An IRS That's Armed and Dangerous By Stephen Moore
The Biden administration has a lot of nerve proposing to double the budget of the Internal Revenue Service and add 87,000 employees.
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August 16, 2022
August 16, 2022
How, When, Do We Come Together Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When 30 FBI agents showed up at Mar-a-Lago to cart off boxes of documents, it was an authorized, legitimate and justified procedure to retrieve national security secrets being illegally kept there.
August 12, 2022
Will Dobbs Help Democrats? Will the Mar-a-Lago Raid Help Republicans? By Michael Barone
Are Republicans losing what seemed for months to be their overwhelming advantage in elections to the House of Representatives this November? The answer is unclear.
August 11, 2022
Secretary of State Races: Election Deniers Carry GOP Banner in Several Key States By Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— With most primaries now complete, a majority of the nation’s competitive secretary of state races pit a Republican nominee aligned with former President Donald Trump against a relatively mainstream Democrat.
— This could benefit Democrats by being able to run against less electable Republicans — or it may not matter if a Republican wave crests high enough, carrying even the most controversial Republican nominees to victory. Either way, voters in many states will face a stark choice about how elections are run in the future.
— Looking at this year’s 27 secretary of state races, we find 10 that appear to be competitive between the parties, at least for now. In another 10 races, the GOP is in the driver’s seat, while in another 7 races, the Democrats have a significant edge.
August 10, 2022
Monkeypox: The Real ‘Don’t Say Gay’ By Brian C. Joondeph
Several months ago, Florida was accused of passing the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as named by the corporate media. It is actually called the “Parental Rights in Education” law and does not even contain the word “gay.” The law was passed by the Florida legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
August 9, 2022
Biden Puts IRS Funding Ahead of Military and Border Security By Stephen Moore
Everyone should be deeply troubled by the recent report that the Army is on pace to miss its recruiting goal by dozens of thousands of troops and by the report that followed a few days later, alleging that the Border Patrol is running short of agents in Arizona and Texas. The border is so porous these days that even mayors of sanctuary cities are starting to complain about illegal immigration.
August 9, 2022
Who Won the Taiwan War Games? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied White House signals that she not stop in Taiwan on her valedictory tour of Asian capitals, she ignited the worst diplomatic U.S.-China row in decades.
August 5, 2022
The West's Long-Lasting Enemies Cannot Be Cajoled b Michael Barone
Revisionist powers, nations whose leaders seek to undermine American leadership in the world, seem to be on the march.
August 4, 2022
Reassessing the Race for the Senate By Kyle Kondik
GOP challengers mirror Trump in lack of experience; for Democrats, experience means a record.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— In an election where Republicans are banking on the environment while Democrats are banking on differences in candidate quality, Republicans are relying on a very inexperienced group of candidates.
— Compared to 2014, the last time Republicans flipped the Senate, the party’s non-incumbent candidates are incredibly green.
— Democrats, meanwhile, are running a number of incumbents and current officeholders in competitive races, although holding office, in many instances, comes with a voting record that opponents can exploit.
— The quality of candidates on the Republican side is such an issue that we think the race for the Senate majority is basically a Toss-up.
August 2, 2022
The Dems' New Proposal Does Nothing To Lower Inflation by Stephen Moore
The first thing to remember about the reconciliation bill Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer agreed to Wednesday is that, despite its utterly preposterous name, it has absolutely zero to do with inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price fixing and tax hikes that were part of Build Back Better -- long-desired progressive wish-list agenda items. Pumping hundreds of billions into the economy will do nothing to alleviate inflation. The opposite.
August 2, 2022
Is Taiwan's Independence Worth War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, said Dr. Samuel Johnson.
July 29, 2022
Sorry, Progressives, But America Isn't Intersectional By Michael Barone
America isn't intersectional. That's something the left-wingers who call themselves progressives have been learning, painfully, over the past 18 months.
July 28, 2022
House Rating Changes: More Movement Toward Republicans By Kyle Kondik
10 changes, all but 1 in favor of GOP.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— We are making 10 House rating changes, 9 of which benefit Republicans.
— Our overall best guess at the net change in the House — a GOP gain somewhere in the 20s — remains unchanged.
— We don’t see a huge impact, so far, from the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion opinion.
July 26, 2022
The Left Wants To Abolish Everything, Even This Column by Stephen Moore
Any aging baby boomer (like myself) knows that the anthem of the radicals of the 1960s and 1970s was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Let the good times roll. Back then, the joke was that a conservative was someone who lived in mortal fear that someone, somewhere, was having fun.
July 26, 2022
China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi added to the itinerary of a valedictory trip through Asia the island of Taiwan, she could not have been oblivious to the reaction she would produce in a stunned Beijing.
July 22, 2022
Sure, Ron DeSantis Could Beat Donald Trump in 2024 by Michael Barone
How inevitable is a third consecutive nomination of Donald Trump? Partisan commentators, when it suits their purposes, tend to assume it is so.
July 22, 2022
What Makes Biden So Pugnacious? By Patrick J. Buchanan
That friendly fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might not have been such a defining moment -- had Biden not first set himself up.
