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October 5, 2016

Will Illegal Foreign Voters Steal the Election? by Michelle Malkin

"It could all come down to Colorado."

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October 5, 2016

Admiring Foreign Leaders By John Stossel

Asked on a TV show to name a foreign leader he admires, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson choked. He couldn't produce a name. He said he had "a brain freeze." The media pounced.   

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October 4, 2016

Voters Reject John Lennon's 'World as One' By Michael Barone

"The president believes the world will be a better place if all borders are eliminated -- from a trade perspective, from the viewpoint of economic development and in welcoming people from other cultures and countries."

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October 4, 2016

Aborting the Trump Revolution By Patrick J. Buchanan

In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything right.  

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October 4, 2016

The Academic Curtain by Thomas Sowell

Back in the days of the Cold War between the Communist bloc of nations and the Western democracies, the Communists maintained pervasive restrictions around Eastern Europe that were aptly called an "iron curtain," isolating the people in its bloc from the ideas of the West and physically obstructing their escape.

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October 3, 2016

Why Trump Will Do Better in Ohio Than He Does Nationally By Kyle Kondik

For the first time since Ohio rejected Kennedy in favor of Richard M. Nixon in 1960, it seems quite possible that the Buckeye State will find itself on the losing side of a presidential election this year.

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September 30, 2016

Trump Won By Ted Rall

 He won this week.

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September 30, 2016

Trump Right on Trade Predators by Patrick J. Buchanan

Is America still a serious nation?

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September 30, 2016

What the Debate Tells About How Candidates Would Govern By Michael Barone

You've heard and read by now lots of spin and speculation about who won and where the polls are going to move after Monday's presidential debate. We'll know the answers to these questions soon. The more important question for the long run is how each of these candidates would govern. The debate provides no certain answers to that question, but it does offer some useful clues. 

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September 28, 2016

The Debate I Heard By John Stossel

Something's wrong with me.

I watched Monday's presidential debate. But what I heard was different from what Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seemed to say.

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September 28, 2016

Trump Solid in Debate, But Needs Improvement By Charles Hurt

Monday night’s debate here was a tremendous victory for Donald Trump, but his performance left plenty of room for improvement.

Big picture: Polls show support for Hillary Clinton is collapsing, and she desperately needed to stanch the bleeding. She did nothing during the debate to change the trajectory of those increasingly bleak polls.

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September 28, 2016

Hillary, Interrupted by Michelle Malkin

Whatever happened to "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar"? Whither "Girl Power"? When did Rosie the Riveter's "We Can Do It!" give way to Hillary the Haranguer's "We Can't Handle It"?

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September 27, 2016

Is Charlotte Our Future? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Celebrating the racial diversity of the Charlotte protesters last week, William Barber II, chairman of the North Carolina NAACP, proudly proclaimed, "This is what democracy looks like."

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September 27, 2016

'Favors' to Blacks By Thomas Sowell

Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor -- off the record -- what his response to them was. He said, "I give them all A's and B's. To hell with them."   

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September 27, 2016

Now We Wait By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley

The first debate is over! At least everyone survived.

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September 23, 2016

It's Political Malpractice, Stupid By Ted Rall

Hillary Clinton supporters are freaking out. And rightfully so! Eight weeks from Election Day, she and Trump are basically neck and neck. And that's before the three presidential debates, which I not only expect him to win, but can't imagine a scenario in which she does not lose.       

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September 23, 2016

How Trump Wins the Debate By Patrick J. Buchanan

On one of my first trips to New Hampshire in 1991, to challenge President George H. W. Bush, I ran into Sen. Eugene McCarthy.  

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September 23, 2016

What Happens to the Democratic Party if Clinton Loses? by Michael Barone

There's been lots of speculation about the fate of the Republican Party if (as most of the prognosticators expect and hope) Donald Trump loses. There's been less speculation, though recent polling suggests it may be in order, about the fate of the Democratic Party if Hillary Clinton loses.

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September 22, 2016

Do Debates Matter? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley

To slightly modify Ronald Reagan’s famous rejoinder to Jimmy Carter in their single debate in 1980 (“There you go again”), here we go again — into the debate season.