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.
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May 10, 2018
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.
May 5, 2018
America Insults Intelligent and Educated People By Ted Rall
There was controversy about it, but the Inuit famously and really do have at least 50 words for snow. The Scots have 241!
May 4, 2018
Democrats' Dangerous Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome By Michael Barone
Isaac Newton's third law of motion states that for every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It can operate in politics, too. For example, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith recently wrote, "It is part of Trump's evil genius that he elevates himself by inducing his critics to behave like him."
May 4, 2018
Memo to Trump: Defy Mueller By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Donald Trump does not wish to collaborate in the destruction of his presidency, he will refuse to be questioned by the FBI, or by a grand jury, or by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his malevolent minions.
May 3, 2018
Ohio’s Primary: The Heart Of It All By Kyle Kondik
Coming off his second term as state attorney general, Mike DeWine (R) has been a clear frontrunner to be the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee for the past several years. DeWine, a former U.S. senator (1995-2007) who has held posts at all levels of government, started the primary season with three major challengers: Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R), Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor (R), and U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci (R, OH-16). The attorney general has faced criticism in the past from conservative activists for various perceived apostasies, such as backing a deal over judicial confirmations during the Bush administration and being insufficiently pro-gun for some during his tenure in the Senate. But DeWine’s time as attorney general has allowed him to repair some of these relationships, particularly with pro-gun forces.
May 2, 2018
The 'Uncle Tom' Card Is Dead By Michelle Malkin
Here is a short list of prominent conservatives and independent thinkers who've been accused by their critics of being an "Uncle Tom" or some other vitriolic variation on the overplayed left-wing theme of being a traitor to their race or gender ("Aunt Tomasina," "Uncle Juan," "Aunt Jemima," "Uncle Wong," etc.):
May 2, 2018
Propaganda Networks By John Stossel
Why does American journalist Abby Martin report for media run by socialist murderers?
May 1, 2018
Goodbye, OPEC By Stephen Moore
I have argued many times on these pages and elsewhere that the shale oil and gas revolution is the story of the decade. Since 2007 U.S. oil and gas output has risen by about 75 percent, and the renaissance is still in its infancy stages.
May 1, 2018
Smut Night at the Press Dinner By Patrick J. Buchanan
Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who "speak truth to power," has to be the worst advertisement in memory for our national press corps.
April 27, 2018
Ban Drones By Ted Rall
We have succumbed, in recent years, to technological passivity, the assumption that there's nothing we can (or should) do about what an older generation used to call "progress." But that's not true.
April 27, 2018
Macron: The Last Multilateralist By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Together," President Macron instructed President Trump, "we can resist the rise of aggressive nationalisms that deny our history and divide the world."
April 27, 2018
Trump's Saudi Policy Gamble By Michael Barone
Seventy-three years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on his trip back from the Yalta conference with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, held his last meeting with foreign leaders, aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal's Great Bitter Lake. One was with the desert warrior king, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, who sailed in with seven live sheep and a tent to sleep in on deck.
April 26, 2018
Raising the Ceiling, but Not the Floor, on Potential Democratic House Gains By Kyle Kondik
Rep.-elect Debbie Lesko (R, AZ-8)’s victory in a special election Tuesday night fit into the pattern we’ve seen in other special elections this cycle. In a clearly Republican-leaning seat, Lesko won but ran significantly behind Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential performance. Trump won the district by 21 percentage points, whereas Lesko only won by about five points, based on unofficial results. Given the district’s strong Republican lineage, we thought any result in the single digits would be bad for Republicans. Lesko should be fine in the fall as an incumbent — and we’re moving her district to Safe Republican — but we now have had eight federal special elections this cycle in Trump-won, Republican-held seats (including the Alabama Senate election), and while Republicans have retained six of them, only one of those was an easy hold (UT-3).
April 25, 2018
Alfie and Haleigh and Charlie and Jahi By Michelle Malkin
When British hospital officials tried to pull the plug on 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans on Monday night in arrogant defiance of his parents' wishes, many Americans took to Twitter to count their blessings that they live in a country that would not allow such tyranny.
April 25, 2018
Teachers With Guns By John Stossel
What should be done about school shootings?
After the horrible shooting in Parkland, Florida, President Trump suggested that some teachers carry guns. "We need to let people know, you come in to our schools -- you're gonna be dead."
April 24, 2018
America's Unsustainable Empire By Patrick J. Buchanan
Before President Trump trashes the Iran nuclear deal, he might consider: If he could negotiate an identical deal with Kim Jong Un, it would astonish the world and win him the Nobel Peace Prize.
