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May 4, 2016

Tale of Two Tribes: 'Climate Refugees' vs. EPA Victims By Michelle Malkin

The left has concocted a lucrative category of politically correct victims: "climate refugees." It's the new Green racket.

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May 4, 2016

The Fall Outlook: Fear and Loathing on the 2016 Campaign Trail By Larry J. Sabato

“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It’s come to the point where you almost can’t run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”

— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973)

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May 4, 2016

Money Down a Hole By John Stossel

The Republican and Democratic presidential nominees have been chosen. Ignore the deluded supporters of Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. It's over. The odds at ElectionBettingOdds.com make it clear: It will be Donald vs. Hillary.    

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May 3, 2016

Republicans Should Have Adopted Democrats' Rules -- and Vice Versa by Michael Barone

The unexpected successes, forecast by almost no one 12 months ago, of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in winning 40 percent and 42 percent in Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses is widely taken as evidence of raging discontent among American voters.

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May 3, 2016

Random Thoughts By Thomas Sowell

Random thoughts on the passing scene:

One of the problems with being a pessimist is that you can never celebrate when you are proven right.

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May 3, 2016

Why Russia Resents Us By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday, a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S. RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks.

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April 29, 2016

At Last, America First! By Pat Buchanan

Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in America.   

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April 29, 2016

Donald Trump Isn't the 'Presumptive Nominee' -- Not Yet, Anyway By Michael Barone

Donald Trump has declared himself, after following up his New York win April 19 with victories in five other Northeastern states Tuesday, the "presumptive nominee" of the Republican Party. Is it a done deal?

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April 28, 2016

Indiana: #Nevertrump’s Last Stand? By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

One could not be blamed for looking at the Republican primary results over the past 10 days and questioning how someone could stop Donald Trump from being the Republican nominee.

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April 27, 2016

Beyonce's Beehive of Bombastic Buffoons By Michelle Malkin

Question: Why aren't liberal celebrities ever held accountable for stoking their unhinged fans' violent threats and stupidity -- the same way Republican candidates are called on to disavow every last remote and random act of bad behavior of their supporters?

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April 27, 2016

Hospital II By John Stossel

Last week's column on my lung surgery struck a nerve. Many of you wished me well. Others said I deserve to die.    

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April 26, 2016

Conservatives for Trump? By Thomas Sowell

The sudden appearance of Donald Trump on the political horizon last year may have been surprising, but not nearly as surprising as seeing some conservatives supporting him.   

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April 26, 2016

If God Is Dead... By Patrick J. Buchanan

In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation.

"The vast majority of leading conservative writers ... have a secular outlook on life. ... They are unaware of the disaster that godlessness in the West has led to."

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April 26, 2016

Ethnicity Still Matters in the Politics of 2016 By Michael Barone

Ethnicity still matters. That's one lesson I draw from the results so far of this year's Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses.

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April 25, 2016

Bathroom Fight Draws GOP Away From the Real Issues By Charles Hurt

Note to professional politicians: Voters really don’t care what bathroom Bruce Jenner uses. That is between him, her and their psychiatrist.

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April 22, 2016

What's Up with Black Voters? By Ted Rall

Thomas Frank made a splash a decade ago with a bestseller called "What's the Matter With Kansas?" In his book, Frank attempted to answer the question: why do so many Americans -- working-class Americans -- vote against their economic and social interests -- i.e., Republican?

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April 22, 2016

New York's Home-State Winners Have November Problems By Michael Barone

Home-state candidates notched up impressive victories in New York's presidential primaries Tuesday. Donald Trump topped 50 percent for the first time -- and handsomely, with 60 percent of Republican votes. And Hillary Clinton won 58 percent of Democratic votes in her adopted home state.

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April 22, 2016

Dishonoring General Jackson By Pat Buchanan

In Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Oxford History of the American People," there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.   

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April 21, 2016

Primaries Versus Caucuses: The Score So Far in 2016 By Larry J. Sabato

Unfair! Rigged! Corrupt!

We’re hearing a lot of harsh adjectives being applied to aspects of the presidential nominating system this year — from “double-agent” delegate placement on the Republican side that may frustrate the plurality of GOP voters, to the establishment-based superdelegates (fully 15% of the convention, though down from 19% in 2008) on the Democratic side.

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April 20, 2016

How Trump Could Win the Republican Nomination in Five (Not-So) Easy Steps By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

Let’s get the easy part out of the way first. Bernie Sanders went into the New York Democratic primary with essentially no path to catching Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he leaves it with even less of a path after Clinton’s victory. Despite some national polls showing the race effectively a tie, Clinton has a lead in pledged delegates and superdelegates that Sanders cannot catch. Unless Clinton is somehow forced from the race, she will be the nominee. Sanders assuredly still has some victories to come, but the eventual outcome really is not in doubt.