Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Majority Rules...Except When It Doesn't We like to say something is "the will of the people" as a justification for certain action. For example, those who are against overturning Roe v. Wade tout publ...

Keystone Politics Next Tuesday is the Pennsylvania primary, with some interesting races that have gotten national attention. Many characterized the Republican race for U.S. Senate as a fight between f...

He Gets Bad Advice We've talked previously about the impact of endorsements on political races, and in particular, the value of endorsements by former President Trump. Yesterday, his endorsement made ...

Is This Their Issue? By their own admission, Democrats were having a messaging problem heading into the 2022 elections. The economy is in deep trouble, inflation is worse than it has been in two gener...

The Line of Civility There used to be a line that one simply did not cross. For example, it used to be improper to talk back to parents or other elders, but positive portrayals of precocious children ...

Pushing Too Much You're to be excused if you've forgotten that there was other news out there this week, given the domination of coverage by the leak of a proposed Supreme Court ruling and all. One of...

The Leak From The Right A thought occurred to me this week, but no one I talked to bought in to it until late yesterday...so here's a new thought on the leak of that Supreme Court draft opinion. Maybe...

A Supreme Mess As you might imagine, I have some thoughts regarding the leak Monday night of a proposed Supreme Court ruling. For hundreds of years, our appellate courts have operated under an appropr...

Someone Will Pay Yesterday at this time, I talked about the potential problems with the idea of forgiving current student loan debt. To be clear...the debt will be forgiven in terms of the student hav...

Classroom Debt The concept of cancelling student debt remains popular among some of the more so-called progressives within the Democrat caucus. But while that sounds like a great talking point, they m...