A Better Choice by John Stossel
Trump! Clinton! Is that all there is? No. Fortunately, we have other choices.
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March 30, 2016
March 29, 2016
Is Trump Right About NATO? by Patrick J. Buchanan
I am "not isolationist, but I am 'America First,'" Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. "I like the expression."
March 29, 2016
Supreme Hypocrisy By Thomas Sowell
If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.
March 29, 2016
Does Social Connectedness Explain Trump's Appeal? By Michael Barone
How can one make sense of the electoral divisions in this year's Republican primaries and caucuses? The contours of Donald Trump's support and opposition don't fall on traditional lines.
March 25, 2016
Is ISIS Faithful to Islam? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We are not at war with Islam," said John Kasich after the Brussels massacre, "We're at war with radical Islam."
Kasich's point raises a question: Does the Islamic faith in any way sanction or condone what those suicide bombers did?
March 25, 2016
A Vote for Kasich Is a Vote for Trump By Michael Barone
Perhaps the most important results of the March 22 Republican primary in Arizona and caucus in Utah were numbers that didn't appear on your television screen, no matter how late you stayed up for the poll closing times. Those were the numbers of votes cast for Marco Rubio in Arizona -- 70,587 of them at this writing.
March 24, 2016
Assessing Trump’s Path to 1,237 By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
About a month ago, after Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary and all of its delegates, we headlined a piece “The Hour is Growing Late to Stop Trump.” Well, the hour has grown later, and we have to ask the question: Has Trump been stopped?
March 23, 2016
Donald Trump Reveals Inner Statesman, Terrifies Naysayers By Charles Hurt
The race is over. Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.
March 23, 2016
Post-Jihad Gesture Theater: Je Suis Sick of It By Michelle Malkin
While homicidal, suicidal and genocidal jihadists are busy plotting the next soft-target terror attacks on the West, docile Westerners are busy shedding cartoon tears and doodling broken hearts on social media.
March 22, 2016
Black and White, Left and Right by Thomas Sowell
Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the right being racist and those on the left not.
March 22, 2016
The Rule-or-Ruin Republicans By Pat Buchanan
"Things reveal themselves passing away," wrote W. B. Yeats.
March 22, 2016
Donald Trump Has 37 percent. Hard to Get to 270 Electoral Votes By Michael Barone
Many Donald Trump supporters think he is a slam dunk to beat Hillary Clinton in the general election. The candidate himself certainly takes this view.
March 18, 2016
Suicide of the GOP -- or Rebirth? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"If his poll numbers hold, Trump will be there six months from now when the Sweet 16 is cut to the Final Four, and he will likely be in the finals."
My prediction, in July of 2015, looks pretty good right now.
March 18, 2016
Only Ted Cruz Can Stop Donald Trump By Michael Barone
Can Donald Trump be stopped from winning the Republican nomination? The answer is yes. Despite his big win over Marco Rubio in Florida and his narrow wins over Ted Cruz in Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, he has not won a majority of delegates yet awarded -- 661 at this writing, with several more to be added when Missouri and Illinois congressional district totals are tabulated.
March 16, 2016
Obamacare's Tax-Time Torment by Michelle Malkin
"Where is my 1095-A? This is what it must be like dealing with a government agency in a third world country."
March 16, 2016
Marco Rubio Is the Tea Party Heartthrob Who Turned Establishment Shill By Charles Hurt
Like the Titanic before it, the U.S.S. Jeb! set sail with such great puffery and fanfare that the passengers on board the gilded ship sipping from champagne flutes were filled with confidence and optimism about the wondrous journey to follow. Quite bullish they were!
March 16, 2016
Political Promises By John Stossel
Democrats trash businesses. But if businesses promised things the way politicians do, the owners would be jailed for fraud. It's not legal to promise more than you can deliver.
March 16, 2016
Titanic Tuesday: Trump Leads but Doesn’t Finish the Job By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Donald Trump could have generated unstoppable momentum had he won both Ohio and Florida. But now it’s clear to everyone that this will go right through June 7, the end of the Republican primary season.
March 15, 2016
Brownshirts & Republican Wimps By Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday evening's Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
