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February 2, 2017

2018 House: The Ground Moving Under Their Feet By Kyle Kondik

Election years are separate but also connected. Assuming he is confirmed by the Senate to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services, Rep. Tom Price (R, GA-6) will be vacating his suburban Atlanta seat sometime soon. He would be replaced by the winner of a special election, which could be held as soon as this spring. All candidates from all parties will compete in a single “jungle primary,” and barring anyone winning a majority of the vote, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff election.

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February 1, 2017

Trump Bubble Bursts By John Stossel

No!    

The bubble burst. My fantasy died.    

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February 1, 2017

Not All Refugees Are Welcome By Michelle Malkin

For years, left-wingers would contest my use of the term "open borders lobby" because, they sternly rebuked me, nooooobody in America seriously believes in open borders.

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January 31, 2017

People Need to Get Over the So-called ‘Muslim Ban’ By Charles Hurt

Look, global elites, nobody said self-governance would be easy. Or pretty. But it is what it is. Get over it.

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January 31, 2017

The First Firestorm by Patrick J. Buchanan

That hysterical reaction to the travel ban announced Friday is a portent of what is to come if President Donald Trump carries out the mandate given to him by those who elected him.

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January 28, 2017

The Women's March was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign By Ted Rall

On Saturday, January 21, three times as many people attended a demonstration against Trump as showed up the day before for his inauguration. Solidarity marches across the nation drew hundreds of thousands, perhaps more.       

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January 27, 2017

What Trump's Wall Says to the World by Patrick J. Buchanan

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall," wrote poet Robert Frost in the opening line of "Mending Walls."

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January 27, 2017

'America First' Is Not a Threat but a Promise By Michael Barone

"From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first," Donald Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address. As has been his habit, he added to the prepared text the word "only" and employed the rhetorical device of repetition by repeating "America first."   

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January 26, 2017

The 2016 Presidential Vote: A Look Down In The Weeds by Rhodes Cook

If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency -- and she took the popular vote by nearly 3 million -- the narrative of the 2016 election would be far different. Rather than the storyline being Donald’s Trump triumph in the heartland, with its beleaguered blue-collar workers, the emphasis now would be on the Democrats’ ongoing success in metro America, with its large share of the nation’s growing minority population. The conventional wisdom would surely be that the Democrats were likely to control the White House for years to come.

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January 25, 2017

Ultrasound: The Anti-Science Left's Bugaboo by Michelle Malkin

Abortion extremists are the new Luddites.

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January 25, 2017

'We Must Think Big and Dream Even Bigger' by Lawrence Kudlow

In all the media back and forth over President Donald Trump's inaugural speech, most have missed a central point: His address was infused with a wonderful sense of optimism.

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January 25, 2017

Who Would Deliver Such a Dark, Divisive Inaugural Address? By Charles Hurt

“This was a workmanlike speech. It was short, and he went through it quickly, and it was militant, and it was dark.”

— MSNBC, Jan. 20, 2017

Spring 1865. The president has just delivered his second inaugural address. MSNBC provides live coverage.

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January 25, 2017

DeVos SHOULD Have Said By John Stossel

Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, probably survived the grilling she got from angry Democrats last week.    

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January 24, 2017

Trump: America for the Americans! by Patrick J. Buchanan

As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.

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January 23, 2017

Donald Trump Rips into Establishment, Pledges to Keep Every Campaign Promise By Charles Hurt

Anybody expecting President Trump to lay down arms and surrender his campaign once he got to Washington and give some kind of soaring inaugural address filled with gauzy political Pablum was sure in for a shocking dose of harsh reality Friday.

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January 20, 2017

Trump's Inauguration Is Not Without Precedent by Michael Barone

The United States has just had three consecutive eight-year presidencies, and it's only the second time in history that that's happened. The only other such moment came on March 4, 1825, 192 years ago.

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January 20, 2017

Please Stop the Fear and Loathing of 2017 By Ted Rall

I admit it: it's hard to find empathy for the liberal Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton and are now shocked, shocked, shocked that that horrible man Donald Trump is about to become president. We lefties kept saying that Bernie would have beaten Trump; now that we've been proven right it's only natural to want to keep rubbing the Hillarites' faces in their abject wrongness.

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January 20, 2017

New President, New World By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Don't Make Any Sudden Moves" is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.   

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January 20, 2017

Donald Trump the Revolutionary By Charles Hurt

Not since 1980 — or perhaps 1932 — has such a political revolution hit the banks of the Potomac River.

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January 19, 2017

The End of the Beginning By Larry J. Sabato

Tomorrow marks the start of the brave new world of President Donald J. Trump. But today marks the end of the Obama-to-Trump transition. They, and we, survived the interregnum, more or less — and it was not guaranteed and is worth celebrating.