An Establishment Unhinged By Pat Buchanan
Calling for a moratorium on Muslim immigration "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on," Donald Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions.
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December 11, 2015
December 11, 2015
Immigration and Our Founding Fathers' Values by Michelle Malkin
President Obama claims that restricting immigration in order to protect national security is "offensive and contrary to American values." No-limits liberals have attacked common-sense proposals for heightened visa scrutiny, profiling or immigration slowdowns as "un-American."
December 11, 2015
'Misunderestimating' the American People By Michael Barone
As the week began, I planned to write this column about some implications of Barack Obama's Sunday night Oval Office address. I noted that he devoted about one-fifth of this 13-minute speech to pleas that Americans not discriminate against Muslims.
"It is the responsibility of all Americans -- of every faith -- to reject discrimination," he said. "It's our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim Americans should somehow be treated differently."
December 10, 2015
Republicans 2016: The Presidential Shake-Up Continues By Larry J. Sabato
The Donald Trump Show continues to dominate the airwaves and the polls, and the other candidates seem mere apprentices by comparison.
The billionaire’s appeal is very disproportionately tilted to the blue-collar half of the Republican electorate — many are the old Reagan Democrats who have long since defected from the party of their fathers. Much of the college-educated half of the party, by contrast, views Trump with disdain, but they are fractured and split among the rest of the contenders.
December 9, 2015
National Security Profiling Is a No-Brainer By Michelle Malkin
Calm down and think, America.
December 9, 2015
Armed Iranian Doctor Rushes To Shooting Victims — As American As It Gets By Charles Hurt
On Dec. 2, as Islamic terrorists in combat gear strode into a San Bernardino Christmas party and began methodically executing Americans for their religious beliefs, the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces started ruminating on all the political angles and consequences.
December 8, 2015
The President's Speech by Thomas Sowell
When the President of the United States asks the television networks to set aside time for him to broadcast a speech from the Oval Office, we can usually expect that he has something new to say. But President Obama's speech Sunday night was just a rehash of what he has been saying all along, trying to justify policies that have repeatedly turned out disastrously for America and our allies.
December 8, 2015
Democrats' Problem: Americans Have Little Faith in Government By Michael Barone
The Republican Party certainly has its problems: a chaotic presidential race; a despised congressional party; unpopularity among the rapidly growing number of non-whites.
December 8, 2015
America and France Turn Right By Pat Buchanan
In Sunday's first-round of regional elections in France, the clear and stunning winner was the National Front of Marine Le Pen.
Her party rolled up 30 percent of the vote, and came in first in 6 of 13 regions. Marine herself won 40 percent of her northeast district.
December 4, 2015
Do Not Be Impressed By Mark Zuckerberg's Phony Generosity By Ted Rall
CEO Mark Zuckerberg promises to give 99 percent of his Facebook shares to charity -- eventually.
December 4, 2015
The State of Play in the Republican Race by Michael Barone
There are just eight-and-a-half weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, with two of those weeks devoted to holidays during which polling is ordinarily not conducted, and the race for the Republican presidential nomination seems to be taking perceptible shape. And it continues to defy conventional wisdom.
December 4, 2015
The CAIR Effect: See Something, Do Nothing By Michelle Malkin
As news of the San Bernardino jihadist shootings blared on airport TVs, I spotted a TSA monitor flashing the now ubiquitous message:
"If you SEE something, SAY something."
December 3, 2015
Three’s Company By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
Republican presidential polling leader Donald Trump signed a pledge earlier this year agreeing to support the eventual GOP nominee, but that agreement is certainly not legally unenforceable. If Trump wants to run as a third-party or independent candidate, there’s nothing stopping him. Trump is aware of this: The weekend before Thanksgiving, he retreated to his pre-pledge position, saying that he needs to be “treated fairly” by the GOP in order to rule out an independent bid. Some senior Republicans naturally wonder if the only outcome Trump will regard as fair is his installation as the party nominee.
December 2, 2015
Has the president lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of office? By Charles Hurt
Is it now time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment?
Has our president officially lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of his office?
December 2, 2015
The Smear by John Stossel
This week my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants stricter gun laws.
December 2, 2015
Deadly D.C.: The Land of No Consequences By Michelle Malkin
In life and leadership, accountability means consequences for bad behavior.
December 1, 2015
History Returns Violently in the Mediterranean and Beyond By Michael Barone
Sometimes you can learn something about today's world from a history book -- even a book about obscure characters in a long-ago time in a far-away corner of the planet, featuring conflicts between regimes that ceased existing at least a century ago. For me, one such book has been "Agents of Empire," by the Oxford historian Noel Malcolm, gaudily subtitled "Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World."
December 1, 2015
A Resurgence of Intolerance by Thomas Sowell
Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators -- such as at the University of Missouri recently -- bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember what it was like being there, and seeing first-hand how painful events unfolded.
November 27, 2015
Here's Something You Should Be Thankful For: Work By Michael Barone
Sure, that sounds counterintuitive. Thanksgiving Thursday is the first day of a (for most of us) four-day weekend, a time devoted to gorging on comfort food and nonstop viewing of college and professional football games.
