A University at Buffalo political scientist with a sterling record of prognosticating presidential elections is predicting that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will turn over her gavel to the GOP come January.
The presiding Democrats stand to lose about 51 seats in November, says James E. Campbell, professor of political science at UB. His prediction stems from a crystal ball filled with scientific equations based on polling and current events, all pointing to a stunning reversal of fortune for Democrats, who took over the House in 2006.
“After two election setbacks, they are poised for a comeback,” Campbell says of Republicans. “Partisanship, ideology, the midterm decline from the prior presidential surge, the partisanship of...
Putting more and more wolves in charge of guarding the henhouse might characterize the big problems we’ve now created for ourselves.
Government is growing. The private economy is shrinking. Those wielding political power see fewer and fewer problems they believe private citizens can solve on our own. Soon, each one of us will have our own personal guardian bureaucrat.
The real difference between us and the hens is that the hens are not paying for the wolves’ salaries and benefits.
This past week new rules governing our credit cards kicked in, following passage of the Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility...
Every generation must grant libs the
trifecta of power to understand why
their parents threw them out.