Is Trump Facing a 1960s-Style Revolt? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Sunday morning, President Trump announced that the world's worst terrorist, the head of the ISIS caliphate who had raped an American woman, had received justice.
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October 29, 2019
October 26, 2019
Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age By Ted Rall
In 1991, demographers Neil Howe and William Strauss published their awkwardly titled tome "13th Gen," about Generation X -- the Americans born between 1961 and 1981. If Xers had paid attention, they would have committed suicide.
October 25, 2019
Imperial Capital but America-First Nation By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand," said President Donald Trump in an impassioned defense of his decision to cut ties to the Syrian Kurds, withdraw and end these "endless wars."
Are our troops in Syria, then, on their way home? Well, not exactly.
October 25, 2019
The Perils of Downscale Political Parties By Michael Barone
Political parties, and their travails, have been much on my mind recently as I've been speaking to radio and television interviewers about my new book, "How America's Political Parties Change (And How They Don't)."
October 24, 2019
The Trade War’s Risks for Trump By Louis Jacobson
Agriculture and manufacturing are significant industries in 2020’s most important states.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Farmers and manufacturers account for a particularly large share of the economy in key battleground states, including ones that President Donald Trump won in 2016 and would need to win again in 2020 to secure a second term.
— However, the farm and factory sectors are facing economic strains from Trump’s trade policies. Agricultural output declined between 2017 and 2018 in all but one battleground state, and while manufacturing output increased in these states across the board between 2017 and 2018, it showed signs of slowing in most states during the first quarter of 2019.
— That said, anecdotal evidence suggests that cultural issues are outweighing economic factors, with these solidly Republican demographic groups sticking with the GOP, at least for now.
October 23, 2019
Laura Loomer: Disrupter for Congress By Michelle Malkin
The Beltway swamp is clogged with miserable crapweasels: smug incumbents, status quo lemmings, Constitution infringers of all flavors, Silicon Valley lackeys, jihad apologists, open borders freaks and, oh, that Trump-deranged lurker, Mitt "Pierre Delecto" Romney.
October 22, 2019
Is Democracy a Dying Species? By Patrick J. Buchanan
What happens when democracy fails to deliver? What happens when people give up on democracy?
October 22, 2019
Washington Subsidies Not Helping the Wind Industry By Stephen Moore
Last week, the lobbying arm of the wind energy industry made an unsurprising, though somewhat embarrassing, announcement. It wants a longer lifeline with federal subsidies. So much for wind being the low-cost energy source of the future.
October 21, 2019
Pollsters Push Sketchy Polls Again By Brian C. Joondeph
Pollsters are at it again, pushing sketchy polls, not to reflect public opinion, but to shape it. This is called propaganda, a popular tool for dictators who want to control the information flow from an all-powerful government to their subjects, the people.
October 18, 2019
Westerville Debate Leaves Democratic Race Wider Open By Michael Barone
The world's oldest political party set an all-time record Tuesday night, with 12 presidential candidates on a single stage in Westerville, Ohio. That's a suburb of Columbus, the fastest-growing big metro area in the Midwest, in Franklin County, which voted Republican in every presidential election but one for a half century (1944-92) but has voted Democratic in the six elections since.
October 18, 2019
Is Putin the New King of the Middle East? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Russia Assumes Mantle of Supreme Power Broker in the Middle East," proclaimed Britain's Telegraph. The article began:
October 17, 2019
The Democrats Descend on Ohio By Kyle Kondik
But will they next year?
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— As the Democrats debate in Ohio, questions loom about how important the state will be in next year’s presidential election.
— Two key demographic indicators help explain why the state swung toward the Republicans in 2016 and why it seems likely to again vote to the right of the nation in 2020.
— The state remains competitive, but it’s far more important now to Republicans than Democrats.
October 16, 2019
Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship Has Its Privileges By Michelle Malkin
I wrote the book on the Obama administration's "Culture of Corruption" 10 years ago, including a thick and sordid chapter on the Beltway swamp creatures of the Biden family. See-no-evil liberals scoffed at my catalogue of back-scratching, shady Delaware deals and Wall Street funny money: What nepotism? What ethical lapses? What corruption?
October 16, 2019
Different Sexes By John Stossel
The media keep telling us: There's no difference between male and female brains.
October 15, 2019
Is the Interventionists' Era Over for Good? By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria.
Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences.
October 15, 2019
It's a Middle-Class Boom By Stephen Moore
How much of the monetary gains from the Trump economic speedup have gone to the middle class? If you ask Democratic senators and presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders, the answer to that question is ... almost none.
October 11, 2019
Is Impeachment Now Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader," is a remark attributed to a French politician during the turbulent times of 1848.
Joe Biden's Wednesday declaration that President Donald Trump should be impeached is in that tradition. Joe is scrambling to get out in front of the sentiment for impeachment in the party he professes to lead.
October 11, 2019
The Democrats' Faute de Mieux Front-Runner By Michael Barone
Is Elizabeth Warren the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination? You can make a strong argument that the answer is yes. You can also argue that she is, at most, a default front-runner and a problematic general election nominee.
October 10, 2019
Louisiana 2019: Welcome to the Jungle (Primary) By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA) defied the partisan lean of his state in 2015, but he will have to navigate an increasingly partisan electorate to win again. He’ll need Republican support, but he also must energize black voters.
— Louisiana’s unique jungle primary has shaped the contours of state elections for nearly 50 years and will be a key feature of the 2019 election.
— Regionalism has always been salient in Louisiana politics, and it should be a decisive factor in which Republican candidate makes a potential runoff with Edwards: Rep. Ralph Abraham (R, LA-5) or businessman Eddie Rispone (R).
