Is Hamilton Next? The hit musical, now a movie, celebrates the American Founding so unabashedly that it seems ripe for cancellation. by Kay S. Hymowitz The Social Order/Arts and Culture July 2, 2020 This Independence Day, Disney is giving America a big-ticket birthday gift: the musical Hamilton. After handing over a head-turning $75 million, the […]
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TOP MICHIGAN POLITICAL STRATEGIST LAYS OUT DOOMSDAY SCENARIO FOR REPUBLICANS
WHAT AWAITS THE GOP WHEN TRUMP LOSES BIG-TIME AND TAKES THE U.S. SENATE DOWN WITH HIM? That’s the question posed by longtime legal mastermind Bob LaBrant, who along with former Michigan Gov. John Engler is credited by many with doing more to buttress Republican hegemony in the Great Lakes State over the past four decades […]
TRUMP, BARR ALIENATE A TOP MICHIGAN GOP ATTORNEY
Few legal activists have given the Michigan Democratic Party more grief, and more defeats, over the past four decades than Bob LaBrant. For most of this time, LaBrant was Senior Vice President for Political Affairs and General Counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. In his brilliant 2016 book, Ratf**ked: The True Story behind the […]
MAIL-IN VOTING: IS THE GOP’S STRATEGY ALL WRONG?
Sure looks like it. Every political observer knows that Republicans don’t like mail-in voting as opposed to in-place, showing-up-at the-polls on-Election-Day voting. They believe in the original “town square” meme from colonial times, where the enfranchised showed up in public to cast their ballots. But times have changed. Absentee voting has been in the ascendancy […]
CAN “RHODE ISLAND” LAST MUCH LONGER?
Rhode Island Might Be Changing Its Name The nation’s smallest state might not have the longest name anymore Rhode Island wants to make its nickname official Getty Images By Kayla Kibbe Inside Hook/Real Clear Politics June 24, 2020 There’s not much to know about Rhode Island. Having spent the first two decades of my life […]
A HORSE GIVES AMERICA ITS FIRST MAJOR SPORTS CHAMPION of 2020
SportsColumnistsAndrew Gross By Andrew Gross @AGrossNewsday 2020 Belmont Stakes was a wonderful race, but it still comes with an asterisk given circumstances Tiz the Law, Manuel Franco up, breaks from the pack before winning first place during the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, Saturday, June 20, 2020. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost by Andrew Gross NEWSDAY June […]
REAL CLEAR POLITICS: IS FREE SPEECH DEAD?
Defund the Thought Police By Charles Lipson Real Clear Politics Contributor June 24, 2020 Due process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement. These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, […]
THIS FABULOUS YARN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING GOING ON RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT’S A GOOD THING
Judges Gone Wild Bribery! Impeachment! Drug smuggling! Gambling! Justices getting drunk in the chambers! The Florida Supreme Court scandals of the 1970s make today’s political circus look tame by comparison. by Dylan Taylor-Lehman POCKET June 22, 2020 Illustrations by Justin Klanke. In mid-November 1986, two women came into a funeral home in Jacksonville, Florida, to […]
WEARING MASKS IN A PANDEMIC: YES OR NO?
The battle over masks in a pandemic: An all-American story Daniel Milian, from right, Miguel Martinez and Laura De Armas relax at the seaside in South Beach in the city of Miami Beach on June 19. Their group showed a variable approach to wearing masks. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post) by Lori Rozsa, Chelsea Janes, […]
HOW AND WHY THE SUPREMES DELIVERED THE LGBTQ SHOCKER
Why Roberts, Gorsuch Voted With Liberals on LGBT Case By Sean Trende Real Clear Politics June 15, 2020 Scott Applewhite) In a ruling that surprised many, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday held that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s bar on discrimination because of sex also prohibits discrimination because of sexual orientation or being […]