Conservative icon William Buckley promulgated what has become known as the Buckley rule: “Nominate the most conservative candidate who is electable.”  Among the current candidates the only one who passes that test is Marco Rubio.

The climate alarmist core has no choice but to escalate its assault on society, and to push its powerful followers (including the Obama administration) to more and more desperate acts.

After seven years of Barack Obama, the power of the president of the United States has expanded far beyond what was ever envisioned by the founding fathers.  As was the case with Obama, it is dangerous to choose a president based solely on platitudes and personality. 

What the hell does Trump know about jobs Americans won't do? All he's done is actually have to get low skilled but necessary grunt work done in the United States of coddled welfare, unemployed hipsters at Starbucks, EBT card holders and Ritalin takers. He sounds like, well, almost every contractor you can find who is involved with the unskilled and semi-skilled labor markets.

Here’s another opportunity for Ted Cruz to peel off support from the Donald. 

What Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Pope Francis all get wrong.

A referendum is coming up, and the repercussions will definitely matter to the USA.

It’s time to stop the cage match tactics and bear down on the hard slog to the White House against the Democratic candidates. 

What more loudly trumpets the surrender of evangelicals to the broader cultural capitulation to the world, the flesh, and the Devil than support for Trump?

Trump is certainly no Thomas Jefferson, but he could be a Harry Truman.  And we could use one of those.

Do we really want a President Trump going after newspapers who criticize him?  That appears to be what Candidate Trump promised last week.

The crisis that the nation now faces is so huge that it will not be resolved without a spirit of sacrifice on the part of all Americans. 

In Secret Letters of John Paul II, the BBC was looking for a salacious relationship.  What the network found was better.

For how much longer is the Western world going to be shocked at Muslim war tactics of deception that have been in use for hundreds of years?

How did we get to the point that it was possible for Obama to be elected and for Trump to be a serious contender for the presidency?

The inequality of wealth and income is not a serious moral or economic problem at all. It is only a political problem.

Who can blame the American people for wanting a high-energy candidate for a change?

Movement conservatives should weep at the thought of what could have been; some probably do.

Michael Hayden believes that “People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. 

If something is not done to stem the tide, many American campuses, including those most attractive to Jews, will become intolerable. 

Very few people expect a general Russian push into Ukraine, but many fear further bites, particularly in the south.

News on the latest racism hoax from Albany. And Bridgeport. And Glendale. And St. Louis, and Princeton, and Oberlin, and...

(1) Don't you get the strange feeling that this has all been suspiciously easy? 

Why is CPAC -- and its sponsoring organization the American Conservative Union -- refusing to stand up against Islamist terrorism?

But with Super Tuesday approaching, crunch time is nigh for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

Senator Cornyn believes that mental health problems are a major problem for the incarcerated, but that’s not true.  Inmates complain of mental health problems and many are unhappy souls, but most suffer not from serious mental disorders but personality disorders

No.  In fact, the idea is complete nonsense – and yet it's what our kids are being taught.

Vassar College is the lastest to endorse a head-scratching mentality when it comes to Israel and Jews.

Young Talia Jane got fired for wanting nothing more than to live completely divorced from reality – on your dime.

The clock is ticking down for Ted Cruz.  After March 1, Hillary’s dream opponent may be unstoppable.  Here are the two things Cruz can do to save his candidacy

In our epic war of Right vs. Wrong, Trump defeats the media cartel, day after day.

The instincts of the ordinary voters who agree with Trump are fundamentally sound

There's a bit more to this than just fulfilling a campaign promise Obama had no right to make in the first place.

Bernie Sanders promises a “revolution” in November. But another candidate has a much better prospect of delivering revolutionary change.

Is it possible for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to be anything other than anti-Semitic?  

A testimonial from the Devil's Advocate.

There has been a double standard in the media regarding its treatment of Donald Trump. 

If both party establishments force their choices as nominees over the insurgents, brace yourself for what could be the least probable 3rd party ticket of all time.

To transfer classified information from a secure classified system and move it to an unclassified system is not only difficult, it is illegal. It’s called espionage. 

These forgotten black heroes are worth remembering -- and not just in February.

