Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Last week, it was Venezuela in America's gun sights.
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May 7, 2019
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.
April 25, 2019
Biden Would be Arguably the Most Experienced New President Ever By Kyle Kondik
He will run as the president who needs no training. But he may be the candidate who cannot be trained.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— If Joe Biden wins the presidency, he will bring with him nearly a half-century of elected officeholding experience, giving him perhaps the fullest resume of public service possessed by any new president ever.
— It may be that Democrats are more open to a very experienced candidate than Republicans were in 2016, when they selected a presidential nominee, Donald Trump, with no elected or military experience.
— Biden has a very long record to defend, a burden that other, much less experienced candidates do not have. He also will have to show that he has learned from past mistakes and can run a disciplined, strong campaign.
April 24, 2019
Beware Soros-Funded Hijacking of US Census By Michelle Malkin
"Are you a U.S. citizen?"
April 24, 2019
Green Dreams By John Stossel
The Green New Deal's goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years.
April 23, 2019
The Immigrants We Need Most By Stephen Moore
Of all America's immigrant visa programs, arguably the most successful for the U.S. economy has been the H-1B program. This program admits highly skilled foreign workers who fill vital employment niches to make our Made in America businesses more successful in international markets. Larry Kudlow, the director of President Donald Trump's National Economic Council, calls these immigrants the "brainiacs."
April 23, 2019
The Democrats Divide on Impeachment By Patrick J. Buchanan
The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation.
April 20, 2019
For Journalists, Self-Censorship Is Credibility Suicide By Ted Rall
What is the job of the news media? To report the news. Everyone agrees on that. But some well-intentioned self-imposed ethical guidelines that members of the news media take for granted are getting in the way of the industry's fundamental mission: telling everything they know to a public whose right to know is sacred.
April 19, 2019
Is Bernie Stealing Trump's 'No More Wars' Issue? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The president has said that he does not want to see this country involved in endless wars... I agree with that," Bernie Sanders told the Fox News audience at Monday's town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
April 19, 2019
Stopping the Campusfication of American Life By Michael Barone
Many people, years after they graduate from high school and college, have nightmares about taking exams for a course for which they have done none of the reading and are totally unprepared. They wake up full of anxiety and relax only when they realize they left school years ago.
April 18, 2019
Trump’s Primary Goal: Avoiding a New Hampshire Hiccup By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— President Trump remains a huge favorite to win renomination as the Republican presidential nominee, although he will have at least some opposition.
— The New Hampshire primary has historically tested the strength of presidential incumbents.
— In the primary’s modern history, incumbents who won easy victories went on to renomination and reelection, while those who struggled lost in the fall or didn’t run again.
— That said, we’re only talking about a dozen total contests, so don’t make any strong predictions based on the president’s New Hampshire showing. But depending on the circumstances, Trump’s eventual performance may provide some clues for the general election.
