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Betsy McCaughey: Young voters falling for Socialist myths

Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it — a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories. On Monday, one of the far left's agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal ...

Cal Thomas: Will this be the unhappy American birthday?

In one month, the United States will observe its 250th birthday. It is shaping up more like a memorial service for a lost loved one than a party to celebrate something special. Rather than anticipating a happy occasion, America at 250 is increasingly characterized by anger, name- calling and ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Gitmo and torture revisited

America's longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of ...

Keith Raffel: Yellow dogs and red lines

"Yellow dog" voters are back big-time. Who? In the run-up to the 1892 presidential election, journalist C. H. J. Taylor used the term to refer to western Republicans who, he wrote in The American Citizen, "would vote for a yellow dog out there if he was named Republican." In a 1956 voter ...

Cal Thomas: Politics and failure

Politics is the only profession of which I am aware in which competence doesn't seem to matter. One can fail miserably; one can be corrupt and one can get away with crimes that if committed by someone outside of elective office, arrest, prosecution and a stint in jail would be the result. Yet ...