Category: Intel

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s final days in office read like a cautionary tale about the dangers of political evolution. His inbox overflows with increasingly desperate fundraising pleas – “Some bad news,” “More bad news,” “To avoid catastrophe” – while his campaign has embraced an unlikely role: election truther. The three-term senator now spams supporters daily,… Continue reading Casey Won’t Admit Defeat, But Here’s Why He Lost

It wasn’t as if the Tar Heel state didn’t see Hurricane Helene coming. On Sept. 25, one day before Helene stormed ashore, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency as the storm’s path showed it churning northward toward Appalachia after making landfall in Florida. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, right, and Deanne… Continue reading How Helene Gave Way to ‘Hurricane Snafu’ in the Carolinas

Maryland’s new education chief, Carey Wright, an old-school champion of rigorous standards, is pushing back against efforts in other states to boost test scores by essentially lowering their expectations of students. States, including Oklahoma and Wisconsin, are making it easier for students to demonstrate on annual assessments that they are proficient in math and English… Continue reading Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go to ‘Better’ Grades?

In the United States, November 11th has been known as Veterans Day since 1954 (before that, it was known as Armistice Day). Originally, Veterans Day commemorated the Allies’ victory in World War I. However, after the Second World War, veterans of that conflict including Dwight Eisenhower pushed to expand the holiday to honor all veterans.… Continue reading The Two Thanksgivings Between Halloween and Christmas

Elections often tell you less about the winners than the losers. Victory has many fathers, as the saying goes, but defeat shows you exactly what went wrong. Pennsylvania’s 2024 results offer a master class in Democratic collapse: while Trump edged out Kamala Harris by 2 points in the presidential race, Republicans romped to victory in… Continue reading Even Shapiro Couldn’t Have Saved PA for the Democrats

“Get out of the car! Get the f**k out of my car.” That’s a paraphrase of the words of the recently passed, and incomparably GREAT Bernie Marcus. Marcus, along with Arthur Blank and Ken Langone, co-founded The Home Depot. The individual Marcus ordered out of his car was a venture capitalist, and more crucially for… Continue reading Bernie Marcus Was One of the All-Time GREATS

The Republican Party reveals itself as a national middle-class party. A party that is friendly to earned success and those in need looking for a hand up. A party where the middle, bottom, and top are not divided and play a zero-sum game but are instead united in the pursuit and possession of the ever-optimistic… Continue reading What Do I See In a Republican Victory?

Voters across the pond are quickly realizing what a massive mistake they made by electing Sir Keir Starmer’s far-left, Labour government in the United Kingdom. America, you cannot afford to follow suit. It’s only been three months since the left-wing Labour government took over from the corrupted ‘Conservative’ party and already taxes are soaring, crime… Continue reading Save Yourselves. Vote for Donald Trump

Over the last 60 years, there has been unconscionable neglect of civics and American history at both the K-12 and university levels. Surveys by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) show that fewer than 20% of colleges nationwide require an American history or government course for graduation. Unsurprisingly, this deficit has made its… Continue reading The Renaissance of Civic Education

As you may have learned in school, if you put a frog in boiling water, the frog will leap out. But, if you put the frog in room-temperature water, and slowly raise the heat over time, the frog will eventually be boiled. The frog may not even notice it. He just grows more and more… Continue reading Bob Casey No Longer Represents Pennsylvanians