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Isaac Schorr

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Republicans have a winning midterm message within their grasp

Democrats are dithering over their midterm strategy — but to stand any chance of defying the electoral odds, Republicans must lay out a positive...

05.05.2026 5

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

What would really happen if America abdicated its role as world leader

01.05.2026 8

Washington Examiner

Isaac Schorr

Obama’s gaffe about the WHCD shooter is just the latest in the former president’s legacy of lies

Barack Obama’s tacky, hyperpartisan post-presidency is welcome insofar as it serves to remind the public of his tacky, hyperpartisan leadership style.

28.04.2026 5

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Democrats’ swoon for Jew-hater Graham Platner shows antisemites now run their party

The Senate candidate from Maine knows his base wants a laundered version of the world’s oldest hatred — and his success is a symptom of a larger...

09.03.2026 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Biggest victim of the Epstein feeding-frenzy? The truth

Democrats and their allies in the media are engaged in yet another Epstein-induced feeding frenzy, this time over documents pertaining to President...

28.02.2026 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

America off the rails: A political class without restraint stokes fear and division

If there was ever a point of agreement between supporters of President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle,...

27.02.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Isaac Schorr

Memo to NFL bean-counters: Teams pick coaches based on their skills — not their skin color

Unfortunately, much of the ensuing conversation has concerned their skin color, rather than their ability to do their jobs.

07.02.2026 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

What is a woman? Democrats still won’t say — and it’ll cost them

If someone with designs on the world’s most powerful office won't answer a query as basic as this, they don't belong within a country mile of the...

23.01.2026 50

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

The DNC’s bumbling anti-American new chairman

Democrats are desperate to simplify every story into one in which their own country plays the bad guy.

13.01.2026 40

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump’s Bibi embrace a blatant rebuke to anti-Israel obsessives trying to hijack MAGA

Donald Trump is wisely refusing to put any daylight between the United States and Israel, much to the chagrin of some loud members of his coalition.

03.01.2026 30

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

How Republicans can shatter 2026’s midterm narrative

The winds are blowing against the GOP ship, but past experience plus data provide a clear recipe for a shocking result in next year's midterm...

24.12.2025 60

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

The Epstein impasse: It’s less about new revelations than old arguments about Trump

05.12.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Isaac Schorr

‘Kill order’ smear of Pete Hegseth is a classic Dem Deep State bid to topple Trump, dripping in hypocrisy

The coordinated attack on Hegseth is part and parcel of a dangerous, long-running effort at delegitimizing President Trump’s authority over the...

04.12.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

After the attack on two National Guardsmen, it’s time to raise the immigration bar

Ramanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, allegedly opened fire on two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, this week.

29.11.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Why so many New Yorkers were swayed by the lies of socialism and Zohran Mamdani

On Tuesday, New Yorkers — by a slight majority, but a majority nonetheless — endorsed Zohran Mamdani and the proud, unrepentant form of socialism...

07.11.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Calm down Dems, your socialist champagne will age quickly

Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is Champagne drunk, celebrating his ascension.

05.11.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Curtis Sliwa has a point: voters want conviction — and it’s shaping every race across the country

In the Donald Trump era, authenticity and clarity of vision rule the day — as the races in NYC, New Jersey and Virginia show.

22.10.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Jon Stewart’s faux outrage shows how Democrats lost the plot on patriotism

Stewart’s shtick has been the same for years: Present yourself as a down-the-middle everyman disgusted by America’s political landscape — and...

14.10.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Katie Porter’s meltdown shows how clueless and coddled Dems are

California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter will answer any question you might have for her with one of her own: How dare you?

09.10.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Charlie Kirk and George Floyd’s shared day exposes America’s fault lines

Both deaths had profound aftershocks that have shaped the national psyche — and their shared birthday will reveal how close to boiling point America...

08.10.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

AOC’s lies about Charlie Kirk reveal the truth behind left-wing bile

Fifty-eight Democrats opposed a resolution to honor the life — and condemn the assassination — of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Friday.

22.09.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Charlie Kirk willingly courted controversy, but his death puts an exclamation point on his virtues

19.09.2025 10

Washington Examiner

Isaac Schorr

Kamala Harris stumbles onto the truth: She’s a whiny, blame-shifting liar

Kamala Harris in her new book seeks plaudits for her loyalty to Joe Biden, while blaming him for her own shortcomings — and remains hopelessly...

12.09.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

RFK Jr.’s quest to prove himself Trump’s most destructive Cabinet member continues with CDC drama

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quest to prove himself President Donald Trump’s most destructive Cabinet member...

01.09.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Hypocrite Obama scorns gerrymandering — unless it benefits HIM

Barack Obama took blue California's side in the redistricting fight with Texas, but his own history with gerrymandering makes his claim to the moral...

