Another Fatal FBI Fumble in Florida By Michelle Malkin
A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view.
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March 21, 2018
March 21, 2018
Climate Exit By John Stossel
President Trump's pick to be the new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is not a fan of the Paris climate agreement, the treaty that claims it will slow global warning by reducing the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Politicians from most of the world's nations signed the deal, and President Obama said "we may see this as the moment that we finally decided to save our planet."
March 20, 2018
Who's Afraid of Mergers? By Stephen Moore
Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He's copied a lot from the Reagan playbook: Deregulate; cut taxes; promote American energy. He should also think about adopting another Reaganite initiative: Let American companies grow, merge, restructure and become more profitable so they can compete on the global stage.
March 20, 2018
Did Putin Order the Salisbury Hit? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.
But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Should Run On Impeachment By Ted Rall
Democrats are already counting their electoral chickens for the midterms - but their unwillingness to lay out a clear agenda may be about to hand the party their second devastating defeat in two years.
March 16, 2018
Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Can Take the House, if They Just Pick Conor Lamb Over Hillary Clinton By Michael Barone
What if they held a special election and nobody won? That's more or less what happened in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the special election to fill the vacancy in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District.
March 15, 2018
Are Republicans In More Special Trouble? By Kyle Kondik
Assessing upcoming House specials in Arizona and Ohio after Lamb’s upset in Pennsylvania
March 14, 2018
Look Homeward, 'Change Agents' By Michelle Malkin
Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:
March 14, 2018
Lies About Trade By John Stossel
Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed by their own trade barriers, will eliminate them.
Then I will thank the president for the wonderful thing he did. Genuine free trade will be a recipe for wonderful economic growth.
March 13, 2018
Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: "There shall be open borders."
March 9, 2018
Time to Get Over the Russophobia By Patrick J. Buchanan
Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18.
March 9, 2018
Trump on Trade: Better Than Smoot-Hawley? By Michael Barone
Donald Trump's announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other countries has aroused little enthusiasm and much criticism. It evidently prompted the resignation of Gary Cohn as head of his National Economic Council.
March 8, 2018
House 2018: 26 Ratings Changes, All in Favor of Democrats By Kyle Kondik
Republicans are very much in danger of losing a district that supported President Trump by 20 points less than a year and a half ago.
March 7, 2018
Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot By Michelle Malkin
Will the VA scandal never end?
March 7, 2018
No Trade Barriers By John Stossel
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while."
March 6, 2018
Tariffs Are Taxes By Lawrence Kudlow
One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
March 6, 2018
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? By Patrick J. Buchanan
From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen.
And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America's Party.
March 2, 2018
Fatal Delusions of Western Man By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.
March 2, 2018
Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone
Not since James Monroe left the presidency in 1825, 48 years after he fought in the Battle of Princeton, has America had political leadership with careers running so far back in the past. Our current government leaders have political pedigrees going back to the 1970s.
