Shut Up, They Explain By John Stossel
I'm not surprised that mobs shriek at Trump administration officials in restaurants and that Maxine Waters wants more of that. I've watched this happen at American colleges.
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June 27, 2018
June 26, 2018
A Fascist Right -- or a Hysterical Left? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Trump's supporters are truly "a basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic" and "irredeemable," as Hillary Clinton described them to an LGBT crowd, is not shunning and shaming the proper way to deal with them?
June 26, 2018
The State of the American Worker -- Never Better By Stephen Moore
Last week, I testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the state of the American labor market. I summarized my message in one sentence: For American workers, the job market has never -- or at least seldom -- been better. If you don't have a job, go out and get one, because jobs are out there for the taking.
June 22, 2018
The Supreme Court's 'Bartleby' Decision By Michael Barone
"I would prefer not to." That was the invariable reply of the title character of Herman Melville's 1853 story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," when asked by his employer to perform a task.
June 22, 2018
Has the West the Will to Survive? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"If you're ... pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people, and if you're strong, then you don't have any heart, that's a tough dilemma. ... I'd rather be strong."
June 21, 2018
Never Say Die Senate Candidates: Don Blankenship Lost His Primary But Plans To Run In November Anyway By Geoffery Skelley
If he does, the former coal magnate will be just the latest in a long line of Senate primary losers to run in a general election.
June 20, 2018
Weapons of Mass Manipulation By Michelle Malkin
Confirmation bias damages reputations. It ruins credibility. It destroys lives.
June 20, 2018
Chinese Big Brother By John Stossel
Upset because Facebook and Google invade your privacy? Be glad you don't live in China.
Facebook and other Western apps are banned there. The government views their openness as a threat. So the Chinese use platforms like WeChat and Alibaba.
June 19, 2018
Fake Support for a Free Market In Energy By Stephen Moore
All of a sudden, everyone on the left wants "free markets in energy policy." As someone who's advocated for that for, oh, about three decades, this riff should be music to my ears. But is laissez faire energy policy really what liberals are seeking?
June 19, 2018
Trump and the Invasion of the West By Patrick J. Buchanan
"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their parents.
June 15, 2018
Will We Get Tired of So Much Winning? By Michael Barone
It has been a week full of wins for President Donald Trump -- at least for those who share Trump's view of the way the world works, and perhaps even for some who don't.
June 15, 2018
Trump's Historic Gamble By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump appears to belong to what might be called the Benjamin Disraeli school of diplomacy.
The British prime minister once counseled, "Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
June 13, 2018
Patriarchy Defender By John Stossel
"Shame on you! Shame on you!" chanted protestors after psychology professor Jordan Peterson said he'd refuse to obey a law that would require everyone to call people by the pronoun they prefer -- pronouns like "ze" instead of "he" or "she."
June 12, 2018
Behind Trump's Exasperation By Patrick J. Buchanan
At the G-7 summit in Canada, President Donald Trump described America as "the piggy bank that everybody is robbing."
June 12, 2018
Putting America First Has Made USA No. 1 By Stephen Moore
The left is quickly running out of excuses for why Donald Trump's economic policies have caused a boom rather than the bust that they predicted with such great certainty.
June 9, 2018
Why Blended Primaries are an Assault on Democracy By Ted Rall
California's "jungle primary" system, in which the two candidates who win the most votes advance to the general election in November regardless of their party affiliation, might have resulted in several bizarre outcomes. Look out: given the state's role as a political trendsetter, this weirdness could go national someday.
June 8, 2018
Is Mayor de Blasio an Anti-Asian Bigot? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Though New York City has one of the most segregated schools systems in the country," writes Elizabeth Harris of The New York Times, until now, Mayor Bill de Blasio "was all but silent on the issue."
June 8, 2018
California Results Suggest Blue Wave Has Crested and Ebbed By Michael Barone
The nation is just past halftime in the 2018 primary election cycle. Twenty states -- containing the majority, 228 of 435, of House districts -- have held their primaries, and all but the three with runoffs have chosen their nominees.
June 7, 2018
Virginia’s Busiest Federal Primary Day in Modern History By Geoffrey Skelley
As in other Republican primaries around the country, the Virginia primary for Senate features candidates racing to show the most support for President Donald Trump. All three entrants — Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart (R), state Del. Nick Freitas (R), and minister E.W. Jackson (R) — back the president, but offer contrasts in intensity of support and style. Stewart has claimed in the past that he was “Trump before Trump,” and served for a time as chair of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in Virginia (he was later fired). Jackson rivals Stewart in the earnestness of his stated support for the president, including in an ad where Jackson says, “Unlike Tim Kaine, I’ll be a senator who stands with President Trump instead of against him.” Freitas has been a less vocal Trump backer, though a review of Freitas’ social media and media appearances suggests that he does back Trump. But Freitas’ campaign principally emphasizes his commitment to limited government (e.g. his campaign hashtag is #LibertyRising) and his overall conservatism. Understandably, Freitas has drawn endorsements from more libertarian-minded, small-government Republicans such as Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Mike Lee (R-UT) as well as the libertarian-conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks.
