No Trade Barriers By John Stossel
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while."
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March 7, 2018
March 6, 2018
Tariffs Are Taxes By Lawrence Kudlow
One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
March 6, 2018
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? By Patrick J. Buchanan
From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen.
And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America's Party.
March 2, 2018
Fatal Delusions of Western Man By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.
March 2, 2018
Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone
Not since James Monroe left the presidency in 1825, 48 years after he fought in the Battle of Princeton, has America had political leadership with careers running so far back in the past. Our current government leaders have political pedigrees going back to the 1970s.
March 1, 2018
Donald Trump’s Short Congressional Coattails By Rhodes Cook
-- Although Donald Trump is remaking the Republican Party in his image, he had among the shortest coattails of any presidential winner going back to Dwight Eisenhower. In 2016, Trump ran ahead of just 24 of 241 Republican House winners and only five of 22 Republican Senate winners.
February 28, 2018
Release the Florida School Shooting Surveillance Video By Michelle Malkin
Open government isn't just good government. It's the public's right.
February 28, 2018
The Political Oscars Bu John Stossel
Sunday, Hollywood sycophants give out Oscars.
February 27, 2018
The Eternal Lure of Nationalism By Patrick J. Buchanan
In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men's hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3.
February 23, 2018
Never Mind Millennial Apathy, Here's Generation Z By Ted Rall
Like many other Americans this week, I have been impressed with the poise, passion and guts of the Florida teenagers who survived the latest big school shooting, as well as that of their student allies in other cities who walked out of class, took to the streets and/or confronted government officials to demand that they take meaningful action to reduce gun violence. As we mark a series of big 50th anniversaries of the cluster of dramatic events that took place in 1968, one wonders: does this augur a return to the street-level militancy of that tumultuous year?
February 23, 2018
Don't Take The Onion's Pessimism Too Seriously By Michael Barone
"Study: 90 Percent Of Americans Strongly Opposed To Each Other." That's the headline on a story in what, on some days, seems to be America's most reliable news outlet, The Onion.
February 23, 2018
Media Sharks Smell Blood from Florida School -- and Ratings By Charles Hurt
Never before has such an unspeakable American tragedy been so quickly and shamelessly politicized for petty partisan gain.
February 23, 2018
Protect Kids or Confiscate Guns? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In days gone by, a massacre of students like the atrocity at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have brought us together.
February 22, 2018
Rating the New Pennsylvania House Map By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
A few weeks ago, we plotted a potential seat-by-seat Democratic path to a narrow House majority. That included a Democratic target of netting three additional seats from Pennsylvania, and the state’s new House map drawn by the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court should make it easier to meet or even exceed that benchmark.
February 21, 2018
Do Not Let the Children Lead By Michelle Malkin
Where are all the grown-ups in times of crisis and grief? Don't bother searching America's prestigious law schools.
February 21, 2018
Pay Your Dues! By John Stossel
If your workplace is a union shop, are you forced to pay union dues? Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about that.
February 20, 2018
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election.
February 19, 2018
Trump Needs a Return to King Dollar By Lawrence Kudlow
The Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress have passed one of the best pro-growth tax bills ever. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ranks in the all-time hall of fame along with former President Reagan's 1981 and 1986 tax acts, and former President Kennedy's posthumous tax cuts in 1964. The announcements by Apple, FedEx, AT&T, Fiat Chrysler and over 300 companies with multibillion dollar investments in the United States are early lead indicators of good things to come from the tax-rate cuts.
February 17, 2018
On The One Hand, Gun Violence; On The Other Hand, Gun Control By Ted Rall
On the one hand, because it's the 18th school shooting so far this year, the news that another psychologically damaged man shot 17 schoolchildren to death with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle is not news. Put it on page 27 below the fold, maybe?
February 16, 2018
The Motives Behind the Massacre By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Enough is enough!" "This can't go on!" "This has to stop!"
