Are the Forever Wars Really Ending? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"There is no... sound reason for the United States to continue sacrificing precious lives and treasure in a conflict not directly connected to our safety or other vital national interests."
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September 15, 2020
September 11, 2020
The Campaign Is at Knife's Edge By Michael Barone
The presidential campaign is at knife's edge. Both parties' campaigns assume that patterns of support will closely resemble those in 2016. And both are making surprisingly little effort, considering how close that contest turned out to be, with the 46 crucial electoral votes decided by just 77,744 votes, to increase their levels of support.
September 11, 2020
A Focused Trump Can Still Pull It Out By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Donald Trump loses the election, history will attribute his defeat to a pandemic that killed 200,000 Americans during his reelection campaign, and a historic depression deliberately induced to put the economy in a coma as the nation suffered through that pandemic.
September 8, 2020
Celebrate the Miracle of America By Stephen Moore
In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden had this uninspiring assessment of America's current predicament: "The president keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting for a miracle. Well, I have news for him: No miracle is coming."
September 5, 2020
Never Trump. Never Biden. The Progressive Case for Voting Third Party or Boycotting the Election By Ted Rall
Front and center in the raging debate between liberals and progressives over whether they should support Joe Biden or opt out of the two-party trap by voting third party or not at all is the assumption that Biden would do less harm both to the world and to American leftism than Donald Trump.
September 4, 2020
Were the Lockdowns a Mistake? By Michael Barone
To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.
September 4, 2020
Why DC Statehood Is a Suicidal Gamble By Patrick J. Buchanan
When U.S. cities erupted after the death of George Floyd, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was in the vanguard of the protests, renaming a section of downtown Black Lives Matter Plaza, and painting the name in letters on the street so huge they could be seen from space.
September 3, 2020
When Democrats Act Like COVID Is A Crisis, I’ll Believe It’s A Crisis By Brian C. Joondeph
Watch what people do, not what they say. Politicians who say one thing and do another are called hypocrites, but perhaps they have inside knowledge that the average person does not possess.
September 3, 2020
Presidential Expectations and the Race for the House By Kyle Kondik
That the public is less confident in Biden’s chances than the polls could have a down-ballot impact; 14 House rating changes.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Perceptions of the presidential race could have some impact down the ballot.
— Ticket-splitting is on the decline, but plenty of voters will vote for different parties for president and House, perhaps to the benefit of candidates from both parties.
— We are making 14 House rating changes, 10 in favor of Democrats and four in favor of Republicans. The changes don’t really impact our overall House assessment, which is that we are not expecting much net change in the makeup of the House.
September 2, 2020
A Better President By John Stossel
The media obsess about Trump/Biden, but another candidate will be on every state ballot: Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen.
September 1, 2020
Plight of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing to Celebrate By Michelle Malkin
American workers across the wage scale are hurting. Small-business owners across the country are fighting for their survival. Young people face more uncertainty than ever about their futures and ability to put food on the table.
September 1, 2020
Trump Will Win by Giving Them Hell By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump isn't the first incumbent president to run for reelection facing a deficit in the late summer polls. At this stage of the election cycle in 1948, no one thought Democrat Harry Truman had a prayer of winning as he sank in the polls.
September 1, 2020
Where Will All These War Games Lead? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In northeast Syria last week, a U.S. military vehicle collided with a Russian armored vehicle, injuring four American soldiers.
August 29, 2020
The Only Wasted Vote Is a Vote Not for a Third Party By Ted Rall
"Jesus, Ted. All you ever do," some people tell me, "is complain. We get it -- you hate both the Republicans and the Democrats. We don't like them either. But those are the only two parties that have a chance of winning an election. Stop telling us what not to do. Tell us what you think we should do instead."
August 28, 2020
Is Biden Ceding the Law-and-Order Issue? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is Joe Biden forfeiting the law-and-order issue to Donald Trump?
So it would seem.
August 28, 2020
Trump's Republicans Scoring on Issues Democrats Wouldn't Mention By Michael Barone
You know the first two nights of the Republicans' virtual national convention have gone well when you see that Politico's morning Playbook leads with a lame joke about the U.S. Postal Service hiring a new lobbyist, aimed at reviving the post office non-scandal. Ho, ho, ho!
August 27, 2020
States of Play: North Carolina By J. Miles Coleman and Bennett Stillerman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— After President Obama’s narrow win there in 2008, light red North Carolina has proved elusive for Democrats — but it remains a target for both sides.
— North Carolina’s politics are increasingly shaped by its growing bloc of unaffiliated voters.
— Over the past decade, North Carolina’s traditional east-west divide has evolved into more of an urban-rural split — a pattern seen in many other states.
— In a state known for volatile Senate races, 2020’s contest should be true to form, and further down the ballot, voters will weigh in on several statewide races.
August 26, 2020
BLM's Perpetual Fake Outrage Cycle By Michelle Malkin
Here we go again: Manufacture. Rinse. Repeat.
Everyone knows the cycle. Everyone knows it ends with false and incomplete narratives eventually being debunked by actual facts. Everyone knows that the racial mythmakers and political opportunists end up with fame, wealth and glory -- but never any criminal punishments or moral accountability.
August 26, 2020
Big Spending Trump By John Stossel
Last week, I tallied Joe Biden's spending plans. This week, President Trump's.
