The president of the Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, had some choice words for her feelings about Mayor Emanuel’s decision to close a number of Chicago schools.
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Fire Brenda Snipes
Brenda Snipes, the supervisor of elections in Florida’s Broward County, does not deserve to be within a thousand miles of any election office anywhere in these United States. She should be fired at the earliest possible opportunity.
Snipes has held her position since 2003, in which year her predecessor, ...
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The Lonely Mob
Just before the election, an Andrew Gillum intern named Shelby Shoup was arrested and charged with battery after assaulting some college Republicans on the campus of Florida State University. It was rather less exciting than that sounds: She went on a rant about “Nazis” and “fascism” — Gillum’s ...
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How Immigration Changes Britain
Almost nothing is discussed as badly in America or Europe as the subject of immigration. And one reason is that it remains almost impossible to have any sensible or rational public discussion of its consequences. Or rather it is eminently possible to have a discussion about the upsides (“diversity,” talent, ...
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Broward County Probably Didn’t Undercount the Florida Senate Race
The Florida Senate race is extremely close. As the formal recount begins, the final preliminary vote tally due at noon Saturday had Republican candidate Governor Rick Scott ahead of Democratic senator Bill Nelson by 12,562 out of over 8 million votes cast. In recent days, much attention has focused on Democrat ...
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Sorry, Brian Kemp Still Won
Here was the state of play as of yesterday per the Kemp campaign’s breakdown of publicly available information:
As of Saturday, November 10, 2018 (12:00 p.m.)
*Information below is public.
Total votes reported: 3,924,658
Kemp: 1,975,162 (50.33%)
Abrams: 1,912,383 (48.73%)
Metz: ...
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Obama’s Judges Continue Thwarting Trump
As I write on Friday, the restraining order hasn’t come down yet. But it’s just a matter of time. Some federal district judge, somewhere in the United States, will soon issue an injunction blocking enforcement of the Trump administration’s restrictions on asylum applications.
The restrictions come in the ...
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