Tariffs: The Taxes That Made America Great By Patrick J. Buchanan
As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: "Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs."
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May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019
Ohio the Comeback State By Stephen Moore
I recently took some flak from Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for saying in a speech at the Heartland Institute several years ago that the "only place to live in the midwest is Chicago." He was particularly upset that I took a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Cleveland and Cincinnati as "armpits." This was supposedly evidence that I hate Ohio.
May 11, 2019
Death to the Stump Speech By Ted Rall
Throughout 2016, the presidential candidates who were not Donald Trump complained to Jeffrey Zucker.
May 10, 2019
For Joe Biden, on China It's Still the 1990s By Michael Barone
Once upon a time, May 1 -- May Day -- was a day for working-class parades in factory towns. This year, it was a day for Joe Biden, to set off on his third presidential campaign in 32 years, to make news on the stump, not in a working-class venue but in the university town of Iowa City, now the state's Democratic stronghold.
May 10, 2019
Are All the World's Problems Ours? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In 2003, George W. Bush took us to war to liberate Iraq from the despotism of Saddam Hussein and convert that nation into a beacon of freedom and prosperity in the Middle East.
May 9, 2019
Notes on the State of the House By Kyle Kondik
The Democrats' generic ballot edge endures, at least for now, but they shouldn’t get their hopes up on redistricting.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— While it’s very early in the cycle and these polls are not predictive so far in advance, the House generic ballot polling right now looks very similar to what we saw this time two years ago.
— Republicans almost certainly will need to lead on the generic ballot to retake the House, but perhaps they won’t need as big of a lead as we’ve seen in the past because of the nature of partisan voting in a presidential year and their abundance of targets in districts President Trump can or will carry.
— If new House maps are created in Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio because of various court orders, Democrats would benefit on balance. But it may very well be that no maps end up being changed.
May 8, 2019
Independent Journalists By John Stossel
"I'm not going to let them bully me out of reporting," said Tim Pool after recording an Antifa protest where angry activists cursed at him. There might have been violence, but Antifa's "de-escalation team" protected him, he says.
May 8, 2019
Keeping Fake Illegal Alien Families Together By Michelle Malkin
Who remembers the hysterical sound and fury of open borders leftists last summer over President Donald Trump's detention and enforcement policies at our besieged southern border?
May 7, 2019
Let the Sunshine in at the Federal Reserve By Stephen Moore
I'm disappointed I had to withdraw from the nomination to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board because I do believe the Fed needs to change the way it operates. In the last month, I started investigating how it makes its decisions, which have such a dramatic impact on jobs, wages, interest rates and the overall well-being of the country. How does the Fed make its monetary policy decisions on setting interest rates, buying bonds and regulating our financial institutions?
May 7, 2019
Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Last week, it was Venezuela in America's gun sights.
May 3, 2019
Will Joe Biden's Long Career Help or Hurt? By Michael Barone
Joe Biden has been around a long time. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, at age 29 (he reached the Constitution's required age of 30 before taking office in January 1973). No one in the current Senate was there then; the current senior-most House member only arrived there after a special election two months later. Few other Americans have had such long-lasting prominent political careers: John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay in the 19th century, arguably; Claude Pepper and Strom Thurmond in the 20th.
May 3, 2019
Let Venezuela Decide Its Own Destiny By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...
May 2, 2019
Assessing Electability: Like Nailing Jell-O To A Wall By Kyle Kondik
Democrats are trying to figure out who is the best to beat Trump. It’s a difficult task.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Trump’s victory in 2016 presents a great counter-argument to the idea that campaign professionals and pundits can confidently determine in advance who is electable to the presidency and who is not.
— Many presidents beyond Trump have seemed unelectable at various points of their ultimately successful campaigns.
— As Democrats consider who has the best chance against Trump, they will have to sort through different kinds of electability arguments, any one of which may be right (or wrong), and only one of which will actually be tested.
May 1, 2019
The Bidens: They're Still Not Like Us By Michelle Malkin
Now that Creepy Joe Biden thinks he has put to rest all the cringy questions about his grabby hands, he has reverted to one of his old-time shticks: middle-class Joe. Champion of the masses. Hero of the hoi polloi. A six-term U.S. senator and two-term vice president, which equates to 44 back-slapping, log-rolling, favor-trading years in Washington, this decrepit Beltway swamp-dweller wants flyover Americans to believe that he's really just like you and me.
May 1, 2019
A Lie, a Myth and a Question By John Stossel
Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer."
April 30, 2019
Biden Plays the Race Card By Patrick J. Buchanan
As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem.
As a senator from Delaware in the '70s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist.
April 30, 2019
The Carbon Tax Fantasy By Stephen Moore
Every time a reporter asks me if I would support a carbon tax, I always say that I might if it led to a dollar-for-dollar reduction in income or payroll tax rates. And the new energy tax would have to replace onerous greenhouse gas regulations. And every time I say this, the next day a headline reads, "Steve Moore Is for a Carbon Tax."
April 27, 2019
Democrats' Refusal to Impeach Could Be the Death of Them in 2020 By Ted Rall
"The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just," Frederick Douglass said in 1857. "The poet was as true to common sense as to poetry when he said, 'Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.'"
April 26, 2019
A Nation at War With Itself By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump has decided to cease cooperating with what he sees, not incorrectly, as a Beltway conspiracy that is out to destroy him.
April 26, 2019
The Most Successful Presidents Keep to Themselves -- Not Twitter By Michael Barone
"The Mueller report makes Trump look vain, ignorant, inept, and astonishingly dishonest." So writes my Washington Examiner colleague Quin Hillyer, never an enthusiast of President Donald Trump.
