Should Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By setting off a 100-kiloton bomb, after firing a missile over Japan, Kim Jong Un has gotten the world's attention.
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September 5, 2017
September 2, 2017
Progressive, Heal Thyself By Ted Rall
Many progressives are stupid. Unless they get smart soon, "The Resistance" to Donald Trump will fail, just like everything else the Left has tried to do for the last 40 years.
September 1, 2017
Time to Drop Colleges' Racial Quotas and Preferences By Michael Barone
When a policy has been vigorously followed by venerable institutions for more than a generation without getting any closer to producing the desired results, perhaps there is some problem with the goal.
September 1, 2017
What Harvey Wrought By Patrick J. Buchanan
Like 9/11, Hurricane Harvey brought us together.
In awe at the destruction 50 inches of rain did to East Texas and our fourth-largest city and in admiration as cable television showed countless hours of Texans humanely and heroically rescuing and aiding fellow Texans in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
August 31, 2017
The Politics Of Disasters By Kyle Kondik and Geoffery Skelley
Throughout the first 200-plus days of Donald Trump’s presidency, it’s been common for analysts to say he is struggling through sub-40% approval ratings despite not having to reckon with a major non-scandal crisis. Whether that was true before last weekend is debatable -- do North Korea’s provocations count? -- but it’s almost certainly not true now after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston and southeast Texas.
August 30, 2017
Keith Ogre-mann: Conde Nast-y's Misogynist-in-Chief By Michelle Malkin
Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.
August 30, 2017
There Are No Decent Plans in Congress, Just Lies, Intraparty Squabbling By Charles Hurt
We are witnessing some of the most spectacularly absurd political gambits in American history unfold right now before our very eyes.
The first comes from Democrats in Congress, who want to somehow blame collapsing Obamacare on Republicans.
August 30, 2017
Price Gouging By John Stossel
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is upset about "price gouging" during hurricane Harvey. Some stores raised prices to $99 for a case of bottled water -- $5 for a gallon of gas. "These are things you can't do in Texas," he says. "There are significant penalties if you price gouge in a crisis like this."
August 29, 2017
Can the GOP's Shotgun Marriage Be Saved? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All three states had gone Democratic in the last six presidential elections.The GOP had won both houses of Congress. Party control of governorships and state legislatures rivaled the halcyon years of the 1920s.
August 25, 2017
Trump's Palmerstonian Policy By Michael Barone
President Donald Trump's Afghanistan speech Monday night was disciplined, measured and sometimes verging on eloquence. It was presidential. Evidently, his vision wasn't impaired when he looked at the eclipse without the proper eyewear earlier in the day.
August 25, 2017
What Still Unites Us? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Decades ago, a debate over what kind of nation America is roiled the conservative movement.
Neocons claimed America was an "ideological nation" a "creedal nation," dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."
August 24, 2017
Senate 2018: Republican Edge Runs Up Against Trump, History By Kyle Kondik
Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, 2018’s race for the Senate seemed to pit two powerful, competing forces against one another: the Republicans’ long and enticing list of Democratic targets, several of which are in some of Trump’s best states, versus the longstanding tendency of the president’s party to struggle to make gains in midterm elections.
August 23, 2017
The Red York Times: First in Fake News By Michelle Malkin
Newsflash from The New York Times: Women may have starved under socialist regimes, but their orgasms were out of this world!
August 23, 2017
Al Gore's Hype By John Stossel
I was surprised to discover that Al Gore's new movie begins with words from me!
August 22, 2017
Is Trump's Agenda Being Eclipsed? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire," said Winston Churchill to cheers at the Lord Mayor's luncheon in London in November 1942.
True to his word, the great man did not begin the liquidation.
August 21, 2017
Democrats Decry the KKK While Forgetting Legacy of One of Their Own By Charles Hurt
Because, of course, they want rule of law to reign, a group of citizens began digging up the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis this week over his helping found the Ku Klux Klan.
They only got a few shovelfuls before giving up. But they vowed to return with a backhoe to dig the rest of the man’s grave up later.
August 19, 2017
If You Fire A Fascist, You Are A Fascist By Ted Rall
No one should get fired for his political beliefs.
Not even a Nazi.
August 18, 2017
America's Second Civil War By Patrick J. Buchanan
"They had found a leader, Robert E. Lee -- and what a leader! ... No military leader since Napoleon has aroused such enthusiastic devotion among troops as did Lee when he reviewed them on his horse Traveller."
August 18, 2017
What Identity Politics Hath Wrought By Michael Barone
There's a whiff of Weimar in the air. During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Germany was threatened by Communist revolutionaries and Nazi uprisings. Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau was assassinated, and violent street fighting was commonplace. Then Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
August 17, 2017
Governors 2017-2018: The Democrats’ Complicated Path to Big Gains By Kyle Kondik
A couple of weeks ago, Crystal Ball senior columnist Alan Abramowitz unveiled a model for predicting party change in next year’s gubernatorial elections. The results were rosy for Democrats: The model suggested Democrats should gain somewhere between six to nine governorships depending on the Democratic lead in House generic ballot polling. The Democratic advantage is in large part simply because: 1.) There is a Republican in the White House, and the presidential party often loses ground in midterm elections up and down the ballot; and 2.) Republicans are defending 26 of the 36 governorships up for election next year, meaning that they have a lot of ground to defend while the Democrats have relatively little.
