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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."

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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.

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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.

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November 25, 2015

Have a Happy, Politics-Free Thanksgiving By Michelle Malkin

Many people naturally assume that since I work in political journalism, I must breathe, drink and eat politics 24/7/365 -- including on the Thanksgiving holiday. 

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November 25, 2015

With Americans shaken by terrorism, Obama defaults to snide lecturing By Charles Hurt

Why, dirty Americans, do you hate people from exotic, war-torn places? Why do you despise other cultures? Why do you so hate freedom of religion?

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November 25, 2015

Self-Defenseless by John Stossel

What might have happened if a few of the 1,500 concert attendees in Paris' Bataclan theater had guns? The terrorists had time to kill, reload and kill again. The police unit didn't come for more than a half hour. If a few people in the theater were armed, might they have killed the killers?

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November 24, 2015

Political Translations By Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different impressions. For example, when President Barack Obama says that defeating ISIS is going to take a long time, how is that different from saying that he is going to do very little, very slowly? It is saying the same thing in different words.

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November 24, 2015

Which Party Will Emerge From Its Gathering Storm? By Michael Barone

Each of our two political parties, ancient by world standards, seems to be facing a gathering storm.  

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November 21, 2015

Bernie Sanders Is a Socialist and So Are You By Ted Rall

When it comes to politics, Americans are idiots.       

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November 20, 2015

Obama Gets Really Angry ... at Americans by Michael Barone

Three days after the Islamic State terrorist attacks in Paris, Americans were primed to hear their president express heartfelt anger, which he did in his press conference in Antalya, Turkey, at the end of the G-20 summit. And they did hear him describe ISIS as "this barbaric terrorist organization" and acknowledge that the "terrible events in Paris were a terrible and sickening setback."

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November 20, 2015

The Ululations of Radical College Crybabies By Michelle Malkin

Deray McKesson, the professional agitator whose racial rabble-rousing began at tax-subsidized Teach for America, proudly unveiled his new enterprise on the Internet Thursday: A website chronicling "THE DEMANDS" of his radical brothers and sisters on college campuses across Northern America.

"We recently launched http://thedemands.org which compiles the college demands from across the country," he tweeted. "Check it out."

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November 19, 2015

Republicans 2016: A Contracting List of True Contenders By Kyle Kondik

The atrocities in Paris over the weekend show that events can and will inject new issues into the presidential contest or intensify ones that already exist. But it’s important to remember that what dominates news today might not be what dominates it a month from now, and we still have two and a half months until the primary season begins and nearly a year before the general election.

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November 18, 2015

Where Is America's 'Force Protection' from Refujihadis? By Michelle Malkin

Back in May, with ISIS ascendant, the Obama Pentagon ordered U.S. military bases here at home to raise their force protection condition status (FPCON) to "Bravo" amid a "general increase in the threat environment."   

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November 18, 2015

Donald Trump Fuels Support By Riding Third Rail, Invading ‘Safe Space’ By Charles Hurt

If you are still confused about how Donald Trump is walking away with the Republican nomination for president, look no further than his swift, reflexive, fearless and unvarnished response to the terrorist attack in Paris.

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November 18, 2015

Anti-Liberty Politicians by John Stossel

After a terrorist attack, it's natural to ask: What can politicians do to keep us safe?

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November 17, 2015

An Unhappy History Seems to Be Repeating Itself By Michael Barone

Riots in black neighborhoods. Rebellions on campus. The news these past few months and particularly in the past week has been full of stories that remind us, as William Faulkner wrote a little more than half a century after the Civil War, "the past is never dead. It's not even past." We're seeing something that looks eerily like the recurrence of events that led, half a century ago, to the destruction of much of our cities and much of our campuses. 

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November 17, 2015

Stop the Bleeding By Thomas Sowell

There was a painful irony when France's immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack.

Someone once said that the First World War was the most stupid thing that European nations ever did. Countries on both sides of that war ended up worse off than before, whether they were on the winning side or the losing side.

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November 13, 2015

The Myth of H-1B Job Creation By Michelle Malkin

Every day brings new headlines, ignored by the Washington press corps, of U.S. workers losing their livelihoods to cheap H1-B visa replacements.

Just this week, Computerworld reported: "Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India."

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November 13, 2015

Rubio and Cruz Look Like Top Contenders in Debate By Michael Barone

Tuesday night's Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate in Milwaukee provided clues as to why Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have been climbing, not by wide margins but perceptibly, into the top-polling positions of the candidates behind the two poll leaders, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

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November 12, 2015

Republicans 2016: White Evangelicals Dominate the Early Calendar By Geoffrey Skelley

Based on the election calendar, white evangelical Christians are going to receive ample attention early in the 2016 Republican primary. Using exit poll data from the 2012 and 2008 GOP primaries, as well as data from the Census Bureau and the Public Religion Research Institute’s American Values Atlas to help estimate numbers for states with no exit polls, we found that about two-thirds (64%) of the total delegates in states with contests on or before March 8 will come from states with electorates that may be at least 50% white evangelical.

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