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March 27, 2018

No, Hillary Clinton: It's the Red States That Are Dynamic By Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer

Hillary Clinton is being universally panned by Republicans and Democrats for her recent rant against people who voted for Donald Trump. While giving a speech in Mumbai, India, Clinton boasted that she "won the places that represent two-thirds of America's gross domestic product." She went on: "So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward." As evidence, she pointed to places such as Illinois, where she won by sizable margins. Then she added that those who voted against her "didn't like black people getting rights, and don't like women ... getting jobs."   

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March 24, 2018

Hiring John Bolton is Donald Trump's Most Dangerous Decision By Ted Rall

Personnel is policy, they say in Washington. The appointment of John Bolton as national security advisor is by far President Trump's most dangerous decision.  

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March 23, 2018

Will the Deep State Break Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"It is becoming more obvious with each passing day that the men and the movement that broke Lyndon Johnson's authority in 1968 are out to break Richard Nixon," wrote David Broder on Oct. 8, 1969.

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March 23, 2018

Women Against Free Speech? By Michael Barone

Sometimes, for those of us who are constantly reading statistics and poll results, something that you didn't expect to see stands out -- a number that makes you think the future will not be what you have been expecting.

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March 22, 2018

Exit Stage Left or Right: Midterm Retirements and Open Seats in the House From 1974 to 2018 By Geoffrey Skelley

In the aftermath of now-Rep. Conor Lamb’s (D) special election victory on March 13, a constant refrain has been the stated fear among Republicans that the result would precipitate more retirements among GOP members in the U.S. House. As the Crystal Ball has noted in the past, open seats held by the president’s party in midterm elections have typically seen large average swings toward the opposition, making retirements a serious concern for the party in the White House. Because of the strength of incumbency, political parties have a more difficult time retaining a seat it controls when its incumbent does not seek reelection. That is, “seat maintenance” becomes harder for the incumbent party, in part because it now has to defend an exposed seat. Looking ahead to this November, the number of additional Republican retirements could be a critical factor in determining whether the GOP maintains its majority in the House. As a result, we wondered the following: How bad is the GOP retirement picture compared to past midterm cycles going back to 1974, and how many additional Republican retirements might occur this cycle?

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March 21, 2018

Another Fatal FBI Fumble in Florida By Michelle Malkin

A sickening act of youth violence in Florida glinted across the news headlines last week, and then disappeared from view.   

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March 21, 2018

Climate Exit By John Stossel

President Trump's pick to be the new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is not a fan of the Paris climate agreement, the treaty that claims it will slow global warning by reducing the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Politicians from most of the world's nations signed the deal, and President Obama said "we may see this as the moment that we finally decided to save our planet."

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March 20, 2018

Who's Afraid of Mergers? By Stephen Moore

Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He's copied a lot from the Reagan playbook: Deregulate; cut taxes; promote American energy. He should also think about adopting another Reaganite initiative: Let American companies grow, merge, restructure and become more profitable so they can compete on the global stage.    

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March 20, 2018

Did Putin Order the Salisbury Hit? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.

But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.

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March 16, 2018

Democrats Should Run On Impeachment By Ted Rall

Democrats are already counting their electoral chickens for the midterms - but their unwillingness to lay out a clear agenda may be about to hand the party their second devastating defeat in two years.

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March 16, 2018

Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930? By Patrick J. Buchanan

After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office.

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March 16, 2018

Democrats Can Take the House, if They Just Pick Conor Lamb Over Hillary Clinton By Michael Barone

What if they held a special election and nobody won? That's more or less what happened in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the special election to fill the vacancy in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District.

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March 15, 2018

Are Republicans In More Special Trouble? By Kyle Kondik

Assessing upcoming House specials in Arizona and Ohio after Lamb’s upset in Pennsylvania

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March 14, 2018

Look Homeward, 'Change Agents' By Michelle Malkin

Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:

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March 14, 2018

Lies About Trade By John Stossel

Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed by their own trade barriers, will eliminate them.

Then I will thank the president for the wonderful thing he did. Genuine free trade will be a recipe for wonderful economic growth.

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March 13, 2018

Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: "There shall be open borders."   

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March 9, 2018

Time to Get Over the Russophobia By Patrick J. Buchanan

Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18.   

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March 9, 2018

Trump on Trade: Better Than Smoot-Hawley? By Michael Barone

Donald Trump's announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other countries has aroused little enthusiasm and much criticism. It evidently prompted the resignation of Gary Cohn as head of his National Economic Council.

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March 8, 2018

House 2018: 26 Ratings Changes, All in Favor of Democrats By Kyle Kondik

Republicans are very much in danger of losing a district that supported President Trump by 20 points less than a year and a half ago.

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March 7, 2018

Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot By Michelle Malkin

Will the VA scandal never end?   

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