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January 6, 2016
January 6, 2016
Inside the Garden of Political Town Hall Plants by Michelle Malkin
On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his "final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy." In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will "take questions from the audience."
January 6, 2016
Showman-in-Chief By Thomas Sowell
Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun control laws.
January 6, 2016
Obama’s Gun Plan: Crocodile Tears And A ‘Crazy List’ By Charles Hurt
When all the hectoring is finished, the professorial lecturing is done, all the political posturing is over, all that is left are tears. And crocodile tears at that.
Even for those of us long tired of the false hopes and outright lies from this White House, President Obama’s crude gunplay Tuesday was pretty shocking.
January 5, 2016
Battening Down the Hatches, Reminiscent of the 1930s By Michael Barone
Battening down the hatches. That's what America and much of the rest of the world seem to be doing today, in an eerie re-enactment, though to much less of a degree, of what America and the world did in the 1930s. The result then wasn't very pretty. The result now is unknown.
January 5, 2016
Will Mideast Allies Drag Us Into War? By Pat Buchanan
The New Year's execution by Saudi Arabia of the Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was a deliberate provocation.
January 5, 2016
Complicating the Obvious By Thomas Sowell
Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English.
It is understandable when complicated processes require complicated operations. But when the very simplest things are designed with needless complications or murky instructions, that is something else.
January 1, 2016
Obama Reshapes Presidential Politics -- But Maybe Not To Democrats' Benefit By Michael Barone
One thing that's striking about the presidential race, which, finally, officially begins soon, is how much the race has been shaped by Barack Obama. The course of the contests for both the Republican and Democratic nominations would be inconceivable absent the course of the Obama presidency.
January 1, 2016
Winners & Losers: 2015 By Pat Buchanan
Each year, "The McLaughlin Group," the longest-running panel show on national TV, which began in 1982, announces its awards for the winners and losers and the best and the worst of the year.
Rereading my list of 39 awardees suggests something about how our world is changing.
December 30, 2015
Defining Political Child Abuse: A Tale of Two Cruz Families By Michelle Malkin
Remember 5-year-old Sophie Cruz?
December 30, 2015
With the Big Dog at her side, Hillary’s sexism charges ring hollow by Charles Hurt
He has been her meal ticket into national politics. He has been the sex predator in the White House whom she ruthlessly covered for. He has been her own personal dog in heat.
December 29, 2015
Remembering 2015 By Thomas Sowell
How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it?
December 29, 2015
Is the West Disintegrating? by Pat Buchanan
On Jan. 1, 2002, the day that euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation, my column, "Say Goodbye to the Mother Continent," contained this pessimistic prognosis:
December 29, 2015
Supreme Court Grapples, Once Again, With Redistricting By Michael Barone
Fifty-one years ago the Supreme Court handed down its one-person-one-vote decision, requiring that within each state congressional and legislative districts must have equal populations.
December 28, 2015
History in Red and Blue (and Green and Purple) By Larry J. Sabato and Tim Robinson
Simple maps can teach a lot. Presidential election maps show at a glance where the nation was at four-year intervals beginning in 1824, when popular voting (of a very restricted sort) became established. John Quincy Adams lost that vote but won the White House anyway in the House of Representatives.
December 25, 2015
Welcome to the Digital Dark Ages by Ted Rall
Historians and archivists call our times the "digital dark ages." The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the recorded history of the West for 1000 years. But don't blame the Visigoths or the Vandals. The culprit is the ephemeral nature of digital recording devices. Remember all the stuff you stored on floppy discs, now lost forever? Over the last 25 years, we've seen big 8-inch floppies replaced by 5.25-inch medium replaced by little 3.5-inch floppies, Zip discs and CD-ROMs, external hard drives and now the Cloud -- and let's not forget memory sticks and also-rans like the DAT and Minidisc.
December 25, 2015
Conservatives' Biographies Show How History Can Move Right by Michael Barone
Biography is one way -- often the most vivid way -- in which people understand history. The beautifully written biographies of Franklin Roosevelt that rolled off the presses and rose in the bestseller lists in the 1950s and 1960s created a template in which the New Deal was central to American history. It was the culmination of what happened before the 1930s and the model for what should and would happen next.
December 23, 2015
Trump’s Latest Treatise Deploys Subliminally Sinister Attack On Clinton By Charles Hurt
If you think “The Art of the Deal” was a yuuuuuuuuuuge success — and it was — just wait until Donald Trump comes out with his latest masterpiece, “The Art of the Schlong.”
In “The Art of the Deal,” the real estate mogul tutors budding young mogul wannabes on how to make deals so that they, too, can build giant glass skyscrapers emblazoned with their names in gold.
December 23, 2015
Politicians Without Borders by John Stossel
When driving on treacherous roads, guardrails are useful. If you fall asleep or maybe you're just a bad driver, guardrails may prevent you from going off a cliff.
