Unserious Nation By Patrick J. Buchanan
How stands John Winthrop's "city upon a hill" this Thanksgiving?
How stands the country that was to be "a light unto the nations"?
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November 21, 2017
November 20, 2017
Democrats' Depravity Laid Bare By Bill Clinton By Charles Hurt
With profiles in courage like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in powerful positions of authority around here, is it any wonder that men and women of America are living in such respectful bliss and harmony with one another?
November 17, 2017
Will Political Setbacks Unite the Republican Party? By Michael Barone
The inexorable workings of the political marketplace seem to be enforcing some discipline over hitherto fissiparous Republican politicians. The question is whether this is happening too late to save the party's declining prospects in the 2018 midterm elections.
November 17, 2017
Is America Up for a Second Cold War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After the 19th national congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October, one may discern Premier Xi Jinping's vision of the emerging New World Order.
November 16, 2017
Alabama Senate: Jones Now Narrowly Favored By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
It’s amazing to write, and there’s time for our outlook to change, but here goes: A Democrat is now a narrow favorite to win a Senate special election in Alabama. We’re changing our rating of the Dec. 12 special election from Likely Republican all the way to Leans Democratic.
November 15, 2017
Silence on Sleaze-Bob Menendez By Michelle Malkin
The verdict is in.
I pronounce Democrat leaders, left-wing feminists and Beltway journalists guilty of gross negligence and hypocrisy over a dirty rotten sleazeball in their midst.
November 14, 2017
Reining in the Rogue Royal of Arabia By Patrick J. Buchanan
If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has in mind a war with Iran, President Trump should disabuse his royal highness of any notion that America would be doing his fighting for him.
November 13, 2017
A Pro-Growth Tax Bill Is on the Way By Lawrence Kudlow
As the House and Senate work their way through the tax cut and reform effort, let me make one thing clear: Both plans are pro-growth, with the economic power coming from the business side. And where it comes from the personal side, there will be very little growth. That was always been the bet.
November 13, 2017
Democrats Using Texas Tragedy to Advance Agenda By Charles Hurt
What kind of demonic soul walks into a church a murders 26 innocent people, including several children, at point-blank range?
November 11, 2017
The Weird Politics Of Sexual Harassment By Ted Rall
When the Kevin Spacey story first broke, he stood accused of one act of wrongdoing: aggressively hitting on a 14-year-old boy.
November 10, 2017
2016 Is Looking Like the New Normal By Michael Barone
If you wanted to predict the results of Tuesday's gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, you would have been wise to ignore the flurry of polls and campaign events. You would have paid no heed to the conventional wisdom that Republican Ed Gillespie had a solid chance to beat Ralph Northam in Virginia.
November 10, 2017
That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion By Patrick J. Buchanan
The day after his "Silent Majority" speech on Nov. 3, 1969, calling on Americans to stand with him for peace with honor in Vietnam, Richard Nixon's GOP captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey.
November 9, 2017
Democratic Domination in the Old Dominion By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Tuesday represented the best non-presidential election night Democrats have had since 2006. They swept the statewide ticket in Virginia for the second election in a row, and they picked up the New Jersey governorship. They also won a crucial, majority-making state Senate election in Washington state, so they won complete control of state government in two states (New Jersey and Washington).
November 8, 2017
Simpler Tax Simplification By John Stossel
As you read this, President Trump's tax plan is being debated. Congress will change it. Where this ends, no one knows.
November 7, 2017
Red Lines & Lost Credibility By Patrick J. Buchanan
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to achieve the "complete, verifiable and permanent denuclearization of the Korean peninsula."
Yet Kim Jong Un has said he will never give up his nuclear weapons. He believes the survival of his dynastic regime depends upon them.
November 6, 2017
Christ Church Looks Down on George Washington, Robert E. Lee By Charles Hurt
CORRECTION: In a column dated Oct. 29, 2017, I incorrectly noted: “The vestry of Christ Church in Alexandria, however, is not capable of grappling with such complexities. Truly, pearls before swine. After all, it is so much easier just to obliterate painful history than to understand it and learn from it.”
November 3, 2017
Another Reason To Protect Bicycle and Pedestrian Paths From Cars By Ted Rall
This week's ISIS-inspired truck attack in lower Manhattan by Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov has prompted discussions on a number of fronts. There is blowback, the foreign-policy-chickens-come-home-to-roost indicated by an increasing number of radical Islamists emerging from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, a Central Asian nation whose brutal dictatorship is financed and armed by our U.S. taxdollars.
November 3, 2017
Keep Calm and Carry On By Michael Barone
Keep calm and carry on. Those words, though not appearing as extensively on posters in wartime Britain as often supposed, are good advice for Americans now appalled by the presidency of Donald Trump.
