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Trump’s promising health agenda

The Left is hysterical over the prospect of a Trump administration in charge of the nation’s health policy. But life expectancy in the U.S. peaked in 2014 and has been shrinking nearly every year since then, an indicator that Americans’ health is declining. This despite the trillions spent covering the uninsured. Expanding insurance is not the panacea it was promised to be. A shakeup is needed. Here’s what should be on the Trump agenda: 1. Focus on Healthy Eating to Combat Chronic Diseases President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial health advisor, Robert F. Kennedy ...

Republicans are again falling for mandate

In September, I wrote, “No matter who wins, the next president will declare that they have a ‘mandate’ to do something. And they will be wrong.” I was wrong in one sense. Now, I still think the idea of mandates are always conceptually flawed and often ridiculous. The only relevant constitutional mandate Donald Trump enjoys is the mandate to be sworn in as president. Think about this way: Trump’s coalition together contains factions that disagree with one another on many things. Assume that self-described Republicans are Trump voters. According to the exit polls, about a ...

Cooperating only when that matters

On a recent CNN panel, a Republican strategist cited a random article from last June about liberals having established a “resistance” to a Trump second term. “Can we just have a couple of years of peace for the Republicans and President Trump to do what they promised to do because the American people are clearly asking for it?” Scott Jennings said in a beseeching voice. A Democratic panelist shot back with “that’s rich” as another noted the outrage in 2016, when Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to let the Senate even hold hearings on Barack ...

Democrats self-examine, but not media

It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like “realignment,” “self-reflection” and “regret.” It seems most on the losing side are rethinking their far-left policies on immigration and the entire social agenda. Let’s wait and see, because for the left these are matters held as near-religious doctrines. One group apparently having no regrets, remorse or even self- reflection are the media, which overwhelmingly favored Kamala Harris for president. They can’t grasp that not everyone has the same worldview as theirs. ...

Voters wanted change. They got it

“It isn’t a hard choice,” we said. On one side was a candidate who would abide by the Constitution and laws of the United States and accept the outcome of elections. On the other was a candidate refusing to accept a 2024 defeat even as memories of his attempted coup in 2020 remain fresh; vowing to punish the “enemy within”; and promising that mass deportations will be “bloody.” That was what we meant by democracy being on the line. Some are coping by pointing out that when an incumbent president is as unpopular as Joe Biden, it’s a near impossibility for his party to ...

What you didn’t hear on election night

Here are some observations on what you didn’t hear on election night. Most networks’ focus was, quite properly, on whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would carry enough of the 93 electoral votes of the seven target states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to win the needed 270 electoral votes. Public polling, as reported and analyzed by websites such as RealClearPolitics and Silver Bulletin, had Trump ahead in most of the target states, but by microscopic percentages, and polling in both the 2016 ...