Why can’t the leaders of the Palestinian authorities behave did as the nationalistic Turks did almost century ago? 

The problem that Turkey and its Islamist leadership are now facing is something that has been known for a long time, but is no longer credibly deniable.

Working-class America is looking right at the Gates of Hell. All because it believed the government when it promised good jobs at good wages.

The Paris Accord is mainly about money transfers, designed to provide a legacy for president Obama.  Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Accord has little to do with climate.

Why did Scalia prefer to be understood as a “textualist” rather than a supporter of "original intent" regarding the Constitution? 

One cannot enter a classroom of higher learning today without walking into pitched battles and extreme positioning. 

Ironically, he might have had an easier time proving how conservative he is.

From the standpoint of law, language, and logic, the rulings in NFIB and King aren’t a total disaster, but they’ll suffice until the total disaster rolls in.

Bernie Sanders apparently thinks he has an unparalleled mastery of foreign affairs, and has never met a political dictator he didn’t like. Truth will out.

Trump is popular not because he is manipulating the voters.  He's popular because the culture has changed.

Kritarchy, the rule of judges, is what we have now.  What do we do to fix it?

It’s been a relief to hear our national anger voiced. But we’re at the point in this election where we need to be looking at Trump not as a spokesperson, but as a job applicant.

Things are looking bleak for the GOP establishment's favorite choice at the moment, but precedent strongly suggests that they will not give up easily.

A word on how Christians can best effect their desires through politics, and why it's best for a Christian not to vote for Trump.

Today's GOP ignores minorities at its own peril, as Governor Reagan could have attested.

British officials are now taking action against the lunatic anti-Semites in their midst.

The immigration crises both here and in Europe have underscored growing anger at the arrogance and incompetence of unelected bureaucrats and their rules.

Susan Sarandon turns against Hillary on behalf of the real socialist. 

Now is a good time for Trump supporters to use recently revealed information to revisit their original conclusion about him and to realize, with no shame attached, that he’s not the candidate they thought he was.

The most striking thing about the field of GOP candidates is the extent to which they agree on policy issues.

How to combat the left's narrative on student debt and at the same time wrest some power from Big Academia.

It looks as though a highly meritorious wiretapping suit against the government will be dragged out by government lawyers until the plaintiffs' lawyers run out of money.

While tax policy can be complex, detailed, and boring, some accurate and interesting elements can shed light on the 2016 campaign. 

The pro-gun control organization is playing extremely fast and loose with the rules regarding tax-exempt organizations endorsing candidates for public office.

The dispute over the Spratly Islands and the greater South China Sea has the potential to escalate into a regional conflict between any number of nations.

On the 83rd anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, it's worth considering exactly how many things we want government to keep us from doing.

Trump’s comments that President George W. Bush deliberately sent Americans to their deaths based on a lie and knew 9/11 was coming and did nothing fits Code Pink’s alternate universe.

It is time to redraw the lines in the Middle East to ameliorate violence and promote democracy and human rights.  

The recent flood of books and commentaries about the Vichy regime and the occupation of France by Nazi Germany during World War II raise uncomfortable questions, as well as honoring heroes.

If anything at all has changed, it has changed only for the worse.

It's a problem throughout Europe, and it's going to destroy the continent.

Our Second Amendment rights are indeed one SCOTUS pick away from disappearing. 

The rules need to be applied fairly and equally to both sides, but they never are.

People support leaders who tell them what they want to hear. But what people hear and want to hear is not always what they need to hear.

Donald Trump’s spontaneous speech has a more optimistic and politically effective explanatory style than Hillary Clinton’s. 

Perhaps Trump needs to look closer at whom he has called friends over the years before he accuses a political rival of having none. 

There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says public servants are entitled to immunity from the Fourteenth Amendment.  

Donald Trump, take note.

If Kasich or Bush is unacceptable because both would compromise with liberals, wouldn't it stand to reason that Trump is more unacceptable since he is one?

The Donald's "blame Bush" approach in the last debate offers some insight.

We've been down this road before.  Do we really want to travel it again?

It has been agonizing to watch this spiraling descent into hell in which many good, innocent people, as well as some very venal actors, have been caught up. 

