Why Joe May Be Courting Stacey By Patrick J. Buchanan
Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before.
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March 22, 2019
March 21, 2019
This Century’s Electoral College Trends By Kyle Kondik
It has become common to describe our home state of Virginia as a state that is “trending Democratic.” That’s an observation we agree with — we used that exact term a few weeks ago in our initial Electoral College ratings. But what are we really saying when we use a term like that?
March 20, 2019
Never Forget: CAIR's Dirty Deeds By Michelle Malkin
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is having a banner month. The militant Muslim group never lets a crisis go to waste. That means Americans should beware. When unappeasable CAIR is ascendant, our free speech rights, religious liberty and national security are at risk.
March 20, 2019
Academic Jargon By John Stossel
Seven academic journals were recently hoaxed into publishing ridiculous studies on topics like "rape culture and queer performativity" in dog parks.
The editor of only one of the journals, Roberto Refinetti of Sexuality and Culture, agreed to talk to me about the hoax and whether academics learned anything from being duped.
March 19, 2019
The Democrats' $100 Trillion Agenda Could Easily Tilt the Nation By Stephen Moore
Remember when Democrats complained that $5.7 billion for a border wall was too expensive? Well, that's chump change compared to what many of the congressional Democrats and nearly all of those 15 declared Democrats in the presidential race are now rallying behind.
March 19, 2019
Who Spawned the Christchurch Killer? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Last Friday, in Christchurch, New Zealand, one of the more civilized places on earth, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, an Australian, turned on his cellphone camera and set out to livestream his massacre of as many innocent Muslim worshippers as he could kill.
March 15, 2019
Chicago's Clues for the 2020 Democrats By Michael Barone
There was a record-sized field of candidates containing as many women as men. Their surnames ranged from the long familiar to the novel and exotic; they had multiple racial and ethnic backgrounds, and at least one gay candidate was in the running. This sounds like the ever-expanding list of candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, but it's also a description of the field in last month's primary election for mayor of Chicago.
March 15, 2019
Is Diversity a Root Cause of Dual Loyalty? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We can't be divided by race, religion, by tribe. We're defined by those enduring principles in the Constitution, even though we don't necessarily all know them."
March 13, 2019
How to Protect Your Kids From Google Predators By Michelle Malkin
The father of the World Wide Web is right: It's time to take back "complete control of your data."
March 12, 2019
The Tariffs Nobody Wants Stephen Moore
In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing. The steel industry and the aluminum makers are getting rich off of the high taxes on imported metals.
March 12, 2019
How Middle America Is to Be Dispossessed By Patrick J. Buchanan
In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College.
March 12, 2019
8 Ways to Fix America's Messed-Up Presidential Elections By Ted Rall
In 2016, there were 17 major candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, so many they had to have two sets of debates, and the guy who won was the first of all. Seven pundit-viable candidates have declared for 2020 on the Democratic side, more probably on the way, yet many Democrats say they're not excited by any of them.
March 9, 2019
What Was Good For Clinton Is Good for Trump By Joe Conason
When the Office of Special Counsel completes its assigned tasks and sends its findings to Attorney General William Barr, Americans will expect to learn what is in that document. Despite recurrent warnings that Barr can legally withhold some or even all of the Mueller report, those expectations of transparency must be fulfilled.
March 8, 2019
Impeachment Quest Lets AOC Types Set Democrats' Agenda By Michael Barone
Has the Democratic Party reduced its chances of denying President Trump a second term by continuing to concentrate on throwing him out before the end of his first? You can make a good case that it has.
March 8, 2019
Can Trump Stop the Invasion? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In its lede editorial Wednesday, The New York Times called upon Congress to amend the National Emergency Act to "erect a wall against any President, not just Mr. Trump, who insists on creating emergencies where none exist."
March 6, 2019
Vaccine Skeptics Under Siege By Michelle Malkin
Watch out. Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley have locked their sights on the next targets of a frightening free speech-squelching purge: independent citizens who dare to raise questions online about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
March 6, 2019
Hoax By John Stossel
If you are an American college professor, the way you get a raise or tenure is by getting papers published in "academic journals."
The stupidity of these journals says a lot about what's taught at colleges today.
March 5, 2019
Why Trump Must Veto the Federal Land Grab Bill By Stephen Moore
President Trump gave one of his most memorable and impactful speeches two weeks ago, when he systematically dismantled the case for socialism. In that speech, he recalled the economic harm and destruction in nations that have adopted socialism, communism or Stalinism. "America will never be a socialist country," Trump pledged in his speech in Florida.
March 5, 2019
Mike Pompeo's War Warning to China By Patrick J. Buchanan
As President Trump flew home from his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo peeled off and flew to Manila. And there the Secretary of State made a startling declaration.
