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Lamentations About Redistricting Ending Democracy Prove Hypocritical -- and Wrong Feb. 11, 2022
Masks were necessary, especially in schools, to prevent mass deaths. Or so we were told, at great an... Read More
Returning to Normalcy on School Masks Feb. 04, 2022
Are we returning to normalcy? The word "normalcy," as history buffs know, was used (but not invente... Read More
Voters Oppose 'Transformative' Policies, Want Reform of Dysfunctional Bureaucracies Jan. 28, 2022
Do Americans really want transformative change? The evidence accumulates that they don't. That is a ... Read More
Abolish Parenthood? No, Family Trumps 'Equity' Jan. 21, 2022
"California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity." That's the headline of a Ventura Coun... Read More
Joe Biden's Deplorable Lies May Not Even Be in His Partisan Interest Jan. 14, 2022
How do you explain why an ultra-experienced politician makes a major speech on the behalf of a legis... Read More
The John Lindsay Democrats Jan. 07, 2022
One way to anticipate what may be ahead in politics is to gauge the balance of power in the nation's... Read More
Plague-Year Immigrants Headed to Trump Country Dec. 31, 2021
I want to add a few notes to my Christmas weekend column on the Census Bureau's July 2021 state popu... Read More
A (Statistical) Journal of the Plague Year Dec. 24, 2021
As a Christmas present to statistics lovers, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the pop... Read More
Against the Religion of 'Woke Anti-Racism' Dec. 17, 2021
"If you pull the camera back and think about 1965, and think about last week, there's been massive i... Read More
Redistricting Helps Republicans but Doesn't Guarantee Control Dec. 10, 2021
Here's a suggestion for those who think that partisan redistricting — or, as is often the case... Read More
A Post-Roe Abortion Political 'Revolution' Is Unlikely Dec. 03, 2021
The Supreme Court, as this is written, is hearing oral arguments in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Wom... Read More
Kyle Rittenhouse's Offense: Insufficiently Respecting Rioters Nov. 26, 2021
Why the hatred of Kyle Rittenhouse? Why was there such widespread dishonest news coverage of the cas... Read More
Biden Stimulus Failures Could Produce 1920s-Style Republican Victories Nov. 19, 2021
What's wrong with the economy? Nobody seems quite sure, but it's clear that the Biden administration... Read More
History Has Some Bad News for Biden Democrats Nov. 12, 2021
As in the 1880s, we live in an era of polarized partisan parity, in which changes of opinion among i... Read More
Biden Democrats Lose Big -- And on Cultural Issues Nov. 05, 2021
President Joe Biden returned the morning of Nov. 3 to a nation that no longer supports him or his pa... Read More
Health and Education Elites Forced To Confess Error Oct. 29, 2021
Confessions of error are rare enough in woke America that they should be strictly construed against ... Read More
Republicans Gain Big in Blue-Collar Elections But Narrowly in Affluent State Legislative Elections Oct. 22, 2021
State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment these days. T... Read More
Bill de Blasio Is On the Way Out, But His Mindset Lingers Oct. 15, 2021
As his two terms as New York's mayor approach their end, and long after his presidential campaign en... Read More
Both Parties' Ignorance of Electoral Reality Has Led To Our Present Discontents Oct. 08, 2021
Here's a jarring thought: Most political analysts, and most political strategists for our two politi... Read More
Biden Policies Need Better Arguments Than 'Orange Man Bad' Oct. 01, 2021
"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." That advice from Margaret Thatcher has been ign... Read More
