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.
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June 29, 2018
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.
June 20, 2018
Chinese Big Brother By John Stossel
Upset because Facebook and Google invade your privacy? Be glad you don't live in China.
Facebook and other Western apps are banned there. The government views their openness as a threat. So the Chinese use platforms like WeChat and Alibaba.
June 19, 2018
Fake Support for a Free Market In Energy By Stephen Moore
All of a sudden, everyone on the left wants "free markets in energy policy." As someone who's advocated for that for, oh, about three decades, this riff should be music to my ears. But is laissez faire energy policy really what liberals are seeking?
June 19, 2018
Trump and the Invasion of the West By Patrick J. Buchanan
"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their parents.
June 15, 2018
Will We Get Tired of So Much Winning? By Michael Barone
It has been a week full of wins for President Donald Trump -- at least for those who share Trump's view of the way the world works, and perhaps even for some who don't.
June 15, 2018
Trump's Historic Gamble By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy.
The British prime minister once counseled, "Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
June 13, 2018
Patriarchy Defender By John Stossel
"Shame on you! Shame on you!" chanted protestors after psychology professor Jordan Peterson said he'd refuse to obey a law that would require everyone to call people by the pronoun they prefer -- pronouns like "ze" instead of "he" or "she."
June 12, 2018
Behind Trump's Exasperation By Patrick J. Buchanan
At the G-7 summit in Canada, President Donald Trump described America as "the piggy bank that everybody is robbing."
June 12, 2018
Putting America First Has Made USA No. 1 By Stephen Moore
The left is quickly running out of excuses for why Donald Trump's economic policies have caused a boom rather than the bust that they predicted with such great certainty.
