My Critique of Bernie Sanders' Campaign by Ted Rall
Full disclosure: If New York's primary were held today, I'd vote for Bernie Sanders.
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January 30, 2016
January 29, 2016
The Civil War of the Right By Pat Buchanan
The conservative movement is starting to look a lot like Syria.
Baited, taunted, mocked by Fox News, Donald Trump told Roger Ailes what he could do with his Iowa debate, and marched off to host a Thursday night rally for veterans at the same time in Des Moines.
January 29, 2016
Missing From Both Parties' Candidates' Campaigns: Work By Michael Barone
From someone whose title is senior political analyst you might be expecting a forecast of who will win the Iowa caucuses next Monday night. Will Donald Trump voters turn out in enough numbers to give him the narrow win over Ted Cruz that polls indicate he has now? Will Hillary Clinton withstand the challenge and excitement generated by Bernie Sanders?
January 28, 2016
Iowa: At Last By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
As the 2016 presidential race officially begins, both party contests are in a place that we, and many others, did not expect them to be. On the Democratic side, frontrunner Hillary Clinton faces a stern challenge from a stronger-than-expected foe, Bernie Sanders. And the Republicans could be on the verge of nominating Donald Trump. Still, no votes have been cast. Pulling down the curtain on a contest yet to begin is both premature and foolish.
January 27, 2016
A Tale of Two Tapes: Teen Cruz and Terror-Coddler Obama By Michelle Malkin
The crack media buzzed this week with the discovery of a totally front-page, news-breaking, breathtaking videotape.
January 27, 2016
No Cure In Sight For Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome Sweeping Elite By Charles Hurt
Beware the latest nasty virus sweeping the East Coast, particularly the most elite citadels of New York City and Washington, D.C.
It is a fast-moving disease, highly contagious and attacks the nervous system. Early stages are inexplicable, fast eye-blinking, light palsy, stammering and overbearing snobbery. Sometimes redness of the face and shortness of breath accompany.
January 27, 2016
Running on Empty by John Stossel
Cars run on fuel. Politicians run on votes, and they'll do almost anything to get them. That includes supporting mandates that force us to use ethanol, a fuel made from corn that Iowa farmers grow.
January 26, 2016
The Rejection Election By Pat Buchanan
With the Iowa caucuses a week away, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, who leads in all the polls, is Donald Trump.
January 26, 2016
The Demand for Villains by Thomas Sowell
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.
January 26, 2016
Americans Tired of Elites Considering Them Stupid and Vicious By Michael Barone
How stupid and vicious do they think we are? That's a question that I think explains a lot of things about politics and society today -- and about this year's unpredicted presidential race.
The "us" in that question are ordinary citizens and the "they" are political and media elites who hold them in contempt -- which they do over and over again by trying to obfuscate and cover up the source and motives of terrorist attacks.
January 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders Could Win By Ted Rall
The independent senator from Vermont says the economic system is rigged against working-class Americans. He's right.
The electoral political system is a subsidiary of those who rule the economy. Which is why Bernie Sanders never stood a chance. The political system was rigged against him.
January 22, 2016
Is the Spectre of Trump Haunting Davos? by Pat Buchanan
The lights are burning late in Davos tonight.
January 22, 2016
Do Emotions Trump Facts? By Thomas Sowell
Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. It is still a puzzle to me how millions of patriotic Americans could have voted in 2008 for a man who for 20 years -- TWENTY YEARS -- was a follower of a preacher who poured out his hatred for America in the most gross gutter terms.
January 22, 2016
Karl Rove: Why McKinley Still Matters By Michael Barone
The economy has been staggering, with stagnant or no growth, for several years, after a financial crisis. Loud complaints have been raised against Wall Street financiers and the concentration of great wealth in few hands. Rapid technological development is generating massive economic change, with many old-line jobs vanishing. Majorities disapprove of the Democratic president, as they had of his Republican predecessor.
January 21, 2016
The Modern History of the Republican Presidential Primary, 1976-2012 By Geoffrey Skelley
The presidential nomination process has a history of being fuzzy. For much of the nation’s political existence, starting in the 1830s, national party conventions selected nominees for the highest office in the land. At these events, the oft-used term “smoke-filled rooms” described the sometimes behind-the-scenes activity that led to the final selection of a nominee. Sometimes this person was an obvious, well-known national figure; other times, an unexpected, relative unknown captured the nomination.
January 20, 2016
Mayor de Blasio: Hypocrite Hooked on Hollywood Cash by Michelle Malkin
Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio now has time to focus on what really matters to Big Apple taxpayers:
January 20, 2016
Mainstream Media 2 Fast 2 Furious Over 2 Corinthians By Charles Hurt
“Two Corinthians 3:17,” said Donald Trump, misstating the traditional way American Christians most commonly refer to the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians.
You would have thought Mr. Trump had slandered a disabled minority, based on the horrified and merciless reaction from the press.
January 20, 2016
Economic Myths by John Stossel
Hillary Clinton: "Of course we want to raise the minimum wage!"
January 19, 2016
The Republican Race Heats Up While Hillary Clinton Falters by Michael Barone
The race for president is accelerating in high gear, or, rather, the races for president -- in the Republican and Democratic parties, in the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and primaries and caucuses to come. How's it going? Let's look at these separate races.
January 19, 2016
What Are Elections For? By Thomas Sowell
After months of watching all sorts of political polls, we are finally just a few weeks away from actually beginning to see some voting in primary elections. Polls let people vent their emotions. But elections are held to actually accomplish something.