Israel is constructing new homes in Judea and Samaria, and that is worth a good ‘ole anti-Israel NY Times op-ed.

Appalling as Russian actions are, they do not in themselves constitute a threat to Western Europe let alone the U.S.

Let's take a trip to an alternate reality where socialism works!

So long as the votes of the rational electorate are scattered among several alternative candidates, Trump’s advantage will remain overwhelming.

Hillary should have been the anointed one to transfigure the nation from a land of rugged individuals to bands of dependent communitarians.

Trump and Democratic strategists: a marriage made in... well, somewhere.

Why should the Constitution favor religious belief over unbelief -- atheism? History provides an answer. 

The United States is justifiably proud of its technological prowess. But is this an artifact of a fast-evaporating past?

Whatever advantages Russia extracts from an entente, the U.S. must seek to extract more and better.

To my ruling class friends: this nation is at the point of no return to the country of freedom and opportunity that allowed you to be where you are.  The folks in fly-over country know it and so should you.

A government cannot be stable if one man’s fancies and fortunes can have such a great impact on it and the wider society. 

Hillary Clinton may indeed make political history, but not because of her gender. 

 History demonstrates that once caudillos come to power, their most likely successors are other caudillos. 

When you think about it, the untimely death of the great jurist has a huge silver lining.

President Obama has a pen, but Donald Trump has a highlighter, and it’s been drawing attention to things the establishment, Democrat-media complex, and even some conservatives would have preferred to remain out of the spotlight.

Children often first become aware of politics through their parents and teachers talking about political events. 

Is a cheap shot at lowly Jeb Bush worth the worst kind of leftist revisionist history that will no doubt harm the Republican nominee in the fall?

There is no justification for taking away from the next president the prerogative that will follow the pending election.

The importance of Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away this past weekend, is based not just in what he said in his Supreme Court opinions, but how he said it.

"The last thing I want is a president wearing a fish on his back!"  God help us, folks.

The civilizational war between Islam and the West has replaced the Cold War, and Russia and the US are now natural allies.

About three-quarters of the way into the debate Saturday night, moderator John Dickerson threw Ben Carson a hanging curveball, but the bat never left Carson’s shoulder.

If the GOP wants to win, it should learn how not to lose.

The Founding Fathers laid the framework for the characteristics most respected in a president, shaping America’s values and beliefs. 

Without some fundamental changes we will remain serfs under the power of unelected officials and bureaucrats.

Congress has the power here.  If Republicans don't use it, then the party should be finished.

The main story for the night was anger and passion.  Does this help or hurt the GOP's prospects in November?

How will Bernie fund the exorbitant pensions of public educators if not by shaking down the nation's students?

Hamas is digging twice as many tunnels as were dug in Vietnam for use against Israel.

For how much longer will the U.N. twiddle its thumbs in the face of Iran's defiant human rights violations?

The New Jersey governor's exit from the Republican primaries is still fresh, but his fate was sealed the moment The Donald stepped into the spotlight.

Western leaders think Islam can be used for their own ends; they are dangerously wrong

Where have Obama's policies failed?  You might as well put on a blindfold and throw a dart at a map of the world.

Here we are today, rolled flat by the wheels of the federal Juggernaut with nary a peep of protest by our local, state and federal representatives or executives.

The problem of our economic systems remains the honesty of those in charge of it. Switching from "dishonest bankers" to "algorithm geeks" will not get rid of the problem.

Western powers downplay the influence of this evil organization at their (and our) peril.

Let's look at his actions so far.  Forget his words.

This is one more "exoticism" we in the West are told we have to put up with.

CBS Entertainment has announced plans to remake the classic television series Nancy Drew.  White women need not apply. 

ExxonMobil just published a report that must be giving the Obama administration vertigo.
 

The most significant undeclared war of our time -- a war with Islam -- began November 4, 1979, the day Iran took US citizens hostage in Tehran. While 9/11 was the worst single event by far, it wasn’t the beginning.

How to deal with the unending flow of refugees?  It has become an international problem. 

Our problem is that we have become accustomed to a state that provides goods and service that it should not be providing. 

