Are Both Parties Incapable of Governing? by Michael Barone
Important parts of our two great political parties seem bent on demonstrating that their parties are incapable of governing coherently.
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October 13, 2015
October 9, 2015
Clinton's Leftward Tack on Immigration and Guns Has Risks for November By Michael Barone
You win the presidency, Richard Nixon supposedly observed, by tacking to the right in the primaries and to the center in the general election. Hillary Clinton seems to be following that strategy except, as a Democrat, she is tacking to the left.
October 9, 2015
Feminist Fabricator Lena Dunham Rides Again By Michelle Malkin
In Hollywood, anything is possible -- if you're a privileged femme fraudster with cover-up pals in all the right (or rather, left) places.
Last week, upper-crust Manhattanite actress Lena Dunham dropped in at the Beverly Hills home of billionaire mogul Ron Burkle, who was co-hosting an event with Hanoi Jane Fonda, organized by the Rape Foundation, to honor her longtime friend and HBO "Girls" show producer, Judd Apatow.
October 8, 2015
House 2016: Is It Possible for Republicans to Kick Away Their Majority? By Kyle Kondik
Republicans working to maintain the party’s historically large House majority appear relatively confident about the aspects of the next campaign they can control: incumbent performance, recruitment of challengers, staffing, fundraising, etc. What concerns them are the aspects of the campaign they do not control.
October 7, 2015
Gitmo Extended Stay America Suites in Colorado? Hell No! By Michelle Malkin
Liberal readers have scoffed at my repeated warnings about the dangerous prospect of an enemy combatant dump on American soil. Over the years, I've flagged the Obama administration's scouting forays in Illinois, Kansas and South Carolina. Now, the White House is considering my adopted home, Colorado, as the new digs for the dregs of Gitmo.
October 7, 2015
Escaping Tyranny By John Stossel
North Korea is called the "worst place on earth" for good reason. Thousands of people are tortured. Some North Koreans eat rodents to try to survive, and many starve anyway. In winter, they freeze. No one but the dictator has any true freedom, and no one is allowed to leave.
October 7, 2015
Obama Offers ‘Crazy List’ As Silver Bullet To Gun Massacres By Charles Hurt
Like the bumper sticker says, a gun’s only serious enemies are rust and politicians. At least rust has principles.
October 6, 2015
Charlatans and Sheep By Thomas Sowell
One of the many painful signs of the mindlessness of our times was a recent section of the Wall Street Journal, built around the theme "What's Holding Women Back in the Workplace?"
Whenever some group is not equally represented in some institution or activity, the automatic response in some quarters is to assume that someone has prevented equality of outcomes.
October 6, 2015
Policy Reform That Comes From Outside (and in Spite of) Washington by Michael Barone
Not all important public policy reforms come from Washington. Really lasting reforms can percolate from the bottom up, brewed by citizens with a grievance pushing state and local governments to act.
October 2, 2015
Carly Fiorina, Identity Politics and the Death of Feminism by Ted Rall
If you doubt that the politics of identity have triumphed over the debate over ideas, read the New York Times story about how "Carly Fiorina Both Repels and Enthralls Liberal Feminists."
October 2, 2015
The Baby Butchers and Their Media Butchers By Michelle Malkin
"I'd say a lot of people want liver."
The propagandists of Planned Parenthood don't want you to remember that earlier this summer the group apologized for the "tone" of one of its top officials, Deborah Nucatola, who casually hawked unborn baby parts to undercover journalists from the Center for Medical Progress as she swilled wine and chomped on a salad.
October 2, 2015
The Dogs That Aren't Barking in the 2016 Campaign By Michael Barone
Sherlock Holmes famously solved the mystery of the Silver Blaze by noting the dog that didn't bark in the night. It strikes me that in this wild and woolly campaign cycle there have been numerous dogs not barking in the night, or in the daytime either.
October 1, 2015
Kentucky Governor: With a Month to Go, Bevin Has Squandered His Edge By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
For months we’ve argued that Kentucky’s increasing lean toward the Republican Party and the state’s antipathy toward President Barack Obama gave businessman Matt Bevin, the Republican nominee, a generic edge in the open Kentucky gubernatorial race. While Bevin is not a strong candidate, we thought that ultimately those inherent advantages — advantages that have nothing to do with Bevin’s campaign — nonetheless made him a small favorite over state Attorney General Jack Conway (D).
September 30, 2015
Good Riddance! By Thomas Sowell
The impending departure of Speaker of the House John Boehner gives the House Republicans a real opportunity to accomplish something. But an opportunity is not a guarantee. It is a little like a football team being first down and goal at the ten-yard line.
September 30, 2015
Welcome to Wealthy Middle Eastern Thug Privilege By Michelle Malkin
You've heard endlessly about "white privilege" from the professional social justice warrior gripers. But rarely does that crusading crowd -- or their spiritual leaders in the White House -- acknowledge the brutal impact of wealthy Middle Eastern thug privilege in America.
September 30, 2015
The Cult of Victims by John Stossel
The world has enough real problems without declaring everyone a "victim."
September 30, 2015
‘Teflon Don’ Morphs into a Real Candidate By Charles Hurt
First they ignored him. Then they mocked him. Then they tried tearing him down.
With each failure to destroy Donald Trump, the political experts and establishment stooges only made him stronger. And now they don’t have a clue what to do.
September 29, 2015
Is There Any Precedent in History for Donald Trump? By Michael Barone
In November 1964 a crowd of 5,000 attended the opening of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world. Presiding were New York Mayor Robert Wagner, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and transportation and parks czar Robert Moses. Also in the crowd was a teenager named Donald Trump.
September 29, 2015
The 'Affordable Housing' Fraud By Thomas Sowell
Nowhere has there been so much hand-wringing over a lack of "affordable housing," as among politicians and others in coastal California. And nobody has done more to make housing unaffordable than those same politicians and their supporters.
September 25, 2015
Let VW Face the Same Penalties as Us -- Or Let Us Go Unpunished, Too By Ted Rall
If you did it once, you'd be fired.
If you did it hundreds of times, you'd go to prison.
Why should a corporation worth billions of dollars be treated more leniently than we individuals?
