Trump: America for the Americans! by Patrick J. Buchanan
As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.
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January 24, 2017
January 23, 2017
Donald Trump Rips into Establishment, Pledges to Keep Every Campaign Promise By Charles Hurt
Anybody expecting President Trump to lay down arms and surrender his campaign once he got to Washington and give some kind of soaring inaugural address filled with gauzy political Pablum was sure in for a shocking dose of harsh reality Friday.
January 20, 2017
Trump's Inauguration Is Not Without Precedent by Michael Barone
The United States has just had three consecutive eight-year presidencies, and it's only the second time in history that that's happened. The only other such moment came on March 4, 1825, 192 years ago.
January 20, 2017
Please Stop the Fear and Loathing of 2017 By Ted Rall
I admit it: it's hard to find empathy for the liberal Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton and are now shocked, shocked, shocked that that horrible man Donald Trump is about to become president. We lefties kept saying that Bernie would have beaten Trump; now that we've been proven right it's only natural to want to keep rubbing the Hillarites' faces in their abject wrongness.
January 20, 2017
New President, New World By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Don't Make Any Sudden Moves" is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.
January 20, 2017
Donald Trump the Revolutionary By Charles Hurt
Not since 1980 — or perhaps 1932 — has such a political revolution hit the banks of the Potomac River.
January 19, 2017
The End of the Beginning By Larry J. Sabato
Tomorrow marks the start of the brave new world of President Donald J. Trump. But today marks the end of the Obama-to-Trump transition. They, and we, survived the interregnum, more or less — and it was not guaranteed and is worth celebrating.
January 18, 2017
Sponsors of Anarchy by Michelle Malkin
Hoodlums will be out in full force this Inauguration Day weekend. Count on it.
January 17, 2017
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists By Patrick J. Buchanan
Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
January 13, 2017
Trump's Enemies See an Opening By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Fake news!" roared Donald Trump, the work of "sick people."
January 13, 2017
The Intelligence Community, Russia and Trump by Michael Barone
On Wednesday, in his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump came out swinging -- against some of the media (while praising others), against the policies and performance of the Obama administration, and against the intelligence community.
January 12, 2017
2018 Governors: Overextended Republicans Seek to Thwart History By Kyle Kondik
When President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office eight days from now, he will be completing a remarkable journey, going from private citizen to the highest elected office in the nation without any elected stop in between. But while Trump is, to put it mildly, a unique figure in presidential politics, his journey is one that is we are increasingly seeing on a smaller scale at the gubernatorial level.
January 11, 2017
Worst of Times by John Stossel
Now that I no longer do a weekly TV show, I have more time to read my local paper. Sadly, that's The New York Times.
January 11, 2017
At Sessions’ Hearing, Dems Live Up to the Party’s Tradition of Racism By Charles Hurt
Like tired old racists clinging to their discredited past and divisive politics, Democrats wheezed exhaustively on their racial dogwhistles Tuesday in their increasingly futile bid to derail Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to become the next attorney general.
January 11, 2017
On Fire: The Racist Anti-Racists at MTV News By Michelle Malkin
It's only the second week of 2017, but it's already been a banner year for preening liberals on cable TV who are hell-bent on self-immolation in the name of proving everyone else's moral inferiority.
January 10, 2017
Iran Nuclear Deal -- Alive or Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, "Tearing it up ... is not going to happen," says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
January 6, 2017
Why Democrats Will Not Lift a Finger to Fight Trump By Ted Rall
"There's no savior out there." That's a line from "Lord's Prayer," a song written by TV Smith for the Lords of the Church, a band that trafficked in 1980s melodic punk. Here's some more:
January 6, 2017
Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy," writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, "it is illiberal democracy."
January 6, 2017
Government by Faculty Lounge Subject to Repeal By Michael Barone
President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to counsel congressional Democrats on how to save Obamacare. Or at least that's how his visit was billed.
