In May I wrote that the only way a Republican could win the White House (“The Republican Road to the White House Goes Through the House”) was if there were a contested election that threw the decision to the House of Representatives. The only real way to get a contested election (one in which no nominee wins 270 electoral votes …
California: Where Multiculturalism Went to Die
The legislative effort to add civil right protections against caste discrimination should be all the evidence one needs to know that multiculturalism has reached its farcical end. As reported in CalMatters (“A small world: How caste discrimination came to California,” June 8) and elsewhere, many South Asians — Hindus, I presume — who have immigrated to the United States feel …
Long Live DiFi!
Listening to all the chatter around Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s prolonged absence from the Senate, one might think that the future of the Republic was at stake. In addition to her absence, due to health issues, the underlying issue is that Sen. Feinstein, who will be 90 in June, may not be up to the rigors of the job because of …
All Politics Local No More?
A truism of American politics for decades has been that “all politics is local.” The general drift of the assertion was that no matter what else was happening in the body politic at the national level, how people felt about circumstances in their own communities was paramount in their voting decisions. This no longer appears to be the case. The …






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