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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.

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December 9, 2015

Liberty, Fraternity, Security by John Stossel

What should we do about terrorism?

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December 9, 2015

National Security Profiling Is a No-Brainer By Michelle Malkin

Calm down and think, America. 

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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?

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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.

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December 2, 2015

Deadly D.C.: The Land of No Consequences By Michelle Malkin

In life and leadership, accountability means consequences for bad behavior.   

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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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