ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria By Patrick J. Buchanan
Denouncing Russian air strikes on Aleppo as "barbaric," Mike Pence declared in Tuesday's debate:
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October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016
Robin Hood Economics Falls Flat in Debates by Michael Barone
Robin Hood is dead. Or at least seriously ailing. The politics of taking from the rich and giving to the poor -- the politics that philosophers from Aristotle to James Madison dreaded -- just doesn't seem to be working as it used to.
October 6, 2016
Clinton’s Electoral College Lead Regenerates by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
As we await the second debate, it’s obvious that Hillary Clinton got a bounce from the first debate and has re-established a clear lead in the presidential race.
October 5, 2016
Trump is America’s Only Hope in Campaign Designed to Bore Innocent Voters to Death By Charles Hurt
America, consider yourself warned.
October 5, 2016
Will Illegal Foreign Voters Steal the Election? by Michelle Malkin
"It could all come down to Colorado."
October 5, 2016
Admiring Foreign Leaders By John Stossel
Asked on a TV show to name a foreign leader he admires, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson choked. He couldn't produce a name. He said he had "a brain freeze." The media pounced.
October 4, 2016
Voters Reject John Lennon's 'World as One' By Michael Barone
"The president believes the world will be a better place if all borders are eliminated -- from a trade perspective, from the viewpoint of economic development and in welcoming people from other cultures and countries."
October 4, 2016
Aborting the Trump Revolution By Patrick J. Buchanan
In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything right.
October 4, 2016
The Academic Curtain by Thomas Sowell
Back in the days of the Cold War between the Communist bloc of nations and the Western democracies, the Communists maintained pervasive restrictions around Eastern Europe that were aptly called an "iron curtain," isolating the people in its bloc from the ideas of the West and physically obstructing their escape.
October 3, 2016
Why Trump Will Do Better in Ohio Than He Does Nationally By Kyle Kondik
For the first time since Ohio rejected Kennedy in favor of Richard M. Nixon in 1960, it seems quite possible that the Buckeye State will find itself on the losing side of a presidential election this year.
September 30, 2016
Trump Right on Trade Predators by Patrick J. Buchanan
Is America still a serious nation?
September 30, 2016
What the Debate Tells About How Candidates Would Govern By Michael Barone
You've heard and read by now lots of spin and speculation about who won and where the polls are going to move after Monday's presidential debate. We'll know the answers to these questions soon. The more important question for the long run is how each of these candidates would govern. The debate provides no certain answers to that question, but it does offer some useful clues.
September 28, 2016
The Debate I Heard By John Stossel
Something's wrong with me.
I watched Monday's presidential debate. But what I heard was different from what Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seemed to say.
September 28, 2016
Trump Solid in Debate, But Needs Improvement By Charles Hurt
Monday night’s debate here was a tremendous victory for Donald Trump, but his performance left plenty of room for improvement.
Big picture: Polls show support for Hillary Clinton is collapsing, and she desperately needed to stanch the bleeding. She did nothing during the debate to change the trajectory of those increasingly bleak polls.
September 28, 2016
Hillary, Interrupted by Michelle Malkin
Whatever happened to "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar"? Whither "Girl Power"? When did Rosie the Riveter's "We Can Do It!" give way to Hillary the Haranguer's "We Can't Handle It"?
September 27, 2016
Is Charlotte Our Future? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Celebrating the racial diversity of the Charlotte protesters last week, William Barber II, chairman of the North Carolina NAACP, proudly proclaimed, "This is what democracy looks like."
September 27, 2016
'Favors' to Blacks By Thomas Sowell
Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor -- off the record -- what his response to them was. He said, "I give them all A's and B's. To hell with them."
September 27, 2016
Now We Wait By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
The first debate is over! At least everyone survived.
September 23, 2016
It's Political Malpractice, Stupid By Ted Rall
Hillary Clinton supporters are freaking out. And rightfully so! Eight weeks from Election Day, she and Trump are basically neck and neck. And that's before the three presidential debates, which I not only expect him to win, but can't imagine a scenario in which she does not lose.
