Disabled by Government By John Stossel
A third threat to free speech at University of California, Berkeley has led to more censorship than political rioters or college administrators.
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September 27, 2017
September 26, 2017
Will NFL Demand Respect for Old Glory? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"America refuses to address the pervasive evil of white cops killing black men, and I will not stand during a national anthem that honors the flag of such a country!"
That is the message Colin Kaepernick sent by "taking a knee" during the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner" before San Francisco '49s games in 2016. No NFL owner picked up his contract in 2017. But a few players began to copy Colin and to "take a knee."
September 22, 2017
No Man Is Above The Law -- Except On College Campuses By Ted Rall
Freshman orientation, Columbia University, New York City, fall 1981: Speeches. A blur of upperclassmen, professors and deans welcomed us, explained campus resources and laid out dos and don'ts. At one point, the topic of the campus drug policy came up. "You can do whatever you want in your dorm room," we were told, "just make sure it's OK with your roommate." A ripple of surprise swept the audience. Several students asked for elaboration of this don't-ask-don't-tell policy on illegal narcotics, and were told that they'd heard correctly.
September 22, 2017
Tension Between President and Congress Is Politics as Usual By Michael Barone
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the president seems out of alignment, on policy and political goals, with his party in Congress. This strikes many as an anomalous, even alarming, situation. But if you look back at history, it's more like the norm -- even if Donald Trump isn't.
September 22, 2017
Trump -- American Gaullist By Patrick J. Buchanan
If a U.S. president calls an adversary "Rocket Man ... on a mission to suicide," and warns his nation may be "totally destroyed," other ideas in his speech will tend to get lost.
September 21, 2017
Unsweet Home Alabama By Geoffrey Skelley
In the midst of a grueling campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, Alabama’s political sweet tea has acquired a distinctly sour taste. Appointed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange (R) finds himself in a vulnerable position against former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (R) in the party’s primary runoff election, which will take place on Tuesday (Sept. 26).
September 20, 2017
Show Biz Meltdown: Bombs Away! By Michelle Malkin
The numbers don't lie. Across the entertainment industry, viewers and fans are tuning out. It's no coincidence ratings are cratering as unhinged celebrities crank up their anti-Trump and anti-American antics.
September 20, 2017
Trump Jingles Spurs At U.N., Decries Rogue Regimes Obama Bowed To By Charles Hurt
America is back.
Turns out that beleaguered and forgotten Americans aren’t the only ones in dire need of a strong dose of straight talk from America’s president.
September 20, 2017
Detoured by Government By John Stossel
Michelle Freenor's business almost failed before it began.
September 19, 2017
Trump ‘Experts’ Let Imaginations Run Wild with Dog-Whistle Political Attacks By Charles Hurt
Isn’t it funny how all the great political experts who never met a Trump supporter and never thought President Trump could win the White House are suddenly the greatest experts on how upset Mr. Trump’s voters are with all the president’s wheeling and dealing with dirty Democrats?
September 19, 2017
Who Truly Imperils Our Free Society? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The Barbarian cannot make ... he can befog and destroy but ... he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true."
September 18, 2017
Trump Turnaround Puts New Tax-Cut Writing on the Wall By Lawrence Kudlow
Financial markets and most media pundits are missing the new writing on the wall. For a variety of reasons surrounding shrewd moves by President Trump, the chances for significant tax cuts in the next 10 weeks have risen sharply.
September 15, 2017
House Republicans' Frustrations May Doom Their Majority By Michael Barone
The Founding Fathers didn't expect that serving in Congress would be a lifetime career. And for a century, it mostly wasn't. The first election in which more than half the incumbent members of the House of Representatives were re-elected was in 1898. Since then, the majority of House members have been returned in every election except the one in 1932.
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.
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."
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.
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?!"
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.
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.
September 8, 2017
Trump Sidesteps Roadblock of Republicans By Charles Hurt
The swamp gets sloshed! Republicans stunned! GOP reeling! Blindsided!
