Are We Nearing Civil War? by Patrick J. Buchanan
President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down.
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June 13, 2017
June 10, 2017
Donald Trump's Other Lies: His Campaign Promises by Ted Rall
This week's political coverage -- probably next week's, too -- will likely be dominated by deposed FBI director James Comey's incendiary testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. However, Trump's "lies, pure and simple" are limited neither to the president's claim that Comey's FBI was "in disarray, that it was poorly led" nor his litany of falsehoods -- most recently, that the mayor of London doesn't care about terrorism and that Trump's First 100 Days were the most productive of any president in history.
June 9, 2017
Three Easy Pieces: A Simple Get-It-Done-Now Economic Plan by Lawrence Kudlow
Now that former FBI Director James Comey's hearing is complete, it's time for everybody to roll up their sleeves and go back to work on returning the country to prosperity. The most populist policy would be to restore a long-lasting deeply rooted prosperity for every single American.
June 9, 2017
The Impeach-Trump Conspiracy By Patrick J. Buchanan
Pressed by Megyn Kelly on his ties to President Trump, an exasperated Vladimir Putin blurted out, "We had no relationship at all. ... I never met him. ... Have you all lost your senses over there?"
Yes, Vlad, we have.
June 8, 2017
Is College Worth It? Increasing Numbers Say No By Michael Barone
"Too many people are going to college," writes my American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray. That's not a response to the mob of students who attacked him and the liberal professor who had invited him to speak back in March at Middlebury College. It's the title of the third chapter in his 2008 book, "Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality."
June 8, 2017
A Democratic Donnybrook in the Old Dominion? By Geoffrey Skelley
With the Virginia primary less than a week away, the eyes of the political world are now focused on the Old Dominion. Considering the early polling in New Jersey’s gubernatorial general election contest, where Phil Murphy (D) starts as the favorite over Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R) after both won their respective party nominations on Tuesday (more on that below), it seems likely that Virginia’s race will be the marquee election of 2017, though the June 20 House special election in GA-6 might have a case. Here’s what to look for in the Virginia primary on Tuesday, June 13.
June 7, 2017
YouTube Banned Me, But Not the Hate Imams by Michelle Malkin
One of the many maddening takeaways from the London Bridge jihad attack is this: If you post videos on YouTube radicalizing Muslim viewers to kill innocent people, YouTube will leave you alone.
June 7, 2017
Prosperity Cities By John Stossel
Lovers of socialism didn't like my column last week. I wrote that Venezuela's collapse shows the cluelessness of celebrities like Michael Moore, Oliver Stone and Noam Chomsky, who'd praised Venezuela's leader.
June 7, 2017
Trump Should Consider Becoming His Own Solicitor General By Charles Hurt
President Trump’s single greatest strength is that he — and he alone — is his own top adviser and most trusted confidant. It’s just he, himself and @realDonaldTrump.
June 6, 2017
The Forever War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On May 22, Salman Abedi, 22, waiting at the entrance of the Arianna Grande pop concert in Manchester, blew himself up, killing almost two dozen people, among them parents waiting to pick up their children.
June 2, 2017
Hillary Scrubs Her Hands Furiously, 'Out, Damned Spot!' By Charles Hurt
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! — One, two. Why, then, ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.”
— Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1
June 2, 2017
Let's Stop Acting as if the 2016 Campaign Were Still On By Michael Barone
If you keep up with the news, you might think that the unpleasant and unedifying 2016 presidential campaign is still going on.
June 2, 2017
Is Afghanistan a Lost Cause? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We are there and we are committed" was the regular retort of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the war in Vietnam.
Whatever you may think of our decision to go in, Rusk was saying, if we walk away, the United States loses the first war in its history, with all that means for Southeast Asia and America's position in the world.
June 1, 2017
Just How Many Obama 2012-Trump 2016 Voters Were There? By Geoffrey Skelley
In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many observers understandably focused on the numerous places that swung from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. Because many of these areas congregated in swing states within the Rust Belt and Midwest, they played a pivotal role in Trump’s victory, as shown by the movement toward the GOP in Map 1 below. But how many total voters really switched from Obama to Trump in 2016? Different data sources tell a different story, but the answer is certainly in the millions.
May 31, 2017
Imperfect Trump Dominates World Stage and U.S. Media Fabricates By Charles Hurt
This being that time of year when we are supposed to remember and be grateful, it is highly appropriate that we in the damned media — we, the enemy of the public; we, the ink-stained wretches; we, the writers of history’s first draft — should pause a moment and give thanks for President Donald J. Trump, politician extraordinaire.
May 31, 2017
Chomsky's Venezuela Lesson By John Stossel
Venezuela descends into chaos. Its people, once the wealthiest in Latin America, starve. Even The New York Times runs headlines like "Dying Infants and No Medicine."
May 30, 2017
President Trump's Growth Budget By Lawrence Kudlow
When Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney unveiled President Trump's new budget, he used language that is so important -- although we haven't heard it in so many years.
May 30, 2017
What Do The Democrats Want? by Ted Rall
In the 1970s, when I was a kid, I asked my mother to explain the difference between the two major parties. "Democrats," she explained, "are the party of the working man. Republicans represent big business."
May 30, 2017
Breakup of the West? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic had grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh.
