Des Moines location has 86 people. In 2016 it had 138 and in 2008 it had 160. Viability threshold is set at 13.
Jan 31, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
I was denied entry to Trump's Des Moines rally last night w/ other credentialed press -- we were told,fire marshall orders. So I watched with a crowd outside in 30 degree temp, and here's what I think should make Dems nervous about 2020 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-tr… What struck me among Trump supporters I spoke with was whether they backed him in 2016 or did not, they feel that he has delivered on promises as president in a way that no other politician ever has. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-tr…
Nov 12, 2019 9 tweets 3 min read
Elizabeth Warren has built her career on a series of cons and like any grifter, she only gets bolder as she gets away with them. With her M4A plan, she's attempting the big one. My latest in depth magazine piece washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/elizab… From her debunked medical bankruptcy research to her unconstitutional CFPB to her gimmicky legislation to her unserious campaign proposals to her joke of a M4A financing plan, Warren his moved from one con to another washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/elizab…
Mar 15, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now as unpopular as Ted Cruz during 2013 government shutdown over Obamacare defunding" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/alexan… Note:I deleted an earlier tweet & fixed headline and story, bc though Ocasio-Cortez has a higher unfavorable rating, she has a slightly higher favorable rating than Cruz did and they're both -10 on net. So fair to say she's AS unpopular, not MORE unpopular washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/alexan…
Mar 14, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Pathetic Senate Republicans abandon principles by embracing Trump's emergency declaration" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pathet… Even if you think the emergency powers act should be changed, there's no reason you can't also vote against this specific invocation of it washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pathet…
Mar 13, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Bernie Sanders staffer's dual loyalty smear shows liberal anti-Semitism goes well beyond Ilhan Omar" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie… ICYMI, Sanders staffer had to apologize for writing: "do you not think that the American government and American Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the state of Israel?" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie…
Mar 12, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Why a mass Jewish voter exodus from the Democratic Party is unlikely in 2020" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-a-… In a sense, there has already been a mini-Jewish exodus. Jewish voting for Dems ranged from 76-80 from 1992-2008. Yet in 2012 & 2016, it was down to 69 & 71. So the lower-hanging fruit already left washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-a-…
Mar 11, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
My take: "Trump's phony budget relies on rosy economic assumptions and imaginary savings" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps… I basically could have used this headline for any Obama budget as well washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps…
Mar 8, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
New post: "Dear Jewish Democrats: It's up to you to fight anti-Semitism within your party" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dear-j… Anything that conservatives like me write about anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party is going to be taken in bad faith. So ultimately Democrats upset by what they're witnessing need to take a stand washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dear-j…
Mar 7, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Nancy Pelosi's disgusting excuses for Ilhan Omar have thrown Jews under the bus" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-… Pelosi is using the excuse that Omar didn't realize the effect of her words. Bullshit.Omar has had multiple interventions dating back to last year explaining anti-Semitic stereotypes to her, and she keeps uttering them. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-…
Mar 7, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
New post: "2020 Democrats normalize anti-Semitism by defending Ilhan Omar" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2020-d… Contra 2020 Dems, Omar was not criticizing specific Israeli policies when she said "it's all about the Benjamins." She wasn't opposing Netanyahu when she referred to "allegiance to a foreign country." She was spewing out hatred for Jews. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2020-d…
Mar 4, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Nancy Pelosi promotes Rolling Stone cover with Ilhan Omar as she continues to spread anti-Semitism" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-… Pelosi's celebration of the Jew-hating Omar via promoting their Rolling Stone cover makes it harder to dismiss the freshman as just another member of Congress. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nancy-…
Mar 1, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
New post: "Joe Biden, in apologizing for calling Mike Pence a 'decent guy,' shows why he shouldn't bother running for president" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-bi… Before "decent-gate," Biden had already been forced to apologize for supporting the 1994 crime bill washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-bi…
Feb 28, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
New post: Unrepentant Ilhan Omar suggests Jews who criticize her anti-Semitic statements are doing so because she's Muslim, revives dual-loyalty smear washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/unrepe… Unrepentant Omar: "a lot of our Jewish colleagues, a lot of our constituents, a lot of our allies, go to thinking that everything we say about Israel to be anti-Semitic because we are Muslim," washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/unrepe… via @J_Insider