Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is President Donald Trump about to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war? For that is what he and his advisers seem to be signaling.
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September 11, 2018
September 7, 2018
If You Don't Hate the Government, You're Not Paying Attention By Ted Rall
Imagine a store that makes its customers miserable. The interior is ugly and uncomfortable. The staff members range from indifferent and slow to rude and incompetent. You pay sky-high prices for inferior goods. Often you pay full price yet leave the place empty-handed.
September 7, 2018
Regime Change -- American Style By Patrick J. Buchanan
The campaign to overturn the 2016 election and bring down President Trump shifted into high gear this week.
September 7, 2018
Democrats' Visions of Hand Signals From White Supremacists By Michael Barone
The highlight, at least for some television watchers, of the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, came when the young woman seated directly behind the nominee rested her right hand on her opposite elbow and pressed her index fingertip against her thumb, forming a kind of circle or OK sign.
September 6, 2018
Balance Sheet of the Forever War By Patrick J. Buchanan
"It is time for this war in Afghanistan to end," said Gen. John Nicholson in Kabul on his retirement Sunday after a fourth tour of duty and 31 months as commander of U.S. and NATO forces.
September 6, 2018
Polls Are Just More Media Propaganda By Brian C. Joondeph
Election season is upon us again, two years after one of the wildest roller coaster political campaigns in recent memory. This time it’s Congress on the ballot, not Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. Yet President Trump is still on the ballot – his agenda, his policies, his future.
September 6, 2018
Senate 2018: At Least for Now, the Elephant Endures By Kyle Kondik
GOP maintains edge in race for upper chamber, but Democratic path to majority remains open.
September 5, 2018
Death Be Not Loud By Michelle Malkin
Question: What is more cringe-inducing than a celebrity funeral?
Answer: Two back-to-back celebrity funerals.
September 5, 2018
Judging Kavanaugh By John Stossel
Some people are very angry about President Trump's new Supreme Court pick.
September 5, 2018
The Threat of Tariffs May Work By Stephen Moore
Love him or hate him, you've got to hand it to Donald Trump. His trade and tariff strategy -- risky as it is -- seems to be working. The master negotiator is hammering out agreements -- first with the Europeans and now with Mexico -- that are better deals for American firms and workers.
August 31, 2018
A Cancer on the Papacy? By Patrick J. Buchanan
This summer, the sex scandal that has bedeviled the Catholic Church went critical.
August 31, 2018
John McCain: Warm Remembrances of Roads Not Taken, or Taken and Now Abandoned By Michael Barone
Warm remembrances of Sen. John McCain have been filling the political air since his death last weekend. They'll continue through his the memorial service in Phoenix, his funeral Saturday at Washington National Cathedral and his interment at the Naval Academy cemetery in Annapolis on Sunday.
August 30, 2018
A Labor Day Status Report - Plus, Updates From Tuesday Night By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
We’ve been starting Crystal Ball pieces with a few “key points” summing up the article. As we head into Labor Day weekend and the start of the sprint to Election Day, we thought we’d do something different. Instead of key points from this article, here are some key points about this election so far:
August 29, 2018
The Left's Long War on Conservative Free Speech By Michelle Malkin
In the competition of ideas, you can't win the game if you're not on the playing field.
August 29, 2018
Social Media Censorship II By John Stossel
Are those who question the severity of global warming worse than Nazis? I wouldn't think so, but YouTube, owned by Google, seems to.
I wrote last week that YouTube added a Wikipedia link about global warming to videos like ones I do about climate change.
August 28, 2018
Are the Interventionists Now Leaderless? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"McCain's Death Leaves Void" ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began:
August 28, 2018
Don't Let the Fed End the Trump Prosperity By Stephen Moore
There's an old cliche that the Federal Reserve likes to take away the punch bowl just when the party is getting going. That's what President Trump suspects that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is doing now by raising interest rates at a time of a booming economy.
August 24, 2018
Do Democrats Want an Impeachment Fight? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer," said President Donald Trump ruefully, "I would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of Michael Cohen." Michael Cohen is no Roy Cohn.
August 24, 2018
Democrats Better off Playing by the Rules Than Denouncing the Rules By Michael Barone
When you lose a game, particularly a game you had good reason to expect you'd win, do you try to figure out how to play better? Or is your first reaction to demand changes in the rules?
August 23, 2018
House Update: 12 Ratings Changes By Kyle Kondik
Tuesday’s bombshell developments — the conviction of President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, followed in swift succession by a guilty plea from the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, that seemed to implicate the president in a scheme to skirt campaign finance laws — may very well not move the president’s approval rating. Previous developments related to Robert Mueller’s investigation of the 2016 campaign and Russian involvement really haven’t. But it would be wrong to look at what happened earlier this week and argue that the Cohen/Manafort news doesn’t mean anything to the battle for the House.
