Next Right Reads
10/13/16
Reed Galen says it’s Martin Luther time for the GOP.
We are measured in our tone, but passionate in our beliefs.
We are prepared for the task ahead of us. No less than the future of the Republic is at stake.
We are ready and willing to fight for what we believe — don’t be surprised when you see us coming.
Braden Pace declares character dead in America.
Donald Trump could pull back whatever kind of bizarre combover he has to reveal horns, call himself the Prince of Darkness and I’m pretty sure I know people who would tell me how great it is that Trump has found religion. He could declare that, as Ann Coulter alluded to, abortions will be performed in the White House and as long as he delivers that giant wall, I’d still have people rationalizing to me that he still didn’t abort as many babies as Hillary Clinton did.
I’m a fairly young guy, but I’m old enough to remember when parents could tell their kids “you might grow up to be President of the United States someday” and it not be an insult. But now that’s gone. Now we are told we have to vote for moral monsters to “save the Supreme Court.” We’re told we need to condone the filthiest type of behavior with our vote because if we don’t, Hillary will win.
Patrick Brennan describes Elizabeth Warren’s hypocrisy on charter schools.
Warren’s hypocrisy on the issue is such that it’s put her out of step with a number of prominent Massachusetts Democrats. As the nonprofit America Rising Squared points out, the Democratic state house speaker, Robert DeLeo, and one of the state’s most powerful Democratic congressmen, Stephen Lynch, both support the ballot measure.
They get it: Massachusetts Democrats say they’ll stand up for the little guy and make sure every kid has a shot. Voting to raise the charter school cap is one of the most effective, realistic ways to do that.
If only Warren could stand up to the teachers’ unions with the ferocity she does the 1 percent.
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