TSA's Union Power Grab: Thousands Slowing Down Airports By Michelle Malkin
When it comes to public employee unions, there's no such thing as a coincidence.
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May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
Nasty Politics By John Stossel
This presidential election is like no other.
Most election years around this time, I do a TV show on nasty political commercials. Pundits explain which ads worked, which didn't, and who won because he raised more money and spent more on negative ads.
May 17, 2016
Is Mitt on a Suicide Mission? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"It's a suicide mission," said the Republican Party Chairman.
May 17, 2016
High Primary Turnouts: Any Clues for the Fall? By Rhodes Cook
No matter what one thinks of this often surreal presidential primary campaign, it has been a hit at the ballot box.
Republicans have already smashed their record of 20.8 million ballots, set in 2008. Through the May 10 contests, the 2016 GOP primary turnout stands at 26.1 million and counting.
May 17, 2016
Trump Is the Wind That Obama’s JV Presidency Hath Sown By Charles Hurt
A rare point of universal agreement in all this trenchant political acrimony: No matter what you think of Donald Trump, the political environment in which the flashy real estate mogul has so brilliantly thrived was created entirely by President Obama.
May 17, 2016
Grim Choices By Thomas Sowell
We must frankly face the fact that the front runners in both political parties represent a new low, at a time of domestic polarization and unprecedented nuclear dangers internationally. This year's general election will offer a choice between a thoroughly corrupt liar and an utterly irresponsible egomaniac.
May 17, 2016
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?
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.
