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January 6, 2021
January 5, 2021
Coronavirus for Dummies By Stephen Moore
We are now almost one year from the dark days when the coronavirus first hit these shores. Why are the politicians' making the same policy mistakes today that they made nine months ago? The 300,000+ deaths are an act of nature, but the virus's death and despair have been compounded by acts of man -- i.e., foolish politicians.
January 5, 2021
Family Brawl in the House of Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States.
January 1, 2021
The Year America Went Crazy By Michael Barone
Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both elite officials and ordinary Americans, to the COVID-19 pandemic starting last February and to the shocking video from Minneapolis police officers released over Memorial Day weekend.
January 1, 2021
Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In its most recent exercise of liberal democracy, the state senate of Massachusetts voted 32-8 to override Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of what is called the Roe Act.
One day earlier, Monday, the state house had voted to override.
December 30, 2020
2020: The Year 'Expert' Credibility Died By Michelle Malkin
If there were ever a time to "question authority," as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. 2020 will go down in American history as the year that public health "experts" got everything wrong.
December 30, 2020
2020's Good News By John Stossel
Was 2020 the worst year ever? The media keep saying that.
We did have the pandemic, a bitter election, unemployment, riots and a soaring national debt.
December 29, 2020
Free Mitch Rutledge By Stephen Moore
Nearly everyone has seen the classic movie "The Shawshank Redemption." Well, it turns out there is a real life "Red" Redding, the character played by Morgan Freeman. He is in prison in Alabama. He has been there for nearly 40 years. He was guilty of his crime: a murder he committed as a teenager in a drug operation. But so many people who have interacted with Rutledge in prison see the similarities in character with Red.
December 29, 2020
2020: America's Wake-Up Call By Patrick J. Buchanan
Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be.
December 25, 2020
In a Crisis, a Compromise Solution Is Worse Than No Solution At All By Ted Rall
The raging argument on the left between progressives who argue for radical change and centrists who advocate for incrementalism is hardly new. Nearly a century ago, progressive titan and Wisconsin Gov. Robert La Follette and then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt were often at loggerheads over the same question.
December 25, 2020
Immigrant Voters Trended Toward Trump By Michael Barone
Like Sherlock Holmes' dog that didn't bark in the night, so goes in politics: Uncharacteristic behavior can turn out to be crucially significant -- uncharacteristic behavior in politics being defined as one demographic group unexpectedly trending one way when most of the electorate trends the other.
December 24, 2020
Are 'Never Trumpers' the Future of the GOP? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Denouncing the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a parsimonious "disgrace" and hinting at an Alamo-style finish on Jan. 6, when Congress votes to declare Joe Biden the next president, Donald Trump is not going to go quietly.
December 23, 2020
The Abominable 'America Last' Porkulus By Michelle Malkin
This country is not governed by a "Republican Party" and a "Democratic Party." It is governed by an establishment "uniparty" that betrays our citizens at every turn. Exhibit A: The joint annual ritual of fiscal vulgarity known as the omnibus spending bill.
December 23, 2020
Naughty vs. Nice By John Stossel
Who should be on Santa's naughty and nice lists this Christmas?
*Naughty:
I'd give lumps of coal to:
December 22, 2020
Lockdowns Are the Great Unequalizer By Stephen Moore
Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please tell them that no act in modern times has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more than the lockdowns going on right now?
December 22, 2020
Can Democracy Hold Us Together? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket, and gone our separate ways.
December 19, 2020
Will the Media's Newfound Stridency Continue Under Biden? No. By Ted Rall
"In his first rally since losing the election last month, President Trump continued to spout conspiracy theories about voter fraud, falsely claiming that he had defeated President-elect Joe Biden." That was the lede of a news story in the Dec. 5 Washington Post.
December 18, 2020
Biden: Identity Politics and No Apologies By Michael Barone
Identity politics seems to be sticking around. Important election results seemed to refute the notion that Americans vote for their ethnic or racial identity. Hispanic voters trended significantly toward the supposedly anti-Hispanic Donald Trump, and Californians, while voting 63% for Joe Biden, rejected racial quotas and preferences in a referendum by an even larger margin than in the 1990s.
December 18, 2020
After Lee, It's Lincoln's Turn By Patrick J. Buchanan
First, they came for the Confederates. And that purge is far from over.
December 17, 2020
Georgia Senate Runoffs: Breaking Down November, Looking to January By J. Miles Coleman and Niles Francis
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— In a highly unusual situation, both of Georgia’s Senate seats will be on the ballot next month — one seat was already scheduled to be elected, while the other is a special election.
— As January’s result will decide control of the Senate, both sides are invested in Georgia’s outcome.
— In the regular election, Democrat Jon Ossoff made some gains in the suburbs since he was last on the ballot, but to beat Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), he’ll likely have to do even better.
— The battle for the state’s other seat is a bitter contest between appointed incumbent Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat and a preacher.
— Though it would add an extra layer of chaos to the outcome, history — and data from November — seems to point away from a split outcome.
