2015 by John Stossel
Terrorism! Crime! Deadly storms! Hillary Clinton!
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December 30, 2015
With the Big Dog at her side, Hillary’s sexism charges ring hollow by Charles Hurt
He has been her meal ticket into national politics. He has been the sex predator in the White House whom she ruthlessly covered for. He has been her own personal dog in heat.
December 29, 2015
Remembering 2015 By Thomas Sowell
How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?
December 29, 2015
Is the West Disintegrating? by Pat Buchanan
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, "Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent," contained this pessimistic prognosis:
December 29, 2015
Supreme Court Grapples, Once Again, With Redistricting By Michael Barone
Fifty-one years ago the Supreme Court handed down its one-person-one-vote decision, requiring that within each state congressional and legislative districts must have equal populations.
December 28, 2015
History in Red and Blue (and Green and Purple) By Larry J. Sabato and Tim Robinson
Simple maps can teach a lot. Presidential election maps show at a glance where the nation was at four-year intervals beginning in 1824, when popular voting (of a very restricted sort) became established. John Quincy Adams lost that vote but won the White House anyway in the House of Representatives.
December 25, 2015
Welcome to the Digital Dark Ages by Ted Rall
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8-inch floppies replaced by 5.25-inch medium replaced by little 3.5-inch floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
December 25, 2015
Conservatives' Biographies Show How History Can Move Right by Michael Barone
Biography is one way -- often the most vivid way -- in which people understand history. The beautifully written biographies of Franklin Roosevelt that rolled off the presses and rose in the bestseller lists in the 1950s and 1960s created a template in which the New Deal was central to American history. It was the culmination of what happened before the 1930s and the model for what should and would happen next.
December 23, 2015
Trump’s Latest Treatise Deploys Subliminally Sinister Attack On Clinton By Charles Hurt
If you think “The Art of the Deal” was a yuuuuuuuuuuge success — and it was — just wait until Donald Trump comes out with his latest masterpiece, “The Art of the Schlong.”
In “The Art of the Deal,” the real estate mogul tutors budding young mogul wannabes on how to make deals so that they, too, can build giant glass skyscrapers emblazoned with their names in gold.
December 23, 2015
Politicians Without Borders by John Stossel
When driving on treacherous roads, guardrails are useful. If you fall asleep or maybe you're just a bad driver, guardrails may prevent you from going off a cliff.
December 22, 2015
The Known -- and Unknown -- Unknowns in the Republican Race Ahead By Michael Barone
Some observations on the 2016 presidential race as we head into the dark period, i.e., the two weeks of Christmas and New Year's holidays in which no one has ever dared, at least in the past, to conduct any polls. Those of us who pick over poll results will have to fly blind until the week starting Jan. 4.
December 22, 2015
Islam and the West: An Irreconcilable Conflict? By Pat Buchanan
"I worry greatly that the rhetoric coming from the Republicans, particularly Donald Trump, is sending a message to Muslims here ... and ... around the world, that there is a 'clash of civilizations.'"
December 22, 2015
The Busybody Left By Thomas Sowell
The political left has been trying to run other people's lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America to have the mix of people the government wants them to have.
December 18, 2015
In Defense of Donald Trump's Namecalling By Ted Rall
Donald Trump likes to call people "stupid." And/or "loser."
December 18, 2015
Open-Borders Money Backs Marco Rubio By Michelle Malkin
Political analysis of the Las Vegas debate immigration dust-up between Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio is missing a key ingredient: the money factor.
December 18, 2015
No, There Won't Be a Brokered National Convention by Michael Barone
All around the political blogosphere you can find folks smacking their lips over the prospect of a "brokered" Republican national convention. They look forward to the spectacle of delegates assembling in Cleveland with no candidate having a majority, of multiple ballots with governors, floor demonstrations after nominating speeches, congressmen running as favorite sons and delegates demanding that state delegations be polled.
December 18, 2015
America First -- or World War III By Patrick Buchanan
"If you're in favor of World War III, you have your candidate."
So said Rand Paul, looking directly at Gov. Chris Christie, who had just responded to a question from CNN's Wolf Blitzer as to whether he would shoot down a Russian plane that violated his no-fly zone in Syria.
December 17, 2015
10 Factors That Will Determine the Next President By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Here’s a thought experiment: What if Republicans nominated the 2012 version of Mitt Romney — same fundraising, same baggage, same everything — at their 2016 convention? What sort of odds would that candidate have in 2016?
December 16, 2015
Pretend Answers on Terror by John Stossel
I wish I were as confident as many politicians and news commentators. They know what America should do about ISIS and terrorism.
December 16, 2015
Vetting Obama's Witless Vetters at DHS By Michelle Malkin
Gaping holes in the K1 fiance visa interview process. Reckless bans on scrutinizing visa applicants' social media posts. Ignored alarms over marriage fraud. New details keep seeping out about all the "red flags" Obama's immigration officials missed in the case of the San Bernardino jihadists.
