Obama’s half answers bolster mullahs By Charles Hurt
You may not like ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and you may not miss former President George W. Bush but you have to give them credit. They did not do things halfway.
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September 10, 2015
September 10, 2015
The Real Presidential Deadlines By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
The presidential fields on both sides are so much in flux that rumors of new candidates entering the race continue. For the Democrats, the whispers about Vice President Joe Biden making a late charge into the fray have become roars. Biden made a campaign-style appearance at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh and otherwise seems to be strongly considering a run as frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s polling has dipped significantly (though to us she remains the clear favorite for the Democratic nomination).
September 9, 2015
Meet Candy Carson: The Anti-Michelle Obama by Michelle Malkin
After nearly eight years of the East Wing's politics of mope and complain, it's refreshing to see a presidential candidate's spouse who is always smiling.
September 9, 2015
Cutting Red Tape By John Stossel
I'm upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity -- regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression.
I understand why candidates don't talk about it: Regulation is boring. But it's important.
September 8, 2015
Black Lives Matter's Agenda Is Costing Black Lives By Michael Barone
I've seen this movie before. And for the last 25 years, I thought I'd never have to watch it again. But now it's playing, not in theaters, but all over mainstream media, with something like rave reviews from the president and his administration.
September 8, 2015
The Past and Future of the Refugee Crisis By Thomas Sowell
The refugee crisis in Europe is one of those human tragedies for which there are no real solutions, despite how many shrill voices in the media may denounce those who fail to come up with a solution.
Some options may be better than others, but there is nothing that can honestly be called a solution. Nevertheless many countries, including the United States, could do a lot better.
September 4, 2015
What's With News Media Who Don't Want to Publish News? By Ted Rall
If a pizza shop refused to sell pizza, everyone would say it was run by crazy people.
What does it say about the people who run the news media that they don't want to report news?
September 4, 2015
Joe Biden's Yuck Factor By Michelle Malkin
Next week, as rumors swirl of his possible entry into the 2016 presidential race, Vice President Joe Biden will appear on liberal comedian Stephen Colbert's new late-night CBS show. The host is a professional clown. The VIP guest is a political clown with more baggage than the Kardashians during Paris fashion week.
September 4, 2015
Donald Trump's Appeal Is Based on Yesterday's News By Michael Barone
Aside from the court-ordered dribbling out of Hillary Clinton's classified-material-filled emails, the big presidential campaign news of the summer has been the boom for Donald Trump in the race for the Republican nomination. Trump has risen from 3 percent in the polls (when he announced on June 16) to where he now stands at 26 percent -- 14 percent ahead of any other candidate.
September 3, 2015
Hillary suffers Trump envy as Clinton fatigue sets in By Charles Hurt
No woman in the television age of American politics has suffered so much abuse and public humiliation at the hands of men.
September 3, 2015
The Populist Revolt Against Brain-Dead Politics By Larry J. Sabato
Take a deep breath. It won’t help you understand what’s happening in the contest for the presidency, but it won’t hurt either.
September 2, 2015
Eric Cantor: Poster Boy of the Beltway GOP Crapweasels by Michelle Malkin
Ooouuuch. My sides are still aching after last week's comical announcement by GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush that he had snagged the coveted endorsement of notorious electoral reject Eric Cantor, the former House majority leader kicked to the curb by disgusted voters in Virginia's 2014 primary election.
September 2, 2015
Market Magic By John Stossel
People have long lists of things they think the market can't possibly do -- from building subways to fighting wars. Sometimes, the market does them anyway.
War, for example. Even conservatives, who often praise markets, assume that only government can fight terrorists. Tell that to Matthew VanDyke.
September 1, 2015
A Revealing Clue by Thomas Sowell
Even those of us who are not supporters of either Donald Trump or Jeb Bush can learn something by comparing how each of these men handled people who tried to disrupt their question-and-answer period after a speech.
September 1, 2015
Another Impossible Thing May Happen: Change in Partisan Alignments By Michael Barone
In my last column, I looked at the possibility of two impossible things -- impossible things in the sense used by Alice and the Red Queen -- happening in the already turbulent 2016 presidential cycle. Here I'll look at another: the possibility that the partisan division lines that have endured with little change for two decades might suddenly shift and change.
August 28, 2015
Two Impossible Things That Could Happen in 2016 by Michael Barone
One can't believe impossible things, Alice objected.
August 28, 2015
Denver Corruptocrats' Chick-fil-A Smokescreen By Michelle Malkin
Holier-than-thou liberals on the Denver city council are waging war on Chick-fil-A in the name of tolerance and diversity. Now, let me tell you what the squawking is really all about: It's a distraction, a feint, a mile-high smokescreen.
August 27, 2015
The Donald went down to ‘Bama By Charles Hurt
In the sad, soul-cratered world of desperation politics, size matters. It really, really matters. And nowhere does size matter more than inside the distortion machine that is our national political media.
August 27, 2015
Democrats 2016: The Primary Map Still Favors Clinton By Geoffrey Skelley
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been under siege for months as additional revelations and developments regarding her use of a private email account continue to drip out. Last week, the Crystal Ball explored what might happen should Clinton drop out of the Democratic primary or, as the rumors swirl about the possibility, if Vice President Joe Biden enters the race.
