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January 22, 2021Biden's Heartfelt Appeal for Unity Likely to Be Unavailing By Michael Barone
"We must end this uncivil war," Joe Biden proclaimed shortly after he became the 46th president on Wednesday. Hours earlier, in his last moments as the 45th president, Donald Trump extended "best wishes" to the "new administration." Graceful words, but accompanied by sharp and, in some cases, deserved attacks. Our presidents since George Washington have come to office through an inevitably adversary process, and while they may inspire "unity" on occasion, that's more the exception than the rule.
January 22, 2021Biden's America: One Nation or Us Versus Them? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We have met the enemy and he is us," said Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo, half a century ago, about what we Americans were doing to our environment.
January 20, 2021As Biden Takes Office, Trump’s Shadow is Inescapable – at Least for Now By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Even as a new president is inaugurated today, the outgoing president looms large.
— As Senate Republicans ponder how to vote in the Trump impeachment trial, they may be incentivized to move the party past Trump as they seek to recapture power in Washington next year.
January 20, 2021Standing Up to the Mob By John Stossel
Joe Biden says he'll "advance racial equity" by making "bold investments" in "Affordable Housing," aiding "businesses owned by Black and Brown people," establishing an "Equity Commission," etc.
January 19, 2021Get Ready for More Obama-Era Green Energy Scams By Stephen Moore
With Democrats about to control all the levers of power in Washington, the biggest winners might be the wind and solar companies. These firms' stocks continue to surge mostly because President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to invest several hundred billion dollars in green energy through a pipeline of taxpayer-funded grants, loans, tax credits and loan guarantees.
January 19, 2021Now, the Left Owns It All By Patrick J. Buchanan
That mob that split off from the Donald Trump rally of Jan. 6 to invade the Capitol has proven a godsend to the left.
January 15, 2021From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism By Michael Barone
It wasn't just Donald Trump's detractors who felt a sudden sense of relief when they heard that Twitter was blocking his feed after the storming of the Capitol and the disruption of the reading of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6. While President Trump's exact words to the crowd on the Ellipse didn't constitute a criminal incitement, they were uttered with a reckless disregard for the possibility that they'd provoke violence, which any reasonable person could find impeachable.
January 15, 2021The Lynch Mob Comes for Citizen Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack."
January 14, 2021The Objectors Versus the Rejecters By Kyle Kondik
Analyzing how House Republicans voted in last week’s Electoral College disputes.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Roughly two-thirds of House Republicans backed at least one of two objections to a state’s presidential results last week. And a clear majority backed both.
— Generally speaking, members who backed both objections come from more Republican-leaning districts than those who opposed both.
January 13, 2021Teachers Unions Fail Science By John Stossel
Is your child's school open now?
January 12, 2021Liberalism Will Be Unleashed -- and Will Fail Again By Stephen Moore
We were all told that 2021 would be a better year for the country, but the first two weeks could hardly have been worse. The left is out to discredit not just President Donald Trump and his indefensible behavior since the election but also his ideas. They are triumphantly saying that free market conservatism is dead and that the era of big government is back with a vengeance. Not so fast.
January 12, 2021Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                
                
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                            January 11, 2021Are Republicans Now Waking up to their Political Suicide? By Brian C. Joondeph
Elected Republicans, taking their voters and current events for granted, reading only the Washington Post and watching CNN, have squandered their political relevancy, perhaps permanently. Through their foolish attempts to “reach across the aisle” or act in a more “dignified” manner than their party leader, President Trump, they have now lost the platform Trump gave them, acting dazed and confused as to what happened.
January 8, 2021Will Democrats Ditch a Policy That's Produced More Equal Incomes? By Michael Barone
The policies of defeated one-term presidents are not as easily reversed as their victorious successors, suffused with campaign rhetoric, sometimes suppose they will be. Even when, as now, the winning party has majorities in both houses of Congress.
January 8, 2021The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be "wild."
January 6, 2021More Good News By John Stossel
Islamic terror has been trending down for five years.
January 5, 2021Coronavirus for Dummies By Stephen Moore
We are now almost one year from the dark days when the coronavirus first hit these shores. Why are the politicians' making the same policy mistakes today that they made nine months ago? The 300,000+ deaths are an act of nature, but the virus's death and despair have been compounded by acts of man -- i.e., foolish politicians.
January 5, 2021Family Brawl in the House of Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States.
January 1, 2021The Year America Went Crazy By Michael Barone
Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both elite officials and ordinary Americans, to the COVID-19 pandemic starting last February and to the shocking video from Minneapolis police officers released over Memorial Day weekend.
January 1, 2021Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In its most recent exercise of liberal democracy, the state senate of Massachusetts voted 32-8 to override Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of what is called the Roe Act.
One day earlier, Monday, the state house had voted to override.

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Political Commentary

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Biden's Heartfelt Appeal for Unity Likely to Be Unavailing By Michael Barone

Biden's America: One Nation or Us Versus Them? By Patrick J. Buchanan

As Biden Takes Office, Trump’s Shadow is Inescapable – at Least for Now By Kyle Kondik

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

Standing Up to the Mob By John Stossel

Get Ready for More Obama-Era Green Energy Scams By Stephen Moore

Now, the Left Owns It All By Patrick J. Buchanan

From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism By Michael Barone

The Lynch Mob Comes for Citizen Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Objectors Versus the Rejecters By Kyle Kondik

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

Teachers Unions Fail Science By John Stossel

Liberalism Will Be Unleashed -- and Will Fail Again By Stephen Moore

Exploiting the Capitol Riot to Kill Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan

Are Republicans Now Waking up to their Political Suicide? By Brian C. Joondeph

Will Democrats Ditch a Policy That's Produced More Equal Incomes? By Michael Barone

The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists By Patrick J. Buchanan

More Good News By John Stossel

Coronavirus for Dummies By Stephen Moore

Family Brawl in the House of Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Year America Went Crazy By Michael Barone

Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts? By Patrick J. Buchanan

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