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May 12, 2016

Vice Presidential Selection: How Much Does It Matter This Year? By Larry J. Sabato

When a presidential campaign wants to signal that it is turning from the nomination clash to the general election, “sources close to the campaign” make it known the Veep search has begun. Right on schedule, as Donald Trump has become the Republican nominee-presumptive and Hillary Clinton has maintained an unassailable mathematical lead on the Democratic side, both campaigns have reportedly hinted that they have started to vet possible vice presidential options.

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May 11, 2016

Free-Market Medicine By John Stossel

President Obama's proudest accomplishment is increasing the number of Americans with health insurance. A better idea would be to help people escape government care altogether.

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May 11, 2016

Twitter's Traitors By Michelle Malkin

Social media giant Twitter's got 99 problems, yet the politically correct company is far more worried about the "optics" of cooperating with federal agents trying to stop jihadist plotters online.   

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May 11, 2016

Pee Free or Die! Obama and Lynch Rely on Distorted Lens of Racism By Charles Hurt

The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us?

Bathroom liberation. Pee free or die! Equality before the commode!

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May 10, 2016

Looking Back on the Two Cuban-American Also-Rans By Michael Barone

John Quincy Adams, our greatest secretary of state (sorry, Hillary Clinton fans), thought that Cuba would inevitably become part of the United States. It hasn't, at least not yet, but two Cuban-Americans were serious presidential contenders this year.

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May 10, 2016

Dry Rot in Academia By Thomas Sowell

Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited -- and then disinvited -- to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.    

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May 10, 2016

Who Promoted Private Ryan? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump.

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May 7, 2016

Hillary to Bernie Supporters: Don't Vote For Me By Ted Rall

Hey, Bernie supporters: Hillary has a talking point for you.

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May 6, 2016

An Unmitigated Disaster By Thomas Sowell

Republican party leaders may have worried that Donald Trump would not only lose the general election for the presidency, but would so poison the image of the party as to cause Republican candidates for Congress and for state and local offices to also lose. Now they seem to be trying to patch things up, in order to present an image of unity before the general elections this fall.

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May 6, 2016

Can Trump Disrupt the General Election as He Did the Primaries? By Michael Barone

So Republicans now have a presumptive nominee -- one headed to a clear delegate majority without visible opposition -- sooner than the Democrats. It's another way in which this year's presidential race has defied expectations and ignored precedent.

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May 6, 2016

Bush Republicanism Is Dead and Gone By Patrick J. Buchanan

 "The two living Republican past presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, have no plans to endorse Trump, according to their spokesmen." So said the lead story in The Washington Post.

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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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