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January 18, 2017

Sponsors of Anarchy by Michelle Malkin

Hoodlums will be out in full force this Inauguration Day weekend. Count on it.

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January 18, 2017

Trump's First Week By John Stossel

Donald Trump will be busy Friday.    

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January 17, 2017

Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists By Patrick J. Buchanan

Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

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January 13, 2017

Trump's Enemies See an Opening By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Fake news!" roared Donald Trump, the work of "sick people."   

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January 13, 2017

The Intelligence Community, Russia and Trump by Michael Barone

On Wednesday, in his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump came out swinging -- against some of the media (while praising others), against the policies and performance of the Obama administration, and against the intelligence community.

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January 12, 2017

2018 Governors: Overextended Republicans Seek to Thwart History By Kyle Kondik

When President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office eight days from now, he will be completing a remarkable journey, going from private citizen to the highest elected office in the nation without any elected stop in between. But while Trump is, to put it mildly, a unique figure in presidential politics, his journey is one that is we are increasingly seeing on a smaller scale at the gubernatorial level.

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January 11, 2017

Worst of Times by John Stossel

Now that I no longer do a weekly TV show, I have more time to read my local paper. Sadly, that's The New York Times.

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January 11, 2017

At Sessions’ Hearing, Dems Live Up to the Party’s Tradition of Racism By Charles Hurt

Like tired old racists clinging to their discredited past and divisive politics, Democrats wheezed exhaustively on their racial dogwhistles Tuesday in their increasingly futile bid to derail Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to become the next attorney general.

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January 11, 2017

On Fire: The Racist Anti-Racists at MTV News By Michelle Malkin

It's only the second week of 2017, but it's already been a banner year for preening liberals on cable TV who are hell-bent on self-immolation in the name of proving everyone else's moral inferiority.   

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January 10, 2017

Iran Nuclear Deal -- Alive or Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Though every Republican in Congress voted against the Iran nuclear deal, "Tearing it up ... is not going to happen," says Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

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January 6, 2017

Why Democrats Will Not Lift a Finger to Fight Trump By Ted Rall

"There's no savior out there." That's a line from "Lord's Prayer," a song written by TV Smith for the Lords of the Church, a band that trafficked in 1980s melodic punk. Here's some more: 

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January 6, 2017

Is Liberal Democracy an Endangered Species? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy," writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, "it is illiberal democracy."   

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January 6, 2017

Government by Faculty Lounge Subject to Repeal By Michael Barone

President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to counsel congressional Democrats on how to save Obamacare. Or at least that's how his visit was billed.

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January 5, 2017

2017: At the Dawn of the Age of Trump By Larry J. Sabato

It’s already clear that the very strange political year of 2016 is bleeding over into the New Year. How could it be otherwise? President-elect Donald Trump, loved and hated by about equal numbers of Americans, continues to ignore or break with convention in a wide variety of areas. Just as the normal rules didn’t apply to him in the campaign, they may not apply to him in office either.

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January 4, 2017

Forensic Nightmare: The Perils of Touch DNA By Michelle Malkin

Have you heard of "touch DNA?"

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January 4, 2017

The Trump Years by John Stossel

Two more weeks until the new administration begins!

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January 4, 2017

Oblivious Obama Pens Farewell as World Burns Down Around Him By Charles Hurt

What a guy!

And just in case anybody has failed to grasp how extraordinarily lucky we have been these past eight delightful years, Mr. Obama also announced that he has begun “penning a farewell address to the American people.”

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January 3, 2017

Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In retaliation for the hacking of John Podesta and the DNC, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and ordered closure of their country houses on Long Island and Maryland's Eastern shore.

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December 30, 2016

Americans Are No Longer on the Move By Michael Barone

Americans see themselves as people on the move. When the going gets tough or when opportunity beckons, we get up and go. We move around a lot.   

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December 30, 2016

Israel First or America First By Patrick J. Buchanan

Donald Trump has a new best friend.