Who Promoted Private Ryan? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump.
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May 10, 2016
May 7, 2016
Hillary to Bernie Supporters: Don't Vote For Me By Ted Rall
Hey, Bernie supporters: Hillary has a talking point for you.
May 6, 2016
An Unmitigated Disaster By Thomas Sowell
Republican party leaders may have worried that Donald Trump would not only lose the general election for the presidency, but would so poison the image of the party as to cause Republican candidates for Congress and for state and local offices to also lose. Now they seem to be trying to patch things up, in order to present an image of unity before the general elections this fall.
May 6, 2016
Can Trump Disrupt the General Election as He Did the Primaries? By Michael Barone
So Republicans now have a presumptive nominee -- one headed to a clear delegate majority without visible opposition -- sooner than the Democrats. It's another way in which this year's presidential race has defied expectations and ignored precedent.
May 6, 2016
Bush Republicanism Is Dead and Gone By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The two living Republican past presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, have no plans to endorse Trump, according to their spokesmen." So said the lead story in The Washington Post.
May 4, 2016
Tale of Two Tribes: 'Climate Refugees' vs. EPA Victims By Michelle Malkin
The left has concocted a lucrative category of politically correct victims: "climate refugees." It's the new Green racket.
May 4, 2016
The Fall Outlook: Fear and Loathing on the 2016 Campaign Trail By Larry J. Sabato
“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It’s come to the point where you almost can’t run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973)
May 4, 2016
Money Down a Hole By John Stossel
The Republican and Democratic presidential nominees have been chosen. Ignore the deluded supporters of Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. It's over. The odds at ElectionBettingOdds.com make it clear: It will be Donald vs. Hillary.
May 3, 2016
Republicans Should Have Adopted Democrats' Rules -- and Vice Versa by Michael Barone
The unexpected successes, forecast by almost no one 12 months ago, of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in winning 40 percent and 42 percent in Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses is widely taken as evidence of raging discontent among American voters.
May 3, 2016
Random Thoughts By Thomas Sowell
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
One of the problems with being a pessimist is that you can never celebrate when you are proven right.
May 3, 2016
Why Russia Resents Us By Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday, a Russian SU-27 did a barrel roll over a U.S. RC-135 over the Baltic, the second time in two weeks.
April 29, 2016
At Last, America First! By Pat Buchanan
Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in America.
April 29, 2016
Donald Trump Isn't the 'Presumptive Nominee' -- Not Yet, Anyway By Michael Barone
Donald Trump has declared himself, after following up his New York win April 19 with victories in five other Northeastern states Tuesday, the "presumptive nominee" of the Republican Party. Is it a done deal?
April 28, 2016
Indiana: #Nevertrump’s Last Stand? By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
One could not be blamed for looking at the Republican primary results over the past 10 days and questioning how someone could stop Donald Trump from being the Republican nominee.
April 27, 2016
Beyonce's Beehive of Bombastic Buffoons By Michelle Malkin
Question: Why aren't liberal celebrities ever held accountable for stoking their unhinged fans' violent threats and stupidity -- the same way Republican candidates are called on to disavow every last remote and random act of bad behavior of their supporters?
April 27, 2016
Hospital II By John Stossel
Last week's column on my lung surgery struck a nerve. Many of you wished me well. Others said I deserve to die.
April 26, 2016
Conservatives for Trump? By Thomas Sowell
The sudden appearance of Donald Trump on the political horizon last year may have been surprising, but not nearly as surprising as seeing some conservatives supporting him.
April 26, 2016
If God Is Dead... By Patrick J. Buchanan
In a recent column Dennis Prager made an acute observation.
"The vast majority of leading conservative writers ... have a secular outlook on life. ... They are unaware of the disaster that godlessness in the West has led to."
April 26, 2016
Ethnicity Still Matters in the Politics of 2016 By Michael Barone
Ethnicity still matters. That's one lesson I draw from the results so far of this year's Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses.
April 25, 2016
Bathroom Fight Draws GOP Away From the Real Issues By Charles Hurt
Note to professional politicians: Voters really don’t care what bathroom Bruce Jenner uses. That is between him, her and their psychiatrist.
