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February 24, 2017

Is Secession a Solution to Cultural War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

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February 24, 2017

Trump Has a Grating Style but Significant Substance By Michael Barone

Substance and style -- it's easy to get them confused or mistake one for the other. And they're never entirely unconnected, though exactly how much so is a matter of debate.

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February 23, 2017

2018 Governors: The Battle Lines for Drawing the Lines By Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik

Given the Democrats’ poor down-ballot performances in the Obama years, and the Republican dominance of redistricting following the GOP’s success in the 2010 midterm, it’s somewhat fitting that arguably the Democrats’ most marquee victory in 2016 will not help them in the redistricting battles to come after the 2020 census.

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February 22, 2017

Fake News by John Stossel

"Fake News!" shouts our president, calling out CNN, The New York Times and others.

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February 22, 2017

Trump's War on 'Fake News' Offers a Great Civics Lesson By Charles Hurt

President Trump is lashing out against “fake news” in what is quite possibly the greatest civics-journalism course ever publicly taught in America.

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February 22, 2017

Fighting for the Falsely Accused By Michelle Malkin

Former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Brian Franklin is finally free. But he is still fighting to clear his name.   

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February 21, 2017

Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

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February 17, 2017

The Deep State Targets Trump by Patrick J. Buchanan

When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, "If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."

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February 17, 2017

Partisan Lines Stay Fixed Amid Trump Turmoil By Michael Barone

Amid the turmoil of the first month of the Trump administration, with courts blocking his temporary travel ban and his national security adviser resigning after 24 days, the solid partisan divisions in the electorate -- modestly changed in 2016 from what they'd been over the previous two decades -- remain in place.   

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February 17, 2017

Trump Is the Answer to All That Ails Washington By Charles Hurt

In a whirling dervish White House press conference, President Trump manhandled the press, piledrived all the fake news and reminded the world why he tore through both political parties and got elected president in the first place.

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February 16, 2017

2018’s Initial Senate Ratings By Kyle Kondik

At first blush, one might think that the Democrats have a decent chance of taking control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm. After all, midterms frequently break against the president’s party, which has lost an average of four seats in the 26 midterms conducted in the era of popular Senate elections (starting with the 1914 midterm).

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February 15, 2017

Bumps in the Road: Trump vs. Obama By Michelle Malkin

The resignation of national security advisor Michael Flynn has the anti-Trump media declaring the new administration a "mess," in "turmoil" and thrown into "chaos."

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February 15, 2017

Repeal! No, Wait! By John Stossel

Republicans promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But now they are hesitating.    

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February 15, 2017

Media and Liberals Think They've Finally Caught Their Prey By Charles Hurt

Mike Flynn was right to quit. You don’t lie to the vice president of the United States and let him go out on national television and lie to the American people.

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February 15, 2017

Tax and Regulatory Reform Will Mark the End of Obama's War on Business by Lawrence Kudlow

On the very day President Donald Trump's incentive-based tax and regulatory policies are put in place, former President Barack Obama's war on business will have officially come to an end. No longer will American companies be punished by uncompetitive rates of taxation and unnecessary rules and regulations.

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February 14, 2017

Is the Left Playing with Fire Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan

To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the '60s and '70s, it is starting to look like "deja vu all over again."

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February 11, 2017

Should I Stay or Should I Go? By Ted Rall

The Clash asked once, and now I am too: Should I stay or should I go?   

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February 10, 2017

Free Trade's Effect on 'Earned Success' By Michael Barone

Amid all the hurly-burly of President Donald Trump's first weeks in office, let's try to put the changes he's making and the feathers he's ruffling in a longer, 20-year perspective. Start off with his trademark issue -- one that clearly helped him win the 64 crucial electoral votes of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin: trade.   

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February 10, 2017

Make SCOTUS Great Again: Liberal Judges Push Their Own End By Charles Hurt

Democrats should be very, very careful what they wish for.

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February 10, 2017

Trump Must Break Judicial Power By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Disheartening and demoralizing," wailed Judge Neil Gorsuch of President Trump's comments about the judges seeking to overturn his 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from the Greater Middle East war zones.