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July 21, 2018

The Outlook For Democrats In 2020 By Ted Rall

First: No. It's not too early to discuss the 2020 election. The Iowa caucuses are only a year and a half away. Any presidential hopeful who hasn't begun chatting up donors by now will find it nearly impossible to mount a viable campaign.   

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July 20, 2018

Time to Junk Racial Quotas in Higher Education By Michael Barone

"It's time for enlightened America to hit reset on affirmative action once and for all," writes Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter in The American Interest. By affirmative action, of course, he means the racial quotas and preferences that most selective college and university admissions departments employ.

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July 20, 2018

Trump Stands His Ground on Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

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July 19, 2018

Three Republican Governors Face Increasingly Tough Election Contests By Geoffrey Skelley

Arizona and Iowa have few obvious things in common, but they do both have incumbent Republican governors seeking election in November. Another commonality is that the Crystal Ball now views both states’ gubernatorial contests as increasingly competitive, prompting ratings changes that move the Arizona race from Likely Republican to Leans Republican and the Iowa race from Leans Republican to Toss-up. In addition to these two changes, we are also shifting Illinois’ gubernatorial contest from Leans Democratic to Likely Democratic, another downgrade for Republicans.

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July 18, 2018

Boston University's Fake-O-Nomics Darling By Michelle Malkin

It costs a pretty penny to earn a diploma in stupid.

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July 18, 2018

Banning Straws By John Stossel

Want to sip a refreshing beverage this summer?

If environmental zealots and sycophants get their way, you won't be allowed to sip it through a plastic straw.

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July 17, 2018

How Trump Can Lower Drug Prices By Stephen Moore

One of Donald Trump's more memorable promises on the campaign trail was to lower the cost of prescription drugs. Polls show this issue remains popular with Americans, especially lower-income families, who are worried about high drug prices.

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July 17, 2018

Trump Calls Off Cold War II By Patrick J. Buchanan

Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have "never been worse."

He then added pointedly, that just changed "about four hours ago."

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July 13, 2018

Is a Coming NATO Crisis Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Of President Donald Trump's explosion at Angela Merkel's Germany during the NATO summit, it needs to be said: It is long past time we raised our voices.

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July 13, 2018

The Kavanaugh Confirmation Kabuki By Michael Barone

Theater, much like Japan's Kabuki -- that's all the Supreme Court confirmation process is. Donald Trump's presentations of his two nominees, Judge Neil Gorsuch last year and Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Monday, were uncharacteristically graceful -- a worthy theatrical innovation, in the view of even some Trump critics.

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July 12, 2018

Registering by Party: Where the Democrats and Republicans Are Ahead By Rhodes Cook

This is not the best of times for the Democratic Party. No White House; no Senate; no House of Representatives; and a clear minority of governorships and state legislatures in their possession. Yet the Democrats approach this fall’s midterm elections with an advantage in one key aspect of the political process — their strength in states where voters register by party.

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July 11, 2018

Dads Needed By John Stossel

Warren Farrell was once considered a feminist leader. He hung around with Gloria Steinem and wrote about why men and women should break out of rigid old gender roles.    

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July 11, 2018

Ghoulies: Parade of the Aborticrats By Michelle Malkin

I thought we had seen it all from radical feminists -- and what we've seen is way, way more than anyone other than a gynecologist needs to see.

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July 10, 2018

Trump's Zero-Tariff Solution By Stephen Moore

President Donald Trump's aluminum and steel tariff policies have now triggered retaliatory tariffs from other nations, including Canada, the EU and China.

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July 10, 2018

Is a Trump Court in the Making? By Patrick J. Buchanan

If Mitch McConnell's Senate can confirm his new nominee for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump may have completed the capture of all three branches of the U.S. government for the Republican Party.

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July 6, 2018

Will the Odd Couple -- AMLO and Trump -- Narrow the U.S.-Mexico Gap? By Michael Barone

Will NAFTA survive? Last week, Mexico elected as president longtime NAFTA critic Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (always called "AMLO") by a wide margin. He promptly had a cordial telephone conversation with longtime NAFTA critic President Donald Trump, who remains U.S. president for the next 30 months and, if re-elected, for all of AMLO's six-year term.    

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July 6, 2018

The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back By Patrick J. Buchanan

With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated.

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July 4, 2018

Jahi's Life Mattered By Michelle Malkin

Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week.

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July 4, 2018

One Nation, Many Individuals By John Stossel

We celebrate the Fourth of July because that's the day the Declaration of Independence was signed, 242 years ago. You might call July 4 America's birthday.

The Declaration didn't just declare our independence from Britain; it vowed to create a government that respected all people's rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

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July 3, 2018

Give Us Your Young, Energetic, Talented Masses By Stephen Moore

Republicans are right to call for tough measures to deter illegal immigration -- which means building the wall, ending the "catch and release" policy and challenging the harboring strategies of sanctuary cities.