Trump Won By Ted Rall
He won this week.
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September 30, 2016
Trump Right on Trade Predators by Patrick J. Buchanan
Is America still a serious nation?
September 30, 2016
What the Debate Tells About How Candidates Would Govern By Michael Barone
You've heard and read by now lots of spin and speculation about who won and where the polls are going to move after Monday's presidential debate. We'll know the answers to these questions soon. The more important question for the long run is how each of these candidates would govern. The debate provides no certain answers to that question, but it does offer some useful clues.
September 28, 2016
The Debate I Heard By John Stossel
Something's wrong with me.
I watched Monday's presidential debate. But what I heard was different from what Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seemed to say.
September 28, 2016
Trump Solid in Debate, But Needs Improvement By Charles Hurt
Monday night’s debate here was a tremendous victory for Donald Trump, but his performance left plenty of room for improvement.
Big picture: Polls show support for Hillary Clinton is collapsing, and she desperately needed to stanch the bleeding. She did nothing during the debate to change the trajectory of those increasingly bleak polls.
September 28, 2016
Hillary, Interrupted by Michelle Malkin
Whatever happened to "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar"? Whither "Girl Power"? When did Rosie the Riveter's "We Can Do It!" give way to Hillary the Haranguer's "We Can't Handle It"?
September 27, 2016
Is Charlotte Our Future? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Celebrating the racial diversity of the Charlotte protesters last week, William Barber II, chairman of the North Carolina NAACP, proudly proclaimed, "This is what democracy looks like."
September 27, 2016
'Favors' to Blacks By Thomas Sowell
Back in the 1960s, as large numbers of black students were entering a certain Ivy League university for the first time, someone asked a chemistry professor -- off the record -- what his response to them was. He said, "I give them all A's and B's. To hell with them."
September 27, 2016
Now We Wait By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
The first debate is over! At least everyone survived.
September 23, 2016
It's Political Malpractice, Stupid By Ted Rall
Hillary Clinton supporters are freaking out. And rightfully so! Eight weeks from Election Day, she and Trump are basically neck and neck. And that's before the three presidential debates, which I not only expect him to win, but can't imagine a scenario in which she does not lose.
September 23, 2016
How Trump Wins the Debate By Patrick J. Buchanan
On one of my first trips to New Hampshire in 1991, to challenge President George H. W. Bush, I ran into Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
September 23, 2016
What Happens to the Democratic Party if Clinton Loses? by Michael Barone
There's been lots of speculation about the fate of the Republican Party if (as most of the prognosticators expect and hope) Donald Trump loses. There's been less speculation, though recent polling suggests it may be in order, about the fate of the Democratic Party if Hillary Clinton loses.
September 22, 2016
Do Debates Matter? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
To slightly modify Ronald Reagan’s famous rejoinder to Jimmy Carter in their single debate in 1980 (“There you go again”), here we go again — into the debate season.
September 21, 2016
Hey, UN Corruptocrats: Spare Us Refugee Sanctimony by Michelle Malkin
Another United Nations summit in New York. Another finger-wagging extravaganza. Another useless "historic declaration" (nonbinding, of course) to save the world (by holding another summit ... in two years).
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton Has Experience Fighting Terrorism, All Right: As a Failure By Charles Hurt
She really should stick to lying.
Desperately trying to snatch attention away from Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton took a stab at some unvarnished “straight talk” Monday and accused the real estate mogul of “giving aid and comfort” to America’s enemies. In other words, “treason.”
September 21, 2016
Supreme Court Picks By John Stossel
Hillary Clinton and her fellow progressives shout things like "Health care is a right!" They've also said that education, decent housing and child care are "rights."
September 20, 2016
Trump & the Press -- A Death Struggle By Patrick J. Buchanan
Alerting the press that he would deal with the birther issue at the opening of his new hotel, the Donald, after treating them to an hour of tributes to himself from Medal of Honor recipients, delivered.
September 20, 2016
Will Democratic Success Breed Clinton's Failure? By Michael Barone
Success breeds failure. That's one of the melancholy lessons you learn in life. The success of policymakers in stamping out inflation in the 1980s and minimizing recessions for two decades also produced policies that contributed to the collapse of the housing and financial markets in 2007-08
September 20, 2016
Our Political Predicament by Thomas Sowell
There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the upcoming debates may enable voters to decide which is the "less insufferable" candidate to be President of the United States.
September 19, 2016
The Trump Surge By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
And then, everything changed.
Well, not everything, but enough to generate the first major revision in our electoral map, and all of it is in Donald Trump’s direction for now.
