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The Republican nominee long used the media to project his fairy tale self-image but now blames the industry for his flailing campaign. Read More
Donald Trump delivered a strong speech Monday on thwarting terrorists and crushing ISIS while cleverly disguising it as an address on... Read More
WASHINGTON -- Let us now praise the most reviled group of people in America: so-called Read More
In 1991 George H. W. Bush promised a âNew World Order.â A quarter of a century later, weâre finally catching a... Read More
No one, especially Donald Trump, is getting real answers out of her on taxes, trade and health care. Read More
Black social breakdown and anti-cop ideology put another American city to the torch. Read More
Over decades as a public figure, Donald Trump has cultivated a celebrity status rooted in a quintessentially American idea: success. 'It's... Read More
Matt Taibbi on why campaign 2016 won't just have lasting implications for American politics. It's obliterated what was left of our news media. Read More
On Friday, Republican National Committee and Trump campaign staffers held what one described as an Read More
Hillary Clinton's greatest strengthher experienceis also her greatest weakness. Having spent the last four decades in politics, she has... Read More
Conservatives recommending nationalism are dangerously wrong. Read More
What Comedy Centralâs cancellation of âThe Nightly Show With Larry Wilmoreâ could mean for the future of... Read More
Last month, I spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because I believe our country is on the wrong track, and we need to... Read More
Neither has a plan to deal with the national debt, Social Security and Medicare. Read More
Scandal:Â The Daily Caller reports that the FBI now has multiple investigations underway into the nefarious dealings of the Bill... Read More
A new study out of Harvard offers evidence that, contrary to the Republican party line, the Affordable Care Act is making people healthier. Read More
A plethora of studies from around the world agree Read More
It’s fantasy football time in political punditry, as commentators try to dismiss Hillary Clinton’s dominance in the polls —... Read More
She’s a real nowhere girl. Sitting in her nowhere world. Making all her nowhere plans for nobody. Poor Hillary Clinton.... Read More
Hillary Clinton’s release of her latest tax return is an act of political provocation. The Clintons have unveiled their tax documents... Read More
For years after President Nixon resigned in scandal, journalists in the nation’s capital would receive anonymous phone calls from... Read More
Yes, Donald Trump has muddied the issue of possible voter fraud in the November election with his comment that the only way Hillary Clinton... Read More
In the first week of August, just as Hillary Clinton began to pull aheadsignificantly in the polls, Donald Trump prophylactically claimed... Read More
Third time's a charm. Or not. Over the last two weeks I have tried to use this space to persuade #NeverTrumpers that their opposition to... Read More
Prognosticators scheming out electoral vote scenarios for November eventually arrive at one question: Which state will push Hillary Clinton... Read More
Barring some unforeseen event, such as a serious terrorist attack at home, the decisive event that will determine who wins the 2016... Read More
We’re going to spend a lot of time over the next 87 days contemplating the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency. Trump is a... Read More
Most rank-and-file Democrats disagree with the party platform. Read More
AMERICAN POLICY toward the Middle East has been a dismal failure for the past thirty-five years, if not longer. Officials have approached... Read More
The so-called Islamic State has different strategies in different parts of the world, but in Africa and in Europe, certainly, its core... Read More
THERE’S A SMUG view in the English-speaking world that America is a mess. It’s an easy conclusion to reach. The shameless lies... Read More
Leftists — aided by our corrupt news media — are past masters of replacing truth with narrative. Ninety-seven percent of... Read More
Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries. His study... Read More
Hillary Clinton has been sitting back and just watching Donald Trump do his thing. With Republicans openly defecting from the GOP nominee and... Read More
For months, this election was all about angry voters demanding change. They seemed to echo the plaintive cry of Howard Beale in the... Read More
The modern Presidential campaign may be the world’s most sophisticated pop-up operation, a billion-dollar multilayered organization... Read More
Logically, Donald Trump should have less support among intellectuals than he had a year ago. That’s because over the past year, he has... Read More
Who are you going to trust on jobs?If you are a socialist Democrat, you don’t care, because you believe government is supposed to take... Read More
The lunch group in Monessen, Pennsylvania, is evenly divided between Trump supporters and Trump opponents. But the dark mood across the whole... Read More
In the North this summer, a devastating offensive is underway. Enemy forces have seized huge swaths of territory; with each passing week,... Read More
In Germany last week, the vice president of Bavaria’s intelligence-gathering agency, Manfred Hauser, announced ISIS “hit... Read More
Civil liberties have deteriorated since the U.S. said that it would normalize ties. Read More
The Department of Justice's explosive report on institutional racism in the Baltimore Police Department represents a devastating indictment... Read More
The rampant destruction that erupted in Milwaukee’s north side over the weekend is just the latest violent outburst that makes it clear... Read More

Prognosticators scheming out electoral vote scenarios for November eventually arrive at one question: Which state will push Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump past the 270 votes needed to win the White House?At first glance, this particular question might seem unimportant. There are a number of other more pressing ones in elections analysis: Who will win the presidency? Which party will control the S Read More

Donald Trump’s suggestion that “Second Amendment people” could prevent Hillary Clinton from nominating judges, should she be elected, set off a new firestorm in the presidential race — but a familiar one, too, for Trump’s response. Read More

In late October of 1996, Republicans cut ties with their presidential nominee and focused their efforts on preserving their congressional majorities. The party ranads that all but conceded Bob Dole would lose, and instead urged voters to vote Republican down the ticket so as to avoid giving President Clinton “a blank check” with a Democratic Congress. Read More
