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September 27, 2018
September 26, 2018
Stop Google's Kiddie Data Predators By Michelle Malkin
No consent. No disclosure. No escape.
September 26, 2018
Leaving the Left By John Stossel
Watching this video upset me. Students and even faculty members won't let Dave Rubin speak. They constantly interrupt, shouting "hate speech!" and "black lives matter!"
September 25, 2018
Saving the Republican Congress By Stephen Moore
Even at this late hour, President Donald Trump can save the Republican Congress in November -- if they want to be saved. To understand how, we need to rewind back to this time last year.
September 25, 2018
The Huge Stakes of Thursday's Confrontations By Patrick J. Buchanan
Thursday is shaping up to be the Trump presidency's "Gunfight at O.K. Corral."
September 22, 2018
Why Christine Ford Vs. Brett Kavanaugh Is a Train Wreck You Can't Look Away From By Ted Rall
Christine Blasey Ford has accused Brett Kavanaugh of trying to rape her during a party while they were teenagers. The political stakes are high: If Kavanaugh's confirmation vote fails in the Senate and Democrats win the body back in November, conservatives will watch their dream of a solidly reliable 5-4 majority go up in smoke.
September 21, 2018
Has Russia Given Up on the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back.
September 21, 2018
The Air Has Seeped out of the Russia-Collusion Balloon By Michael Barone
"I did not, and of course I looked for it, looked for it hard." That was Bob Woodward, promoting his book on the Trump White House, "Fear," replying to talk radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt's question "Did you, Bob Woodward, hear anything in your research, in your interviews, that sounded like espionage or collusion?"
September 20, 2018
Ratings Changes: House and Governors By Kyle Kondik
Affluent suburban seats looking dicier for GOP, but their numbers in the House are not all bad; Colorado, Michigan gubernatorial races shift to Democrats.
September 19, 2018
Prices Should Rise By John Stossel
Officials in states hit by Hurricane Florence are on the lookout for "price gouging."
September 19, 2018
'Believe Women' Is Perilous Baloney By Michelle Malkin
I have a message for virtue-signaling men who've rushed to embrace #MeToo operatives hurling uncorroborated sexual assault allegations into the chaotic court of public opinion.
September 18, 2018
How Solar and Wind Mandates Tax the Poor and Middle Class By Stephen Moore
Liberals love to talk about helping the poor and the middle class, and they are obsessed with reducing income inequality. So why is it that across the country they are pushing one of the most regressive taxes in modern times?
September 18, 2018
The Late Hit on Judge Kavanaugh By Patrick J. Buchanan
Upon the memory and truthfulness of Christine Blasey Ford hangs the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his reputation, and possibly his career on the nation's second highest court.
September 15, 2018
All the Anonymous BS That's Fit to Print: Self-Serving Newspapers Ditch Their Own Ethics Rules By Ted Rall
The most disturbing aspect of The New York Times op-ed by an anonymous "senior official in the Trump Administration" isn't its content.
The content isn't significant enough to make an impression.
September 14, 2018
A Cold Wind off Lake Michigan -- for Chicago and America By Michael Barone
"It's the Lord of the Flies on LaSalle Street," wrote columnist John Kass in the Chicago Tribune. In case the references are unclear, whether because high schools haven't been assigning the William Golding novel in the last few decades or because out-of-towners unaccountably don't realize that Chicago's City Hall front is on LaSalle Street, the curmudgeonly Kass was writing about Mayor Rahm Emanuel's announcement that he won't run for a third term as mayor next February.
September 14, 2018
The Unpardonable Heresy of Tucker Carlson By Patrick J. Buchanan
Our diversity is our greatest strength.
After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, "How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you've made this our new national motto, please be specific."
September 13, 2018
Introduction: The 2018 Midterm Election Forecasts By James E. Campbell
On Tuesday, Nov. 6, about 90 million American voters (around 40% of the voting-eligible population, give or take) will elect all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 members of the U.S. Senate.[1] The midterm election’s outcome will play a major role in policy-making and the politics leading up to the presidential election of 2020. Going into the 2018 elections, Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of Congress. This collection of four different models printed in the Crystal Ball offers forecasts of how the 2018 midterm congressional elections are likely to change the partisan composition of the House and the Senate.
September 12, 2018
Scooters Outrun Law By John Stossel
I just zipped down a city street on an electric scooter. It cost me 15 cents a minute. Fast and fun!
September 11, 2018
Give Trump the Nobel Prize for Economics By Stephen Moore
This past week I asked a friend at the White House about how the president was holding up against the onslaught of media attacks. "They didn't even deliver a glancing blow," was the response. It wasn't for a lack of trying.
