Paid Time Off By John Stossel
Both Republican and Democratic politicians want government to "do more" to give parents paid time off.
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June 5, 2019
June 4, 2019
Are Men Becoming Economically Expendable? By Stephen Moore
Almost all of the economic discussion of late has been on the "wage gap" between men and women. A case in point: California Sen. Kamala Harris wants to create a federal bureaucracy that will ensure the government has more influence over workers' pay than workers and employers themselves. This will open up a Pandora's box for trial lawyers as employers find themselves deluged with lawsuits over pay "gaps" real and imagined.
June 4, 2019
Do Trump's Hawks Speak for Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan
For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and Barack Obama plunged the nation, Donald Trump has assembled the most unabashedly hawkish conclave of foreign policy advisers in memory. And he himself seems to concede the point.
May 31, 2019
Sometimes Parties Have to Change to Thrive -- or Even Survive By Michael Barone
Political parties generally go unappreciated, even among those inclined to celebrate representative democracy. The Founding Fathers famously didn't like them yet found themselves forming them, not long after the First Congress assembled.
May 31, 2019
What a Hash Mueller Made of It By Patrick J. Buchanan
What is it about special counsel Robert Mueller that he cannot say clearly and concisely what he means?
May 30, 2019
House 2020: Incumbents Hardly Ever Lose Primaries By Kyle Kondik
A week before Rep. Joe Crowley decisively lost his primary last year, I tweeted about Crowley’s potential vulnerability, with the caveat that “I have little idea if Rep. Joe Crowley (D, NY-14) is actually seriously threatened by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in his primary next week.” A member of Crowley’s staff sent me an email that quoted this question I raised and said, “He's not. Not at all.”
May 29, 2019
Revoke Ilhan Omar's Marriage Fraud Immunity Card By Michelle Malkin
If you are not a member of the Democrats' protected class of bitter loudmouths who hate America, you can be investigated and prosecuted for marriage fraud. The headlines have been filled with recent crackdowns.
May 29, 2019
Is the Liberal Hour Ending in the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Hillary Clinton called them "the deplorables." Barack Obama called them losers who "cling" to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.
May 29, 2019
'Victims' Dictate By John Stossel
"I don't feel safe," says a Harvard student in a video.
May 29, 2019
The Fed Hurts Farmers More Than China Does By Stephen Moore
There's no question that many farmers are struggling this year with incomes down and bankruptcies up. Though some of the more dire reports on the farm sector recorded in the media are exaggerated, what is indisputable is that prices for major commodities such as corn are on a downward trend and are significantly lower than they were less than a decade ago, when prices were at or near record highs.
May 25, 2019
Why Joe Biden Is the Least Electable Democrat By Ted Rall
As one of the few pundits who correctly called the 2016 election for Donald Trump, it would be wise to rest on my laurels rather than risk another prediction, one that might turn out wrong.
May 24, 2019
Using the Big Lie to Delegitimize Election Results By Michael Barone
The Big Lie is back in style. Wikipedia tells us that the term was invented by Adolf Hitler to describe what others did -- though he was the biggest liar of all. "The broad masses of a nation," he wrote in "Mein Kampf," "more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie."
May 24, 2019
Are We on the Ramp to Impeachment Road? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a stroke felled Woodrow Wilson during his national tour to save his League of Nations, an old rival, Sen. Albert Fall, went to the White House to tell the president, "I have been praying for you, Sir."
May 23, 2019
Notes on the State of the Senate By Kyle Kondik
GOP remains favored to hold the majority overall.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Senate retirements are not having a dramatic effect on the partisan odds in any race so far.
— Democrats have missed on some Senate recruits, and that may (or may not) matter in the long run.
— Alabama and Colorado remain the likeliest states to flip, with the Democratic-held Yellowhammer State the likeliest of all.
— Arizona is the purest Toss-up.
— Republicans remain favored overall.
May 22, 2019
In Money We Trust? By John Stossel
Look at the dollar bills in your wallet. They say they are "legal tender for all debts."
May 22, 2019
DUH: HUD Housing Should Put Americans First By Michelle Malkin
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy.
Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as "despicable" and "damaging."
May 21, 2019
How to Modernize Immigration Laws By Stephen Moore
When I used to talk to candidate Donald Trump about immigration, I would tell him, Make sure your "big, beautiful wall" has plenty of gates for people to come here legally. President Trump's new immigration initiative would achieve both goals -- border security and a new system to admit the immigrants America needs most.
May 21, 2019
Has the Day of the Nationalists Come? By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week from today, Europeans may be able to gauge how high the tide of populism and nationalism has risen within their countries and on their continent.
May 18, 2019
Long Form, Long Form, Long Form! Is the Future of Print Journalism By Ted Rall
Journalism is in trouble. Writers of articles pointing this out typically argue that this is really bad for democracy or America or whatever. Anyone who disagrees is too stupid to read this, so I won't bother to repeat this obviousness. Such writers also point out contemporaneous evidence of the media apocalypse; here are the three I came across this week:
May 17, 2019
Who Wants This War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Speaking on state TV of the prospect of a war in the Gulf, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei seemed to dismiss the idea.
"There won't be any war. ... We don't seek a war, and (the Americans) don't either. They know it's not in their interests."
