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September 15, 2017

A 'Read-My-Lips' Moment for Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Having cut a deal with Democrats for help with the debt ceiling, will Trump seek a deal with Democrats on amnesty for the 'Dreamers' in return for funding for border security?"

The answer to that question, raised in my column a week ago, is in. Last night, President Donald Trump cut a deal with "Chuck and Nancy" for amnesty for 800,000 recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program who came here illegally as youngsters, in return for Democratic votes for more money for border security.

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September 13, 2017

Never Forget: Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes By Michelle Malkin

Another year. Another Sept. 11 anniversary. Another opportunity for grievance-mongering Muslim agitators to decry the imagined "epidemic" of "Islamophobia."   

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September 13, 2017

Clinton's 'What Happened' Blames Everyone Else for Presidential Loss, But We Knew That Already By Charles Hurt

Finally! The collusion with Russia we have all been looking for!

Russian operatives working for the Kremlin reportedly spent $100,000 posting “divisive social and political messages” on Facebook during last year’s presidential campaign.

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September 13, 2017

Blame for Disaster By John Stossel

"How many once-in-a-lifetime storms will it take," demands "The Daily Show" comic Trevor Noah, "until everyone admits man-made climate change is real?!"

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September 12, 2017

Tribalism Marches On! By Patrick J. Buchanan

Recently, a columnist-friend, Matt Kenney, sent me a 25-year-old newspaper with his chiding that my column had been given better play.

Both had run in The Orange County Register on June 30, 1991.

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September 9, 2017

Obama Screwed The DACA Dreamers Before Trump Did By Ted Rall

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' September 5 announcement that the Trump Administration is repealing Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for children brought into the United States illegally marks another political low point for a president who stages his photos so he looks tough "like Churchill" but whose governance is so wobbly and noncommittal that he's elevated waffling to an artform.   

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September 8, 2017

Trump Sidesteps Roadblock of Republicans By Charles Hurt

The swamp gets sloshed! Republicans stunned! GOP reeling! Blindsided!

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September 8, 2017

Can Trump and Democrats Make a Deal on Immigration? By Michael Barone

Can President Donald Trump and the Republican-majority Congress make a deal? That's a question raised by the announcement that the Trump administration will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in six months. DACA, put in place by the Obama administration, provided protection from deportation to immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children and who didn't have serious criminal records and were working or in school or the military.

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September 8, 2017

Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress By Patrick J. Buchanan

Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a talker. Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, "At least he gets things done!"

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September 7, 2017

Senate Sequels: The History of Upper Chamber Rematches By Geoffrey Skelley

About one month after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel (R) announced a long-expected 2018 U.S. Senate bid against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who defeated Mandel 51%-45% in Ohio’s 2012 Senate contest. Should both politicians win their party nominations — at present, each appears favored to do so — the Buckeye State will likely see a rollicking rematch with millions upon millions of dollars spent on behalf of or against the populist-liberal Brown and Trumpish-conservative Mandel.

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September 6, 2017

There Is No Such Thing As a 'Deserving DREAMer' By Michelle Malkin

Over and over again, from the mouths of politicians in both parties, identity politics purveyors and cheap labor lobbyists, we hear the same refrains about President Obama's 800,000 amnestied illegal alien youths:   

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September 6, 2017

Trump Schools Obama on U.S. Constitution By Charles Hurt

Everyone knows that former President Barack Obama, our Great American Constitutional Law Professor, got mercilessly schooled by the Supreme Court during his eight years in office. Now he is getting schooled by a brash-talking, orange-haired reality-TV star and real-estate developer from Queens.

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September 6, 2017

Seeing Alternatives By John Stossel

I just got new glasses -- without going to an optometrist.

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September 5, 2017

Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear? By Patrick J. Buchanan

By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention.

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September 2, 2017

Progressive, Heal Thyself By Ted Rall

Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.

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September 1, 2017

Time to Drop Colleges' Racial Quotas and Preferences By Michael Barone

When a policy has been vigorously followed by venerable institutions for more than a generation without getting any closer to producing the desired results, perhaps there is some problem with the goal.   

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September 1, 2017

What Harvey Wrought By Patrick J. Buchanan

Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.

In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

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August 31, 2017

The Politics Of Disasters By Kyle Kondik and Geoffery Skelley

Throughout the first 200-plus days of Donald Trump’s presidency, it’s been common for analysts to say he is struggling through sub-40% approval ratings despite not having to reckon with a major non-scandal crisis. Whether that was true before last weekend is debatable -- do North Korea’s provocations count? -- but it’s almost certainly not true now after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston and southeast Texas.

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August 30, 2017

Keith Ogre-mann: Conde Nast-y's Misogynist-in-Chief By Michelle Malkin

Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.   

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August 30, 2017

There Are No Decent Plans in Congress, Just Lies, Intraparty Squabbling By Charles Hurt

We are witnessing some of the most spectacularly absurd political gambits in American history unfold right now before our very eyes.

The first comes from Democrats in Congress, who want to somehow blame collapsing Obamacare on Republicans.

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