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October 14, 2016

Anti-Catholics & Elitist Bigots by Patrick J. Buchanan

Will Hillary Clinton clean out the nest of anti-Catholic bigots in her inner circle? Or is anti-Catholicism acceptable in her crowd?

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October 14, 2016

Donald Trump's Invisible Shackles By Michael Barone

"It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to," Donald Trump tweeted at the reasonable hour of 10 a.m. on Tuesday.   

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October 13, 2016

Mixed Signals In The Race For The House by Kyle Kondik

This may be a particularly bad time to write an update on the House. But we’re going to do so anyway, if only to explain why that is.

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October 12, 2016

What Candidates Won't Say By John Stossel

Catch politicians in private moments and you might hear what they really believe: Donald Trump "can do anything" to women because he's powerful. Hillary Clinton's "private" positions aren't the same as her "public" ones.

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October 12, 2016

Donald Trump, in the Lion’s Den, Bites Back: Put Hillary in Jail by Charles Hurt

Well, the stakes just got real around here!

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October 12, 2016

Obama Lied. My Third Health Plan Just Died. By Michelle Malkin

Once was a shock. Twice was an outrage. Thrice is a nightmare that won't end.   

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October 11, 2016

The Donald Lives! By Patrick J. Buchanan

Donald Trump turned in perhaps the most effective performance in the history of presidential debates on Sunday night.   

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October 11, 2016

Words Versus Deeds by Thomas Sowell

Donald Trump's gutter talk about women shows yet again that he is bad news. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is far worse.

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October 10, 2016

Clinton Adds to Her Electoral College Edge By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley

In the broad sweep of U.S. history, very occasionally one of the major parties simply disqualifies itself from the contest to win the White House by nominating an unelectable, non-mainstream candidate. We suspect that there will never be a better example than Donald Trump. The Republican Party chose a deeply divisive figure — one not supported by many senior figures in the GOP even before the release of Trump’s raunchy 2005 discussion with Access Hollywood’s (and now The Today Show’s) superficial, celebrity-worshipping Billy Bush. (Yes, he is of the Bush family, so a Bush finally speared Trump, however unintentionally.) Their X-rated discussion, and Trump’s insistence on discussing Bill Clinton’s sordid past, has caused voters to usher children out of the room when the TV news comes on. Is this the most embarrassing campaign ever? It must be close.

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October 7, 2016

Seven Reasons I Won't Vote for Hillary Clinton By Ted Rall

To my many friends and readers who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton: please stop bullying me.

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October 7, 2016

ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria By Patrick J. Buchanan

Denouncing Russian air strikes on Aleppo as "barbaric," Mike Pence declared in Tuesday's debate:  

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October 7, 2016

Robin Hood Economics Falls Flat in Debates by Michael Barone

Robin Hood is dead. Or at least seriously ailing. The politics of taking from the rich and giving to the poor -- the politics that philosophers from Aristotle to James Madison dreaded -- just doesn't seem to be working as it used to.

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October 6, 2016

Clinton’s Electoral College Lead Regenerates by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley

As we await the second debate, it’s obvious that Hillary Clinton got a bounce from the first debate and has re-established a clear lead in the presidential race.

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October 5, 2016

Will Illegal Foreign Voters Steal the Election? by Michelle Malkin

"It could all come down to Colorado."

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October 5, 2016

Admiring Foreign Leaders By John Stossel

Asked on a TV show to name a foreign leader he admires, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson choked. He couldn't produce a name. He said he had "a brain freeze." The media pounced.   

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October 4, 2016

Voters Reject John Lennon's 'World as One' By Michael Barone

"The president believes the world will be a better place if all borders are eliminated -- from a trade perspective, from the viewpoint of economic development and in welcoming people from other cultures and countries."

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October 4, 2016

Aborting the Trump Revolution By Patrick J. Buchanan

In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything right.  

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October 4, 2016

The Academic Curtain by Thomas Sowell

Back in the days of the Cold War between the Communist bloc of nations and the Western democracies, the Communists maintained pervasive restrictions around Eastern Europe that were aptly called an "iron curtain," isolating the people in its bloc from the ideas of the West and physically obstructing their escape.

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October 3, 2016

Why Trump Will Do Better in Ohio Than He Does Nationally By Kyle Kondik

For the first time since Ohio rejected Kennedy in favor of Richard M. Nixon in 1960, it seems quite possible that the Buckeye State will find itself on the losing side of a presidential election this year.