Ignorant Media By John Stossel
Has the media gotten worse? Or am I just grouchier?
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March 14, 2017
Is Turkey Lost to the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Not long ago, a democratizing Turkey, with the second-largest army in NATO, appeared on track to join the European Union.
March 10, 2017
Is a Korean Missile Crisis Ahead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
To back up Defense Secretary "Mad Dog" Mattis' warning last month, that the U.S. "remains steadfast in its commitment" to its allies, President Donald Trump is sending B-1 and B-52 bombers to Korea.
March 10, 2017
America's High-Risk Complacent Class by Michael Barone
"Most Americans don't like change very much," writes economist and Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen, "unless it is on terms that they manage and control." That's just one of many provocative sentences you can mine from the riches threaded through his new book, "The Complacent Class."
March 8, 2017
Killing Big Bird by John Stossel
Next week, Donald Trump releases his new budget. It's expected to cut spending on things like the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
March 8, 2017
Obama Wiretapping Trump Evidence of Former President's Agenda By Charles Hurt
Once again bypassing the hopelessly jaundiced media, President Trump announced that he just learned that his predecessor in the White House bugged Trump Tower during the last election.
“This is McCarthyism!” he declared, in 140 characters or less.
March 8, 2017
A Day Without American Tech Workers By Michelle Malkin
Last month, there was a national "Day Without a Latino." This week, the demonstration du jour shutting down schools and shops is a "A Day Without a Woman." Here's my question for all the virtue-signaling protesters who pay lip service to better jobs and wages:
March 7, 2017
The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
At Mar-a-Lago this weekend President Donald Trump was filled "with fury" says The Washington Post, "mad -- steaming, raging, mad."
March 3, 2017
Facts on the Ground Moving Immigration in Trump's Direction by Michael Barone
The afternoon before President Donald Trump's Tuesday night speech to Congress, Twitter watchers were treated to a flurry of tweets, inspired by comments at the traditional lunch with network anchors, that the president was going to endorse something very much like the "comprehensive" immigration bills that foundered in Congress in 2006, 2007 and 2013.
March 3, 2017
It's Trump's Party, Now By Patrick J. Buchanan
Before the largest audience of his political career, save perhaps his inaugural, Donald Trump delivered the speech of his life.
March 3, 2017
Democrats Go Off the Deep End, Can't Conceal Their Contempt for U.S. Military By Charles Hurt
It’s not like they leave much room for doubt about how much contempt they hold for military service and the immeasurable sacrifice that comes with it.
March 2, 2017
Optimism Reigned in Trump's First Address to Congress by Lawrence Kudlow
The mark of great presidents is optimism -- visionary optimism and transformational optimism. During Tuesday night's remarkable speech before Congress, President Donald Trump was brimming with optimism from start to end. My guess is that his marvelous speech will imbue and inspire new optimism and confidence throughout the entire country.
March 2, 2017
How Midterms Do (and Do Not) Differ From Presidential Elections By Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik
With politicos everywhere turning their eyes to the still-distant 2018 midterm election, we thought it would be useful to review some of the basic differences and similarities between the electorates in presidential and midterm cycles. Basically, midterm electorates are smaller, older, and less diverse than presidential ones, but the demographic voting patterns and divisions that we see in midterms are quite similar to presidential contests. What follows is a look at the similarities and differences between the two kinds of national electorates. For the most part, this analysis is based on exit poll data: We used the national exit poll data for the presidential race in presidential years and the national exit poll data for the national House vote in midterm years.
March 1, 2017
The Bloated Military By John Stossel
Donald Trump once wanted to cut military spending.
March 1, 2017
A Lesson for Planned Parenthood's Pinup Girls By Michelle Malkin
Glam American actresses Emma Stone and Dakota Johnson adorned their pricy Oscars ceremony gowns and handbags with golden Planned Parenthood pins in the shape of the group's logo.
March 1, 2017
Trump Speech Leaves Democrats Befuddled, In Ruins, With Question Marks by Charles Hurt
The president opened by celebrating Black History Month. Lady Democrats wore white.
February 28, 2017
As Trump Unmuzzles the Economy, a Rosy Scenario Will Become Economic Reality By Lawrence Kudlow
Virtually the whole world is beating up on the Trump administration for daring to predict that low marginal tax rates, regulatory rollbacks and the repeal of Obamacare will generate 3 to 3.5 percent economic growth in the years ahead.
February 28, 2017
Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism."
February 24, 2017
Is Secession a Solution to Cultural War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
February 24, 2017
Trump Has a Grating Style but Significant Substance By Michael Barone
Substance and style -- it's easy to get them confused or mistake one for the other. And they're never entirely unconnected, though exactly how much so is a matter of debate.
