Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to President-elect Donald Trump illuminated the Asian landscape.
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December 6, 2016
December 6, 2016
Ditching Electoral College Would Allow California to Impose Imperial Rule on a Colonial America by Michael Barone
They're still counting the votes, going on four weeks after the election, in California. In Brazil, a nation with much more challenging geography, they manage to do it in five hours.
December 3, 2016
Clinton Lost. Should We Care? by Ted Rall
If Jill Stein and die-hard Democrats get their way, recounts in three key states will take the presidency away from Donald Trump and hand it to Hillary Clinton. While this effort is probably doomed to failure, the attempted do-over prompts a question: what exactly are we losing with this mother of all paths not taken, a Hillary Clinton administration?
December 2, 2016
Fake News and War Party Lies By Patrick J. Buchanan
"I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler's government -- by the planners of the New World Order," FDR told the nation in his Navy Day radio address of Oct. 27, 1941.
December 2, 2016
Donald Trump and the Outstate Midwest Redraw the Partisan Lines by Michael Barone
Would any Republican besides Donald Trump have beaten Hillary Clinton and been elected the 45th president? It's an interesting question, not susceptible to a definitive answer but with consequences for politics going forward.
December 1, 2016
In 2016’s Game of Musical Chairs, the Music Stopped at the Wrong Time for Clinton By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
After the Bay of Pigs debacle, when U.S.-backed forces tried and spectacularly failed to topple Fidel Castro’s nascent communist regime in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy held a press conference and took blame for the failure. Speaking on April 21, 1961 — just a few months into his presidency — JFK memorably declared, “There’s an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,” meaning that when something goes right, many will want to take credit for it, but when something goes wrong, no one wants to take the blame.
November 30, 2016
Justin Trudeau: Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked by Michelle Malkin
Wasn't one vapid pretty boy named Justin from Canada enough?
November 30, 2016
Return of the Fourth Estate Fainting Couches By Charles Hurt
Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again.
November 30, 2016
Drain the Swamp! By John Stossel
President-elect Trump says he's uniquely qualified to "drain the swamp" in Washington, D.C. He can do it, he said at one debate, because as a businessman, he understands American cronyism. "With Hillary Clinton, I said, 'Be at my wedding,' and she came to my wedding. You know why? She had no choice because I gave."
November 29, 2016
Populist-Nationalist Tide Rolls On By Patrick J. Buchanan
Now that the British have voted to secede from the European Union and America has chosen a president who has never before held public office, the French appear to be following suit.
November 29, 2016
Will Donald Trump Do for Infrastructure What He Did for Wollman Rink? by Michael Barone
In May 1986, a 39-year-old Manhattan real estate developer named Donald Trump promised to get Wollman Rink in Central Park up and running -- something the city government, despite spending $13 million, had failed to do for six years. Trump delivered, ahead of time and under a $3 million budget.
November 24, 2016
The Arc of History Doesn't Always Bend Toward Justice By Michael Barone
History is on our side. That's a claim Barack Obama has made frequently, in his two successful campaigns for president and during his nearly eight years in office. It's a claim that looks a little shakier this Thanksgiving holiday than it did during the Halloween holiday three weeks ago.
November 24, 2016
Football and Fallacies By Thomas Sowell
This is a football story with both political and legal implications.
It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to kick the punt was black.
November 23, 2016
The Return of Assassination Fascination by Michelle Malkin
Alert the CDC: Left-wing America has been overcome by another contagious epidemic of assassination fascination. It's time to declare a public health crisis.
November 23, 2016
Thanksgiving Tragedy By John Stossel
Tomorrow, as you celebrate the meal the Pilgrims ate with Indians, pause a moment to thank private property.
November 23, 2016
Democrats Honed the Dog Whistle of Racism on Sessions By Charles Hurt
It all began with Jeff Sessions from Alabama. Even before they coined a term for it — Borking — they did it to Jeff Sessions, a decent man with a stellar legal reputation as a fearless and tough but fair federal prosecutor down South.
November 22, 2016
A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
November 22, 2016
Backward-Looking 'Progressives' By Thomas Sowell
People who call themselves "progressives" claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on looking backward.
November 22, 2016
The Not-Yet-Emerging Democratic Majority by Michael Barone
What is to become of the Democratic Party? The world's oldest political party, which traces its roots to 1792, is in as dire straits as it has ever been.
November 19, 2016
No, Everything is Really Not Going to Be All Right By Ted Rall
After president-elect Donald Trump's 10-15 minute scheduled get-to-know-you with president Barack Obama ran an hour and a half, too many of my friends who ought to know better contacted me with some variant of "maybe everything really is going to be OK after all."
