Return of the Fourth Estate Fainting Couches By Charles Hurt
Just when they thought it was safe to go outside again, the political press is breaking out the smelling salts again.
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November 30, 2016
November 30, 2016
Drain the Swamp! By John Stossel
President-elect Trump says he's uniquely qualified to "drain the swamp" in Washington, D.C. He can do it, he said at one debate, because as a businessman, he understands American cronyism. "With Hillary Clinton, I said, 'Be at my wedding,' and she came to my wedding. You know why? She had no choice because I gave."
November 29, 2016
Populist-Nationalist Tide Rolls On By Patrick J. Buchanan
Now that the British have voted to secede from the European Union and America has chosen a president who has never before held public office, the French appear to be following suit.
November 29, 2016
Will Donald Trump Do for Infrastructure What He Did for Wollman Rink? by Michael Barone
In May 1986, a 39-year-old Manhattan real estate developer named Donald Trump promised to get Wollman Rink in Central Park up and running -- something the city government, despite spending $13 million, had failed to do for six years. Trump delivered, ahead of time and under a $3 million budget.
November 24, 2016
The Arc of History Doesn't Always Bend Toward Justice By Michael Barone
History is on our side. That's a claim Barack Obama has made frequently, in his two successful campaigns for president and during his nearly eight years in office. It's a claim that looks a little shakier this Thanksgiving holiday than it did during the Halloween holiday three weeks ago.
November 24, 2016
Football and Fallacies By Thomas Sowell
This is a football story with both political and legal implications.
It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to kick the punt was black.
November 23, 2016
The Return of Assassination Fascination by Michelle Malkin
Alert the CDC: Left-wing America has been overcome by another contagious epidemic of assassination fascination. It's time to declare a public health crisis.
November 23, 2016
Thanksgiving Tragedy By John Stossel
Tomorrow, as you celebrate the meal the Pilgrims ate with Indians, pause a moment to thank private property.
November 23, 2016
Democrats Honed the Dog Whistle of Racism on Sessions By Charles Hurt
It all began with Jeff Sessions from Alabama. Even before they coined a term for it — Borking — they did it to Jeff Sessions, a decent man with a stellar legal reputation as a fearless and tough but fair federal prosecutor down South.
November 22, 2016
A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
November 22, 2016
Backward-Looking 'Progressives' By Thomas Sowell
People who call themselves "progressives" claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on looking backward.
November 22, 2016
The Not-Yet-Emerging Democratic Majority by Michael Barone
What is to become of the Democratic Party? The world's oldest political party, which traces its roots to 1792, is in as dire straits as it has ever been.
November 19, 2016
No, Everything is Really Not Going to Be All Right By Ted Rall
After president-elect Donald Trump's 10-15 minute scheduled get-to-know-you with president Barack Obama ran an hour and a half, too many of my friends who ought to know better contacted me with some variant of "maybe everything really is going to be OK after all."
November 18, 2016
Is Obama's World a Utopian Myth? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Speaking in Greece on his valedictory trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama struck a familiar theme: "(W)e are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude form of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism that is built around an 'us' and a 'them' ...
November 18, 2016
Clinton's Dishonesty Costs Her the Midwest -- and the Election By Michael Barone
Hillary Clinton lost the election in the Midwest. Donald Trump won 50 Midwestern electoral votes that went to Barack Obama in 2012 -- Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio -- plus 20 more in Pennsylvania, where the two-thirds of voters beyond metro Philadelphia are Midwestern in culture and concerns. Trump could have lost Florida and still won.
November 17, 2016
16 For ’16 By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future:
November 16, 2016
Arrogant Obama Blames Deplorable Racists, Says Democrats ‘Have Better Ideas’ By Charles Hurt
For eight years after America elected her first black president, Americans were accused of being racist for pointing out President Obama’s insufferable arrogance.
November 16, 2016
The Slacker Mandate and the Safety Pin Generation by Michelle Malkin
News flash, kids: Things aren't free. Things cost money. And "free" things provided to you by the government cost other people's money.
November 15, 2016
A Trump Doctrine -- 'America First' By Patrick J. Buchanan
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.
November 15, 2016
What Now? By Thomas Sowell
The good news is that we dodged a bullet in this election. The bad news is that we don't know how many other bullets are coming, or from what direction.
