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The numbers show Trump has not lost the Hispanic vote — yet

Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago? He’s been the subject of premature political obituaries before — but Republicans are worried about signs that his gains with Hispanics are evaporating. Trump stunned pundits last year by very nearly winning the Hispanic vote outright. A constituency Democrats had come to take for granted suddenly seemed ready to realign with Republicans. But the numbers from the off-year elections earlier this month tell a different story. New Jersey townships with high proportions of Hispanic voters shifted ...

Let’s open up about mental health issues

“Someone could be smiling, someone could be dancing, laughing, having a great time, expressing all this joy, but on the inside, they could really be fighting a battle that you never know about.” These are the poignant words of Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Solomon Thomas in describing his teammate Marshawn Kneeland, who died from an apparent suicide after fleeing a traffic stop in Frisco, Texas, on Nov. 6. Kneeland’s death sent shockwaves through the Cowboys’ locker room and the NFL, and from reading teammates’ fond descriptions of him, it appears that no one ...

Zohran Mamdani already has started to deflate

The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor set off — for his fan base, anyway — great expectations of a more “affordable” city. But the Democratic Socialist hasn’t even been sworn in, and some of his marquee promises are already history. Start with free buses. For a city dependent on public transportation, free buses are a nice idea but also a bad idea. Fares pay for the buses, and even if you plug that hole with another revenue source, free buses would siphon riders from the subways, in effect defunding them. Mamdani spun visions of the state raising taxes to ...

We’re here, we’re annoyed and we’re not going to take it

I’m forming a new political party. No offense intended to the two major ones we already have, but they stink. OK, well, if I’m being honest, some offense was intended. Currently, we’re at “invading Venezuela to distract attention from the Epstein files” levels of incompetence, so a bit of change seems warranted. I’m going to call my party the Nuisance Liberation Front, and you’re welcome to join. We’re not going to tackle any hot-button social topics — you can go somewhere else if you want action on wedge issues. We’re dealing only with the stuff everyone ...

Inside the Biased Broadcasting Corp.

Two friends email from London about the editing scandal that led to the resignation of two top officials from the British Broadcasting Corp. The resignations followed exposure of the splicing together of two parts of a speech by President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.The edits made it look and sound like the president was urging his followers to violently attack the Capitol. One emailer said the first “B” in BBC should stand for bias. That reminded me of what some conservatives called CNN during the Clinton administration (the Clinton News Network.) The second writer said the ...

The government shutdown was pointless, dumb

Our long national nightmare is over, but the Democratic psychodrama isn’t. The longest shutdown in U.S. history — with increasing pain points across the country, especially among travelers — is ending, while the Democratic recriminations are just getting started. “It’s complete BS,” was a relatively mild take on the deal from one congressional progressive. As a rule of thumb, government shutdowns are bootless exercises. They don’t work because the party that causes the shutdown, thinking that it will provide leverage, invariably gets blamed for the shutdown and ...