23.08.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

America’s openness leaves Mahmoud Khalil free — to abuse our freedoms

Nothing in the Constitution or embedded in our longstanding American values compels this country to admit hateful ideologues.

09.08.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Democrats self-own bragging about inflation shows the left has learned NOTHING

Everybody makes mistakes. Not everyone makes the same mistakes over and over again.

27.07.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Rahm Emanuel’s ritual humiliation explains the Democrats’ plight

Years out from the start of primary season, activists are sharpening their knives, aiming to take the Obama insider down and make an example of him.

25.07.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump’s embrace of American strength is forging alliances — and peace

Trump seemed to be flirting with isolationism, but his support for Israel and Ukraine is a sage return to battle-tested foreign policy principles.

10.07.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Why Trump’s ‘Mamdani the Commie’ tag will stick — despite the media’s cover operation

Unfortunately for Zohran Mamdani and his media allies, there aren’t enough semantic tricks in existence to make up for his own damning words.

02.07.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Democrats hate democracy — unless they get their way

Their reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling on transgender kids shows that Democrats’ faith in the wisdom of the people is shattered by a...

27.06.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Israel-hating elites stoked the flames that led to the Boulder firebombing

The Boulder, Colo., terrorist attack on a march for the innocent hostages held by Hamas was predictable, even inevitable, given the vile and false...

03.06.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

The Joe Biden scandal set off a Democratic civil war — that will tear the party to pieces

Every major administration official who served under Joe Biden helped hide the president’s decline — and some Dems are using the public's outrage...

29.05.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Supreme Court attacks are a fool’s game for GOP — even when rulings don’t go Trump’s way

Some of the very Republicans who fought for decades to bring the court back in line with the Constitution seem to have forgotten what that long battle...

20.05.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill is at risk — and it’s the GOP that could sink it

Republicans are at odds over three particularly foolish ideas that threaten President Trump's best chance to turn the ship around and avert a 2026...

13.05.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Stacey Abrams is the Democrats’ self-made nightmare — as she hints at another election bid

Democrats are quietly acknowledging the readily apparent truth that Georgia's Stacey Abrams is political fool’s gold — but they’re the ones who...

01.05.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

AOC has made herself a legit White House contender — and a GOP threat

As Ronald Reagan put it, the American electorate rewards those who bear banners of “bold unmistakable colors” rather than “pale pastels.”

17.04.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Why Trump’s tariffs may not deliver the American ‘golden age’ he’s promised

The President's tariff plan could hurt the nation more than it helps.

05.04.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Cory Booker, white supremacist? Bloviation bares his party’s shameless playbook

Five minutes ago, Democrats denounced the Senate filibuster as a racist relic of Jim Crow, now that they're in the minority and Cory Booker deploys...

03.04.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

In the Democrats’ looming civil war, one side is already doomed

The nature of the Democratic party's messaging makes it nearly impossible for them to walk back any of their unpopular ideas.

27.03.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

A dangerous faction of Trump’s cabinet pushes for an American retreat

According to a Signal discussion that accidentally included Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, the VP pushed back hard on his boss’s plan to strike...

26.03.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump, don’t heed the dangerous urge to attack the rule of law

The president is playing footsie with judicial disobedience — and calling for retribution against judges he dislikes. But an independent judiciary...

19.03.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Bernie Sanders’ trans rally — not Gavin Newsom’s flip — shows where Democrats truly stand

The only way Democrats can earn back Americans’ trust is by directly repudiating themselves — and their own extreme policies.

11.03.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

‘Biden Truthers’ aren’t just pathetic — their blindness reveals Democrats’ fatal flaw

Time and time again, the Democrats have set aside common sense, decency and the interests of the country in a ruthless pursuit of power — arrogantly...

05.03.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump risks repeating Biden’s Afghanistan disaster by appeasing Putin

If Donald Trump acts on the sentiments he expressed this week, he is poised to usher in a dark new world order and blow up his own legacy.

19.02.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump the myth-buster: Wrecking the left’s delusions is his superpower

Donald Trump's brash style has proven an effective, if imperfect, antidote to the left’s stranglehold on the zeitgeist — and he’s reaping the...

16.02.2025 20

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump called out the AP’s lefty bias — and its snooty response betrays the media’s delusions

By insisting, despite all evidence, that it’s still journalism's unbiased gold standard, the Associated Press is burning its last shred of...

13.02.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr

Trump is not the radical — he’s simply undoing radical things Dems did

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order compelling America’s schools to allow only women to compete in women’s sports, the usual...

09.02.2025 10

New York Post

Isaac Schorr