Anti-Liberty Politicians by John Stossel
After a terrorist attack, it's natural to ask: What can politicians do to keep us safe?
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November 18, 2015
November 17, 2015
An Unhappy History Seems to Be Repeating Itself By Michael Barone
Riots in black neighborhoods. Rebellions on campus. The news these past few months and particularly in the past week has been full of stories that remind us, as William Faulkner wrote a little more than half a century after the Civil War, "the past is never dead. It's not even past." We're seeing something that looks eerily like the recurrence of events that led, half a century ago, to the destruction of much of our cities and much of our campuses.
November 17, 2015
Stop the Bleeding By Thomas Sowell
There was a painful irony when France's immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack.
Someone once said that the First World War was the most stupid thing that European nations ever did. Countries on both sides of that war ended up worse off than before, whether they were on the winning side or the losing side.
November 13, 2015
The Myth of H-1B Job Creation By Michelle Malkin
Every day brings new headlines, ignored by the Washington press corps, of U.S. workers losing their livelihoods to cheap H1-B visa replacements.
Just this week, Computerworld reported: "Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India."
November 13, 2015
Rubio and Cruz Look Like Top Contenders in Debate By Michael Barone
Tuesday night's Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate in Milwaukee provided clues as to why Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have been climbing, not by wide margins but perceptibly, into the top-polling positions of the candidates behind the two poll leaders, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
November 12, 2015
Republicans 2016: White Evangelicals Dominate the Early Calendar By Geoffrey Skelley
Based on the election calendar, white evangelical Christians are going to receive ample attention early in the 2016 Republican primary. Using exit poll data from the 2012 and 2008 GOP primaries, as well as data from the Census Bureau and the Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas to help estimate numbers for states with no exit polls, we found that about two-thirds (64%) of the total delegates in states with contests on or before March 8 will come from states with electorates that may be at least 50% white evangelical.
November 11, 2015
My Trump Problem By John Stossel
Sometimes I like Donald Trump. He makes me laugh when he mocks reporters' stupid questions.
November 11, 2015
Obamnesty Falls Apart. American Workers Win. by Michelle Malkin
Well, this should make the crapweasels in D.C. listen.
November 11, 2015
Jeb Bush, John Kasich Seal Their Fates By Pandering To Illegal Immigrants By Charles Hurt
MILWAUKEE — As if Jeb Bush’s campaign were not already finished, the candidate drilled several additional screws into his own coffin during Tuesday night’s debate here.
“Even having this conversation sends a powerful signal,” he whined as real estate mogul and presidential front-runner Donald Trump tangled with the Democratic wing of the Republican Party over the insanity of allowing 12 million illegal aliens to roam free in America without the slightest concern that our country’s laws might just apply to them.
November 10, 2015
Surge of Democratic Turnout Has Yet to Appear by Michael Barone
You don't have to wander long in the liberal commentariat to find projections that the Republican Party is in a death spiral, doomed by demographics, discredited by the dissension among House Republicans, disenchanted with its experienced presidential candidates and despised by the great mass of voters.
November 10, 2015
The Ben Carson Flaps By Thomas Sowell
Dr. Ben Carson's whole life has been very unusual, so perhaps we should not be surprised to see the latest twist -- the media going ballistic over discrepancies in a few things he said.
November 7, 2015
Cops Gone Wild: Police Unions Are Killing Our Freedoms by Ted Rall
Police unions are out of control.
November 6, 2015
Who's Burning Black Churches? Oh. By Michelle Malkin
Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp.
November 6, 2015
Liberals' Response to Dissent: 'Shut Up' by Michael Barone
'Shut up,' he explained. That's a sentence from Ring Lardner's short story "The Young Immigrunts." It's an exasperated father's response from the driver's seat to his child's question, "Are you lost, Daddy?"
November 5, 2015
1968: Ball of Confusion -- A year of chaos that makes today’s political battles seem tame by comparison By Larry J. Sabato
The UVA Center for Politics’ latest documentary, Ball of Confusion, has begun airing on PBS stations across the nation this week. Check your local listings to see when it’s playing in your area, and click on the image below to watch the trailer. The documentary recounts the three-way presidential contest among Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace held against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home. That election, decided 47 years ago today, remains amongst the most extraordinary in American history, as Larry J. Sabato writes below.
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November 4, 2015
Freshman Senator Gives Pep Talk To Vapid Chamber Of Fake Debate By Charles Hurt
When was the last time you heard a sitting politician give a speech that made you stop and think? A speech where you actually learned something?
When was the last time you heard a vicious excoriation of Washington and Congress and the whole federal government, yet saw the first glimmer of hope that perhaps all is not already completely lost?
November 4, 2015
Beat the Elite by John Stossel
We love to complain about elites, people who seem to have a special advantage, privileges in life.
November 4, 2015
You're Doing It Wrong, 'The View' By Michelle Malkin
It looks like those elitist harridans on ABC's "The View" learned nothing from the national backlash over their mockery of nurse Kelley Johnson less than eight weeks ago.
Guess they've already forgotten how major advertisers Johnson & Johnson, Party City, McCormick spices, Snuggle, and Eggland's Best all pulled spots from the show after co-host and lead Mean Girl Michelle Collins led a cacklefest ridiculing Johnson, Miss Colorado 2015, for a heartfelt monologue about her work during the Miss America pageant.
November 3, 2015
What Happens When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immoveable Object? By Michael Barone
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immoveable object?That's one question raised by the 2016 presidential campaign.
November 3, 2015
Ignoring the Obvious by Thomas Sowell
A recent, widely publicized incident in which a policeman was called to a school classroom to deal with a disruptive student has provoked all sorts of comments on whether the policeman used "excessive force."
