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July 13, 2017

The New Dominion: Virginia’s Ever-Changing Electoral Map By Geoffrey Skelley

In 2008 Barack Obama carried Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to win the Old Dominion. Obama’s victory broke a run of 10 consecutive Republican victories in the commonwealth, and 13 of 14 going back to 1952. The 2008 presidential election started a new Democratic streak, which has now seen the party carry Virginia three consecutive times, with Hillary Clinton winning it by 5.3 percentage points in 2016.

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July 12, 2017

Stupid Hostile Media by John Stossel

President Donald Trump drives people crazy.

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July 12, 2017

Long Live President Trumpopov! By Charles Hurt

You don’t have to be a seasoned Kremlinologist steeped in the chicanery of klepto-thugocracies to realize that America really dodged a bullet in last year’s presidential election.

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July 12, 2017

The Crisis in America's Crime Labs By Michelle Malkin

Junk science endangers lives. Forensic junk science in the hands of overzealous prosecutors, ignorant police detectives and reckless experts threatens liberty.  

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July 11, 2017

Alone Perhaps, but Is Trump Right? by Patrick J. Buchanan

At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade.

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July 7, 2017

Patching It Up With Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan

President Donald Trump flew off for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin -- with instructions from our foreign policy elite that he get into the Russian president's face over his hacking in the election of 2016.

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July 7, 2017

Will Trump Republicans Avoid the Off-Year Curse? By Michael Barone

Curious fact, and one disquieting for Republicans looking ahead to 2018: In the past 65 years, starting with 1952, the president's party has managed to win a majority of seats in an off-year election only four times. In the other 12 off-year elections, the opposition party won a majority.  

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July 6, 2017

Keeping Freedom and Growth in the Fourth by Lawrence Kudlow

What is the Fourth of July? It's a wonderful time. We're outdoors. We're with family and friends. We're playing golf or fishing. There are barbecues and baseball games and fireworks and all that good stuff.
And beneath it all, supporting it all, there is freedom. Freedom. The Fourth of July is about freedom, if nothing else. America's freedom, of course. But a freedom that extends to all people. One that leads to greatness and prosperity. A freedom that has become the backbone of the world.

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July 6, 2017

Generic Ballot Model Gives Democrats Early Advantage in Battle for Control of House By Alan I. Abramowitz

Results of recent special elections have fueled speculation about whether Democrats have a realistic chance to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. Although Republican candidates have won recent special elections for seats vacated by President Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointees in Georgia, Kansas, Montana, and South Carolina, the GOP victory margins in all four contests have been much smaller than those for the former Republican incumbents in 2016.

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July 5, 2017

Independence By John Stossel

Did you think about the signing of the Declaration of Independence this week?

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July 5, 2017

Trump Seizes Moral High Ground in Charlie Gard Case By Charles Hurt

The secret to President Trump’s remarkable outsider success is his fearless willingness to walk into the most politically fraught situations, redefine every long-held prejudice and seize the moral high ground by embracing the simplest truth.

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July 4, 2017

Is America Still a Nation? By Patrick J. Buchanan

In the first line of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson speaks of "one people." The Constitution, agreed upon by the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1789, begins, "We the people..."

And who were these "people"?

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June 30, 2017

Democrats -- and Republicans -- Lack Credibility on Economic Issues By Michael Barone

Liberal writers and political operatives, now that it's finally dawning on them that no one is going to find evidence that Donald Trump conspired with Russia to steal the presidential election, are turning to giving advice to the Democratic Party.

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June 30, 2017

An America First Korea Policy By Patrick J. Buchanan

"The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly."   

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June 28, 2017

The Brutal Battle Against Medical Kidnappers by Michelle Malkin

BOSTON -- On the day Boston Children's Hospital celebrated being named "the number one pediatric hospital in the nation" by U.S. News & World Report, I was interviewing Dana Gottesfeld in nearby Somerville, Massachusetts. Dana is the young wife of Martin "Marty G" Gottesfeld, an imprisoned technology engineer/activist who used his skills to fight against medical child abuse committed at Boston's Children's Hospital.

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June 28, 2017

School Inc. By John Stossel

Every year, almost every industry improves.  

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June 27, 2017

Are Illinois & Puerto Rico Our Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan

If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into junk-bond status.

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June 23, 2017

The Passing of the Pelosi Era by Patrick J. Buchanan

In the first round of the special election for the House seat in Georgia's Sixth District, 30-year-old Jon Ossoff swept 48 percent. He more than doubled the vote of his closest GOP rival, Karen Handel.

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June 23, 2017

The Outlook After the Special Elections By Michael Barone

The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon Ossoff won 48.1 percent in the special election's first round April 18, and Democrats had high hopes that they could take this House seat from the Republicans.  

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June 23, 2017

Democrats Want To Lose The 2020 Election By Ted Rall

"I am not a member of any organized political party," Will Rogers said ages ago. "I am a Democrat."

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