The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
At Mar-a-Lago this weekend President Donald Trump was filled "with fury" says The Washington Post, "mad -- steaming, raging, mad."
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March 3, 2017
Facts on the Ground Moving Immigration in Trump's Direction by Michael Barone
The afternoon before President Donald Trump's Tuesday night speech to Congress, Twitter watchers were treated to a flurry of tweets, inspired by comments at the traditional lunch with network anchors, that the president was going to endorse something very much like the "comprehensive" immigration bills that foundered in Congress in 2006, 2007 and 2013.
March 3, 2017
It's Trump's Party, Now By Patrick J. Buchanan
Before the largest audience of his political career, save perhaps his inaugural, Donald Trump delivered the speech of his life.
March 3, 2017
Democrats Go Off the Deep End, Can't Conceal Their Contempt for U.S. Military By Charles Hurt
It’s not like they leave much room for doubt about how much contempt they hold for military service and the immeasurable sacrifice that comes with it.
March 2, 2017
Optimism Reigned in Trump's First Address to Congress by Lawrence Kudlow
The mark of great presidents is optimism -- visionary optimism and transformational optimism. During Tuesday night's remarkable speech before Congress, President Donald Trump was brimming with optimism from start to end. My guess is that his marvelous speech will imbue and inspire new optimism and confidence throughout the entire country.
March 2, 2017
How Midterms Do (and Do Not) Differ From Presidential Elections By Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik
With politicos everywhere turning their eyes to the still-distant 2018 midterm election, we thought it would be useful to review some of the basic differences and similarities between the electorates in presidential and midterm cycles. Basically, midterm electorates are smaller, older, and less diverse than presidential ones, but the demographic voting patterns and divisions that we see in midterms are quite similar to presidential contests. What follows is a look at the similarities and differences between the two kinds of national electorates. For the most part, this analysis is based on exit poll data: We used the national exit poll data for the presidential race in presidential years and the national exit poll data for the national House vote in midterm years.
March 1, 2017
The Bloated Military By John Stossel
Donald Trump once wanted to cut military spending.
March 1, 2017
A Lesson for Planned Parenthood's Pinup Girls By Michelle Malkin
Glam American actresses Emma Stone and Dakota Johnson adorned their pricy Oscars ceremony gowns and handbags with golden Planned Parenthood pins in the shape of the group's logo.
March 1, 2017
Trump Speech Leaves Democrats Befuddled, In Ruins, With Question Marks by Charles Hurt
The president opened by celebrating Black History Month. Lady Democrats wore white.
February 28, 2017
As Trump Unmuzzles the Economy, a Rosy Scenario Will Become Economic Reality By Lawrence Kudlow
Virtually the whole world is beating up on the Trump administration for daring to predict that low marginal tax rates, regulatory rollbacks and the repeal of Obamacare will generate 3 to 3.5 percent economic growth in the years ahead.
February 28, 2017
Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism."
February 24, 2017
Is Secession a Solution to Cultural War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
February 24, 2017
Trump Has a Grating Style but Significant Substance By Michael Barone
Substance and style -- it's easy to get them confused or mistake one for the other. And they're never entirely unconnected, though exactly how much so is a matter of debate.
February 23, 2017
2018 Governors: The Battle Lines for Drawing the Lines By Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik
Given the Democrats’ poor down-ballot performances in the Obama years, and the Republican dominance of redistricting following the GOP’s success in the 2010 midterm, it’s somewhat fitting that arguably the Democrats’ most marquee victory in 2016 will not help them in the redistricting battles to come after the 2020 census.
February 22, 2017
Fake News by John Stossel
"Fake News!" shouts our president, calling out CNN, The New York Times and others.
February 22, 2017
Trump's War on 'Fake News' Offers a Great Civics Lesson By Charles Hurt
President Trump is lashing out against “fake news” in what is quite possibly the greatest civics-journalism course ever publicly taught in America.
February 22, 2017
Fighting for the Falsely Accused By Michelle Malkin
Former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Brian Franklin is finally free. But he is still fighting to clear his name.
February 21, 2017
Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
February 17, 2017
The Deep State Targets Trump by Patrick J. Buchanan
When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, "If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."
February 17, 2017
Partisan Lines Stay Fixed Amid Trump Turmoil By Michael Barone
Amid the turmoil of the first month of the Trump administration, with courts blocking his temporary travel ban and his national security adviser resigning after 24 days, the solid partisan divisions in the electorate -- modestly changed in 2016 from what they'd been over the previous two decades -- remain in place.
