Prosperity Cities By John Stossel
Lovers of socialism didn't like my column last week. I wrote that Venezuela's collapse shows the cluelessness of celebrities like Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky, who'd praised Venezuela's leader.
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June 7, 2017
June 7, 2017
Trump Should Consider Becoming His Own Solicitor General By Charles Hurt
President Trump’s single greatest strength is that he — and he alone — is his own top adviser and most trusted confidant. It’s just he, himself and @realDonaldTrump.
June 6, 2017
The Forever War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On May 22, Salman Abedi, 22, waiting at the entrance of the Arianna Grande pop concert in Manchester, blew himself up, killing almost two dozen people, among them parents waiting to pick up their children.
June 2, 2017
Hillary Scrubs Her Hands Furiously, 'Out, Damned Spot!' By Charles Hurt
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! — One, two. Why, then, ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.”
— Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1
June 2, 2017
Let's Stop Acting as if the 2016 Campaign Were Still On By Michael Barone
If you keep up with the news, you might think that the unpleasant and unedifying 2016 presidential campaign is still going on.
June 2, 2017
Is Afghanistan a Lost Cause? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We are there and we are committed" was the regular retort of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the war in Vietnam.
Whatever you may think of our decision to go in, Rusk was saying, if we walk away, the United States loses the first war in its history, with all that means for Southeast Asia and America's position in the world.
June 1, 2017
Just How Many Obama 2012-Trump 2016 Voters Were There? By Geoffrey Skelley
In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many observers understandably focused on the numerous places that swung from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. Because many of these areas congregated in swing states within the Rust Belt and Midwest, they played a pivotal role in Trump’s victory, as shown by the movement toward the GOP in Map 1 below. But how many total voters really switched from Obama to Trump in 2016? Different data sources tell a different story, but the answer is certainly in the millions.
May 31, 2017
Imperfect Trump Dominates World Stage and U.S. Media Fabricates By Charles Hurt
This being that time of year when we are supposed to remember and be grateful, it is highly appropriate that we in the damned media — we, the enemy of the public; we, the ink-stained wretches; we, the writers of history’s first draft — should pause a moment and give thanks for President Donald J. Trump, politician extraordinaire.
May 31, 2017
Chomsky's Venezuela Lesson By John Stossel
Venezuela descends into chaos. Its people, once the wealthiest in Latin America, starve. Even The New York Times runs headlines like "Dying Infants and No Medicine."
May 30, 2017
President Trump's Growth Budget By Lawrence Kudlow
When Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney unveiled President Trump's new budget, he used language that is so important -- although we haven't heard it in so many years.
May 30, 2017
What Do The Democrats Want? by Ted Rall
In the 1970s, when I was a kid, I asked my mother to explain the difference between the two major parties. "Democrats," she explained, "are the party of the working man. Republicans represent big business."
May 30, 2017
Breakup of the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic had grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh.
May 26, 2017
Trump Acts Like a Competent, Conventional President Abroad By Michael Barone
What a difference a week makes. On May 19, President Donald Trump took off in Air Force One for the Middle East and Europe. He left behind a Washington and a nation buzzing about his firing of FBI Director James Comey, the multiple reasons he had given for doing so, the meeting he'd had with the Russian foreign minister a day later and his statement that Comey is a "nut job."
May 26, 2017
After the Confederates, Who's Next? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On Sept. 1, 1864, Union forces under Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, victorious at Jonesborough, burned Atlanta and began the March to the Sea where Sherman's troops looted and pillaged farms and towns all along the 300-mile road to Savannah.
May 24, 2017
The Forgotten Slaughters of the Innocents By Michelle Malkin
For now, everyone knows the sonorous name and cherubic face of 8-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos.
May 24, 2017
So, the Fate of the Republic Rests on Trump's Choice of Adjectives? By Charles Hurt
Have you heard the latest scandal involving President Trump?
During a speech in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Trump applauded Middle East leaders for a series of steps they have taken to confront radical Islamic terrorism.
May 24, 2017
Times' Green Baloney by John Stossel
The New York Times' hostility to industry gets worse every day.
May 23, 2017
A Special Prosecutor for Criminal Leaks by Patrick J. Buchanan
Who is the real threat to the national security?
May 20, 2017
Don't Bet Against Tax and Health Care Reform in 2017 By Lawrence Kudlow
If the smart money folks on Wall Street think a special counsel to oversee the Russian probes spells defeat for business tax cuts, they're leaning well over their skis.
