Trump's Zero-Tariff Solution By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariff policies have now triggered retaliatory tariffs from other nations, including Canada, the EU and China.
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July 10, 2018
July 10, 2018
Is a Trump Court in the Making? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Mitch McConnell's Senate can confirm his new nominee for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump may have completed the capture of all three branches of the U.S. government for the Republican Party.
July 6, 2018
Will the Odd Couple -- AMLO and Trump -- Narrow the U.S.-Mexico Gap? By Michael Barone
Will NAFTA survive? Last week, Mexico elected as president longtime NAFTA critic Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (always called "AMLO") by a wide margin. He promptly had a cordial telephone conversation with longtime NAFTA critic President Donald Trump, who remains U.S. president for the next 30 months and, if re-elected, for all of AMLO's six-year term.
July 6, 2018
The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back By Patrick J. Buchanan
With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated.
July 4, 2018
Jahi's Life Mattered By Michelle Malkin
Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week.
July 4, 2018
One Nation, Many Individuals By John Stossel
We celebrate the Fourth of July because that's the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, 242 years ago. You might call July 4 America's birthday.
The Declaration didn't just declare our independence from Britain; it vowed to create a government that respected all people's rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
July 3, 2018
Give Us Your Young, Energetic, Talented Masses By Stephen Moore
Republicans are right to call for tough measures to deter illegal immigration -- which means building the wall, ending the "catch and release" policy and challenging the harboring strategies of sanctuary cities.
July 3, 2018
The Liberal Stampede to 'Abolish ICE' By Patrick J. Buchanan
"No Borders! No Nations! No Deportations!" "Abolish ICE!"
Before last week, these were the mindless slogans of an infantile left, seen on signs at rallies to abolish ICE, the agency that arrests and deports criminal aliens who have no right to be in our country.
June 30, 2018
The Blame is Bipartisan By Ted Rall
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat its mistakes, blah blah blah, someone said -- Americans don't even pay attention to the news, so how the heck are they supposed to remember it after it becomes history?
June 29, 2018
No Party for Old White Men By Patrick J. Buchanan
For Nancy Pelosi, 78, Steny Hoyer, 79, and Joe Biden, 75, the primary results from New York's 14th congressional district are a fire bell in the night.
June 29, 2018
Justice Kennedy's First Priority: The First Amendment By Michael Barone
It became official just after lunchtime on Wednesday, just after the Supreme Court announced its final decisions of the term and went into recess. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the 104th person to serve on the court, is retiring, effective just after his 82nd birthday next month, after 30 years of service.
June 28, 2018
The Uncertain Political Ramifications of Justice Kennedy’s Exit By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
An already turbulent national political environment was rocked by another major development Wednesday afternoon: Justice Anthony Kennedy, the closest thing there is to a swing vote on the Supreme Court, decided to retire. President Donald Trump, who already got to appoint conservative Neil Gorsuch to the court after Senate Republicans decided not to consider then-President Barack Obama’s replacement for the deceased Antonin Scalia in early 2016, is now poised to pick a second justice, and one who likely will push the court further to the right. This comes on the heels of several key, 5-4 decisions released at the end of this year’s Supreme Court term that broke against the court’s liberal bloc.
June 27, 2018
'Abolish ICE' Zealots Occupy Fantasy Island By Michelle Malkin
"No ban. No wall. No borders at all."
June 27, 2018
Shut Up, They Explain By John Stossel
I'm not surprised that mobs shriek at Trump administration officials in restaurants and that Maxine Waters wants more of that. I've watched this happen at American colleges.
June 26, 2018
A Fascist Right -- or a Hysterical Left? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Trump's supporters are truly "a basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" and "irredeemable," as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them?
June 26, 2018
The State of the American Worker -- Never Better By Stephen Moore
Last week, I testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the state of the American labor market. I summarized my message in one sentence: For American workers, the job market has never -- or at least seldom -- been better. If you don't have a job, go out and get one, because jobs are out there for the taking.
June 22, 2018
The Supreme Court's 'Bartleby' Decision By Michael Barone
"I would prefer not to." That was the invariable reply of the title character of Herman Melville's 1853 story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," when asked by his employer to perform a task.
June 22, 2018
Has the West the Will to Survive? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"If you're ... pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people, and if you're strong, then you don't have any heart, that's a tough dilemma. ... I'd rather be strong."
June 21, 2018
Never Say Die Senate Candidates: Don Blankenship Lost His Primary But Plans To Run In November Anyway By Geoffery Skelley
If he does, the former coal magnate will be just the latest in a long line of Senate primary losers to run in a general election.
June 20, 2018
Weapons of Mass Manipulation By Michelle Malkin
Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives.