When the seats at the GOP's final table are down to five, predicting a winner involves more than looking at who starts off with the most chips. 

Presidential candidates should pay attention.

Perception is reality -- and this was never truer than in the New Hampshire primary.   

A superficial attack on Donald Trump in the Washington Post chose the wrong movie.

Socialists reject the idea that the government serves the people and embrace the idea that the government rules the people. 

The Texas senator promulgated legal theories at the FTC that continue to help liberty flourish for entrepreneurs throughout the United States.
 

If America elects a decent president this November, one of his/her first orders of business come 2017 will be urging Congress to balance the budget as soon as possible. 

And yes, that includes Trump.

All modern feminism is shtick.  Its proponents only pretend to take it seriously.

Democrats redistribute the incomes of the middle class and poor to themselves and their millions of public sector union members in education and government. 

Have you ever wondered why seasoned engineers are almost invariably politically conservative? 

A case study from Christie, Bush, Rubio, and the rest of the gang on missing the point.

Last week Buzzfeed broke a story leaking several private emails sent among members of a University of Chicago fraternity, calling the culture “toxic.”

Due to the deceptive measures and fraud that characterizes the regime ruling Iran, the February 26 elections will most likely result in the hardliners winning a more powerful position. 

If Sanders stops being so scrupulous, voters for both Hillary and Sanders himself may stay home in November.

Democrats hide their evil socialist/progressive intended transformation of America beneath a shroud of faux compassion. 

Considering how little the Supreme Court has been mentioned in election debates, a space alien might conclude that it’s the “least dangerous” branch of government.

Assad and the Kremlin are not a suitable allies against ISIS. 

The nation-state plus capitalism, plus imperialism, plus bankers, plus CEOs is the most powerful thing ever. But power is power, and it needs to be limited. 

While recognizing the moral problem involved, the countries of Europe are confronted with the pragmatic problem of responding to millions of unassimilable and possibly dangerous people.

Can Russ Ramsland dethrone the heavyweight, deep-pocketed Republican Pete Sessions? 

The very real possibility that Clinton has now enmeshed the President into her scandalous intrigues, with serious constitutional implications. 

Nearly 70% of those between the ages of 18 and 29 in the country claim they would vote for a socialist. Time is running out to save this country.

Cash is probably the last arena of personal autonomy left. It can be spent anyway one pleases, with no one watching. It can be hidden from the government to avoid taxes. It has power that the government cannot control; and that is why it has to go.

The key issue dividing liberals and conservatives is centralized power versus distributed power.

An enemy waging war on the United States would attack exactly the same strategic targets, in almost exactly the same order: first oil, then power plants and the rest of the electrical infrastructure. This has been the experience in most modern wars.

Maybe you've heard or read somewhere that all kinds of terrible disasters will happen if the (global mean surface) temperature rises just 2⁰C above the pre-industrial level. Have you ever wondered where the 2⁰C number comes from? 

The misconstruction of right-wing anger by conservative elites is becoming more of a stumbling block to saving the Republic than the open hatred of conservatism by the left.

The administration’s foreign and domestic policies render ourselves and our allies increasingly powerless to combat Islamic terrorism, and neither of the Democratic candidates is likely to alter that.

And it's been common knowledge in education circles for decades.

Dear America, from your neighbor to the north: don't do what we did!

What is it that's got millennial voters so enamored of Bernie Sanders?

Though progressives like the word, logic isn’t a high priority in liberal circles.

We have our deal with Iran, and it guarantees that there will be a war.  The only question is whether this will be a conventional weapons war before Iran can field nuclear weapons; or a nuclear war after it has successfully done so.

No one can doubt the good intentions of Foreign Minister Fabius or the French, but the realities of the the Palestinians make the plan unlikely to succeed.

Why would Gallup give such bland titles to its surveys – titles that say nothing of the remarkable fact of conservative domination?

We need to see that it is not only the system, but we ourselves who are broken -- morally, politically and economically. 

The West should try to some extent to help those refugees who are in distress or who are being persecuted but not those people who are not really in need.  

Fewer police stops means more violent crime, including a near doubling of the murder rate.  At least that seems to be the case in Chicago.

