Where are the J.D. Vances of yesteryear? The post Quitting Time? appeared first on The American Conservative .
The Home Plate Quitting Time? Where are the J.D. Vances of yesteryear? (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images) While waiting for Vice President J.D. Vance—who as Senator Vance was among the corporal’s guard of war skeptics in that body—either to regain his voice or to reclaim his cojones from a safe-deposit box buried deep within the bowels of Trump Tower, patriots in the administration’s foreign-policy division might examine how their forebears answered the question, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” In Resignation in Protest (1975), the political scientists Edward Weisband and Thomas M. Franck wondered why, despite Vietnam and Watergate, there had been so few “courageous public defections of key disaffected members of the…Open
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) ended his bid for California governor on Sunday after being accused of sexually assaulting a former aide and other instances of misconduct. #CAgovrace #Election2026
While Vice President JD Vance is the presumed favorite to win the party nomination, he has not announced his plans to run, nor has Trump endorsed him to become the next president.
Pity the hack who works for Gavin Newsom. The post Ghostwriter in a Hurry appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books Ghostwriter in a Hurry Pity the hack who works for Gavin Newsom. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, by Gavin Newsom. Penguin Press, 304 pages. Let’s start with the acknowledgments, usually the best place to begin in a political memoir. Here the author admits that he is less composer and more collaborator. Although his name appears on the cover and the story is his own, the real work of compilation is done by a shadow army of ghostwriters, developmental editors, line editors, copy editors, and fact checkers. No one feels any compunction about this arrangement. It is just the way the business works. The writers and editors offer their services, the author accepts, and everyone who…Open
Good Monday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time 2:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in […] Source
Does it ever seem like certain types of crimes get ignored or played down by legacy media? As humorist David Burge (Iowahawk) famously stated, “journalism […] Source
