The Deep State Targets Trump by Patrick J. Buchanan
When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, "If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."
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February 17, 2017
February 17, 2017
Partisan Lines Stay Fixed Amid Trump Turmoil By Michael Barone
Amid the turmoil of the first month of the Trump administration, with courts blocking his temporary travel ban and his national security adviser resigning after 24 days, the solid partisan divisions in the electorate -- modestly changed in 2016 from what they'd been over the previous two decades -- remain in place.
February 17, 2017
Trump Is the Answer to All That Ails Washington By Charles Hurt
In a whirling dervish White House press conference, President Trump manhandled the press, piledrived all the fake news and reminded the world why he tore through both political parties and got elected president in the first place.
February 16, 2017
2018’s Initial Senate Ratings By Kyle Kondik
At first blush, one might think that the Democrats have a decent chance of taking control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm. After all, midterms frequently break against the president’s party, which has lost an average of four seats in the 26 midterms conducted in the era of popular Senate elections (starting with the 1914 midterm).
February 15, 2017
Bumps in the Road: Trump vs. Obama By Michelle Malkin
The resignation of national security advisor Michael Flynn has the anti-Trump media declaring the new administration a "mess," in "turmoil" and thrown into "chaos."
February 15, 2017
Repeal! No, Wait! By John Stossel
Republicans promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But now they are hesitating.
February 15, 2017
Media and Liberals Think They've Finally Caught Their Prey By Charles Hurt
Mike Flynn was right to quit. You don’t lie to the vice president of the United States and let him go out on national television and lie to the American people.
February 15, 2017
Tax and Regulatory Reform Will Mark the End of Obama's War on Business by Lawrence Kudlow
On the very day President Donald Trump's incentive-based tax and regulatory policies are put in place, former President Barack Obama's war on business will have officially come to an end. No longer will American companies be punished by uncompetitive rates of taxation and unnecessary rules and regulations.
February 14, 2017
Is the Left Playing with Fire Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the '60s and '70s, it is starting to look like "deja vu all over again."
February 11, 2017
Should I Stay or Should I Go? By Ted Rall
The Clash asked once, and now I am too: Should I stay or should I go?
February 10, 2017
Free Trade's Effect on 'Earned Success' By Michael Barone
Amid all the hurly-burly of President Donald Trump's first weeks in office, let's try to put the changes he's making and the feathers he's ruffling in a longer, 20-year perspective. Start off with his trademark issue -- one that clearly helped him win the 64 crucial electoral votes of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin: trade.
February 10, 2017
Make SCOTUS Great Again: Liberal Judges Push Their Own End By Charles Hurt
Democrats should be very, very careful what they wish for.
February 10, 2017
Trump Must Break Judicial Power By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Disheartening and demoralizing," wailed Judge Neil Gorsuch of President Trump's comments about the judges seeking to overturn his 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from the Greater Middle East war zones.
February 9, 2017
House 2018: Crossover Appeal By Kyle Kondik
It’s become far less common in recent years for voters to vote for one party for president and another for their local U.S. House seat. While the number of “crossover” districts did go up from 2012 — there are 35 of them, as opposed to 26 after the 2012 election — the percentage of crossover seats, just 8% of the 435 districts, is low historically. To put that in perspective, 40 years ago during the 1976 presidential election — a race that, like this one, saw a national popular vote difference between the two candidates of just about two percentage points — 28.5% of the seats (124 of 435) voted differently for president and for House.
February 8, 2017
Hillary's 'Future Is Female' Femme-A-Goguery by Michelle Malkin
All that was missing from Hillary Clinton's video address to a left-wing women's group this week was a pink pussyhat and a "BOYS SUCK" T-shirt.
February 8, 2017
Smearing Team Trump By John Stossel
Oh, no! I did it again.
It was a foolish mistake. But I slipped.
I read The New York Times.
February 8, 2017
‘1984’: Making Liberals Great Again By Charles Hurt
Donning dirty T-shirts that say things like “nasty woman” and “resist,” the melting snowflakes are fleeing this Orange Revolution for their latest safe space. But it is probably one that should come with a trigger warning for these tender little kiddies.
In droves, the precious political “liberals” and “progressives” are gobbling up copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” about “the perils of a totalitarian police state,” according to The Washington Post.
February 7, 2017
Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016?
February 6, 2017
Education at a Crossroads By Thomas Sowell
In just a matter of days -- perhaps next Monday -- a decision will be made in Washington affecting the futures of millions of children in low-income communities, and in the very troubled area of race relations in America.
February 3, 2017
The Case for Left Nationalism By Ted Rall
Make America Great Again. Trump's campaign slogan was a direct appeal to nationalism. As a son of the Rust Belt city of Dayton, Ohio, I wasn't surprised to see that it worked.
