By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – January 23, 2019 We are headed for another failed Republican presidency. Several months into the Trump administration, I started running a daily “Border Wall Construction Update” on Twitter, announcing how many miles of the wall had been completed that day and how many miles since the inauguration. It was always the same numbers: 0...

By: Stephen Collinson – CNN.com – January 24, 2019 Washington (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi isn’t giving an inch. The House speaker, fortified by brutal polling for Donald Trump, refuses to provide the President an easy way out of his own political box as the government shutdown sparked by his demand for a border wall drags into a 34th day. In...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – January 23, 2019 A week ago, I outlined a proposal under which both political parties could claim some modicum of a victory, reopen the government, and allocate more money for enhanced border security — including new barriers along portions of the southern border. Needless to say, on day 33 of this partial shutdown, my...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 22, 2019 Over the last 72 hours, I’ve been asking myself a simple question: What would happen if a group of Black Israelites had spent an hour taunting my son’s high-school football team? How would they have reacted if a Native American elder had walked into their midst – apparently not saying anything...

Welcome to another controversy algorithmically designed to tear America apart. By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – January 22, 2019 In a short story published last October, “Sort by Controversial,” Scott Alexander imagines a Silicon Valley company that accidentally comes up with an algorithm to generate what it calls a “Scissor.” The scissor is a statement, an idea or a scenario...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – January 21, 2019 One of the hallmarks of populism is that it rarely represents mass mobilization simply for the people. It’s also typically mass mobilization against an opposing force — whether it’s the hated elite or the despised “other.” The for/against dynamic is inherent to some degree in all of politics, but mobilization against...

By: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – January 21, 2019 Is it possible to shoot oneself in the face and not realize it? Better yet, have someone else shoot you in the face and be totally oblivious to that fact? Last week, BuzzFeed did its reputation proud by pushing an article that said President Trump had directed his ex-personal lawyer Michael...

By: Nick Sandmann – cnn.com – January 20, 2019 I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me. I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at...

By: Malachi Bailey – www.westernjournal.com – January 19, 2019 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, pointing to “security concerns” at the Capitol during the government shutdown. Now a Republican lawmaker has offered the president an alternative venue for the speech. Pelosi sent a letter to Trump on Wednesday suggesting that...

By: John Fund – nationalreview.com – January 20, 2019 Lots of people are wondering just why Democrats rejected President Trump’s plan to reopen government agencies even before he announced the plan. House speaker Nancy Pelosi called it a “non-starter,” and Senate Democratic whip Dick Durbin rejected it even though, as the Daily Caller noted, Trump’s proposal to protect immigrant “Dreamers”...