Alone Perhaps, but Is Trump Right? by Patrick J. Buchanan
At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade.
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July 11, 2017
July 7, 2017
Patching It Up With Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump flew off for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin -- with instructions from our foreign policy elite that he get into the Russian president's face over his hacking in the election of 2016.
July 7, 2017
Will Trump Republicans Avoid the Off-Year Curse? By Michael Barone
Curious fact, and one disquieting for Republicans looking ahead to 2018: In the past 65 years, starting with 1952, the president's party has managed to win a majority of seats in an off-year election only four times. In the other 12 off-year elections, the opposition party won a majority.
July 6, 2017
Keeping Freedom and Growth in the Fourth by Lawrence Kudlow
What is the Fourth of July? It's a wonderful time. We're outdoors. We're with family and friends. We're playing golf or fishing. There are barbecues and baseball games and fireworks and all that good stuff.
And beneath it all, supporting it all, there is freedom. Freedom. The Fourth of July is about freedom, if nothing else. America's freedom, of course. But a freedom that extends to all people. One that leads to greatness and prosperity. A freedom that has become the backbone of the world.
July 6, 2017
Generic Ballot Model Gives Democrats Early Advantage in Battle for Control of House By Alan I. Abramowitz
Results of recent special elections have fueled speculation about whether Democrats have a realistic chance to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. Although Republican candidates have won recent special elections for seats vacated by President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees in Georgia, Kansas, Montana, and South Carolina, the GOP victory margins in all four contests have been much smaller than those for the former Republican incumbents in 2016.
July 5, 2017
Independence By John Stossel
Did you think about the signing of the Declaration of Independence this week?
July 5, 2017
Trump Seizes Moral High Ground in Charlie Gard Case By Charles Hurt
The secret to President Trump’s remarkable outsider success is his fearless willingness to walk into the most politically fraught situations, redefine every long-held prejudice and seize the moral high ground by embracing the simplest truth.
July 4, 2017
Is America Still a Nation? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the first line of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson speaks of "one people." The Constitution, agreed upon by the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1789, begins, "We the people..."
And who were these "people"?
June 30, 2017
Democrats -- and Republicans -- Lack Credibility on Economic Issues By Michael Barone
Liberal writers and political operatives, now that it's finally dawning on them that no one is going to find evidence that Donald Trump conspired with Russia to steal the presidential election, are turning to giving advice to the Democratic Party.
June 30, 2017
An America First Korea Policy By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly."
June 28, 2017
The Brutal Battle Against Medical Kidnappers by Michelle Malkin
BOSTON -- On the day Boston Children's Hospital celebrated being named "the number one pediatric hospital in the nation" by U.S. News & World Report, I was interviewing Dana Gottesfeld in nearby Somerville, Massachusetts. Dana is the young wife of Martin "Marty G" Gottesfeld, an imprisoned technology engineer/activist who used his skills to fight against medical child abuse committed at Boston's Children's Hospital.
June 27, 2017
Are Illinois & Puerto Rico Our Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into junk-bond status.
June 23, 2017
The Passing of the Pelosi Era by Patrick J. Buchanan
In the first round of the special election for the House seat in Georgia's Sixth District, 30-year-old Jon Ossoff swept 48 percent. He more than doubled the vote of his closest GOP rival, Karen Handel.
June 23, 2017
The Outlook After the Special Elections By Michael Barone
The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon Ossoff won 48.1 percent in the special election's first round April 18, and Democrats had high hopes that they could take this House seat from the Republicans.
June 23, 2017
Democrats Want To Lose The 2020 Election By Ted Rall
"I am not a member of any organized political party," Will Rogers said ages ago. "I am a Democrat."
June 22, 2017
Working-Class Republicanism By Kyle Kondik
A new book tells the story of a president who made his name as an entertainer and a Democrat before moving to the Republican Party and then launching a bid for the presidency. This candidate won his party’s presidential nomination despite objections from some party stalwarts that he was unelectable in the fall. He then captured the presidency in part because he was able to perform better than Republicans typically do in some traditionally white, working-class areas in key states.
June 21, 2017
The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier by Michelle Malkin
We may never know what brutal torture and malign neglect American student Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea's dictatorship before losing his life this week at the age of 22.
June 21, 2017
'Stingy' Jeff Bezos By John Stossel
Thursday, right before Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he'd acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, he tweeted a "request for ideas" for "philanthropy strategy." If you have suggestions re "helping people in the here and now... reply to this tweet."
June 21, 2017
Bern Victims Pile Up in Democratic Party By Charles Hurt
If the anti-Trump fever the media keeps telling us all about cannot break through in Georgia’s 6th District, then it truly is nothing but a phantom that exists nowhere but in the minds of media elites hysterically trying to will President Trump out of existence.
