Is Taiwan's Independence Worth War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, said Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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August 2, 2022
July 29, 2022
Sorry, Progressives, But America Isn't Intersectional By Michael Barone
America isn't intersectional. That's something the left-wingers who call themselves progressives have been learning, painfully, over the past 18 months.
July 28, 2022
House Rating Changes: More Movement Toward Republicans By Kyle Kondik
10 changes, all but 1 in favor of GOP.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— We are making 10 House rating changes, 9 of which benefit Republicans.
— Our overall best guess at the net change in the House — a GOP gain somewhere in the 20s — remains unchanged.
— We don’t see a huge impact, so far, from the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion opinion.
July 26, 2022
The Left Wants To Abolish Everything, Even This Column by Stephen Moore
Any aging baby boomer (like myself) knows that the anthem of the radicals of the 1960s and 1970s was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Let the good times roll. Back then, the joke was that a conservative was someone who lived in mortal fear that someone, somewhere, was having fun.
July 26, 2022
China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi added to the itinerary of a valedictory trip through Asia the island of Taiwan, she could not have been oblivious to the reaction she would produce in a stunned Beijing.
July 22, 2022
Sure, Ron DeSantis Could Beat Donald Trump in 2024 by Michael Barone
How inevitable is a third consecutive nomination of Donald Trump? Partisan commentators, when it suits their purposes, tend to assume it is so.
July 22, 2022
What Makes Biden So Pugnacious? By Patrick J. Buchanan
That friendly fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might not have been such a defining moment -- had Biden not first set himself up.
July 21, 2022
The Republican Advance in the South — and Other Party Registration Trends By Rhodes Cook
How state-level registration has changed in recent years.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Party registration can be a lagging indicator of political change, but recent changes in some states are bringing registration more in line with actual voting.
— Republicans have taken the voter registration edge in states such as Florida and West Virginia somewhat recently, and Kentucky flipped to them just last week. Democrats have built bigger leads in several blue states.
— Democrats hold a substantial national lead in party registration, but a lot of that has to do with the fact that a number of states, many of which are Republican-leaning, do not register voters by party. A little less than two-thirds of the states register voters by party (31 states plus the District of Columbia).
— Overall, Republicans have made gains over Democrats in 19 states since summer 2018, when we last looked at these trends, while Democrats have made gains over Republicans in 12 states and the District of Columbia. There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in 17 of these states plus DC, and more registered Republicans than Democrats in 14.
July 20, 2022
Where's the Beef? by John Stossel
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat?
July 19, 2022
When Millionaires and Billionaires Leave, Everyone Loses by Stephen Moore
Liberals are very good at chasing rich people out of their states.
July 18, 2022
Jockeying for 2024: Who are the Early Contenders? by Brian C. Joondeph
The 2024 presidential election is more than two years away, but the jockeying has begun among those contending for the most powerful job in the world. An incumbent president typically is the odds-on favorite, although there have been recent exceptions named Carter, Bush, and Trump.
July 15, 2022
James Madison, 21st Century Pundit by Michael Barone
Could America's Founding Fathers see far, some 234 years, into the future? In declaring independence and fashioning a constitution, they were certainly trying to do so. And, in some cases, they succeeded. Consider this 78-word sentence written by James Madison and published as part of "Federalist 63" on March 1, 1788:
July 15, 2022
Is a US-Russia War Becoming Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan
At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland?
July 12, 2022
How Angela Merkel's Green Agenda Caused the Economic Collapse of Germany by Stephen Moore
Remember how the world, especially the American media, fawned over former German Chancellor Angela Merkel?
July 12, 2022
New York Times to Biden -- Time to Go! By Patrick J. Buchanan
When President Joe Biden retired in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday night, he likely did not expect to find a severed horse's head under his bed covers.
July 8, 2022
Who's Behind Joe Biden's Leftward Lunge? by Michael Barone
What's going on with Joe Biden? Why is a president who ran and was elected as a centrist Democrat supporting one left-wing proposal after another? What has prompted the politician whose sensitivity to public opinion was finely honed for four decades to take one unpopular stand after another?
July 8, 2022
Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation by Patrick J. Buchanan
In Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster," the tale is told that if you approached Webster's grave and called out his name, a voice would boom in reply, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?"
July 7, 2022
High Courts, High Stakes 2022’s top state supreme court races by Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
-- State supreme court contests often attract little public attention, but they can carry significant weight on policy, especially in an era when courts are having to weigh in on such divisive topics as abortion and election administration.
-- About two-thirds of the states have some type of state supreme court election on the ballot this year, but as of now, 8 states stand out as the likeliest to have at least one genuinely competitive race this fall: North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Montana, Michigan, Kentucky, New Mexico, and Arkansas.
