Michael Walsh
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Democrats blaming Russia need to take a good look in the mirror
During the presidential debates, moderator Chris Wallace asked candidate Donald Trump a pointed question: Win or lose, will you accept the results of the November election? Trump’s answer: “I’ll keep...
Trump needs to make heads roll at the CIA and FBI
One of the thorniest questions facing the incoming Trump administration is what to do about America’s increasingly dysfunctional intelligence community, known collectively by its acronym, the IC. Made up of...
The secret forces that could lead to a Trump victory
Driving across the country last week, it seemed hard to believe an American presidential election is happening a week from Tuesday. Few campaign signs sprout from urban lawns; partisan billboards...
Leaked emails reveal Hillary Clinton's life of deceit
Among the many telling kernels of truth dappling the spoor of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s internal emails released by WikiLeaks this past week, this one immediately leaped out: “Politics is...
3 things Trump could learn from Nixon's 1968 campaign
Stop me if you’ve seen this movie before. On the Democratic side is a wounded, unloved establishment candidate tied to the outgoing administration and bearing the burden of a failed...
Five things Trump must do to win the election
To hear the media tell it, Donald Trump was finished last week. For calling a first-generation judge of Mexican heritage a “Mexican,” he had injected racism into the campaign. For...
How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M
"Follow the money.” That telling phrase, which has come to summarize the Watergate scandal, has been a part of the lexicon since 1976. It’s shorthand for political corruption: At what...
Donald Trump is going to troll his way to victory
In internet parlance, a troll is a malevolent mischief-maker, a commenter who says something politically incorrect, then sits back and enjoys the resulting furor — sometimes even fanning the flames...
How Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton
Absent an alien invasion, the zombie apocalypse or the sudden re-annexation of California by Mexico, Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate for president. It’s time to move on to...
Sorry, liberal media -- no one cares about Merrick Garland
Democratic candidates and the liberal media agree: the GOP’s insistence on waiting until the next president to fill Antonin Scalia’s vacancy on the Supreme Court is horrible — and will...
Obama: From Libya to partisanship, it's never, ever my fault
To hear Barack Obama tell it, his career trajectory from backbencher in the Illinois state legislature to president of the United States has gone flawlessly. It’s everyone else who’s let...
Cruz's plan to 'slipstream' Trump to nomination
Heading into tomorrow’s Iowa caucuses, there’s no great mystery why Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are leading the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls: Both men know that in order for...
The myth of the killer-cop 'epidemic'
To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent...
Elites and media really hate Donald Trump's voters
To hear the patronizing wise men of the Republican Party tell it, anyone who would vote for Donald Trump for president must be deranged. “Trumpkins,” they call them, mental midgets...
Hillary Clinton's million little lies
To hear Hillary Clinton tell it, she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest — even though she was already 6 years old when he made...
The plot against Donald Trump
Back in the days of Richard Nixon and Watergate, Donald Segretti had a word for it. Unfortunately, I can’t use that word in a family newspaper, but suffice it to...
'Welcome to the United States of paranoia'
Feel like Big Brother is watching you these days? You’re not alone. “This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario,” wrote the late William Safire of The New York Times in...