For all of Professor Timothy Snyder's academic acumen and language skills, he could not be more wrong in his conclusions about Hitler and German ecological anti-Semitism.

The Fed's inflation tax that punishes prudence and thrift creates a culture that discourages personal responsibility and stifles economic growth.  

One individual with establishment experience and credentials adheres to principle, speaks straight talk and does not mince words or make idle promises, and still has a track record of working well with others on both sides of the aisle

The contrived furor over the Cruz Campaign tweet relaying a CNN Breaking News alert about Ben Carson is perhaps the intellectually unserious low point in all of Republican primary history.

We certainly could, but would it be wise to destroy the foremost threat to Obama’s anointed hegemon, Iran, spilling more American blood and expending more of our borrowed treasure in the process?

The basic premise that most skeptics concede gives away the game.

Very soon, what voters once saw Trump as a refreshing voice of candor and independence might start viewing him as an entitled rich kid who’s used to getting his own way.

For the champions of climate catastrophe, selective “unique” events like the recent blizzard translate into “extreme weather” surely brought on by manmade climate change.

The election boards of two states, New Hampshire and Illinois, have now ruled, in response to complaints, that Sen. Ted Cruz is indeed, under the laws and Constitution of the United States, a “natural born citizen”. 

The US and others, while suggesting they are strong supporters of Israel and its need for security, in reality are not promoting peace. Their policies are actually sustaining and rewarding terror.

We need a candidate who will end the tyranny in D.C., and Trump has told us who that is.  (Hint: It's not Trump.)

The U.S. is facing a disaster involving public union pension funds far greater than the housing bubble of 2008. 

Given the evident antipathy of large slices of the populace for “the rich” and the declining popularity of capitalism, it is perhaps not surprising that socialism is on the march.

The big winner in Iowa’s Republican caucuses on Monday night might not have been Ted Cruz.  It may have been the prosepct of a deadlocked GOP Convention in Cleveland.

All of the leading GOP contenders for president are in danger of being called flip-floppers. It doesn’t have to be that way.

The main problem with lobbying is that most people have no idea what it is.  And pretty much everyone who's into politics does it.

How much should Republican presidential candidates talk about their faith?  It's a question that could destroy the party.

The Founding Father and second president 227 years ago predicted, with eerie precision, the why and how of Bernie Sanders and his acolytes. 

The disconnect between the military and our political classes and the general populace has perhaps never been greater.  

The kind of ham-fisted approach that some of our candidates want to take to limit what they define as special interests may do more harm than good.

The imperfect, DC GOP Establishment has the most difficult job in politics. 

Taxes that discourage saving and investment slow capital accumulation and thus adversely affect long run growth potential. 

Decoding the PC speech code.

A number of hopeful, emerging trends exist in the universities that promise to create new opportunities for students while fostering a healthier campus intellectual climate:

...as opposed to liberals, who want a president who will do them favors. 

The main objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected; it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. 

One of the most dangerous effects of Donald Trump's presidential campaign is the venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters

Today we can see Europe’s boastful old narcissism again. It is a troubling and ominous sight.

Polar opposites or brothers from other mothers? Both attract large enthusiastic crowds. Neither has much of a following among the media, party hacks, feminists, special pleaders, Islamists, cold warriors, moneyed interests, the legal profession, or race hustlers.

Trump Nation is tired of failed transactions leaving only humiliation, disrespect, hardship, and despair. Trump Nation wants a transaction president.

An unlikely alliance may be forming among the three nations.

Everyone's been buzzing about Hillary's scandalous emails.  It's time to ask who was on the receiving end.

Democrats will have a field day should Trump win the primary or run as a third-party candidate. No doubt they are salivating now.

Donald Trump changes positions on issues more often than he changes underwear.  He is not a principled conservative, not even close. None of this matters to those of us supporting Trump. 

A football analogy pitting the Conservative Patriots against the Establishment Snakes.  You're the coach.  Which QB takes you to the Super Bowl?

It's turning out to be a losing strategy.

Everyone claims to be running on our behalf against the Establishment.  What if some candidate actually did that?

How the weakness (or absence) of scientific support behind climate alarmism became its political strength.