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April 7, 2020Applying Conventional Criteria to Biden’s Unconventional Vice Presidential Pool By Joel K. Goldstein
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Biden’s historic announcement that his running mate will be a woman will limit his process in an unprecedented way, yet it still leaves him with a number of choices who reachable voters are likely to view as plausible presidents.
— Even if Biden emphasizes choosing a presidential-caliber running mate, as governance and political considerations would dictate, the timing of the selection makes it inevitable that other political considerations will also be weighed in the choice.
— Democratic presidential candidates generally choose a running mate who is a senator and who has considerable experience in high government positions.
April 7, 2020Don't Put Uncle Sam in Corporate Boardrooms By Stephen Moore
There is nothing worse than the government bailing out private industries. I've spent a career opposing corporate welfare giveaways. When an industry gets in financial trouble because of its poor business practices, the owners, shareholders and executives should bear the cost -- not the taxpayers.
April 7, 2020Kissinger's Call for a New World Order By Patrick J. Buchanan
Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was "A World Restored," his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                
                
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                            April 6, 2020Has President Trump Risen to the Challenge? Ask the Polls By Brian C. Joondeph
Some say adversity creates character, but in reality adversity reveals character. At the highest levels of leadership, today’s challenges are massive with economies and lives riding on every decision. These are not the times that make great leaders but instead reveal them.
April 3, 2020Contrast Between China and Its Neighbors Shows Communist Regime's True Character By Michael Barone
There's no greater contrast between how countries have treated COVID-19 than that between nations on both sides of what might be called the Asian Iron Curtain. It's a contrast that tells us much about how to handle the virus -- and how events now in the distant past can determine the fates of hundreds of millions of people today.
April 3, 2020When It's Over, Will We Be the Same America? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," said Samuel Johnson.
And as it is with men, so it is with nations.
April 2, 2020Rating Changes: Electoral College and Senate By Kyle Kondik
Democrats edge slightly ahead, but presidential race still a Toss-up; upper chamber battle gets closer; governors face what likely will be the biggest test of their tenures.
April 1, 2020Questions About State Department's 'China First' Shipment By Michelle Malkin
A little less than two months ago, the U.S. State Department made a curious announcement that suggests President Trump's "America First" administration put "China First" at a critical moment during the burgeoning Wuhan pandemic.
April 1, 2020The Unsung Heroes By John Stossel
Congress passed and the president signed a $2 trillion "stimulus" bill.
"Not enough!" shrieked politicians. They said the government must do more.
March 31, 2020Virtual Conventions: Health Crisis Forces Both Parties, Particularly The Democrats, to Envision the Possibility By Louis Jacobson
Will there be Democratic and Republican conventions this summer? The coronavirus pandemic, and the social distancing needed to combat it, are putting these quadrennial festivities in doubt -- an unprecedented situation that is leaving party officials, politicians, and the media in a quandary, with a fast-ticking clock.
March 31, 2020Atlas Is Shrugging By Stephen Moore
"Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution. ... The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off." -- Ayn Rand.
March 31, 2020Is the Pandemic Killing Biden's Bid? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"This is the question that is going to dominate the election: How did you perform in the great crisis?"
So says GOP Congressman Tom Cole of Oklahoma in today's New York Times.
March 27, 2020Anti-Pandemic Rules the Opposite of Anti-Climate Change Rules By Michael Barone
It's unnerving, and perhaps instructive, that the arrangements elites have been prescribing for dealing with what they call our most dangerous environmental threat -- climate change, formerly known as global warming -- are almost precisely the opposite of the arrangements deployed to deal with the more immediate threat of COVID-19, aka the novel coronavirus.
March 27, 2020Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era? By Patrick J. Buchanan
To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq.
March 26, 2020Turnout in the 2020 Democratic Primary: Some Clues for the Fall By J. Miles Coleman
In the primary, blue-trending areas see higher turnout, power Joe Biden's strength; erosion for Democrats continues in some rural areas in the South.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— With very few exceptions, statewide turnout in the 2020 Democratic primary has been higher than 2016.
— Suburban areas have seen some of the sharpest turnout increases — though these areas tend to have higher population growth, they’ve also trended blue in general elections, perhaps a positive indicator for Democrats looking to the fall.
— Meanwhile, some rural areas that have been trending away from Democrats in places like North Carolina and Oklahoma saw turnout lag behind 2016.
— While Bernie Sanders seems to have a stronger opponent in Joe Biden than he did with Hillary Clinton, Sanders’ prospects may have been hurt by partisan realignment since 2016.
March 25, 2020Chutzpah: ADL Wants a Federal Bailout By Michelle Malkin
When I think of "essential" workers in America, the smear merchants of the Anti-Defamation League are at the bottom of the barrel. For decades, they've demonized conservatives and Christians as agents of "hate" and treated our very existence as incitements to violence. The ADL's manufactured outrage machine has broadened its target list to anyone remotely critical of Israel for any reason, President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, "America First" college students, innocuous hand gestures, cartoon frogs and anyone who dares to think or write that "It's OK to be white."
March 25, 2020The Red Tape Pandemic John Stossel
Coronavirus is frightening.
I'm working from home, practicing "social distancing." Experts say it'll help "flatten the curve" so fewer people will be infected simultaneously. Then hospitals won't be overwhelmed.
March 24, 2020$5 Trillion Down the Drain By Stephen Moore
In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, everyone should read Robert Higgs' economic classic "Crisis and Leviathan." The critical warning of this masterpiece is that government always uses a crisis -- from the Civil War to the Great Depression to World War II -- to expand power, not only during the emergency but also afterward. Emergencies tend to ratchet up the cost and power of government permanently.
March 24, 2020Must We Kill the Economy to Kill the Virus? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself," tweeted the president on Sunday night, adding that, after the current 15-day shutdown, "we will make a decision as to which way we want to go."
March 21, 2020We Should Attach Strings to Corporate Bailouts By Ted Rall
It's the end of the world as we know it, and the banks and airlines feel fine because even in the midst of economic collapse, CEOs can sleep soundly at night, secure in the knowledge that the American taxpayer will bail them out. Again.

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Political Commentary

Most Recent Releases

Applying Conventional Criteria to Biden’s Unconventional Vice Presidential Pool By Joel K. Goldstein

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

Don't Put Uncle Sam in Corporate Boardrooms By Stephen Moore

Kissinger's Call for a New World Order By Patrick J. Buchanan

Has President Trump Risen to the Challenge? Ask the Polls By Brian C. Joondeph

Contrast Between China and Its Neighbors Shows Communist Regime's True Character By Michael Barone

When It's Over, Will We Be the Same America? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Rating Changes: Electoral College and Senate By Kyle Kondik

Questions About State Department's 'China First' Shipment By Michelle Malkin

The Unsung Heroes By John Stossel

Virtual Conventions: Health Crisis Forces Both Parties, Particularly The Democrats, to Envision the Possibility By Louis Jacobson

Atlas Is Shrugging By Stephen Moore

Is the Pandemic Killing Biden's Bid? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Anti-Pandemic Rules the Opposite of Anti-Climate Change Rules By Michael Barone

Can This Pandemic Usher in a New Era? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Turnout in the 2020 Democratic Primary: Some Clues for the Fall By J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

Chutzpah: ADL Wants a Federal Bailout By Michelle Malkin

The Red Tape Pandemic John Stossel

$5 Trillion Down the Drain By Stephen Moore

Must We Kill the Economy to Kill the Virus? By Patrick J. Buchanan

We Should Attach Strings to Corporate Bailouts By Ted Rall

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