Month: November 2018

When I was in high school in the 1980’s, we were taught that the Lincoln-Douglas debates were a standard for high-minded political debate, and in more recent years I’ve seen them mentioned favorably in comparison to...

Not infrequently, a Republican or Democratic candidate for office loses by a narrow margin and people point at a third party candidate who is supposedly to blame. For Republicans, this is usually a Libertarian who got more votes...

While most of the political world was focused on supposed disarray within the House Democratic caucus as they prepare to decide whether Nancy Pelosi will have a second go-round as Speaker, the House Republicans actually held...

The EU and UK negotiating teams have finally come to a deal just in time for a November EU Summit and a pre-Christmas rush to have “a meaningful vote” on the deal in the House of Commons. There is no telling what...

By the time Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House in 1995, the House Republicans had spent sixty-two years in the minority, with the exception of two single-session majorities they gained after the 1946 and 1952 elections....