America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era By Michael Barone
What's your benchmark? What is the historical era with which you compare life in contemporary America?
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May 17, 2016
May 16, 2016
Donald Trump Can Easily Win in November By Ted Rall
After an election season in which nothing they predicted came true -- their confidence that Donald Trump would never be the Republican nominee comes to mind -- you'd think our losing-streak corporate pundits would be reluctant to underestimate Trump's chance of winning the presidency in November.
May 13, 2016
Will the Trump Nomination Change Our Polarized Partisan Patterns? By Michael Barone
An irresistible force meets an immoveable object.
The irresistible force is the sense of discontent with how things have been going during this young century. Americans are displeased with a sluggish economy that fell into a deep recession and with foreign policies that seem to have produced disappointing results.
May 13, 2016
Trump or Ryan: Who Speaks for GOP? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today."
May 12, 2016
Vice Presidential Selection: How Much Does It Matter This Year? By Larry J. Sabato
When a presidential campaign wants to signal that it is turning from the nomination clash to the general election, “sources close to the campaign” make it known the Veep search has begun. Right on schedule, as Donald Trump has become the Republican nominee-presumptive and Hillary Clinton has maintained an unassailable mathematical lead on the Democratic side, both campaigns have reportedly hinted that they have started to vet possible vice presidential options.
May 11, 2016
Free-Market Medicine By John Stossel
President Obama's proudest accomplishment is increasing the number of Americans with health insurance. A better idea would be to help people escape government care altogether.
May 11, 2016
Twitter's Traitors By Michelle Malkin
Social media giant Twitter's got 99 problems, yet the politically correct company is far more worried about the "optics" of cooperating with federal agents trying to stop jihadist plotters online.
May 11, 2016
Pee Free or Die! Obama and Lynch Rely on Distorted Lens of Racism By Charles Hurt
The economy is gasping, the world shudders in violence, invaders heave across our southern border, and despair is etched on the faces of the American people. So, in the final year of his reign, what does our great Prophet of Hope and Change give us?
Bathroom liberation. Pee free or die! Equality before the commode!
May 10, 2016
Looking Back on the Two Cuban-American Also-Rans By Michael Barone
John Quincy Adams, our greatest secretary of state (sorry, Hillary Clinton fans), thought that Cuba would inevitably become part of the United States. It hasn't, at least not yet, but two Cuban-Americans were serious presidential contenders this year.
May 10, 2016
Dry Rot in Academia By Thomas Sowell
Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited -- and then disinvited -- to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.
May 10, 2016
Who Promoted Private Ryan? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump.
May 7, 2016
Hillary to Bernie Supporters: Don't Vote For Me By Ted Rall
Hey, Bernie supporters: Hillary has a talking point for you.
May 6, 2016
An Unmitigated Disaster By Thomas Sowell
Republican party leaders may have worried that Donald Trump would not only lose the general election for the presidency, but would so poison the image of the party as to cause Republican candidates for Congress and for state and local offices to also lose. Now they seem to be trying to patch things up, in order to present an image of unity before the general elections this fall.
May 6, 2016
Can Trump Disrupt the General Election as He Did the Primaries? By Michael Barone
So Republicans now have a presumptive nominee -- one headed to a clear delegate majority without visible opposition -- sooner than the Democrats. It's another way in which this year's presidential race has defied expectations and ignored precedent.
May 6, 2016
Bush Republicanism Is Dead and Gone By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The two living Republican past presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, have no plans to endorse Trump, according to their spokesmen." So said the lead story in The Washington Post.
May 4, 2016
Tale of Two Tribes: 'Climate Refugees' vs. EPA Victims By Michelle Malkin
The left has concocted a lucrative category of politically correct victims: "climate refugees." It's the new Green racket.
May 4, 2016
The Fall Outlook: Fear and Loathing on the 2016 Campaign Trail By Larry J. Sabato
“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It’s come to the point where you almost can’t run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (1973)
May 4, 2016
Money Down a Hole By John Stossel
The Republican and Democratic presidential nominees have been chosen. Ignore the deluded supporters of Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. It's over. The odds at ElectionBettingOdds.com make it clear: It will be Donald vs. Hillary.
May 3, 2016
Republicans Should Have Adopted Democrats' Rules -- and Vice Versa by Michael Barone
The unexpected successes, forecast by almost no one 12 months ago, of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in winning 40 percent and 42 percent in Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses is widely taken as evidence of raging discontent among American voters.
May 3, 2016
Random Thoughts By Thomas Sowell
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
One of the problems with being a pessimist is that you can never celebrate when you are proven right.
