Syria: Their War, Not Ours By Patrick J. Buchanan
The debacle that is U.S. Syria policy is today on naked display.
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August 30, 2016
August 27, 2016
Trump Versus Clinton: This Election is all About the Debates By Ted Rall
Conventional wisdom says Donald Trump is going to lose, and lose big.
August 26, 2016
Is 2016 Redrawing the Political Map? by Michael Barone
Is the political map, so familiar that even non-pundits offhandedly refer to red, blue and purple states, changing before our eyes? Yes, at least to a limited extent -- and it's probably about time.
August 26, 2016
Lots of Smoke Here, Hillary By Patrick J. Buchanan
Prediction: If Hillary Clinton wins, within a year of her inauguration, she will be under investigation by a special prosecutor on charges of political corruption, thereby continuing a family tradition.
August 25, 2016
Generic Ballot Forecasting Model: Democrats Could Take Back Senate but Republicans Likely to Hold House With Reduced Majority By Alan I. Abramowitz
Since the conclusion of the Republican and Democratic national conventions last month, pundits, political reporters, and ordinary Americans have, for understandable reasons, been preoccupied with developments in the presidential campaign. And the contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has certainly provided plenty of material for serious political observers as well as late night comics. With the presidential contest getting so much coverage in the national media, however, much less attention has been devoted to the critical battle for control of the next Congress. Regardless of the outcome of the presidential election, whether Republicans or Democrats control the House and Senate will have enormous consequences for the direction of the country and the ability of the next president to carry out his or her agenda.
August 24, 2016
Leo DiCaprio's Dirty Dollars by Michelle Malkin
Actor-playboy Leonardo DiCaprio walked away from a fender bender in the Hamptons this weekend without a scratch.
August 24, 2016
Trump Drives Agenda While Hillary Hides Behind Jokes By Charles Hurt
Never in modern American political history has a more issue-oriented, serious candidate for president faced off against a more dishonest, platform-less, self-absorbed celebrity who is cashing in on ill-gotten wealth and fame despite serious concerns about mental and physical health.
August 24, 2016
Libertarian Town Hall By John Stossel
Vote for Donald Trump? No! Hillary Clinton? No!
August 23, 2016
Sympathy for Victims Can Be Misdirected -- and Backfire By Michael Barone
Victims aren't always virtuous. That's a sad lesson that people learn from life. Human beings have a benign instinct to help those who are hurt through no cause of their own. But those they help don't always turn out to be very grateful.
August 22, 2016
A Eulogy for John J. McLaughlin By Patrick J. Buchanan
Issue one!
To understand John McLaughlin, it was helpful to have been a 13-year-old entering an all-boys Jesuit school in the 1950s.
August 19, 2016
It Ain't Over Till It's Over by Patrick J. Buchanan
"I did it my way," crooned Sinatra.
August 19, 2016
Today's Candidates Don't Measure Up to Roosevelt or Reagan By Michael Barone
Donald Trump has just made changes, again, in his campaign's top leadership, shoving aside the seasoned Paul Manafort and installing Breitbart News Chairman Steve Bannon and veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway. He's obviously acting in response to his falling poll numbers nationally, in target states and even in some states that have been safely Republican in recent elections.
August 18, 2016
Trump and Blacks By Thomas Sowell
Who would have thought that Donald Trump, of all people, would be addressing the fact that the black community suffers the most from a breakdown of law and order? But sanity on racial issues is sufficiently rare that it must be welcomed, from whatever source it comes.
August 18, 2016
Clinton Rises to 348 Electoral Votes, Trump Drops to 190 By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
New Hampshire may just have four electoral votes, but it’s important. If you doubt it, just ask any Granite State citizens, and they’ll tell you about their first-in-the-nation primary. Even that quartet of electoral votes can matter; in 2000, if Al Gore had just won them (and without Ralph Nader on the ballot, he probably would have), Gore would have been president even without Florida. He didn’t and he wasn’t.
August 17, 2016
Hillary's Headhunter: Sleazeball Ken Salazar by Michelle Malkin
The Loathsome Cowboy rides again.
August 17, 2016
Vice Presidential Prospects By John Stossel
We've heard nonstop criticism of both the Democrat and Republican presidential candidates -- for good reasons. So are their running mates any better?
August 16, 2016
Does Black Success Matter? by Thomas Sowell
We keep hearing that "black lives matter," but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media.
August 16, 2016
The Real Existential Threats of 2016 By Patrick J. Buchanan
On Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, the national debt is projected to reach $19.3 trillion.
August 16, 2016
Will Trump Take Down Congressional Republicans? By Michael Barone
On Friday, Republican National Committee and Trump campaign staffers held what one described as an "emergency meeting" at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando. The obvious subject: what to do about Donald Trump's flagging campaign and how Republican down-ballot candidates can avoid the possible (likely?) downdraft.
August 12, 2016
Yes, the System Is Rigged by Patrick J. Buchanan
"I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged," Donald Trump told voters in Ohio and Sean Hannity on Fox News. And that hit a nerve.
