What Trump's Wall Says to the World by Patrick J. Buchanan
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote poet Robert Frost in the opening line of "Mending Walls."
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January 27, 2017
January 27, 2017
'America First' Is Not a Threat but a Promise By Michael Barone
"From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first," Donald Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address. As has been his habit, he added to the prepared text the word "only" and employed the rhetorical device of repetition by repeating "America first."
January 26, 2017
The 2016 Presidential Vote: A Look Down In The Weeds by Rhodes Cook
If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency -- and she took the popular vote by nearly 3 million -- the narrative of the 2016 election would be far different. Rather than the storyline being Donald’s Trump triumph in the heartland, with its beleaguered blue-collar workers, the emphasis now would be on the Democrats’ ongoing success in metro America, with its large share of the nation’s growing minority population. The conventional wisdom would surely be that the Democrats were likely to control the White House for years to come.
January 25, 2017
Ultrasound: The Anti-Science Left's Bugaboo by Michelle Malkin
Abortion extremists are the new Luddites.
January 25, 2017
'We Must Think Big and Dream Even Bigger' by Lawrence Kudlow
In all the media back and forth over President Donald Trump's inaugural speech, most have missed a central point: His address was infused with a wonderful sense of optimism.
January 25, 2017
Who Would Deliver Such a Dark, Divisive Inaugural Address? By Charles Hurt
“This was a workmanlike speech. It was short, and he went through it quickly, and it was militant, and it was dark.”
— MSNBC, Jan. 20, 2017
Spring 1865. The president has just delivered his second inaugural address. MSNBC provides live coverage.
January 25, 2017
DeVos SHOULD Have Said By John Stossel
Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, probably survived the grilling she got from angry Democrats last week.
January 24, 2017
Trump: America for the Americans! by Patrick J. Buchanan
As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.
January 23, 2017
Donald Trump Rips into Establishment, Pledges to Keep Every Campaign Promise By Charles Hurt
Anybody expecting President Trump to lay down arms and surrender his campaign once he got to Washington and give some kind of soaring inaugural address filled with gauzy political Pablum was sure in for a shocking dose of harsh reality Friday.
January 20, 2017
Trump's Inauguration Is Not Without Precedent by Michael Barone
The United States has just had three consecutive eight-year presidencies, and it's only the second time in history that that's happened. The only other such moment came on March 4, 1825, 192 years ago.
January 20, 2017
Please Stop the Fear and Loathing of 2017 By Ted Rall
I admit it: it's hard to find empathy for the liberal Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton and are now shocked, shocked, shocked that that horrible man Donald Trump is about to become president. We lefties kept saying that Bernie would have beaten Trump; now that we've been proven right it's only natural to want to keep rubbing the Hillarites' faces in their abject wrongness.
January 20, 2017
New President, New World By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Don't Make Any Sudden Moves" is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.
January 20, 2017
Donald Trump the Revolutionary By Charles Hurt
Not since 1980 — or perhaps 1932 — has such a political revolution hit the banks of the Potomac River.
January 19, 2017
The End of the Beginning By Larry J. Sabato
Tomorrow marks the start of the brave new world of President Donald J. Trump. But today marks the end of the Obama-to-Trump transition. They, and we, survived the interregnum, more or less — and it was not guaranteed and is worth celebrating.
January 18, 2017
Sponsors of Anarchy by Michelle Malkin
Hoodlums will be out in full force this Inauguration Day weekend. Count on it.
January 17, 2017
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists By Patrick J. Buchanan
Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
January 13, 2017
Trump's Enemies See an Opening By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Fake news!" roared Donald Trump, the work of "sick people."
January 13, 2017
The Intelligence Community, Russia and Trump by Michael Barone
On Wednesday, in his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump came out swinging -- against some of the media (while praising others), against the policies and performance of the Obama administration, and against the intelligence community.
January 12, 2017
2018 Governors: Overextended Republicans Seek to Thwart History By Kyle Kondik
When President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office eight days from now, he will be completing a remarkable journey, going from private citizen to the highest elected office in the nation without any elected stop in between. But while Trump is, to put it mildly, a unique figure in presidential politics, his journey is one that is we are increasingly seeing on a smaller scale at the gubernatorial level.
