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January 20, 2018

So What if President Trump is a Jerk? By Ted Rall

President Trump is under fire and we're all "shocked" that his s---hole mouth called the (predominantly black) nations of Africa "s---holes," helpfully comparing them to (predominantly blonde) Norway to make sure nobody missed the point. To drive home just how angry people are about this (and rightly so), Trump's comment overshadowed news that the government accidentally told the citizens of Hawaii they were about to get nuked. As George W. Bush would say, "that's some weird s---."  

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January 19, 2018

Tough Road Ahead for Trump in Year 2 By Michael Barone

As we reach, gingerly, the anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration as president, none of the disasters feared by critics has come to pass. The economy has turned at least mildly upward rather than plummet to depression. The executive branch has obeyed court orders. No military disaster has occurred. Fears that seemed plausible to many have proved unjustified.

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January 19, 2018

A US-Turkish Clash in Syria? By Patrick J. Buchanan

The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence in Syria -- with NATO allies America and Turkey on opposing sides.   

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January 18, 2018

Open Season in the House By Kyle Kondik

KEY POINTS IN THIS ARTICLE:

— So far there are 46 House seats where an incumbent won’t be running for reelection in November. That is already above the postwar average, and more open seats are likely.

— The current list of retirees includes 31 Republicans and 15 Democrats. Wave years sometimes but not always feature such a disparity between parties.

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January 17, 2018

Selling Hate By John Stossel

Who will warn Americans about hate groups? The media know: the Southern Poverty Law Center.   

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January 17, 2018

Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats By Michelle Malkin

Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass.

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January 16, 2018

Trump: In Immigration Debate, Race Matters By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Trump "said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. ... I cannot believe ... any president has ever spoken the words that I ... heard our president speak yesterday."

So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House.

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January 15, 2018

CNN's Stephen Miller Incident Proves How Fake News Ignorantly Smears Conservatives By Charles Hurt

Behold, the anatomy of a “fake news” smear.

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January 13, 2018

'The Post': No Way Today's Newspapers Would Publish The Pentagon Papers By Ted Rall

Steven Spielberg's new movie "The Post" depicts a newspaper's decision to defy the government, risk its financial health and imprisonment of its editors in order to report a hard truth and defend the press' First Amendment rights by publishing the Pentagon Papers.

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January 12, 2018

Little Rocket Man Wins the Round By Patrick J. Buchanan

After a year in which he tested a hydrogen bomb and an ICBM, threatened to destroy the United States, and called President Trump "a dotard," Kim Jong Un, at the gracious invitation of the president of South Korea, will be sending a skating team to the "Peace Olympics."

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January 12, 2018

Is 'Fire and Fury' Fizzling? By Michael Barone

The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of "Fire and Fury" they had ordered was subtitled "The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945." It's a well-regarded 2009 volume by University of Toronto historian Randall Hansen, who is surely grateful for the unanticipated royalties.

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January 11, 2018

The Governors: Judge 2018 by the Big States By Kyle Kondik

Democrats should end the year with more governorships than they hold now. One reasonable way to measure Democrats’ success is whether they get into the 20s — they have 16 governorships now, so that would mean a gain of four or more.

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January 10, 2018

Time's Up for 'Temporary' Alien Protection By Michelle Malkin

Se acabó el tiempo.

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January 10, 2018

Punish Poor People By John Stossel

Store owner Kamal Saleh was just hit with thousands of dollars in fines.    

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January 9, 2018

Bannon Goes Belly up, and the Stock Market Soars By Lawrence Kudlow

There were two big money-and-politics stories in the first week of the new year: The Dow Jones industrial average soared 577 points, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon ended his political career.

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January 9, 2018

What Is America's Mission Now? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Informing Iran, "The U.S. is watching what you do," Amb. Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran. The session left her and us looking ridiculous.

France's ambassador tutored Haley that how nations deal with internal disorders is not the council's concern. Russia's ambassador suggested the United Nations should have looked into our Occupy Wall Street clashes and how the Missouri cops handled Ferguson.

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January 8, 2018

Results Matter: If Rasmussen Is “Republican-Leaning,” What Does That Make Everyone Else? By Richard Baris

Gallup announced last week that they are discontinuing their daily presidential approval tracking poll, opting instead to provide topline numbers weekly on Monday and detailed demographics monthly.

Since 2008, the well-known firm had been tracking presidential approval as a question in their privately sponsored Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Rather than conducting landline- or cell phone-based interviews, more of those responses are instead being gathered by mailer.

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January 8, 2018

Mitch McConnell, a Swamp Creature That Trump Can Count On By Charles Hurt

Since the earliest rise of the modern tea party, no political pastime has been more joyous than doling out savage ultra-violence against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

You know, in “A Clockwork Orange” kind of way.

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January 5, 2018

Fire Bell in the Night for the Ayatollah By Patrick J. Buchanan

As tens of thousands marched in the streets of Tehran on Wednesday in support of the regime, the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps assured Iranians the "sedition" had been defeated.

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January 5, 2018

The 2010s Look More Like Trump's Ideal America Than Obama's By Michael Barone

One of my favorite Christmastime presents is the Census Bureau's release of its annual population estimates for all of the states. Comparison of the April 1, 2010, Census Bureau enumerations and the June 30, 2017, estimates for the states shows how each state fared in the Obama years, seeing as this period includes 82 of the 96 months of the Obama administration and only five months of Donald Trump's presidency.   

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