Trump, The Tape and a Bunch of Lazy Journalists By Ted Rall
"The tape, without question, is real."
I expected better from The New York Times.
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December 1, 2017
December 1, 2017
'Hurtling' Republican Tax Bill Actually Serious By Michael Barone
"The Republican tax bill hurtling through Congress is increasingly tilting the United States tax code to benefit wealthy Americans." That's the beginning of a 37-word first sentence in a stage-setting front-page story in The New York Times on the tax bill under consideration in the Senate this week.
December 1, 2017
Little Rocket Man's Risky Game By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the morning darkness of Wednesday, Kim Jong Un launched an ICBM that rose almost 2,800 miles into the sky before falling into the Sea of Japan.
North Korea now has the proven ability to hit Washington, D.C.
November 30, 2017
House 2018: Less Than a Year Out, Race for Control Is a Coin Flip By Kyle Kondik
In the aftermath of the 2014 midterm election, when the party that didn’t hold the White House (the Republicans) gained ground in the House for the 36th time in 39 midterms since the Civil War, I wrote the following in the Center for Politics’ postmortem on the election, The Surge: Practically speaking, though, House Democrats might have to root for the other party in the 2016 presidential race. Why? Because given what we know about midterm elections almost always going against the president’s party in the House, perhaps the next best chance for the Democrats to win the House will be in 2018 — if a Republican is in the White House.
November 29, 2017
Nancy Pelosi: Sham 'Shero' By Michelle Malkin
Finally, Nancy Pelosi's faux feminist veneer has fully cracked.
November 29, 2017
The Evil Rich By John Stossel
As Republicans struggle to agree on a tax plan, Democrats and much of the media label each attempt at reform a "gift" to rich people.
November 28, 2017
Why Roy Moore Matters By Patrick J. Buchanan
Why would Christian conservatives in good conscience go to the polls Dec. 12 and vote for Judge Roy Moore, despite the charges of sexual misconduct with teenagers leveled against him?
November 28, 2017
The Case for Roy Moore By Charles Hurt
Whence goeth that Yellow Dog?
Once upon a time, even a Yellow Dog could get elected in places like Alabama — so long as he was a Democrat.
November 25, 2017
Sexual Harassment And The End Of Team Politics By Ted Rall
Until the 1990s, American electoral politics were divided ideologically, between the opposing ideas of liberalism and conservatism. Now we have Team Politics: Democrat versus Republican, my party right or wrong.
November 24, 2017
Merkel -- and Davos -- Rebuked in Germany By Michael Barone
It's been a tough era for Davos Man, the personification of the great and the good who meet in the World Economic Forum in that Swiss ski resort every January. The rebukes just keep coming. The European debt crisis. Brexit. Donald Trump. And now, and once again unexpectedly, Angela Merkel's failure to form a German government.
November 24, 2017
The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade By Patrick J. Buchanan
Our aim is to "starve the whole population -- men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound -- into submission," said First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
November 22, 2017
Dumb Sensors, Deadly Consequences By Michelle Malkin
The circumstances of U.S. Border Patrol agent Rogelio Martinez's death this week remain murkier than the Rio Grande River.
November 22, 2017
Thankful for Property By John Stossel
Ready for Thanksgiving? Before you eat that turkey, I hope you think about why America has turkeys for you to eat. Most people don't know.
November 21, 2017
Unserious Nation By Patrick J. Buchanan
How stands John Winthrop's "city upon a hill" this Thanksgiving?
How stands the country that was to be "a light unto the nations"?
November 20, 2017
Democrats' Depravity Laid Bare By Bill Clinton By Charles Hurt
With profiles in courage like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in powerful positions of authority around here, is it any wonder that men and women of America are living in such respectful bliss and harmony with one another?
November 17, 2017
Will Political Setbacks Unite the Republican Party? By Michael Barone
The inexorable workings of the political marketplace seem to be enforcing some discipline over hitherto fissiparous Republican politicians. The question is whether this is happening too late to save the party's declining prospects in the 2018 midterm elections.
November 17, 2017
Is America Up for a Second Cold War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After the 19th national congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October, one may discern Premier Xi Jinping's vision of the emerging New World Order.
November 16, 2017
Alabama Senate: Jones Now Narrowly Favored By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
It’s amazing to write, and there’s time for our outlook to change, but here goes: A Democrat is now a narrow favorite to win a Senate special election in Alabama. We’re changing our rating of the Dec. 12 special election from Likely Republican all the way to Leans Democratic.
November 15, 2017
Silence on Sleaze-Bob Menendez By Michelle Malkin
The verdict is in.
I pronounce Democrat leaders, left-wing feminists and Beltway journalists guilty of gross negligence and hypocrisy over a dirty rotten sleazeball in their midst.
