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April 3, 2019

Breakfast Isn't Important By John Stossel

I skipped breakfast again this morning. I won't worry about it.

Yes, I've heard the advice. "It's the most important meal of the day." It balances blood sugar levels, kick-starts your metabolism, stimulates the brain, etc.

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April 2, 2019

Trump Should Close NATO Membership Rolls By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, the president should give him a direct message:

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April 2, 2019

The Biggest College Scandal of All By Stephen Moore

The seething anger Americans feel over the college admission scandal with wealthy and well-connected families using money, influence and cheating to bump their kids up in line so they get accepted into elite schools is well justified. Yet this scheme is small potatoes compared to the real scandal on college campuses from coast to coast. That scam is how much universities are charging families once they do get in.

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March 29, 2019

Must the West Beg the World for Forgiveness? By Patrick J. Buchanan

As the Democratic Party quarrels over reparations for slavery, a new and related issue has arisen, raised by the president of Mexico.

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March 29, 2019

R.I.P. Collusiongate By Michael Barone

Collusiongate is now history. The late-Friday afternoon announcement that special counsel Robert Mueller had completed his investigation and Attorney General William Barr's four-page letter released Sunday made it clear. "The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Barr wrote.

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March 27, 2019

Crony State: Obamas' Chicago Fixer Tina Tchen By Michelle Malkin

How did hate crime huckster Jussie Smollett get away with it? All crooked roads in Chicago lead back to the Obamas.

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March 27, 2019

The Socialist Fantasy By John Stossel

Venezuela is a disaster.

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March 26, 2019

How the First 'Green New Deal' Flopped By Stephen Moore

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal has been widely ridiculed for its massive disruption to the economy and a price tag of tens of trillions of dollars.

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March 26, 2019

Russiagate -- a Bright, Shining Lie By Patrick J. Buchanan

"The Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia ... to influence the 2016 US presidential campaign."

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March 22, 2019

Old Rules of Thumb Yield to Even Older Ones By Michael Barone

Success in politics -- and in political predictions -- depends on the ability to distinguish between old rules of thumb that don't apply any more and old rules of thumb that do.

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March 22, 2019

Why Joe May Be Courting Stacey By Patrick J. Buchanan

Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before.

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March 21, 2019

This Century’s Electoral College Trends By Kyle Kondik

It has become common to describe our home state of Virginia as a state that is “trending Democratic.” That’s an observation we agree with — we used that exact term a few weeks ago in our initial Electoral College ratings. But what are we really saying when we use a term like that?

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March 20, 2019

Never Forget: CAIR's Dirty Deeds By Michelle Malkin

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is having a banner month. The militant Muslim group never lets a crisis go to waste. That means Americans should beware. When unappeasable CAIR is ascendant, our free speech rights, religious liberty and national security are at risk.

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March 20, 2019

Academic Jargon By John Stossel

Seven academic journals were recently hoaxed into publishing ridiculous studies on topics like "rape culture and queer performativity" in dog parks.

The editor of only one of the journals, Roberto Refinetti of Sexuality and Culture, agreed to talk to me about the hoax and whether academics learned anything from being duped.

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March 19, 2019

The Democrats' $100 Trillion Agenda Could Easily Tilt the Nation By Stephen Moore

Remember when Democrats complained that $5.7 billion for a border wall was too expensive? Well, that's chump change compared to what many of the congressional Democrats and nearly all of those 15 declared Democrats in the presidential race are now rallying behind.

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March 19, 2019

Who Spawned the Christchurch Killer? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Last Friday, in Christchurch, New Zealand, one of the more civilized places on earth, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, an Australian, turned on his cellphone camera and set out to livestream his massacre of as many innocent Muslim worshippers as he could kill.

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March 15, 2019

Chicago's Clues for the 2020 Democrats By Michael Barone

There was a record-sized field of candidates containing as many women as men. Their surnames ranged from the long familiar to the novel and exotic; they had multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds, and at least one gay candidate was in the running. This sounds like the ever-expanding list of candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but it's also a description of the field in last month's primary election for mayor of Chicago.

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March 15, 2019

Is Diversity a Root Cause of Dual Loyalty? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"We can't be divided by race, religion, by tribe. We're defined by those enduring principles in the Constitution, even though we don't necessarily all know them."

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March 13, 2019

How to Protect Your Kids From Google Predators By Michelle Malkin

The father of the World Wide Web is right: It's time to take back "complete control of your data."

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March 13, 2019

Your Fair Share By John Stossel

Do you pay enough taxes? What is enough?