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August 28, 2019

Get Off the Sidelines: #StandWithICE By Michelle Malkin

Dear fellow patriots: It's time to stop making nice with those who are waging war on ICE.

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August 28, 2019

Bad Law Keeps People Poor By John Stossel

Why does most of Africa stay poor while other parts of the world prosper?

People blame things like climate, the history of colonialism, racism, etc.

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August 27, 2019

Will Bibi's War Become America's War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu.

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August 27, 2019

Democrats Rooting for Recession By Stephen Moore

Last week, I gave a talk to high-wealth investors in San Francisco -- not exactly an audience of left-wing activists -- and people kept asking me the question of the day: "Will there be a recession?" My reply: I'd never say never, but I don't see a recession in 2020. And if we get a trade deal with China, the economy is going to soar. 

August 25, 2019

Have Pollsters Learned Nothing Since the Last Election? By Brian C. Joondeph

While the moniker “fake news” is typically reserved for cable news and some of the more prominent newspapers in America, the term could also be applied to presidential polls. How many pollsters predicted Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election by a landslide up to and including the day of the actual election?

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August 24, 2019

As Long as Enemies of the State Keep Dying Before Trial, No One Should Trust the State By Ted Rall

There is no other way to say it: It was a political assassination.

Osama bin Laden was unarmed. SEALs captured him alive. Following brazenly illegal orders from Washington, they executed him. "The (Obama) administration had made clear to the military's clandestine Joint Special Operations Command that it wanted bin Laden dead," The Atlantic reported on May 4, 2011.

August 23, 2019

Election 2020 – It’s the Crowds Stupid By Brian C. Joondeph

When Bill Clinton successfully unseated sitting President George HW Bush in 1992, Clinton’s campaign manager James Carville coined the phrase, “The economy, stupid” as a campaign theme.

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August 23, 2019

Greenland: Trump's MAGA Idea! By Patrick J. Buchanan

To those of us of who learned our U.S. history from texts in the 1940s and '50s, President Donald Trump's brainstorm of acquiring Greenland fits into a venerable tradition of American expansionism.

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August 23, 2019

The End of America's 30-Year Engagement With China? By Michel Barone

Will the demonstrations in Hong Kong come to be seen as the end of a 30-year period, beginning with the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, of the American-Chinese economic engagement and entanglement christened "Chimerica" by historian Niall Ferguson?

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August 22, 2019

Which Party’s Voters are More Divided? By Alan I. Abramowitz

Hint: It’s Not the One You Think.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— More Republicans identify as conservative than Democrats identify as liberal.

— This has led to questions about whether ideological fissures in the Democratic Party could make it harder for the party to rally around its eventual nominee.

— However, Democrats actually are more united on individual issue positions than Republicans, which may mean the Democrats are less divided than ideological self-placement suggests.

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August 21, 2019

Triggering the Google Social Credit System By Michelle Malkin

I learned last week from a Silicon Valley whistleblower, who spoke with the intrepid investigative team at Project Veritas, that my namesake news and opinion website is on a Google blacklist.

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August 21, 2019

Trump's Promise By John Stossel

President Donald Trump promised he'd get rid of bad rules.

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August 20, 2019

Why Trump Should Stop the Reregulation of Freight Rail By Stephen Moore

Recently, two major railroad operators, CSX and Union Pacific, reported a significant drop in earnings, in part due to declining rail shipments. This was partially due to the impact of ongoing trade disputes. While we generally support a better trade relationship with China (hopefully with fewer tariffs and nontariff barriers), we need to see strong freight rail traffic if the economic expansion is going to roll on.

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August 20, 2019

When, If Ever, Can We Lay This Burden Down? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America's longest war.

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August 16, 2019

Will Fact-Checkers Foil Democrats' Attempts to Play the Race Card? By Michael Barone

Fact-checking journalists lean left, as Mark Hemingway documented in a canonical Washington Examiner analysis that is just as valid today as when it was published in 2011. But as John F. Kennedy once said, when asked why he wasn't supported by an odoriferous Massachusetts Democrat, "sometimes party loyalty asks too much."

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August 16, 2019

Trump's Great Gamble By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump's reelection hopes hinge on two things: the state of the economy in 2020 and the identity of the Democratic nominee.

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August 15, 2019

The End of the Filibuster May Loom By Hunter Brown

Neither side has a practical path to 60 Senate votes, which may imperil the practice.

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August 14, 2019

Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding the Wicked War on ICE? By Michelle Malkin

All the gun control zealots out in full force last week have apparently gone to the beach. An alarming shooting took place at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in San Antonio on Tuesday. Local media reported that "multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials." But the Second Amendment saboteurs were AWOL.

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August 14, 2019

Sell an Organ By John Stossel

Have you volunteered to be an organ donor? I did.

I just clicked the box on the government form that asks if, once I die, I'm willing to donate my organs to someone who needs them.

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August 13, 2019

China, Not Russia, the Greater Threat By Patrick J. Buchanan

Ten weeks of protests, some huge, a few violent, culminated Monday with a shutdown of the Hong Kong airport.