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April 6, 2016

Freedom to Disagree By John Stossel

"Should a Jewish baker be forced to bake a cake for a Nazi wedding?"    

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April 6, 2016

Recent ‘Conservative’ Presidents Expanded Government By Charles Hurt

In the past 28 years America has elected two presidents from the “conservative” party, the one that claims to stand for lower taxes, responsible spending and limited government. Both have been named Bush.

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April 5, 2016

What Trump Has Wrought By Patrick J. Buchanan

As Wisconsinites head for the polls, our Beltway elites are almost giddy. For they foresee a Badger State bashing for Donald Trump, breaking his momentum toward the Republican nomination.

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April 5, 2016

Are Trump Voters Really Victims? By Michael Barone

What you hear when you listen to many fervent supporters of Donald Trump is that they are victims -- victims of globalization and trade agreements that have sent their jobs to Mexico or China. Victims of competition from illegal immigrants from Mexico willing to work for starvation wages. Victims of a Republican establishment that promised to get rid of lots of things they don't like and then failed to deliver.   

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April 5, 2016

Dangerous Donald Trump by Thomas Sowell

Donald Trump's victories in the Republican primaries may make him seem like a sure winner. But those victories have been achieved by receiving either somewhat less than 40 percent of the votes or somewhat more than 40 percent, but never a majority.

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April 1, 2016

Lock Out the Establishment in Cleveland! by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Wisconsin primary could be an axle-breaking speed bump on Donald Trump's road to the nomination.

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April 1, 2016

Will Britain Leave or Remain in the European Union? By Michael Barone

On June 23, when Donald Trump will or will not have won the 1,237 delegates he needs to be nominated, voters in Britain will decide an issue as divisive as Trump's candidacy: whether the United Kingdom will remain in or leave the European Union. 

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March 31, 2016

The Electoral College: The Only Thing That Matters By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

We live in a post-factual era. Thanks to the Internet and social media, which mix informed and uninformed views in equal measure, the old rule — that people are entitled to their own opinions but not their own set of facts — no longer applies. Somewhere in cyberspace, you can now find blogs and treatises with “facts” that support your opinions, no matter how bizarre.

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March 30, 2016

King of the GOP vs. King of Bureaucracy By Charles Hurt

In this brief cessation of hostilities between enemy forces on both sides of the political divide, it is a good time to take stock of where primary voters have taken the two parties.

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March 30, 2016

Nuclear Jihad: The Threats Are Inside Our Tent By Michelle Malkin

It's not over. It's never over. After last week's deadly airport and subway bombings in Brussels, the Belgian government remains on high alert for jihad attacks and espionage at its nuclear facilities.   

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March 30, 2016

A Better Choice by John Stossel

Trump! Clinton! Is that all there is? No. Fortunately, we have other choices.

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March 29, 2016

Is Trump Right About NATO? by Patrick J. Buchanan

I am "not isolationist, but I am 'America First,'" Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. "I like the expression."

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March 29, 2016

Supreme Hypocrisy By Thomas Sowell

If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.   

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March 29, 2016

Does Social Connectedness Explain Trump's Appeal? By Michael Barone

How can one make sense of the electoral divisions in this year's Republican primaries and caucuses? The contours of Donald Trump's support and opposition don't fall on traditional lines.

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March 25, 2016

Is ISIS Faithful to Islam? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"We are not at war with Islam," said John Kasich after the Brussels massacre, "We're at war with radical Islam."

Kasich's point raises a question: Does the Islamic faith in any way sanction or condone what those suicide bombers did?

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March 25, 2016

A Vote for Kasich Is a Vote for Trump By Michael Barone

Perhaps the most important results of the March 22 Republican primary in Arizona and caucus in Utah were numbers that didn't appear on your television screen, no matter how late you stayed up for the poll closing times. Those were the numbers of votes cast for Marco Rubio in Arizona -- 70,587 of them at this writing.

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March 24, 2016

Assessing Trump’s Path to 1,237 By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

About a month ago, after Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary and all of its delegates, we headlined a piece “The Hour is Growing Late to Stop Trump.” Well, the hour has grown later, and we have to ask the question: Has Trump been stopped?

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March 23, 2016

Donald Trump Reveals Inner Statesman, Terrifies Naysayers By Charles Hurt

The race is over. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.

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March 23, 2016

The Art of Trump by John Stossel

Hooray for Donald Trump!

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March 23, 2016

Post-Jihad Gesture Theater: Je Suis Sick of It By Michelle Malkin

While homicidal, suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West, docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media.