Is US Bellicosity Backfiring? By Patrick J. Buchanan
U.S. threats to crush Iran and North Korea may yet work, but as of now neither Tehran nor Pyongyang appears to be intimidated.
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May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018
Obama Administration's Spying on Trump a Departure From Norms By Michael Barone
"F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims," read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. "The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016," read a story in the May 21 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
May 24, 2018
Clues From the Upcoming California Primary By Kyle Kondik
House analysts know that handicapping results in individual seats can be tricky for a lot of reasons, including the lack of independent polling in most districts. Yes, the party committees, campaigns, and other outside groups will survey the districts, but many of these polls will never see the light of day, or will only be leaked to make one side look better than the other
May 23, 2018
Crapweasel of the Week: Educrat Arne Duncan By Michelle Malkin
Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do with their children.
May 23, 2018
The Innocence Project By John Stossel
On TV crime shows like "CSI," "NCIS" and "Law & Order," science gets the bad guys.
In real life, "science" often ensnares the innocent.
May 22, 2018
Trade Deals Must Protect Intellectual Property Rights By Stephen Moore
Donald Trump is now deep into trade negotiations with China and NAFTA 2.0 negotiations with Canada and Mexico. We are strong free traders, but we believe that Trump's plans to negotiate better trade agreements that reduce trade barriers abroad are right on the mark. He also has to make sure those deals fully protect U.S. intellectual property, or what is commonly called know-how.
May 22, 2018
Can a Pope Change Moral Truth? By Patrick J. Buchanan
That joking retort we heard as children, "Is the pope Catholic?" is starting to look like a serious question.
May 18, 2018
A Trump Doctrine for Singapore and Beyond By Patrick J. Buchanan
After Pyongyang railed this week that the U.S.-South Korean Max Thunder military drills were a rehearsal for an invasion of the North, and imperiled the Singapore summit, the Pentagon dialed them back.
May 17, 2018
The Democrats’ Drive for 25 in the House: An Update By Kyle Kondik
In early February, we sketched out a potential path to a Democratic House majority. We called it the “Drive for 25,” in reference to the Democrats’ branding of their unsuccessful attempt to win the House in 2012. Three and a half months later, we thought we’d revisit this possible Democratic path to the majority and see how much has (or hasn’t) changed.
May 16, 2018
Amazon Fights Back By John Stossel
Seattle is worried about the well-being of the poor and mentally ill people living there, so it's going to drive businesses out of town.
May 16, 2018
Marginalizing Melania By Michelle Malkin
Need more evidence that there are two Americas? Here: Left-wing hatred of Melania Trump is inversely proportional to flyover admiration for the first lady.
May 15, 2018
Who Turned Off the Lights? By Stephen Moore
Is anyone paying attention to the crisis that is going on in our electric power markets?
May 15, 2018
Israel at 70: Bibi's Troubled Hour of Power By Patrick J. Buchanan
For Bibi Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister save only founding father David Ben-Gurion, it has been a week of triumph.
May 11, 2018
Remember When? By Ted Rall
President Donald Trump claims that people are illegally pouring into our country from Mexico. That's not true now; notwithstanding the ballyhooed caravan of Central American migrants who recently arrived at a California crossing, illegal crossings are hitting historic lows. There's actually a net outflow. But it was true until the early 2000s.
May 11, 2018
Are Bibi and Bolton in the Wheel House Now? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Brushing aside the anguished pleas of our NATO allies, President Trump Tuesday contemptuously trashed the Iranian nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions.
May 10, 2018
Ratings Changes: Senate, Governor, House By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Republican primary voters avoided a self-inflicted wound in West Virginia when disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship (R) finished third in the GOP Senate primary.
May 9, 2018
Sombreros, Qipaos and Catholic Cosplay, Oh My! By Michelle Malkin
The impossibly fickle, selective and whimsical rules of cultural appropriation are hard to keep straight.
May 9, 2018
Hating DeVos By John Stossel
People hate Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
When she spoke at the Kennedy School of Government, students held up signs calling her a "white supremacist."
May 8, 2018
The Internet Under Siege By Stephen Moore
What is it about the internet that makes it so the government just can't seem to keep its greedy paws off of it?
May 8, 2018
Don't Trash the Nuclear Deal! By Patrick J. Buchanan
This next week may determine whether President Trump extricates us from that cauldron of conflict that is the Middle East, as he promised, or plunges us even deeper into these forever wars.
