Can Joe Biden Run This Marathon? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Thursday, Sept. 14, looks to be a fateful day in the half-century-long political career of Joe Biden.
That night, a three-hour debate will be held, a marathon in politics.
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September 6, 2019
September 6, 2019
Elites Abandon Norms and Show Contempt for Voters on Both Sides of the Atlantic By Michael Barone
Wars by the elites on the people are flaring in English-speaking nations on both sides of the Atlantic. It's being waged fiercely in the Palace of Westminster House of Commons and in the House of Lords. And in the newsrooms and greenrooms of American journalism.
September 5, 2019
House Ratings Changes: NC-9 Do-Over Election Going Down To The Wire By Kyle Kondik
MN-7 moves to top tier of GOP targets.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— We’re moving the NC-9 special from Leans Republican to Toss-up with less than a week to go until the election. A confluence of factors makes the race too close and unpredictable for us to call.
— We’re also moving the NC-3 special election from Safe Republican to Likely Republican.
— MN-7, a truly unique Democratic district, moves from Leans Democratic to Toss-up.
September 4, 2019
Natural Gas, America's Wonder Fuel By Stephen Moore
One of the many idiocies of the "Green New Deal" and other such anti-fossil fuel crusades is that all of this arrives on the political scene at a time when the price of producing energy from fossil fuels is lower than at any time before in human history.
September 4, 2019
Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids By Michelle Malkin
No, no, no. Hell, no!
September 4, 2019
Recovering from Labor By John Stossel
On Labor Day, did you celebrate workers? More likely, you made it a day of rest.
September 3, 2019
Who Won, and Who Lost, World War II? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Sunday, the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Vice President Mike Pence spoke in Warsaw's Pilsudski Square of "five decades of untold suffering and death that followed" the invasion. Five decades!
August 30, 2019
Why Democratic Candidates Risk Martin O'Malley's Fate By Michael Barone
Anyone heard anything about Martin O'Malley lately? Four years ago, he was busy out in Iowa running for president. After two successful terms as mayor of Baltimore (homicides fell during his years) and as governor of Maryland, he seemed like a plausible candidate. Strumming his guitar and singing Irish songs, he seemed more likable than either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
August 30, 2019
Let Them Howl, Boris! By Patrick J. Buchanan
Facing a Parliamentary majority opposed to a hard Brexit -- a crashing out of the EU if Britain is not offered a deal she can live with -- Boris Johnson took matters into his own hands.
August 29, 2019
Notes on the State of Politics By Kyle Kondik
The one big exception to the stability in the Democratic race; Trump’s high GOP approval defines the Republican primary; special developments in Georgia, Wisconsin.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— The Democratic primary race has been very stable, with the biggest exception being Elizabeth Warren’s rise to become one of the clear frontrunners.
— Donald Trump is attracting primary challengers, but his standing within the GOP remains strong.
— Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) pending resignation expands the Senate playing field next year.
— Rep. Sean Duffy’s (R, WI-7) pending resignation sets up another House special election on Republican-leaning turf. The GOP remains favored to hold the district.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
