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November 5, 2015

1968: Ball of Confusion -- A year of chaos that makes today’s political battles seem tame by comparison By Larry J. Sabato

The UVA Center for Politics’ latest documentary, Ball of Confusion, has begun airing on PBS stations across the nation this week. Check your local listings to see when it’s playing in your area, and click on the image below to watch the trailer. The documentary recounts the three-way presidential contest among Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace held against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home. That election, decided 47 years ago today, remains amongst the most extraordinary in American history, as Larry J. Sabato writes below.

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November 4, 2015

Freshman Senator Gives Pep Talk To Vapid Chamber Of Fake Debate By Charles Hurt

When was the last time you heard a sitting politician give a speech that made you stop and think? A speech where you actually learned something?

When was the last time you heard a vicious excoriation of Washington and Congress and the whole federal government, yet saw the first glimmer of hope that perhaps all is not already completely lost?

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November 4, 2015

Beat the Elite by John Stossel

We love to complain about elites, people who seem to have a special advantage, privileges in life.

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November 4, 2015

You're Doing It Wrong, 'The View' By Michelle Malkin

It looks like those elitist harridans on ABC's "The View" learned nothing from the national backlash over their mockery of nurse Kelley Johnson less than eight weeks ago.

Guess they've already forgotten how major advertisers Johnson & Johnson, Party City, McCormick spices, Snuggle, and Eggland's Best all pulled spots from the show after co-host and lead Mean Girl Michelle Collins led a cacklefest ridiculing Johnson, Miss Colorado 2015, for a heartfelt monologue about her work during the Miss America pageant.

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November 3, 2015

What Happens When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immoveable Object? By Michael Barone

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immoveable object?That's one question raised by the 2016 presidential campaign.

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November 3, 2015

Ignoring the Obvious by Thomas Sowell

A recent, widely publicized incident in which a policeman was called to a school classroom to deal with a disruptive student has provoked all sorts of comments on whether the policeman used "excessive force."

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October 31, 2015

Politics Behind a Pay Wall: If CNBC Sponsors a Debate, Did It Really Happen? By Ted Rall

There are two kinds of media censorship: direct and self-directed.    

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October 30, 2015

Free Stuff Can Turn Out to Be a Bad Buy By Michael Barone

Free college! That's what the Democratic candidates were offering in their presidential debate. And it's likely that, if the subject had come up, they would have offered something like free home mortgages as well, to judge from Hillary Clinton's statement that she had urged Wall Street to stop mortgage foreclosures. Sounds a lot like free houses! 

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October 30, 2015

Melissa Harris-Perry Needs a Trip to Hard Work U by Michelle Malkin

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry is the cable TV pioneer who broke the tastelessness barrier for feminists by wearing tampons as earrings on air in 2013. This week, she made ignominious history again -- as the race-baiting fool in an ivory tower bubble who believes the words "hard worker" are a slur against black slaves and moms who don't have health care.

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October 29, 2015

Republicans 2016: Where the Race Stands Now By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

The third Republican presidential debate, held in Colorado on Wednesday night, was an odd, disjointed affair. The moderators arguably engaged in too much confrontation with the candidates and had a hard time divvying up the speaking time. With 10 candidates on the stage, the problems of the first two debates — too many candidates, too little time — became more apparent than ever.

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October 28, 2015

Anti-Trump Glee Leaves GOP With Single-digit Candidates By Charles Hurt

To hear the GOP establishment squeal with such glee, you would think there was a fire sale going on down at Brooks Brothers. Or maybe Congress just passed a law making country club dues tax-deductible. Or somebody invented a glow-in-the-dark golf ball.

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October 28, 2015

Fear By John Stossel

This Halloween, what do you fear?

I fear fear itself because when we are afraid, we willingly give away our freedoms.

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October 28, 2015

A Closetful of Hillary Clinton's Immigration Costumes by Michelle Malkin

When it comes to immigration policy, Hillary Clinton's had more career costume changes than her new BFF Katy Perry.

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October 27, 2015

Hillary 2.0 by Thomas Sowell

Many people may share Senator Bernie Sanders' complaint that he was tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails. But the controversy is about issues far bigger than e-mails.

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October 27, 2015

Clinton Paying a Price Now for Her 2012 Lies About Benghazi By Michael Barone

Nothing new there. Nothing to see here. Time to move on for good.

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October 23, 2015

Biden Decision Leaves Both Parties in Disarray by Michael Barone

Joe Biden has made it official: He is not running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. It's the latest development in a presidential campaign cycle that has not been going according to script.

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October 23, 2015

Doctors Agree: Obama's Electronic Medical Records Mandate Sucks! By Michelle Malkin

Hey, who's up for a stiff dose of "See, I told you so?"

For the past several years, medical professionals have warned that the federal electronic medical records mandate -- buried in the trillion-dollar Obama stimulus of 2009 -- would do more harm than good. Their diagnosis, unfortunately, is on the nose.

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October 22, 2015

Biden Out By Kyle Kondik

The decision by Vice President Joe Biden to pass on the presidential race confirms what would have been true even if he had entered the contest: This is Hillary Clinton’s race to lose.

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October 21, 2015

GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Trump By Charles Hurt

Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate.

Who knew that it should have been Donald Trump extracting just such a loyalty pledge from Republican bigs?

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October 21, 2015

Forced Silence By John Stossel

In a democracy, citizens must be able to criticize their leaders. It's a reason America's founders put free speech in the Bill of Rights. I assumed that right is safe in the United States. So I was shocked to learn what happened in Wisconsin.

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