It's Trump's Party Now By Patrick J. Buchanan
"More is now required of us than to put down our thoughts in writing," declaimed Jeff Flake in his oration against President Trump, just before he announced he will be quitting the Senate.
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October 27, 2017
October 27, 2017
Both Parties Trying Even Harder to Defeat Themselves By Michael Barone
Three weeks ago, I wrote a column about how both parties seem determined to lose the next elections. Since then, the pace has accelerated.
The clamor is more visible -- and more assiduously reported by mainstream media -- among the Republicans.
October 26, 2017
Primary Colors in Red By Kyle Kondik
If President Trump actively campaigned against incumbents of his own party in primaries next year, it would be an unusual political occurrence. But it would not be without precedent. In fact, he wouldn’t even be the first ideologically flexible, wealthy New Yorker who occupied the Oval Office to do so.
October 25, 2017
A Private Military By John Stossel
We've fought in Afghanistan for 16 years now. Are we making progress?
October 25, 2017
The Lib Enablers of Perv Photog Terry Richardson By Michelle Malkin
If you wonder why Hollywood stayed so quiet so long about casting couch abuse behind closed doors, just look at how the entertainment industry enabled perverted sexual exploitation of women in front of the camera.
October 24, 2017
Are Our Mideast Wars Forever? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The Kurds have no friends but the mountains," is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds.
October 23, 2017
A Clown in a Sequined Cowboy Hat Distorts Greatest Sacrifice By Charles Hurt
At last America is once again unified. We are, it turns out, all racists.
Because if retired Marine General and current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a Gold Star dad among so many other distinctions, is a racist, then every last one of us is.
October 20, 2017
Why Girls In The Boy Scouts Feels Weird By Ted Rall
I'm not a traditionalist. Progress is good. The fact that we've always done something a certain way is no argument for continuing to do it the same way.
October 20, 2017
Is Liberalism a Dying Faith? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Asked to name the defining attributes of the America we wish to become, many liberals would answer that we must realize our manifest destiny since 1776, by becoming more equal, more diverse and more democratic -- and the model for mankind's future.
Equality, diversity, democracy -- this is the holy trinity of the post-Christian secular state at whose altars Liberal Man worships.
October 20, 2017
Democrats Yelp as Trump Upholds Constitution By Michael Barone
Donald Trump is criticized, often justly, for misstatements of facts and failure to understand the details of public policy. But in two of his most recent controversial actions, he has taken stands upholding the rule of law and undoing the lawless behavior of his most recent predecessor.
October 19, 2017
Underneath It All: Elections for the Virginia House of Delegates By Geoffrey Skelley
While November’s political spotlight will shine brightest on the gubernatorial contest at the top of the Virginia ticket between former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie (R) and Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D), there will also be many interesting races down-ballot in the Old Dominion on Election Day. Not only will there be elections for the commonwealth’s two other statewide offices — lieutenant governor and attorney general — but all 100 House of Delegates seats will also be up for grabs. The General Assembly’s lower house will probably look a little different after Nov. 7, but the question is, how different?
October 18, 2017
Trump Takes Wrecking Ball to the Swamp That Is D.C. By Charles Hurt
There is the old adage that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. This has always been because the swamp contains the nastiest reptilian creatures that will just as soon strike you in the back as look at you.
October 18, 2017
Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon By Michelle Malkin
"#MeToo" is the social media meme of the moment. In a 24-hour period, the phrase was tweeted nearly a half million times and posted on Facebook 12 million times. Spearheaded by actress Alyssa Milano in the wake of Hollyweird's Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, women have flooded social media with their own long-buried accounts of being pestered, groped or assaulted by rapacious male predators in the workplace.
October 17, 2017
Is War With Iran Now Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan
With his declaration Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran.
October 14, 2017
What Would The U.S. Look Like if We Built it from Scratch? By Ted Rall
Imagine that there was another revolution. And that nothing big had changed. Demographics, power dynamics, culture, our economic system and political values were pretty much the same as they are now. If we Americans rolled up our sleeves and reimagined our political system from scratch, if we wrote up a brand-new constitution for 2017, what would a brand-spanking-new United States Version 2.0 look like today?
October 13, 2017
Is Trump the Heir to Reagan? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Three decades ago, as communications director in the White House, I set up an interview for Bill Rusher of National Review.
October 13, 2017
Today's Turn-of-the-Century Problems By Michael Barone
Is America in a new Gilded Age? That's the contention of Republican political consultant Bruce Mehlman, and in a series of 35 slides, he makes a strong case.
October 12, 2017
Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race: Where Things Stand With Less Than a Month to Go By Geoffrey Skelley
The November of the year following a presidential election is always relatively quiet on the electoral front, with only regularly-scheduled statewide races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. With the Garden State’s contest looking like a safe Democratic pickup and Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate not happening until December, coverage of the competitive Virginia race seems to be accelerating as it enters the final month before Election Day. This is only natural: gubernatorial elections in the Old Dominion traditionally ramp up around Labor Day, and now that the election is less than four weeks away, the candidates are beginning to go all-in on television ads, which attracts more notice inside and outside of the commonwealth.
October 11, 2017
Let Them Leave By John Stossel
The United States was born when the Founding Fathers seceded from England.
