Is a Russia-NATO Clash Over Ukraine Ahead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
When Hungarian rebels arose in 1956 to overthrow the Communist regime imposed by Joseph Stalin, President Dwight Eisenhower refused to send U.S. forces to aid the Hungarians.
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March 4, 2022
March 4, 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky Transforms Germany -- and Europe By Michael Barone
It's been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Kyiv, and even Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian border, remain under Ukrainian control. Contrary to many predictions, Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces have fallen short of their goals so far, but there can be no certainty about the outcome in Ukraine -- or Russia.
March 3, 2022
Breaking Down North Carolina and Pennsylvania’s New Maps By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— North Carolina and Pennsylvania are 2 closely-divided states where the redistricting process this cycle ultimately fell to Democratic-controlled state courts.
— Democrats seem likely to gain at least 1 seat out of North Carolina, although the relatively favorable map that they got will only be in place for the 2022 election cycle.
— As we expected, a GOP-held seat was eliminated as Pennsylvania’s delegation was forced to downsize, but some of its Democratic members, particularly in the eastern part of the state, will have their work cut out for them.
March 2, 2022
My Dream State of the Union By John Stossel
President Joe Biden just gave his State of the Union Address.
March 1, 2022
The State of the Union Is ... Broke by Stephen moore
To quote a screaming John McEnroe: You cannot be serious!
March 1, 2022
Is Putin Considering Using Nukes on NATO? By Patrick J. Buchanan
From his principal avenues of attack on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin began this war with three strategic goals.
February 25, 2022
Ukraine's Fate Is Rooted in a Tragic History by Michael Barone
For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto developments covering the last two or three centuries, have left the United States and its European allies -- in particular the largest of them, Germany -- unable to prevent President Vladimir Putin's Russia from absorbing an as yet undetermined part of a theoretically independent Ukraine.
February 25, 2022
Did We Provoke Putin's War in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Russia's Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the U.S. archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We're not changing that.
February 24, 2022
Redistricting and Competition in Congressional Elections Forces beyond gerrymandering explain rising number of districts that strongly favor one party by Alan I. Abramowitz
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
-- Based on presidential voting patterns, a much larger proportion of U.S. House districts strongly favor one party and a much smaller proportion are closely divided than 50 years ago.
-- However, gerrymandering is not the major reason for this trend. Partisan polarization has increased dramatically in U.S. states and counties, whose boundaries have not changed.
-- Moreover, despite the growing partisan divide evident in presidential voting, the competitiveness of House elections has changed very little over the past 5 decades because the personal advantage of incumbency has declined sharply during this period.
February 23, 2022
The Woke AMA By John Stossel
The American Medical Association now tells doctors: Use woke language! It's issued a 54-page guide telling doctors things like, don't say "equality"; say "equity." Don't say "minority"; say "historically marginalized."
February 22, 2022
In the End, Sweden Did It Right by Stephen Moore
What if two years ago, when COVID-19 first hit these shores, our politicians hadn't panicked?
February 22, 2022
Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future.
February 18, 2022
Must Government Be a 'Big, Waddling, Sluggish Beast'? by Michael Barone
Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats' now-defunct Build Back Better package -- something beyond its huge cost (trillions) and its failure to get majority support in the Democratic Congress, just like the single-payer health care bill that recently failed to pass in California's Democratic supermajority legislature.
February 18, 2022
Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When NBC's Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: "There's not. That's a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another."
February 17, 2022
The “Big Sort” Continues, with Trump as a Driving Force By Rhodes Cook
Number of blowout counties spiked in 2016, endured in 2020.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— More than 20% of the nation’s counties gave 80% or more of its 2-party presidential votes to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
— Trump won the vast majority of these counties, but because Biden’s blowout counties are much more populous, he got many more votes out of his “super landslide” counties than Trump got out of his.
— Trump’s blowouts were concentrated in white, rural counties in the Greater South, Interior West, and Great Plains, while Biden’s were in a smattering of big cities, college towns, and smaller counties with large percentages of heavily Democratic nonwhite voters.
February 15, 2022
Under Pandemic Lockdowns, the Rich Got Richer and the Poor Got Crushed By Stephen Moore
Today, two years after COVID-19 first hit these shores from China, most studies confirm that the heavy-handed government lockdowns of businesses, restaurants, schools, churches and parks did more harm than good to our health and well-being.
February 15, 2022
The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew by Patrick J. Buchanan
Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other times their nation was so divided.
February 11, 2022
Lamentations About Redistricting Ending Democracy Prove Hypocritical -- and Wrong by Michael Barone
Masks were necessary, especially in schools, to prevent mass deaths. Or so we were told, at great and tedious length -- until suddenly, in the last 10 days, they weren't.
February 11, 2022
Stress Test for a Fading Superpower By Patrick J. Buchanan
Because America entered both world wars of the 20th century last, while all the other great powers bled one another, and because we outlasted the Soviet Empire in the Cold War, America emerged, in the term of President George H.W. Bush, as "the last superpower."
