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During a recent appearance on “The View,” outgoing Congresswoman Mia Love called out the Democrats for their hypocrisy on diversity.  Love, a Haitian-American Republican from Utah who lost her re-election bid last year, claimed that the Democrats “targeted me because I was a…because I am a black female Republican. And they replaced me with a middle-aged white male in the state of Utah.”  Love continued: “They tried to get rid of every single diversity that they possibly could.  And to me, diversity on the left side is good for them if you think the same way they do.”  In other words, if the left really cared so much about diversity; they would not have worked so hard to take out Love.  Never-Trumper Ana Navarro, who recently became one of the show’s permanent co-hosts on Fridays, said something that actually made sense for once in her life; in response to Love’s claim that the left wanted to get rid of her because of her race and gender: “I ...

Many in the media and on the left obsess over descriptive representation, the idea that the demographics of Congress should closely mirror the demographics of American society; specifically focusing on race and gender.   According to descriptive representation, Congress should have a much higher proportion of African-Americans, Hispanics and women and a much lower proportion of men and lawyers.   No politician has taken the idea of descriptive representation to the extreme more than left-wing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who sought a 50-50 balance of men and women when putting his cabinet together.      The Democrats will certainly tout the “diversity” of their candidates as they seek to take control of both houses of Congress.   The Democrats and the media have already obsessed over the large number of female Democratic candidates that they think will ride a “pink wave” accompanying the “blue wave” that will sweep the Democrats back into po...

During a recent appearance on CNBC, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren alleged that President Trump wants to “set working people against working people, black working people against white working people.”   She made this statement in an attempt to paint the Democrats as the party of unity as opposed to the divisiveness of Republicans and President Trump.   Anyone who thinks the Democratic Party has a monopoly on inclusion inhabits a “fantasy world,” as Bill O’Reilly pointed this out in a brilliant talking points memo called “The Inclusion Delusion,” which he delivered shortly after the 2016 Presidential Election.     For starters, no group of people has relied more heavily on class warfare than the Democratic Party.   The Democrats have convinced a large group of Americans to blame the rich for all of their problems.   Many seek to raise the top marginal tax rate to as high as 90 percent, which will have the effect of punishing success thus remo...

During World War II, the United States Government reluctantly worked with the Communist Soviet Union to take down an even larger enemy: Adolf Hitler.   After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union , the world’s largest superpowers at the time, had an antagonistic relationship for nearly half a century in a period of American history known as the Cold War Era.   As World War II effectively wiped out fascism in Italy , Germany , and Japan , the United States began to identify a new enemy to freedom everywhere: communism.   During the Cold War era, the United States participated in some “hot wars,” where military intervention took place; such as the conflicts in Vietnam and Korea , where the United States took the side of South Korea and South Vietnam over their communist counterparts.   The United States never formally went to war with the Soviet Union but the threat of war loomed large for decades.   During the “Second Red Scare,” Am...

On Tuesday night, three more states held primary elections while Texas held runoff elections for candidates who failed to capture 50 percent of the vote in the March 6 primary.   Voters in Arkansas , Georgia , and Kentucky went to the polls for the first time this election cycle on Tuesday night.   All three states voted for President Trump and none of the three states have a Senator up for re-election this year.   Only two of the states, Arkansas and Georgia , have gubernatorial races this year.   Arkansas ’s popular incumbent governor, Republican Asa Hutchinson, looks like he will sail to re-election in the fall.   While Texas does have a Senate race this year, the candidates had already been decided on March 6; when the nominees of both parties captured their nominations with an overwhelming majority of the vote, avoiding the need for a runoff. For these reasons, I decided not to do a “preview” of primary night as I have done for the past two weeks. ...