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March 15, 2018
March 14, 2018
Look Homeward, 'Change Agents' By Michelle Malkin
Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:
March 14, 2018
Lies About Trade By John Stossel
Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed by their own trade barriers, will eliminate them.
Then I will thank the president for the wonderful thing he did. Genuine free trade will be a recipe for wonderful economic growth.
March 13, 2018
Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: "There shall be open borders."
March 9, 2018
Time to Get Over the Russophobia By Patrick J. Buchanan
Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18.
March 9, 2018
Trump on Trade: Better Than Smoot-Hawley? By Michael Barone
Donald Trump's announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other countries has aroused little enthusiasm and much criticism. It evidently prompted the resignation of Gary Cohn as head of his National Economic Council.
March 8, 2018
House 2018: 26 Ratings Changes, All in Favor of Democrats By Kyle Kondik
Republicans are very much in danger of losing a district that supported President Trump by 20 points less than a year and a half ago.
March 7, 2018
Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot By Michelle Malkin
Will the VA scandal never end?
March 7, 2018
No Trade Barriers By John Stossel
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while."
March 6, 2018
Tariffs Are Taxes By Lawrence Kudlow
One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
March 6, 2018
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? By Patrick J. Buchanan
From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen.
And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America's Party.
March 2, 2018
Fatal Delusions of Western Man By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.
March 2, 2018
Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone
Not since James Monroe left the presidency in 1825, 48 years after he fought in the Battle of Princeton, has America had political leadership with careers running so far back in the past. Our current government leaders have political pedigrees going back to the 1970s.
March 1, 2018
Donald Trump’s Short Congressional Coattails By Rhodes Cook
-- Although Donald Trump is remaking the Republican Party in his image, he had among the shortest coattails of any presidential winner going back to Dwight Eisenhower. In 2016, Trump ran ahead of just 24 of 241 Republican House winners and only five of 22 Republican Senate winners.
February 28, 2018
Release the Florida School Shooting Surveillance Video By Michelle Malkin
Open government isn't just good government. It's the public's right.
February 28, 2018
The Political Oscars Bu John Stossel
Sunday, Hollywood sycophants give out Oscars.
February 27, 2018
The Eternal Lure of Nationalism By Patrick J. Buchanan
In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men's hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3.
February 23, 2018
Never Mind Millennial Apathy, Here's Generation Z By Ted Rall
Like many other Americans this week, I have been impressed with the poise, passion and guts of the Florida teenagers who survived the latest big school shooting, as well as that of their student allies in other cities who walked out of class, took to the streets and/or confronted government officials to demand that they take meaningful action to reduce gun violence. As we mark a series of big 50th anniversaries of the cluster of dramatic events that took place in 1968, one wonders: does this augur a return to the street-level militancy of that tumultuous year?
February 23, 2018
Don't Take The Onion's Pessimism Too Seriously By Michael Barone
"Study: 90 Percent Of Americans Strongly Opposed To Each Other." That's the headline on a story in what, on some days, seems to be America's most reliable news outlet, The Onion.
February 23, 2018
Media Sharks Smell Blood from Florida School -- and Ratings By Charles Hurt
Never before has such an unspeakable American tragedy been so quickly and shamelessly politicized for petty partisan gain.
