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.
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September 22, 2016
September 21, 2016
Hey, UN Corruptocrats: Spare Us Refugee Sanctimony by Michelle Malkin
Another United Nations summit in New York. Another finger-wagging extravaganza. Another useless "historic declaration" (nonbinding, of course) to save the world (by holding another summit ... in two years).
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton Has Experience Fighting Terrorism, All Right: As a Failure By Charles Hurt
She really should stick to lying.
Desperately trying to snatch attention away from Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton took a stab at some unvarnished “straight talk” Monday and accused the real estate mogul of “giving aid and comfort” to America’s enemies. In other words, “treason.”
September 21, 2016
Supreme Court Picks By John Stossel
Hillary Clinton and her fellow progressives shout things like "Health care is a right!" They've also said that education, decent housing and child care are "rights."
September 20, 2016
Trump & the Press -- A Death Struggle By Patrick J. Buchanan
Alerting the press that he would deal with the birther issue at the opening of his new hotel, the Donald, after treating them to an hour of tributes to himself from Medal of Honor recipients, delivered.
September 20, 2016
Will Democratic Success Breed Clinton's Failure? By Michael Barone
Success breeds failure. That's one of the melancholy lessons you learn in life. The success of policymakers in stamping out inflation in the 1980s and minimizing recessions for two decades also produced policies that contributed to the collapse of the housing and financial markets in 2007-08
September 20, 2016
Our Political Predicament by Thomas Sowell
There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the upcoming debates may enable voters to decide which is the "less insufferable" candidate to be President of the United States.
September 19, 2016
The Trump Surge By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
And then, everything changed.
Well, not everything, but enough to generate the first major revision in our electoral map, and all of it is in Donald Trump’s direction for now.
September 17, 2016
Team Clinton Attacks Trump's Lies with ... Lies By Ted Rall
Hillary Clinton's strategists have identified Donald Trump's innumerable lies as a major weakness in his campaign for president. They're smart. Trump does lie a lot. He often gets caught lying. Voters want their next president to be trustworthy.
September 16, 2016
The Year of Political Re-enactors by Micheal Barone
The thought came to me as I watched the Cleveland police clear away protesters from the city's Public Square. Half a dozen on horseback, nearly a dozen or so on heavy-duty bikes, the cops deftly corralled the protesters without so much as touching anyone, much as a border collie channels a flock of uncomprehending sheep.
September 16, 2016
Bibi Backs Trump -- on Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan
Since Donald Trump said that if Vladimir Putin praises him, he would return the compliment, Republican outrage has not abated.
September 15, 2016
The Fundamentals: Where Are We in This Strange Race for President? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Every presidential election is different, but nobody’s going to tell us that this one isn’t notably different from any other in the modern period.
September 14, 2016
Mulan vs. the Diversity-Mongers By Michelle Malkin
Let's get down to business. The casting kerfuffle over Disney's live-action remake of the 1998 animated hit "Mulan" brings honor to none. It's a politically correct tempest in a Chinese teapot.
September 13, 2016
Sausage Party Politics By John Stossel
Seth Rogen, co-writer, co-producer and co-star of the animated comedy "Sausage Party," is unhappy with me -- for defending him.
His movie was attacked by some online commentators for using ethnic and sexual stereotypes, as cartoons often do. What was remarkable is how incensed some people get over a cartoon, even one about talking food.
September 13, 2016
Last Chance for the 'Deplorables' By Patrick J. Buchanan
Speaking to 1,000 of the overprivileged at an LGBT fundraiser, where the chairs ponied up $250,000 each and Barbra Streisand sang, Hillary Clinton gave New York's social liberals what they came to hear.
September 13, 2016
How's That Fundamental Transformation Going? By Michael Barone
When Air Force One landed in China last week for the G-20 Summit, Chinese authorities didn't wheel out the usual staircase for the president to disembark. Instead he had to exit through an opening in the back of the enormous aircraft. It was, you might say, a pivot to Asia.
September 13, 2016
Racial Issues by Thomas Sowell
Ordinarily, it is not a good idea to base how you vote on just one issue. But if black lives really matter, as they should matter like all other lives, then it is hard to see any racial issue that matters as much as education.
September 12, 2016
Weekend at Hillary’s, a Tragicomedy About Lying Enablers and a White House Campaign By Charles Hurt
Sure, it looked like a scene out of Weekend at Bernie’s. At first glance, anyway.
Strange purplish sunglasses concealing dead, hooded eyes. Pantsuit as vibrant as a sack of spoiled potatoes tipped against a bollard. Helmet of hair toggling as aides hoist and jostle her feet-first — one shoe on, one shoe off into the security van with tinted windows.
September 10, 2016
What Obama Doesn't want you to Know About Uzbekistan by Ted Rall
Death is usually a sad event. The passing of a world leader, particularly one who brought stability to a tense part of the Muslim world for several decades, is typically cause for concern.
September 9, 2016
Why the Polls Are Tightening Up By Michael Barone
Maybe Hillary Clinton isn't going to be elected president after all. That's a thought that's evoking glee in some, nausea in others, terror in some and relief at the removal of an increasingly tedious figure from public view in still more.
