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January 11, 2017

On Fire: The Racist Anti-Racists at MTV News By Michelle Malkin

It's only the second week of 2017, but it's already been a banner year for preening liberals on cable TV who are hell-bent on self-immolation in the name of proving everyone else's moral inferiority.   

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January 10, 2017

Iran Nuclear Deal -- Alive or Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, "Tearing it up ... is not going to happen," says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

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January 6, 2017

Why Democrats Will Not Lift a Finger to Fight Trump By Ted Rall

"There's no savior out there." That's a line from "Lord's Prayer," a song written by TV Smith for the Lords of the Church, a band that trafficked in 1980s melodic punk. Here's some more: 

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January 6, 2017

Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy," writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, "it is illiberal democracy."   

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January 6, 2017

Government by Faculty Lounge Subject to Repeal By Michael Barone

President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to counsel congressional Democrats on how to save Obamacare. Or at least that's how his visit was billed.

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January 5, 2017

2017: At the Dawn of the Age of Trump By Larry J. Sabato

It’s already clear that the very strange political year of 2016 is bleeding over into the New Year. How could it be otherwise? President-elect Donald Trump, loved and hated by about equal numbers of Americans, continues to ignore or break with convention in a wide variety of areas. Just as the normal rules didn’t apply to him in the campaign, they may not apply to him in office either.

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January 4, 2017

Forensic Nightmare: The Perils of Touch DNA By Michelle Malkin

Have you heard of "touch DNA?"

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January 4, 2017

The Trump Years by John Stossel

Two more weeks until the new administration begins!

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January 4, 2017

Oblivious Obama Pens Farewell as World Burns Down Around Him By Charles Hurt

What a guy!

And just in case anybody has failed to grasp how extraordinarily lucky we have been these past eight delightful years, Mr. Obama also announced that he has begun “penning a farewell address to the American people.”

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January 3, 2017

Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland's Eastern shore.

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December 30, 2016

Americans Are No Longer on the Move By Michael Barone

Americans see themselves as people on the move. When the going gets tough or when opportunity beckons, we get up and go. We move around a lot.   

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December 30, 2016

Israel First or America First By Patrick J. Buchanan

Donald Trump has a new best friend.

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December 28, 2016

Thank You, Professor Sowell By Michelle Malkin

I first read Thomas Sowell in college -- no thanks to my college.

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December 28, 2016

Trump's Choice By John Stossel

America's socialists -- I mean, progressives, are enraged that President-elect Trump chose Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education.    

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December 28, 2016

New York Times’ St. Nicholas Picks a Bone With Christ on Christmas By Charles Hurt

Just imagine it is one of the holiest days of the Muslim calendar and The New York Times decides to “celebrate” the occasion by asking incredulous questions aimed at obliterating the very foundation of the entire religion of Islam.

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December 27, 2016

Random Thoughts, Looking Back By Thomas Sowell

Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit -- even if only to himself -- being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both "the greatest generation" that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all around us today, makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an admission.

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December 27, 2016

Trump Nixes Pet Projects of Liberal and Conservative Elites By Michael Barone

It's been a tough year for political elites, here and around the world, what with the passage of Brexit in June in Britain, the repudiation of Colombia's Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the October FARC referendum and the defeat of America's Nobel Peace Prize recipient's preferred candidate in the November presidential election.

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December 27, 2016

Barack Backhands Bibi By Patrick J. Buchanan

Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem.

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December 24, 2016

Russia Hacking: Where's the Evidence? by Ted Rall

At the smallest, worst newspaper in the world -- even at a high school paper -- no sane editor would publish a story that wasn't backed by solid evidence. As the 20th century print journalism cliche goes, if your mother says she loves you, check it out. So why are the nation's most prestigious multi-Pulitzer-winning newsgathering organizations repeatedly claiming that hackers working for the Russian government stole emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, and gave them to WikiLeaks?

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December 23, 2016

Europe's Future -- Merkel or Le Pen? By Patrick J. Buchanan

The terrorist who hijacked a truck in Berlin and ran over and killed 12 people, maiming and wounding 48 more, in that massacre in the Christmas market, has done more damage than he could imagine.