Democrats Should Run On Impeachment By Ted Rall
Democrats are already counting their electoral chickens for the midterms - but their unwillingness to lay out a clear agenda may be about to hand the party their second devastating defeat in two years.
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March 16, 2018
March 16, 2018
Is the GOP Staring at Another 1930? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the GOP held the Senate and House, two-thirds of the governorships, and 1,000 more state legislators than they had on the day Barack Obama took office.
March 16, 2018
Democrats Can Take the House, if They Just Pick Conor Lamb Over Hillary Clinton By Michael Barone
What if they held a special election and nobody won? That's more or less what happened in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the special election to fill the vacancy in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District.
March 15, 2018
Are Republicans In More Special Trouble? By Kyle Kondik
Assessing upcoming House specials in Arizona and Ohio after Lamb’s upset in Pennsylvania
March 14, 2018
Look Homeward, 'Change Agents' By Michelle Malkin
Here is my homework assignment for all the fist-clenching, gun control-demanding teenagers walking out of classrooms this week (and next week and next month) to protest school shootings:
March 14, 2018
Lies About Trade By John Stossel
Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed by their own trade barriers, will eliminate them.
Then I will thank the president for the wonderful thing he did. Genuine free trade will be a recipe for wonderful economic growth.
March 13, 2018
Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns the Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: "There shall be open borders."
March 9, 2018
Time to Get Over the Russophobia By Patrick J. Buchanan
Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18.
March 9, 2018
Trump on Trade: Better Than Smoot-Hawley? By Michael Barone
Donald Trump's announcement that he is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from other countries has aroused little enthusiasm and much criticism. It evidently prompted the resignation of Gary Cohn as head of his National Economic Council.
March 8, 2018
House 2018: 26 Ratings Changes, All in Favor of Democrats By Kyle Kondik
Republicans are very much in danger of losing a district that supported President Trump by 20 points less than a year and a half ago.
March 7, 2018
Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot By Michelle Malkin
Will the VA scandal never end?
March 7, 2018
No Trade Barriers By John Stossel
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while."
March 6, 2018
Tariffs Are Taxes By Lawrence Kudlow
One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that, with tariffs and import quotas, we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
March 6, 2018
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? By Patrick J. Buchanan
From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen.
And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America's Party.
March 2, 2018
Fatal Delusions of Western Man By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.
March 2, 2018
Still Saddled with the Politics of the Seventies By Michael Barone
Not since James Monroe left the presidency in 1825, 48 years after he fought in the Battle of Princeton, has America had political leadership with careers running so far back in the past. Our current government leaders have political pedigrees going back to the 1970s.
March 1, 2018
Donald Trump’s Short Congressional Coattails By Rhodes Cook
-- Although Donald Trump is remaking the Republican Party in his image, he had among the shortest coattails of any presidential winner going back to Dwight Eisenhower. In 2016, Trump ran ahead of just 24 of 241 Republican House winners and only five of 22 Republican Senate winners.
February 28, 2018
Release the Florida School Shooting Surveillance Video By Michelle Malkin
Open government isn't just good government. It's the public's right.
February 28, 2018
The Political Oscars Bu John Stossel
Sunday, Hollywood sycophants give out Oscars.
February 27, 2018
The Eternal Lure of Nationalism By Patrick J. Buchanan
In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men's hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3.
