I rounded up the best tweets of last night’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for The Federalist.
For some more in-depth commentary, check out these articles by Mollie Hemingway and David Harsanyi.
Cruz kneels
StandardAfter his brave non-endorsement at the Republican Convention in July, Ted Cruz has knelt before Zod and endorsed Donald Trump. There’s plenty of virtual ink spilled over the reasons and the effects–Ben Domenech’s article yesterday is a good place to start–so I won’t rehash them.
But I will add a few personal thoughts. I didn’t see this coming. Cruz’s strength (and weakness) has always been his willingness to stand on principle. When he refused to endorse Trump in front of a screaming crowd of Trumpites in Cleveland, I thought that would be the end of it. Given Trump’s slanderous personal abuse of Cruz, his wife, and his father, I thought I had good reason to think so.
Of the 2016 Republican candidates, only Jeb Bush and John Kasich have not endorsed. Good for them.
Unbreakable record?
StandardToday at The Hardball Times, I wrote about what it would take to hit .400 in modern Major League Baseball.
I created a separate Facebook page for my writing, so if you’d like to follow me there, check it out at www.facebook.com/pg/samminkyle.
Liberté, Egalité, Maternité
StandardI wrote about Trump’s proposal for paid maternity leave today for The Federalist.
Flag Football
StandardI wrote about Kaepernick, cops, and the First Amendment yesterday for The Federalist.
Mein Trumpf
StandardClinton Cashflow
StandardBack from vacation!
This morning at The Federalist, I wrote about why the Clinton Foundation would be a fount of corruption in a second Clinton administration.
Keep Cool
StandardI wrote about how great air conditioning is yesterday for The Federalist.
Unlucky
StandardI wrote about luck in baseball today for Hardball Times, with a focus on baseball’s unluckiest team: the 1993 New York Mets.