Is Scarborough Shoal Worth a War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If China begins to reclaim and militarize Scarborough Shoal, says Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III, America must fight.
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May 24, 2016
May 20, 2016
'Ferguson Effect' Is Real, and It Threatens to Harm Black Americans Most By Michael Barone
University of Missouri at St. Louis criminologist Richard Rosenfeld has had "second thoughts." Like many academic criminologists, he had pooh-poohed charges that skyrocketing murder rates in many cities in 2015 and 2016 result from a "Ferguson effect" -- a skittering back from proactive policing for fear of accusations of racism like those that followed the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
May 20, 2016
Who's the Conservative Heretic? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In his coquettish refusal to accept the Donald, Paul Ryan says he cannot betray the conservative "principles" of the party of Abraham Lincoln, high among which is a devotion to free trade.
But when did free trade become dogma in the Party of Lincoln?
May 19, 2016
The Veepstakes, Part Two: Trump’s Temptation By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Heading into the 2014 National Football League draft, rumors were swirling that Jerry Jones, the eccentric Dallas Cowboys owner, was considering using his team’s first-round pick on the biggest star available: Johnny Manziel, the controversial star quarterback from Texas A&M. Indeed, when Dallas’ pick came around, and Manziel was still available, Jones reportedly wanted to pick Manziel. But Jones’ son and other team leaders advised Jones against it, and the team instead selected Notre Dame offensive lineman Zack Martin. For months after the May draft, Jones fumed over being talked out of taking Manziel, who he saw as a future star and the kind of flashy selection that defined “America’s Team,” the Cowboys.
May 18, 2016
TSA's Union Power Grab: Thousands Slowing Down Airports By Michelle Malkin
When it comes to public employee unions, there's no such thing as a coincidence.
May 18, 2016
Nasty Politics By John Stossel
This presidential election is like no other.
Most election years around this time, I do a TV show on nasty political commercials. Pundits explain which ads worked, which didn't, and who won because he raised more money and spent more on negative ads.
May 17, 2016
Is Mitt on a Suicide Mission? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"It's a suicide mission," said the Republican Party Chairman.
May 17, 2016
High Primary Turnouts: Any Clues for the Fall? By Rhodes Cook
No matter what one thinks of this often surreal presidential primary campaign, it has been a hit at the ballot box.
Republicans have already smashed their record of 20.8 million ballots, set in 2008. Through the May 10 contests, the 2016 GOP primary turnout stands at 26.1 million and counting.
May 17, 2016
Trump Is the Wind That Obama’s JV Presidency Hath Sown By Charles Hurt
A rare point of universal agreement in all this trenchant political acrimony: No matter what you think of Donald Trump, the political environment in which the flashy real estate mogul has so brilliantly thrived was created entirely by President Obama.
May 17, 2016
Grim Choices By Thomas Sowell
We must frankly face the fact that the front runners in both political parties represent a new low, at a time of domestic polarization and unprecedented nuclear dangers internationally. This year's general election will offer a choice between a thoroughly corrupt liar and an utterly irresponsible egomaniac.
May 17, 2016
America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era By Michael Barone
What's your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America?
May 16, 2016
Donald Trump Can Easily Win in November By Ted Rall
After an election season in which nothing they predicted came true -- their confidence that Donald Trump would never be the Republican nominee comes to mind -- you'd think our losing-streak corporate pundits would be reluctant to underestimate Trump's chance of winning the presidency in November.
May 13, 2016
Will the Trump Nomination Change Our Polarized Partisan Patterns? By Michael Barone
An irresistible force meets an immoveable object.
The irresistible force is the sense of discontent with how things have been going during this young century. Americans are displeased with a sluggish economy that fell into a deep recession and with foreign policies that seem to have produced disappointing results.
May 13, 2016
Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for GOP? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today."
May 12, 2016
Vice Presidential Selection: How Much Does It Matter This Year? By Larry J. Sabato
When a presidential campaign wants to signal that it is turning from the nomination clash to the general election, “sources close to the campaign” make it known the Veep search has begun. Right on schedule, as Donald Trump has become the Republican nominee-presumptive and Hillary Clinton has maintained an unassailable mathematical lead on the Democratic side, both campaigns have reportedly hinted that they have started to vet possible vice presidential options.
May 11, 2016
Free-Market Medicine By John Stossel
President Obama's proudest accomplishment is increasing the number of Americans with health insurance. A better idea would be to help people escape government care altogether.
May 11, 2016
Twitter's Traitors By Michelle Malkin
Social media giant Twitter's got 99 problems, yet the politically correct company is far more worried about the "optics" of cooperating with federal agents trying to stop jihadist plotters online.
May 11, 2016
Pee Free or Die! Obama and Lynch Rely on Distorted Lens of Racism By Charles Hurt
The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us?
Bathroom liberation. Pee free or die! Equality before the commode!
May 10, 2016
Looking Back on the Two Cuban-American Also-Rans By Michael Barone
John Quincy Adams, our greatest secretary of state (sorry, Hillary Clinton fans), thought that Cuba would inevitably become part of the United States. It hasn't, at least not yet, but two Cuban-Americans were serious presidential contenders this year.
May 10, 2016
Dry Rot in Academia By Thomas Sowell
Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited -- and then disinvited -- to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.
