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.
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April 22, 2016
What's Up with Black Voters? By Ted Rall
Thomas Frank made a splash a decade ago with a bestseller called "What's the Matter With Kansas?" In his book, Frank attempted to answer the question: why do so many Americans -- working-class Americans -- vote against their economic and social interests -- i.e., Republican?
April 22, 2016
New York's Home-State Winners Have November Problems By Michael Barone
Home-state candidates notched up impressive victories in New York's presidential primaries Tuesday. Donald Trump topped 50 percent for the first time -- and handsomely, with 60 percent of Republican votes. And Hillary Clinton won 58 percent of Democratic votes in her adopted home state.
April 22, 2016
Dishonoring General Jackson By Pat Buchanan
In Samuel Eliot Morison's "The Oxford History of the American People," there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.
April 21, 2016
Primaries Versus Caucuses: The Score So Far in 2016 By Larry J. Sabato
Unfair! Rigged! Corrupt!
We’re hearing a lot of harsh adjectives being applied to aspects of the presidential nominating system this year — from “double-agent” delegate placement on the Republican side that may frustrate the plurality of GOP voters, to the establishment-based superdelegates (fully 15% of the convention, though down from 19% in 2008) on the Democratic side.
April 20, 2016
How Trump Could Win the Republican Nomination in Five (Not-So) Easy Steps By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Let’s get the easy part out of the way first. Bernie Sanders went into the New York Democratic primary with essentially no path to catching Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he leaves it with even less of a path after Clinton’s victory. Despite some national polls showing the race effectively a tie, Clinton has a lead in pledged delegates and superdelegates that Sanders cannot catch. Unless Clinton is somehow forced from the race, she will be the nominee. Sanders assuredly still has some victories to come, but the eventual outcome really is not in doubt.
April 20, 2016
Ted Cruz Fails to Heed Own Advice, Get Out of Race He Can’t Win By Charles Hurt
What strange bedfellows and broken pretzels politics do make!
April 20, 2016
Yes, We Need a Canadian Border Wall By Michelle Malkin
Canada's sloppy, rushed and reckless Syrian refugee resettlement program is America's looming national security nightmare.
April 19, 2016
New York Exceptionalism and Donald Trump By Michael Barone
Noo Yawk. That's the state with this week's presidential primary, in which candidates who have spent time in New York recently are currently running ahead, according to polls.
April 19, 2016
Winners or Whiners? By Thomas Sowell
If there is one pattern that is emerging from this year's political campaigns, it is that rhetoric beats reality -- in both parties.
April 19, 2016
Is the GOP Risking Suicide? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump has brought out the largest crowds in the history of primaries. He has won the most victories, the most delegates, the most votes. He is poised to sweep three of the five largest states in the nation -- New York, Pennsylvania and California.
April 15, 2016
Inside the Media Bubble, No One Can Hear Us Scream By Ted Rall
"New York Times" headline, April 12: "Donald Trump, Losing Ground, Tries to Blame the System."
April 15, 2016
America's Imperial Overstretch By Patrick J. Buchanan
This week, SU-24 fighter-bombers buzzed a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The Russian planes carried no missiles or bombs.
April 15, 2016
Donald Trump's Insincere Process Arguments By Michael Barone
"Gestapo tactics." That's how Donald Trump's recently installed campaign manager, Paul Manafort, characterized the Ted Cruz campaign's successful effort to win all 34 of Colorado's pledged national convention delegates at the long-scheduled Republican congressional district and state conventions.
April 14, 2016
House 2016: How a Democratic Wave Could Happen By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congressional District, which forms a misshapen U linking Greater Philadelphia in the east to the outskirts of Lancaster and Reading to its west and north, provides a vivid example of the challenges Democrats face on the current U.S. House map.
April 13, 2016
American Workers Matter: A Chicago Wake and Wake-Up Call by Michelle Malkin
Circle this date on your calendar: April 22. I'll be in Chicago that day attending what may be a very significant milestone in American politics and domestic policy. It's going to be a wake and a wake-up call, part memorial and part protest.
April 13, 2016
Another Libertarian Moment? By John Stossel
The Libertarian Party might get more votes this year.
April 13, 2016
Those Words You Hear From Paul Ryan Don’t Herald the Arrival Of a Knight in Shining Armor By Charles Hurt
Here in Washington, nothing ever goes “bump” by itself. Which leads us to the question, “What is Paul Ryan up to?”
April 12, 2016
Will Trump Be Swindled in Cleveland, Too? By Patrick Buchanan
In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states, the most delegates and the most votes -- by nearly two million.
