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May 26, 2016

Why Democratic Unity Could Be Easier to Achieve This Time: Donald Trump and Barack Obama By Alan I. Abramowitz

With only a few weeks left in the 2016 primary campaign, a lot of liberal pundits and Democratic Party leaders are getting very nervous about the outlook for the general election. To almost everyone’s surprise, Donald Trump has secured the Republican presidential nomination while Hillary Clinton is still locked in a contentious battle with Bernie Sanders. Although Clinton holds a nearly insurmountable lead over Sanders in pledged delegates, Sanders continues to attack Clinton and win primaries.

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May 25, 2016

Hillary Fights to Overcome a Sordid History By Charles Hurt

Clutching her pearls, Hillary Clinton is stricken. Horrified! Disgusted that Donald Trump would dare to remind voters about all the depraved debauchery she and her lecherous husband inflicted on the innocent American citizen for all of those years.

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May 25, 2016

Enough with Hollywood's Pendulous Boobery By Michelle Malkin

From runways to red carpets to Instagram and Snapchat, celebrity overexposure is inescapable. We're drowning in underboob. Bombarded with sideboob. Nip slips. Crotch slips. Bare-bottom flashes. All of the above, all at once.

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May 25, 2016

Private Is Better By John Stossel

Our next president will almost certainly be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

But I take heart knowing that America's founders imposed checks and balances, so there will be limits on what bad things the next president can do.

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May 24, 2016

Commencement Season By Thomas Sowell

This is the season of college Commencement speeches -- an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times.   

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May 24, 2016

Clinton Policies to End Pay Gap Would Just Make It Larger By Michael Barone

Women, lamented Hillary Clinton in an April 2014 tweet, make just 77 cents on the dollar to men. As a presidential candidate she has repeated that lament again and again, updating the numbers, in line with government statistics, to 78 cents in July 2015 and 79 cents this year.

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May 24, 2016

Is Scarborough Shoal Worth a War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

If China begins to reclaim and militarize Scarborough Shoal, says Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III, America must fight.

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May 20, 2016

'Ferguson Effect' Is Real, and It Threatens to Harm Black Americans Most By Michael Barone

University of Missouri at St. Louis criminologist Richard Rosenfeld has had "second thoughts." Like many academic criminologists, he had pooh-poohed charges that skyrocketing murder rates in many cities in 2015 and 2016 result from a "Ferguson effect" -- a skittering back from proactive policing for fear of accusations of racism like those that followed the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.  

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May 20, 2016

Who's the Conservative Heretic? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In his coquettish refusal to accept the Donald, Paul Ryan says he cannot betray the conservative "principles" of the party of Abraham Lincoln, high among which is a devotion to free trade.

But when did free trade become dogma in the Party of Lincoln?

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May 19, 2016

The Veepstakes, Part Two: Trump’s Temptation By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

Heading into the 2014 National Football League draft, rumors were swirling that Jerry Jones, the eccentric Dallas Cowboys owner, was considering using his team’s first-round pick on the biggest star available: Johnny Manziel, the controversial star quarterback from Texas A&M. Indeed, when Dallas’ pick came around, and Manziel was still available, Jones reportedly wanted to pick Manziel. But Jones’ son and other team leaders advised Jones against it, and the team instead selected Notre Dame offensive lineman Zack Martin. For months after the May draft, Jones fumed over being talked out of taking Manziel, who he saw as a future star and the kind of flashy selection that defined “America’s Team,” the Cowboys.

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May 18, 2016

TSA's Union Power Grab: Thousands Slowing Down Airports By Michelle Malkin

When it comes to public employee unions, there's no such thing as a coincidence.   

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May 18, 2016

Nasty Politics By John Stossel

This presidential election is like no other.

Most election years around this time, I do a TV show on nasty political commercials. Pundits explain which ads worked, which didn't, and who won because he raised more money and spent more on negative ads.

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May 17, 2016

Is Mitt on a Suicide Mission? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"It's a suicide mission," said the Republican Party Chairman.    

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May 17, 2016

High Primary Turnouts: Any Clues for the Fall? By Rhodes Cook

No matter what one thinks of this often surreal presidential primary campaign, it has been a hit at the ballot box.

Republicans have already smashed their record of 20.8 million ballots, set in 2008. Through the May 10 contests, the 2016 GOP primary turnout stands at 26.1 million and counting.

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May 17, 2016

Trump Is the Wind That Obama’s JV Presidency Hath Sown By Charles Hurt

A rare point of universal agreement in all this trenchant political acrimony: No matter what you think of Donald Trump, the political environment in which the flashy real estate mogul has so brilliantly thrived was created entirely by President Obama.

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May 17, 2016

Grim Choices By Thomas Sowell

We must frankly face the fact that the front runners in both political parties represent a new low, at a time of domestic polarization and unprecedented nuclear dangers internationally. This year's general election will offer a choice between a thoroughly corrupt liar and an utterly irresponsible egomaniac.

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May 17, 2016

America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era By Michael Barone

What's your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America?

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May 16, 2016

Donald Trump Can Easily Win in November By Ted Rall

After an election season in which nothing they predicted came true -- their confidence that Donald Trump would never be the Republican nominee comes to mind -- you'd think our losing-streak corporate pundits would be reluctant to underestimate Trump's chance of winning the presidency in November.   

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May 13, 2016

Will the Trump Nomination Change Our Polarized Partisan Patterns? By Michael Barone

An irresistible force meets an immoveable object.

The irresistible force is the sense of discontent with how things have been going during this young century. Americans are displeased with a sluggish economy that fell into a deep recession and with foreign policies that seem to have produced disappointing results.

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May 13, 2016

Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for GOP? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today."

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