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 6, 2017
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.
January 4, 2017
Forensic Nightmare: The Perils of Touch DNA By Michelle Malkin
Have you heard of "touch DNA?"
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.”
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.
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.
December 30, 2016
Israel First or America First By Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump has a new best friend.
December 28, 2016
Thank You, Professor Sowell By Michelle Malkin
I first read Thomas Sowell in college -- no thanks to my college.
December 28, 2016
Trump's Choice By John Stossel
America's socialists -- I mean, progressives, are enraged that President-elect Trump chose Betsy DeVos to be his secretary of education.
December 28, 2016
New York Times’ St. Nicholas Picks a Bone With Christ on Christmas By Charles Hurt
Just imagine it is one of the holiest days of the Muslim calendar and The New York Times decides to “celebrate” the occasion by asking incredulous questions aimed at obliterating the very foundation of the entire religion of Islam.
December 27, 2016
Random Thoughts, Looking Back By Thomas Sowell
Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit -- even if only to himself -- being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both "the greatest generation" that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all around us today, makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an admission.
December 27, 2016
Trump Nixes Pet Projects of Liberal and Conservative Elites By Michael Barone
It's been a tough year for political elites, here and around the world, what with the passage of Brexit in June in Britain, the repudiation of Colombia's Nobel Peace Prize recipient in the October FARC referendum and the defeat of America's Nobel Peace Prize recipient's preferred candidate in the November presidential election.
December 27, 2016
Barack Backhands Bibi By Patrick J. Buchanan
Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem.
December 24, 2016
Russia Hacking: Where's the Evidence? by Ted Rall
At the smallest, worst newspaper in the world -- even at a high school paper -- no sane editor would publish a story that wasn't backed by solid evidence. As the 20th century print journalism cliche goes, if your mother says she loves you, check it out. So why are the nation's most prestigious multi-Pulitzer-winning newsgathering organizations repeatedly claiming that hackers working for the Russian government stole emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, and gave them to WikiLeaks?
December 23, 2016
Europe's Future -- Merkel or Le Pen? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The terrorist who hijacked a truck in Berlin and ran over and killed 12 people, maiming and wounding 48 more, in that massacre in the Christmas market, has done more damage than he could imagine.
December 23, 2016
Some Christmastime Advice for Pundits and Partisans By Michael Barone
Now that the 538 electors have voted -- and, with only the most minor of exceptions, for the expected candidates -- we can marvel at how such a huge difference in public policies can be made by just a few votes, the 77,744 votes by which Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton for the 46 electoral votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
December 21, 2016
Michelle Obama's Christmas Lump of Coal by Michelle Malkin
Just what we all need to ring in the Christmas season: Un-merry millionaire Michelle Obama belly-aching about the burdens and sacrifices of public life with billionaire Oprah Winfrey.
December 21, 2016
Close Them Down! By John Stossel
Donald Trump is appointing good people -- Andy Puzder, for example, Trump's nominee for labor secretary.
December 21, 2016
Bubba’s Shift from Man of People to Elitist Is Complete By Charles Hurt
Bill Clinton is a lot of things, but out-of-touch elitist snob has never been one of them. Until now.
President-elect Donald Trump has so thoroughly turned the political world upside down and inside out that he has now entirely defanged the most potent and effective operative dominating the American political scene for nearly 30 years.
