Is War With Iran Now Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan
With his declaration Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran.
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October 17, 2017
October 14, 2017
What Would The U.S. Look Like if We Built it from Scratch? By Ted Rall
Imagine that there was another revolution. And that nothing big had changed. Demographics, power dynamics, culture, our economic system and political values were pretty much the same as they are now. If we Americans rolled up our sleeves and reimagined our political system from scratch, if we wrote up a brand-new constitution for 2017, what would a brand-spanking-new United States Version 2.0 look like today?
October 13, 2017
Is Trump the Heir to Reagan? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Three decades ago, as communications director in the White House, I set up an interview for Bill Rusher of National Review.
October 13, 2017
Today's Turn-of-the-Century Problems By Michael Barone
Is America in a new Gilded Age? That's the contention of Republican political consultant Bruce Mehlman, and in a series of 35 slides, he makes a strong case.
October 12, 2017
Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race: Where Things Stand With Less Than a Month to Go By Geoffrey Skelley
The November of the year following a presidential election is always relatively quiet on the electoral front, with only regularly-scheduled statewide races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. With the Garden State’s contest looking like a safe Democratic pickup and Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate not happening until December, coverage of the competitive Virginia race seems to be accelerating as it enters the final month before Election Day. This is only natural: gubernatorial elections in the Old Dominion traditionally ramp up around Labor Day, and now that the election is less than four weeks away, the candidates are beginning to go all-in on television ads, which attracts more notice inside and outside of the commonwealth.
October 11, 2017
Let Them Leave By John Stossel
The United States was born when the Founding Fathers seceded from England.
October 11, 2017
Obama Lied. My FOURTH Health Plan Died. By Michelle Malkin
Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead.
October 10, 2017
Kevin Hassett Spanks the Tax Policy Center By Lawrence Kudlow
President Trump's new chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Kevin Hassett, walked into the lion's den last week with his first official speech. He used the moment to pound the leftist Tax Policy Center. It was a wonderful sight.
October 10, 2017
Trump Embraces the Culture War By Patrick J. Buchanan
To attend the Indianapolis Colts game where the number of the legendary Peyton Manning was to be retired, Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana, flew back from Las Vegas.
October 6, 2017
Hugh Hefner Said His Critics Were Prudes And Puritans By Ted Rall
No one has ever accused Ross Douthat of excessive astuteness. "Donald Trump isn't going to be the Republican nominee," wrote in January 2016. Dude is paid to prognosticate politics. Even so, Douthat probably pulls down six figures at The New York Times, which doesn't grant me the courtesy of a rejection letter. So people pay attention to him.
October 6, 2017
The Dead Soul of Stephen Paddock By Patrick J. Buchanan
What was his motive? Why did he do it?
October 6, 2017
Both Parties' Extremists Seem Determined to Lose the Next Elections By Michael Barone
Almost no one disagrees that our two major political parties, the oldest and third-oldest in the world, have become increasingly extreme and estranged over the past decade. It's a startling contrast with the state of political conflict in the dozen or so years after the fall of the Soviet empire.
October 5, 2017
The Republican Senate Edge By Kyle Kondik
The U.S. Senate is a curious, unique legislative body for a lot of reasons. It has arcane rules, such as the filibuster, which limits the passage of most legislative items unless 60 members vote yes. Representation in the Senate is not based on population; instead, each state gets two and only two senators, meaning that California (the most populous state) and Wyoming (the least populous) have equal say in the Senate. Each get 2% of the Senate’s membership — two out of 100 senators — even though California has 12% of the nation’s people while Wyoming only has 0.2%. And unlike the House, where the entire membership is on the ballot every two years, only a third of the Senate’s membership is on the ballot each federal election cycle.
October 4, 2017
We Need Fallacy Control Now! By Michelle Malkin
Enough is enough. It's epidemic. It's dangerous. And the time has come to demand its end.
October 4, 2017
Get Out of the Way By John Stossel
The hurricane devastation is severe. What should the federal government do?
October 4, 2017
Puerto Rico the Latest Crisis Democrats See As Too Good to Let Go to Waste by Charles Hurt
Is there no third rail of American politics this president fears? Obviously not.
October 3, 2017
Trump's Incentive-Packed Tax Plan By Lawrence Kudlow
Much as he did in his command performance before the United Nations, when he took back control of U.S. foreign policy, President Donald Trump has seized and energized the tax cut issue. Almost daily, he is pounding away on the themes of faster economic growth and more take-home pay, arguing that his plan will make America's economy great again.
October 3, 2017
Moment of Unity in a Disintegrating World By Patrick J. Buchanan
"An act of pure evil," said President Trump of the atrocity in Las Vegas, invoking our ancient faith: "Scripture teaches us the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
September 29, 2017
To Limit Gerrymandering, Supreme Court Needs Just to Reaffirm Equal Population Requirement By Michael Barone
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Gill v. Whitford, a case challenging Wisconsin's legislative district lines as an unconstitutional Republican gerrymander. It's attracted attention because many high-minded commentators have blamed partisan gerrymandering for today's highly polarized politics -- and for the fact that Republicans have won majorities in 67 of the 98 houses of state legislatures and in 10 of the past 12 elections in the U.S. House of Representatives.
September 29, 2017
Judge Moore & God's Law By Patrick J. Buchanan
"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law."
