That Other Plot -- to Bring Down Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
Well over a year after the FBI began investigating "collusion" between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought in his first major indictment.
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October 31, 2017
October 30, 2017
Christ Church and the Slavers' Blood Money By Charles Hurt
“All are welcome. No exceptions,” reads the cheap, blue sign zip-tied to the wrought iron fence between brick pillars outside Christ Church in Alexandria.
“All,” that is, except George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Or, anyone who reveres either of the two great generals. Or, even the memory of them.
October 30, 2017
President Trump Needs a Stable Dollar Along With Tax Cuts to Maximize Growth By Lawrence Kudlow
President Trump is likely to name a new Federal Reserve chair over the next few days. Speculation is focused on current Fed governor Jay Powell and Stanford University economist John Taylor. The list may be larger; it could still include current Chair Janet Yellen or Kevin Warsh. Trump is soliciting opinions and advice from people inside and outside government. We will see soon enough.
October 27, 2017
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.
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.
