Give Them Hugs and Let Them Play By Michelle Malkin
I still can't get over the creepy spectacle of Dr. Marc Siegel, a New York University professor of medicine, vehemently hawking "No Hugs Please" buttons for all schoolchildren last week.
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August 19, 2020
August 19, 2020
Big Spending Biden By John Stossel
Which presidential candidate will bankrupt America first, Donald Trump or Joe Biden?
August 18, 2020
Is the Media Gaming The Polls for a Post-DNC ‘Surprise’? By Brian C. Joondeph
Conventional wisdom suggests that presidential election polls will tighten as the election approaches. In the summer ahead of an election, most voters are not paying close attention to the campaign, and opinion polls many months ahead of the election are designed more to influence rather than reflect public opinion.
August 18, 2020
V-Shaped Economic Recovery Requires Freer Trade, Not Tariffs By Stephen Moore
It seems obvious that President Donald Trump is going to need a blockbuster economic revival if he hopes to win reelection in November.
Part of the equation to achieve that spring back is to resist trade protectionist temptations. But will he?
August 18, 2020
The Progressive Racism of the Ivy League By Patrick J. Buchanan
If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of "systemic racism."
August 14, 2020
Is Biden-Harris on Tom Dewey's Path? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Accused of being a serial harasser in 2019, Joe Biden did what comes naturally. He apologized for perceived past misbehavior, and, to appease his accusers, pledged to choose a woman for a Biden ticket.
August 14, 2020
Biden-Harris/Trump-Pence Race 'Tightening' By Michael Barone
Just as Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his vice presidential nominee, and a week before the Democrats' virtual national convention is scheduled to begin at various sites, the basement strategy he's been pursuing, hailed as the political equivalent of "The Emperor's New Clothes," was starting to look tattered and torn.
August 13, 2020
Biden-Harris: A Predictable Pairing By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and J. Miles Coleman
The presumptive Democratic nominee plays it safe.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Kamala Harris, long seen as a frontrunner to be Joe Biden’s running mate, represents a vetted, qualified, and safe VP choice.
— Harris is the latest in a long line of Democratic senators who have become running mates. If she becomes vice president, Democrats should not have any real obstacles to keeping her seat.
— Biden’s new running mate has only been in the Senate for less than four years, but she was California’s statewide elected attorney general before that — though she almost lost in 2010.
August 12, 2020
Is Biden-Loving Comcast Meddling in Loomer's Campaign? By Michelle Malkin
There's bad blood between President Donald Trump and Comcast. It's no secret.
August 12, 2020
Anti-Racist Racists By John Stossel
Black Lives Matter protests led many people to want to do something useful to reduce racial injustice. Racial justice groups are being flooded with money.
Big companies made multimillion-dollar donations.
August 11, 2020
Investor Immigrants Will Stimulate the Economy By Stephen Moore
One way President Donald Trump built the best economy in 30 years was by attracting nearly $1 trillion of foreign capital to these shores. This money got invested in new business startups and expanded existing Made-in-America businesses. This "repatriation tax holiday" worked like a charm. Millions of jobs were created -- and this was a major contributing factor to the American economic sonic boom.
August 11, 2020
The Real World Reasserts Itself By Patrick J. Buchanan
Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored.
August 8, 2020
Delay the Election? Presidents Often Do Things They Can't Do By Ted Rall
The stock response to President Donald Trump's suggestion that the general election might be delayed because voting during a pandemic would involve a record number of mail-in ballots, a format he argues is unreliable and susceptible to fraud, is that he doesn't have that power.
August 7, 2020
Ticket Balancing May Be Risky for Joe Biden By Michael Barone
If the presidential nominating process is the weakest part of our political system -- and, perhaps not coincidentally, one not referenced by the founders -- the vice presidential selection process comes solidly in second place. Some might even argue it's a contender for the top spot.
August 7, 2020
Biden's Game Plan -- Take No Risks & Run Out the Clock By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the presidency on the death of Warren Harding in 1923, a wag remarked that Silent Cal's career had exhibited unmistakable signs of celestial intervention.
August 5, 2020
Fact Check: Yes, the Mob Is Coming For You By Michelle Malkin
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. -- In June, America's mass media propaganda machine endangered the public by spreading insidious "disinformation" -- while purporting to debunk "disinformation."
August 4, 2020
Trial Lawyers Looking For a $100 Billion Coronavirus Jackpot By Stephen Moore
Not everyone is suffering job loss, income declines and financial devastation from the coronavirus pandemic. Some people are looking to get rich off the tragedy. Trial lawyers see COVID-19 casualties and images of asbestos and tobacco lawsuits dancing in their heads. They are drooling over the prospects of a $100 billion COVID-19 jackpot. The Democrats in Congress who the trial bar has spent years buying and paying can't wait to help in the grand heist.
August 4, 2020
As the Filibuster Goes, So Goes the GOP By Patrick J. Buchanan
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
August 1, 2020
Trump Tries to End the Afghanistan War. Democrats Want to Keep Killing By Ted Rall
Pollsters have observed a consistent enthusiasm gap between supporters of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Any factor that dampens Democratic turnout could contribute to a second come-from-behind victory for the GOP.
