For Sanders and Clinton, Politics Are Personal by Ted Rall
Could the clash between Clintonian "realism" and Sandersian "idealism" come down to personal history?
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February 19, 2016
February 19, 2016
Trump Is Right on Trade By Pat Buchanan
Republican hawks are aflutter today over China's installation of anti-aircraft missiles on Woody Island in the South China Sea.
February 19, 2016
Who Will Win the Electability Vote? by Michael Barone
With the likelihood that the Supreme Court vacancy will not be filled this year, voters' minds are going to turn to questions of electability, writes my Washington Examiner colleague David Drucker.
February 18, 2016
Republicans 2016: From South Carolina to the Ides of March By Geoffrey Skelley
After months and months of endless fascination with Iowa and New Hampshire, the bulk of the primary season will be contested over just the course of a single month. Between Feb. 20 and March 5, a whopping 37 states and territories will hold at least one party’s nominating contest, many both. In order to prepare our readers for this flood of primaries and caucuses, we wanted to take a look at each one and try to assess what their electorates are like and what history tells us about whom they might be inclined to support. This week, we sketch out the Republican calendar from Feb. 20 through March 15. Next week, we’ll tackle the Democrats.
February 17, 2016
Robot Cars By John Stossel
The Tesla S is the closest thing to a totally driverless car available now. I had to leave my state to test-drive it. New York's archaic laws forbid taking both hands off the wheel.
February 17, 2016
The Lure of Socialism by Thomas Sowell
Many people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Senator Bernie Sanders, and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches.
February 17, 2016
Another Ill-advised (But Self-serving) Kamikaze Stunt By Ted Cruz By Charles Hurt
Sen. Ted Cruz is one of those people who constantly wrestles with the Constitution — and always wins.
In his latest declaration to mount the barricades in defense of the Constitution, the Texas senator said he will “absolutely” filibuster any nominee the president puts forward to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
February 17, 2016
Border Surge Solution: Send 'Em to Camp David! By Michelle Malkin
Colorado dodged a bullet. After a stinging backlash from local leaders and Rocky Mountain politicians in both parties, the Obama White House retreated this weekend from plans to dump in our state 1,000 minors who immigrated here illegally.
Good riddance to the feckless feds, and don't come back, y'all.
February 16, 2016
Tragedy and Choices By Thomas Sowell
Amid the petty bickering, loud rhetoric and sordid attack ads in this year's primary election campaigns, the death of a giant -- Justice Antonin Scalia -- suddenly overshadows all of that.
February 16, 2016
Republicans Launch Sharp Attacks in South Carolina Debate By Michael Barone
The CBS presidential debate in Greenville, South Carolina, started off with a moment of silence in memory of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose death was announced earlier in the day. And the debate that followed was a sort of tribute to the late jurist.
February 16, 2016
Leave the Scalia Chair Vacant by Pat Buchanan
It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him.
February 13, 2016
How Can Bernie Pay for his Ambitious Agenda? Slash the Military By Ted Rall
Late last year, I interviewed Bernie Sanders while working on my biography, "Bernie." I asked him if he planned to reduce the defense budget if elected president. "We will take a hard look at that," he told me, agreeing that there's an awful lot of bloat in America's military spending that ought to be cut.
February 12, 2016
New Hampshire's Rebuke By Michael Barone
New Hampshire voters issued a rebuke to conventional party leaders when they voted by large margins for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in Tuesday's primaries. But Sanders is not going to win the Democratic nomination, and it's by no means certain Trump will be the Republican nominee.
February 12, 2016
How Republics Perish by Pat Buchanan
If you believed America's longest war, in Afghanistan, was coming to an end, be advised: It is not.
February 11, 2016
The Democrats: Bernie’s Blowout By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
That Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire was not a surprise. That he won by so much is. It’s a tremendous shot in the arm for his campaign and a jarring setback for Hillary Clinton.
February 10, 2016
TSA: Total Security Abyss By Michelle Malkin
While a TSA agent pawed my hair bun this weekend, presumably on high alert for improvised explosive bobby pins, I pondered the latest news on the Somalia airplane terror attack.
February 10, 2016
High-Tech Ted by John Stossel
Politicians tailor their messages to different audiences. Facing New Hampshire's primary, Ted Cruz talked more about "free-market principles" and a "commitment to the Constitution" and said "no one personality can right the wrongs done by Washington." Politico ran the headline "Ted Cruz, born-again libertarian."
February 10, 2016
Donald Trump Built a Juggernaut and Had the Media Pay for It By Charles Hurt
Why does the mainstream media heap such scorn and disbelief on Donald Trump over his promise to build a great wall along the border with Mexico — and make Mexico pay for it? After all, Donald Trump has built a winning presidential campaign — and made the media pay for it.
February 10, 2016
Bloomberg vs. Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The morning of the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump, being interviewed on "Morning Joe," said that he would welcome his "friend" Michael Bloomberg into the presidential race.
Which is probably the understatement of 2016.
February 9, 2016
How History Shapes the New Hampshire Primary By Michael Barone
Benning Wentworth is not a name you'll run across in New Hampshire primary coverage. But he arguably did as much as anyone else to establish the political culture -- or cultures -- of America's first-in-the-nation primary state.
