Why Joe Biden Is the Least Electable Democrat By Ted Rall
As one of the few pundits who correctly called the 2016 election for Donald Trump, it would be wise to rest on my laurels rather than risk another prediction, one that might turn out wrong.
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May 25, 2019
May 24, 2019
Using the Big Lie to Delegitimize Election Results By Michael Barone
The Big Lie is back in style. Wikipedia tells us that the term was invented by Adolf Hitler to describe what others did -- though he was the biggest liar of all. "The broad masses of a nation," he wrote in "Mein Kampf," "more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie."
May 24, 2019
Are We on the Ramp to Impeachment Road? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a stroke felled Woodrow Wilson during his national tour to save his League of Nations, an old rival, Sen. Albert Fall, went to the White House to tell the president, "I have been praying for you, Sir."
May 23, 2019
Notes on the State of the Senate By Kyle Kondik
GOP remains favored to hold the majority overall.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Senate retirements are not having a dramatic effect on the partisan odds in any race so far.
— Democrats have missed on some Senate recruits, and that may (or may not) matter in the long run.
— Alabama and Colorado remain the likeliest states to flip, with the Democratic-held Yellowhammer State the likeliest of all.
— Arizona is the purest Toss-up.
— Republicans remain favored overall.
May 22, 2019
In Money We Trust? By John Stossel
Look at the dollar bills in your wallet. They say they are "legal tender for all debts."
May 22, 2019
DUH: HUD Housing Should Put Americans First By Michelle Malkin
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy.
Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as "despicable" and "damaging."
May 21, 2019
How to Modernize Immigration Laws By Stephen Moore
When I used to talk to candidate Donald Trump about immigration, I would tell him, Make sure your "big, beautiful wall" has plenty of gates for people to come here legally. President Trump's new immigration initiative would achieve both goals -- border security and a new system to admit the immigrants America needs most.
May 21, 2019
Has the Day of the Nationalists Come? By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week from today, Europeans may be able to gauge how high the tide of populism and nationalism has risen within their countries and on their continent.
May 18, 2019
Long Form, Long Form, Long Form! Is the Future of Print Journalism By Ted Rall
Journalism is in trouble. Writers of articles pointing this out typically argue that this is really bad for democracy or America or whatever. Anyone who disagrees is too stupid to read this, so I won't bother to repeat this obviousness. Such writers also point out contemporaneous evidence of the media apocalypse; here are the three I came across this week:
May 17, 2019
Who Wants This War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Speaking on state TV of the prospect of a war in the Gulf, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei seemed to dismiss the idea.
"There won't be any war. ... We don't seek a war, and (the Americans) don't either. They know it's not in their interests."
May 17, 2019
Will 'Whiteshift' Save America From Ethnic Strife? By Michael Barone
If you've been paying any attention at all to journalism in recent years -- maybe not a good idea, but if you have -- you surely have noticed those stories predicting, often with a certain relish, that the United States is about to become a majority-minority country.
May 16, 2019
Biden’s Support Among Democrats May Be Exaggerated By Doug Johnson Hatlem
A strong plurality of voters, 8% to12% more than prefer former Vice President Joe Biden first, are undecided ahead of the 2020 Democratic primary, according to a YouGov Blue poll fielded and released after Biden’s entry into the race.
May 15, 2019
Harvard's Insatiable Identity-Politics Cannibals By Michelle Malkin
I have no love for left-wing, Hillary-promoting Hollywood producer and accused #MeToo villain Harvey Weinstein. Nor am I a fan of those who perpetrated the cop-bashing "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" fiction involving social justice martyr Michael Brown. But I do strongly believe that a grave injustice has been committed by Harvard's witch-hunt mobsters against a law professor who joined Weinstein's legal team and had represented Brown's family in a civil suit against Ferguson, Missouri.
May 15, 2019
Sex 'Trafficking' Panic By John Stossel
When police charged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with soliciting prostitution, the press said the police rescued sex slaves.
May 14, 2019
Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great By Patrick J. Buchanan
As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: "Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs."
May 14, 2019
Ohio the Comeback State By Stephen Moore
I recently took some flak from Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for saying in a speech at the Heartland Institute several years ago that the "only place to live in the midwest is Chicago." He was particularly upset that I took a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Cleveland and Cincinnati as "armpits." This was supposedly evidence that I hate Ohio.
May 11, 2019
Death to the Stump Speech By Ted Rall
Throughout 2016, the presidential candidates who were not Donald Trump complained to Jeffrey Zucker.
May 10, 2019
For Joe Biden, on China It's Still the 1990s By Michael Barone
Once upon a time, May 1 -- May Day -- was a day for working-class parades in factory towns. This year, it was a day for Joe Biden, to set off on his third presidential campaign in 32 years, to make news on the stump, not in a working-class venue but in the university town of Iowa City, now the state's Democratic stronghold.
May 10, 2019
Are All the World's Problems Ours? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In 2003, George W. Bush took us to war to liberate Iraq from the despotism of Saddam Hussein and convert that nation into a beacon of freedom and prosperity in the Middle East.
May 9, 2019
Notes on the State of the House By Kyle Kondik
The Democrats' generic ballot edge endures, at least for now, but they shouldn’t get their hopes up on redistricting.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— While it’s very early in the cycle and these polls are not predictive so far in advance, the House generic ballot polling right now looks very similar to what we saw this time two years ago.
— Republicans almost certainly will need to lead on the generic ballot to retake the House, but perhaps they won’t need as big of a lead as we’ve seen in the past because of the nature of partisan voting in a presidential year and their abundance of targets in districts President Trump can or will carry.
— If new House maps are created in Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio because of various court orders, Democrats would benefit on balance. But it may very well be that no maps end up being changed.
