Donald Trump's Monetary Vindication By Stephen Moore
Well, what do you know! It turns out that amateur economist Donald J. Trump knows more about sound monetary policy than Fed chairman Jerome Powell and his team of hundreds of Ph.D. economists.
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February 5, 2019
February 1, 2019
Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who's Right? By Patrick J. Buchanan
To manifest his opposition to President Donald Trump's decision to pull all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, and half of the 14,000 in Afghanistan, Gen. James Mattis went public and resigned as secretary of defense.
February 1, 2019
Time for Humility for Davos Elite By Michael Barone
Turnout at Davos was lousy this year. President Trump, preoccupied by the government shutdown, was a no-show at last week's World Economic Forum there. So were British Prime Minister Theresa May (Brexit) and French President Emanuel Macron ("gilets jaunes"). Chinese President Xi Jinping, Davos' 2018 star, and Russian President Vladimir Putin weren't there either. Neither were some of the usual financial and media big names.
January 31, 2019
The Seats/Votes Relationship in the U.S. House 1972-2018 By Theodore S. Arrington
Redistricting in the U.S. House of Representatives is not a unified process as is the case for most national legislatures, but the result of the cumulative actions in the states that have more than one representative. Nevertheless, it is useful to look at the entire House to see how the decisions in the states combine to form a fair or biased playing field for the parties.
January 30, 2019
The Seen vs. the Unseen By John Stossel
Sunday is the Super Bowl.
I look forward to playing poker and watching. It's easy to do both because in a three-hour-plus NFL game there are just 11 minutes of actual football action.
January 30, 2019
The Manure-Spreaders of Media Sensationalism By Michelle Malkin
Here we go again. If you think the manure-spreaders of sensationalism who masquerade as ethical practitioners of journalism learned anything from last week's MAGA-bashing Covington Catholic High School hoax, I have three words for you:
January 29, 2019
Democrats for Border Security? By Stephen Moore
The government shutdown is over -- for now -- but the political ramifications are still being sorted out. The media has been chortling that Donald Trump "caved," and he may well have lost this battle with congressional Democrats. Their "victory," such as it is, is to notify American voters that they are so opposed to a wall and a secure border that they were willing to keep the government shut down for four weeks to ensure it doesn't happen.
January 29, 2019
If the Army Stands With Maduro, What Is Plan B? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Pay the soldiers. The rest do not matter.
This was the deathbed counsel given to his sons by Roman Emperor Septimius Severus in A.D. 211.
January 25, 2019
Does the Media Deserve to Be Respected and Believed? By Michael Barone
Is it true that Donald Trump's bad habits are contagious? Is it true that his Democratic opponents and, even more, his critics in the press are increasingly given to terminological inexactitudes, if not downright lies?
January 25, 2019
Democrats' America: The Heart of Darkness By Patrick J. Buchanan
If it was the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that black and white would come together in friendship and peace to do justice, his acolytes in today's Democratic Party appear to have missed that part of his message.
January 24, 2019
2020 Electoral College: Why the Republicans’ Magic Number is Probably 269, Not 270 By Kyle Kondik
Despite Democratic takeover, Republicans still hold an edge if the House has to pick the president
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— There is at least one plausible Electoral College scenario that produces a 269-269 tie, which would throw the presidential election to the House of Representatives elected in 2020.
— If the House decides the presidency, you might think that Democrats would have the advantage, given their new majority. But it’s the Republicans that hold — and are likely to maintain — the advantage.
January 23, 2019
The Covington Rorschach Test By Michelle Malkin
Sometimes, a three-point celebration is just a three-point celebration. Sometimes, a pep rally is just a pep rally. Sometimes, a smile is just a smile. And sometimes, a hat is just a hat.
January 23, 2019
School Choice By John Stossel
It's School Choice Week.
School choice is a noble cause. In much of America, parents have little or no control over where their kids attend school. Local governments assign schools by ZIP code.
January 22, 2019
Now Pelosi Owns the Shutdown By Stephen Moore
On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers -- the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents -- and an immediate end to the shutdown, if she agrees to expand funding to $5.7 billion for the wall.
January 22, 2019
When Democracy Fails to Deliver By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible ... make violent revolution inevitable," said John F. Kennedy.
January 18, 2019
Will Elites Ever Respect Voters' Decisions on Brexit and Trump? By Michael Barone
It was no coincidence that Donald Trump scheduled a trip to Britain to promote one of his golf courses in Scotland, on June 23, 2016. That was the day of the Brexit referendum in which 52 percent of the electorate --17.4 million voters, more than any party has ever won in a general election -- voted for the UK to leave the European Union.
January 18, 2019
At Age 70, Time to Rethink NATO By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."
So said President Charles De Gaulle, who in 1966 ordered NATO to vacate its Paris headquarters and get out of France.
January 16, 2019
Procter & Gamble's Toxic Sanctimony By Michelle Malkin
One of the world's most successful brands committed ideological hara-kiri this week. Recognized around the world as a symbol of manly civility for more than a century, Gillette will now be remembered as the company that did itself in by sacrificing a massive consumer base at the altar of progressivism.
January 16, 2019
Shutdown 'Crisis' By John Stossel
This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word "crisis."
"Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!" says The Washington Post. "Pain spreads widely."
January 15, 2019
Is Bolton Steering Trump into War with Iran? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Stop the ENDLESS WARS!" implored President Donald Trump in a Sunday night tweet.
Well, if he is serious, Trump had best keep an eye on his national security adviser, for a U.S. war on Iran would be a dream come true for John Bolton.
