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Polls are not like a weather forecast.

We can't do anything about the weather. If the prediction is rain, the only thing to do is get ready for it.

Polls measure public sentiment. But that sentiment can be influenced.

Current polling seems to justify handwringing on the part of Republicans regarding the outlook for November.

RealClear ...Read more

Is your business "needed"?

Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is "needed."

Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs.

Bureaucrats said she hadn't proved her business was needed.

"Why does the state ...Read more

When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as governor of California in 1967, the state had a population of 19,176,000, according to the Census Bureau. Eight years later, when he left that office in 1975, the state's population had grown to 21,537,849 -- an increase of 2,361,849.

That was not an unusual pattern for governors of the Golden State. Under ...Read more

One way you can appreciate that America is a free country is that the Left feels free to dump on the 250th anniversary of America's founding. The New Yorker can ask "How Problematic Is Patriotism?" Their answer is "very problematic."

MS NOW host Ali Velshi channeled this spirit on May 31. He fussed that "America has never actually fully ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese's Bishop Hugh Boyle officiating at the dedication of a new church and school in the city's upper-north-side neighborhood off Perrysville Avenue.

"The services, which began shortly after 10:30 a.m. consisted of a ...Read more

Nearly everyone who is a college sports fan, myself included, knows the state of affairs in the NCAA is one fine mess. Especially regarding football and men's basketball, the two major money-making sports, things have changed massively in the last few years -- and mostly not in a good way.

Elite and even above-average athletes have effectively ...Read more

It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls.

A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat. She captioned the video, "You're six and the ceremony enters minute 37."

The footage ...Read more

Democrats are again acting like they occupy the high moral ground of American politics. But if 2026 has proven anything, it's that there's virtually nothing a left-wing candidate could say or do that would elicit condemnation from Democrats if doing so threatened their power.

Democrats, for example, demand credit for their opposition to Maureen...Read more

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are admonished not to participate in evil.

The tweet went ...Read more

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed.

"This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually ...Read more

Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and the uniformed guide struck me as knowledgeable, ...Read more

James Talarico has decided that God isn't nonbinary after all.

Anyone who has relied on the Texas senatorial candidate for theological guidance might be experiencing whiplash. Talarico is trying to clean up a series of idiotic statements, including about God's supposed nonconforming gender, that are vulnerabilities ahead of a competitive race...Read more

Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion ...Read more

The reported end of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" marks more than the cancellation of a television franchise. It represents the collapse of an era in American media where political outrage replaced entertainment, ideology replaced humor, and audiences were expected to applaud lectures disguised as comedy.

For decades, late-night ...Read more

Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a onetime, 5% levy on the accumulated net worth of the state's richest residents. Lesser known is the Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act, which would draw constitutional lines around what Sacramento can and cannot tax, prohibiting...Read more

Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has roundly defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican runoff primary for Cornyn's U.S. Senate seat (Paxton won by 25 percentage points), the real battle begins.

Paxton's opponent on the Democrat Party ticket is James Talarico, a former teacher and member of the Texas House of ...Read more

On May 26, during a Fox News television interview, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla called U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio a liar.

Rodriguez argued Rubio falsely accuses Cuba of being a threat to the U.S. Rubio spins a deceitful narrative designed to justify a U.S. military assault on harmless Cuba.

Rodriguez suggested the...Read more