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December 6, 2018

Governors 2019-2020: Democrats Try to Hold the Line in Red-State Battles By Kyle Kondik

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Following the 2018 election, Republicans now control 27 governorships to the Democrats’ 23, but a majority of the American public will live in states governed by Democrats starting next year.

— The 14 governorships at stake over the next two years feature some intriguing contests that will be held on mostly GOP-leaning turf.

— The most endangered governorship for either side is the open seat in Montana, which Democrats are defending.

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December 5, 2018

The Creepy Line By John Stossel

This morning Google told me that it would not allow my YouTube video "Socialism Leads to Violence" to be viewed by young people. It violates "community guidelines," said the company in a computer-generated email.

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December 5, 2018

Stop Partisan Corpse Abuse By Michelle Malkin

Impolite question, but it needs to be asked: Is there a Republican dead body that left-wing partisans won't use to bash Donald Trump?

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December 4, 2018

Regaining Trust on Money Issues By Stephen Moore

Republicans need to regain the offensive on the fiscal issues. The GOP has somehow allowed big-spending Democrats to get to the right of them on the issue of financial responsibility and balanced budgets.

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December 4, 2018

Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord are gathered to assess how the world's nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions.

Certainly, the communications strategy in the run-up was impressive.

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November 30, 2018

Who's to Blame? Weak Leaders, Weak Institutions, Weak Voters? By Michael Barone

In the wake of the off-year elections, conservative analyst Yuval Levin saw no winners. "It is the weakness of all sides, and the strength of none, that shapes this moment."

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November 30, 2018

Is Putin the Provocateur in the Kerch Crisis? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On departure for the G-20 gathering in Buenos Aires, President Donald Trump canceled his planned weekend meeting with Vladimir Putin, citing as his reason the Russian military's seizure and holding of three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors.

But was Putin really the provocateur in Sunday's naval clash outside Kerch Strait, the Black Sea gateway to the Sea of Azov?

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November 29, 2018

House 2020: The New Crossover Districts By Kyle Kondik

As of Wednesday afternoon, Democrats appeared likely to hold a 235-200 majority to start the next House, or a net gain of 40 seats, a handful more than it seemed like they had won in the immediate aftermath of the election. A lot of that has to do with the laborious and long vote count in California, where Democrats do better in the votes that are counted later in the process (there’s nothing new or unusual about this, by the way, so please look for conspiracies elsewhere). Earlier this week, engineer T.J. Cox (D) took the lead over Rep. David Valadao (R, CA-21), and as of this point Cox appears to be in the driver’s seat to win.

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November 28, 2018

Silicon Valley Sharia By Michelle Malkin

This is a tale of two young, outspoken women in media.

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November 28, 2018

Pro-Smoking Government By John Stossel

E-cigarettes let people get a hit of nicotine without burning tobacco.  

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November 27, 2018

Trump's Crucial Test at San Ysidro By Patrick J. Buchanan

Mass migration "lit the flame" of the right-wing populism that is burning up the Old Continent, she said. Europe must "get a handle on it."

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November 27, 2018

The Recession Myth By Stephen Moore

There's an old saying that Wall Street economists have predicted eight of the last two recessions. The bears in the economics profession keep getting paid a lot of money misreading the nation's economic weather vanes -- whether it was the power and durability of the Reagan expansion in the 1980s, the ferocious bull market of the late 1990s, the after-effects of the 9/11 attacks, or most recently the phenomenal revival of growth in President Donald Trump's first years in office.

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November 23, 2018

Crosscurrents on a Democratic Election Day By Michael Barone

Some random observations on the 2018 offyear elections, for Thanksgiving weekend pondering:

1. We hear constantly, and in some respects accurately, that Americans are deeply divided politically. Another way to look at it: The differences between north and south, visible for two or three centuries, are vanishing. As Real Clear Politics analyst Sean Trende tweeted, "Southern suburbs are starting to vote like northern suburbs, northern rurals/small towns starting to vote like Southern rurals/small towns."

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November 22, 2018

Are the Saudi Princes True Friends? By Patrick J. Buchanan

The 633-word statement of President Donald Trump on the Saudi royals' role in the grisly murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi is a remarkable document, not only for its ice-cold candor.

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November 21, 2018

First Step: Pro-Cop, Pro-Borders, Pro-Criminal Justice Reform By Michelle Malkin

The package of criminal justice reform proposals endorsed by President Donald Trump is not "soft" on crime. It's tough on injustice. And it's about time.

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November 21, 2018

Grateful for Not Starving By John Stossel

When we celebrate Thanksgiving this week, I will give thanks for property rights.

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November 20, 2018

Will Democratic Rebels Dethrone Nancy? By Patrick J. Buchanan

After adding at least 37 seats and taking control of the House by running on change, congressional Democrats appear to be about to elect as their future leaders three of the oldest faces in the party.   

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November 20, 2018

Charting the Danger of the Modern Left By Stephen Moore

No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup. For decades between them, they followed Washington for Wall Street at one of America's largest brokerage houses. For the last 16 years, the two have run their own, independent research shop, delivering political commentary and forecasting to the investment community, studying the intersection between politics and economics. This pushed them into a relentless pursuit of the new left -- measuring its deleterious impact on everything it touches -- most especially Western civilization.

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November 17, 2018

By Law, the President Should Have to Give Daily Press Conferences By Ted Rall

News conferences are a double oxymoron. Pressers aren't conferences; conferences involve back-and-forth communication. Nor do they have anything to do with news. News is neither created nor conveyed at a press conference.

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November 16, 2018

Amid Complaints, a Reason to Give Thanks By Michael Barone

"It's the worst of times." The words are Charles Dickens', from the opening paragraph of a novel set in the 1790s, but the sentiment is familiar today. Americans are divided as never before, we are frequently told, angrily at odds with one another, polarized politically, economically, culturally and in our entertainment preferences.

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