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May 24, 2018

Clues From the Upcoming California Primary By Kyle Kondik

House analysts know that handicapping results in individual seats can be tricky for a lot of reasons, including the lack of independent polling in most districts. Yes, the party committees, campaigns, and other outside groups will survey the districts, but many of these polls will never see the light of day, or will only be leaked to make one side look better than the other

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May 23, 2018

Crapweasel of the Week: Educrat Arne Duncan By Michelle Malkin

Educrat (ED-yoo-krat) noun, usually pejorative. A government school official or administrator whose primary function is to spend tax dollars telling other parents what to do with their children.

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May 23, 2018

The Innocence Project By John Stossel

On TV crime shows like "CSI," "NCIS" and "Law & Order," science gets the bad guys.

In real life, "science" often ensnares the innocent.

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May 22, 2018

Trade Deals Must Protect Intellectual Property Rights By Stephen Moore

Donald Trump is now deep into trade negotiations with China and NAFTA 2.0 negotiations with Canada and Mexico. We are strong free traders, but we believe that Trump's plans to negotiate better trade agreements that reduce trade barriers abroad are right on the mark. He also has to make sure those deals fully protect U.S. intellectual property, or what is commonly called know-how.

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May 22, 2018

Can a Pope Change Moral Truth? By Patrick J. Buchanan

That joking retort we heard as children, "Is the pope Catholic?" is starting to look like a serious question.

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May 18, 2018

A Trump Doctrine for Singapore and Beyond By Patrick J. Buchanan

After Pyongyang railed this week that the U.S.-South Korean Max Thunder military drills were a rehearsal for an invasion of the North, and imperiled the Singapore summit, the Pentagon dialed them back.

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May 17, 2018

The Democrats’ Drive for 25 in the House: An Update By Kyle Kondik

In early February, we sketched out a potential path to a Democratic House majority. We called it the “Drive for 25,” in reference to the Democrats’ branding of their unsuccessful attempt to win the House in 2012. Three and a half months later, we thought we’d revisit this possible Democratic path to the majority and see how much has (or hasn’t) changed.

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May 16, 2018

Amazon Fights Back By John Stossel

Seattle is worried about the well-being of the poor and mentally ill people living there, so it's going to drive businesses out of town.   

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May 16, 2018

Marginalizing Melania By Michelle Malkin

Need more evidence that there are two Americas? Here: Left-wing hatred of Melania Trump is inversely proportional to flyover admiration for the first lady.

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May 15, 2018

Who Turned Off the Lights? By Stephen Moore

Is anyone paying attention to the crisis that is going on in our electric power markets?

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May 15, 2018

Israel at 70: Bibi's Troubled Hour of Power By Patrick J. Buchanan

For Bibi Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister save only founding father David Ben-Gurion, it has been a week of triumph.

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May 11, 2018

Remember When? By Ted Rall

President Donald Trump claims that people are illegally pouring into our country from Mexico. That's not true now; notwithstanding the ballyhooed caravan of Central American migrants who recently arrived at a California crossing, illegal crossings are hitting historic lows. There's actually a net outflow. But it was true until the early 2000s.   

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May 11, 2018

Are Bibi and Bolton in the Wheel House Now? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Brushing aside the anguished pleas of our NATO allies, President Trump Tuesday contemptuously trashed the Iranian nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions.

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May 10, 2018

Ratings Changes: Senate, Governor, House By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

Republican primary voters avoided a self-inflicted wound in West Virginia when disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship (R) finished third in the GOP Senate primary.

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May 9, 2018

Sombreros, Qipaos and Catholic Cosplay, Oh My! By Michelle Malkin

The impossibly fickle, selective and whimsical rules of cultural appropriation are hard to keep straight.

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May 9, 2018

Hating DeVos By John Stossel

People hate Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

When she spoke at the Kennedy School of Government, students held up signs calling her a "white supremacist."

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May 8, 2018

The Internet Under Siege By Stephen Moore

What is it about the internet that makes it so the government just can't seem to keep its greedy paws off of it?   

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May 8, 2018

Don't Trash the Nuclear Deal! By Patrick J. Buchanan

This next week may determine whether President Trump extricates us from that cauldron of conflict that is the Middle East, as he promised, or plunges us even deeper into these forever wars.

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May 5, 2018

America Insults Intelligent and Educated People By Ted Rall

There was controversy about it, but the Inuit famously and really do have at least 50 words for snow. The Scots have 241!

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May 4, 2018

Democrats' Dangerous Case of Trump Derangement Syndrome By Michael Barone

Isaac Newton's third law of motion states that for every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It can operate in politics, too. For example, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith recently wrote, "It is part of Trump's evil genius that he elevates himself by inducing his critics to behave like him."