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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.

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August 22, 2018

Social Media Trickery By John Stossel

YouTube just added an "information panel" to all my videos about climate change.    

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August 22, 2018

Let's Join Together to Stop Out-of-Control Prosecutors By Michelle Malkin

At this unique moment in American history, liberals and conservatives have something in common: an abhorrence of government prosecutors run amok.

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August 21, 2018

Who's the Cleanest of Them All By Stephen Moore

Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no, no, no and no.

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August 21, 2018

In Spies Battle, Trump Holds the High Ground By Patrick J. Buchanan

In backing John Brennan's right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the president with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain.

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August 18, 2018

Is Trump a Brand-New Weird Existential Threat to the Republic? By Ted Rall

This past week, more than 300 American newspapers colluded -- if the word fits -- to simultaneously publish editorials declaring themselves, contra Trump, not "the enemy of the people." Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring that it, too, did not consider the press to be, in a phrase that evokes the rhetoric of the former Soviet Union, state enemies.   

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August 17, 2018

Has Trump Delivered on His Economic Promises? By Michael Barone

Is President Trump fulfilling candidate Trump's promises?    

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August 17, 2018

Can America Ever Come Together Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan

If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance.

He would have been challenged to a duel and shot.

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August 16, 2018

The Governors: Ratings Changes Abound By Kyle Kondik

Now that 40 of the 50 states have held primaries so far, including major primaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin on Tuesday night, we thought this was a good time to take stock of, and to reassess, the gubernatorial landscape.

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August 15, 2018

Social Security Fails By John Stossel

Social Security is running out of money.    

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August 15, 2018

The Theory of Political Relative Relativity By Michelle Malkin

It's quite simple: Some political relatives are more equal than others.

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August 14, 2018

An Easy Way to Lower the Trade Deficit By Stephen Moore

From the first day Donald Trump started running for president, he has raged against America's large and persistent trade deficit. His tariff policies are designed to try to reduce these trade imbalances. It is the metric he uses to gage whether other nations are playing by the rules of our trade deals. As a pure economic accounting measure, the U.S. GDP goes down when we import and goes up when we export.

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August 14, 2018

America's Lengthening Enemies List By Patrick J. Buchanan

Friday, deep into the 17th year of America's longest war, Taliban forces overran Ghazni, a provincial capital that sits on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar.

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August 10, 2018

Corporate Democrats Still Don't Have a Clue How to Get Progressives to Vote for Them By Ted Rall

When 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset a 10-term incumbent congressman in New York -- in a set of Democratic primaries that saw self-proclaimed democratic socialists in the Bernie Sanders mold pick up seats across the country -- The New York Times (which, true to its institutional establishmentarianism, didn't bother to cover her campaign) predicted that her victory would "reverberate across the party and the country."

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August 10, 2018

Who Determines 'Universal Values'? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is it any of Canada's business whether Saudi women have the right to drive?

Well, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland just made it her business.

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August 10, 2018

Still Not Clear Which Party Will Lose the House By Michael Barone

We're heading into the home stretch in America's unusually lengthy (six months and nine days) primary election season. Some three-quarters of Americans have had a chance to vote for Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress, and state and local offices.

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August 9, 2018

A Failure to Launch? Kansas’ Republican Gubernatorial Contest and the History of Incumbent Governor Primary Performance By Geoffrey Skelley

The Kansas Republican primary for governor remains too close to call. As of Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Jeff Colyer (R-KS) trailed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) 40.6%-40.5% — a raw margin of just 191 votes — but thousands of provisional ballots still have to be counted, which could alter the outcome. However, if Colyer’s deficit holds, it would be notable because it would mark the first primary loss for an incumbent governor in 2018. Granted, Colyer is a “successor incumbent,” having moved from the lieutenant governorship to the governorship.

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August 8, 2018

Ignorant Sanders By John Stossel

Sen. Bernie Sanders is all over the internet!

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August 8, 2018

Oklahoma's Wretched Record on Wrongful Convictions By Michelle Malkin

"Frontier justice" costs too many citizens of all races, creeds, and backgrounds their freedom and their lives. In the old days of the Wild West, vigilantes worked outside the judicial system to punish rivals regardless of their guilt or innocence. Today, outlaws operate inside the bureaucracy to secure criminal convictions at all costs.

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August 7, 2018

Trump Rules Make Driving Safer and Cheaper By Stephen Moore

A few years ago, I spoke at my son's fifth-grade class about all of the wonderful things that we have today in our great country that weren't around 100 years ago, including inventions like cars. A ponytailed girl in the front of the room raised her hand and, with a solemn look on her face, scolded me: "Cars are bad. They cause pollution." Wow. These were 11-year-olds! It was one of my first encounters with the green indoctrination that goes on in public schools starting in the first grade.

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