Author: Dick Morris

President Obama says he wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. But what he really wants is to avoid spending cuts. By blaming the Republicans for refusing to increase revenues from the rich (who are also the nation’s leading employers), he can avoid having a fight over the size of government spending, a battle he […]

The Bengazi mystery boils down to one key question: On what basis did Hillary, Susan Rice and the president camouflage the terrorist attack on our consulate as an over-reaction to a film about Muhammed? The blue ribbon commission charged with investigating the attack not only has provided no answer to this question, it perpetuated a […]

Everyone in Washington, D.C. knows two things: 1. President Obama will try to wriggle out of any spending cuts enumerated in the fiscal cliff deal. We all know from experience that whenever there is a one-to-one ratio between spending cuts and revenue increases the ratio falls apart in reality. The tax increases slow the economy, […]

Thankfully, the United Nations negotiations on Internet regulation collapsed yesterday in Dubai when the U.S. and Canada announced they would refuse to support or sign any treaty that gave the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) the power to regulate the Internet. They specifically rejected the efforts of Vladimir Putin’s Russia to control the Internet through […]

President Obama’s popularity and his party’s political fortunes may not survive the fruits of his recent victory. If he cows the Republicans into giving him a tax increase on the upper brackets, he will lose the fig leaf he uses to disguise his true intentions. Until now, taxing the rich has been his answer to […]

Now that all the data is in, the fundamental reason for Mitt Romney’s defeat is apparent, if largely unreported. It is not just that blacks, Latinos and single women showed up in record numbers at the polls. It’s that whites didn’t. The final numbers suggest that 91.6 million votes were cast by whites — seven […]

As we warned in our new book, “Here Come the Black Helicopters: U.N. Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom,” globalists have decided to tax the American people to funnel money to the third world. As predicted, France passed the world’s first Robin Hood Tax — a levy of two-tenths of one percent on all […]

ABC News reports that the House Republicans have a doomsday plan in mind should the fiscal cliff talks fail to reach an agreement: Total surrender! The concept is for the House to give President Obama the middle class tax cut extension he is seeking without any extension of the upper income tax cuts and to […]

One down, three to go. This afternoon the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed U.N. treaty on disabilities. All but a handful of Republicans joined in killing the treaty. Senator James Inhofe, R-Okla., the leader of the opposition, said the treaty would create an “unelected bureaucratic body [which] would pass recommendations that would be forced upon […]

Until now, the work of the U.N. negotiators pondering how to regulate the Internet has been shrouded in secrecy. But as 1,950 delegates from 193 countries gather this week in Dubai to consider 900 proposals to regulate the Internet, their game is becoming clear. The Russian-educated head of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the U.N. […]

The recent vote of the UN General Assembly to admit Palestine as a nation with observer status at the UN reveals how undemocratic and corrupt the General Assembly has become. Dominated by tiny nations, which represent nobody, it is a body without any legitimacy. Start with the Lilliputians that run the organization. A voting majority […]

The front end of the financial deal now under negotiation in Washington is akin to the tip of the tax iceberg. It won’t appear threatening. But it’s what under the water that will really matter. On the front end, the negotiators will likely craft a package of revenue increases carefully constructed to avoid the appearance […]

Next week, the United Nations’ attempt to take over the Internet will kick into high gear when the International Telecommunications Union meets in Dubai with representatives from 193 countries to craft a new governing structure for the Internet. The meetings are expected to last two weeks. If you haven’t heard about this issue, there’s a […]

Cut it out! Pick your chin up! We lost a battle, not the war! Here’s how to look at it: We are right and President Obama is wrong. The issues at play here are not subjective with fuzzy answers, each a little right and a little wrong. They are objective. Either Obama’s approach to the […]

States have until Dec.12 of this year to decide if they will set up the insurance exchanges mandated by the Obamacare law. These exchanges will be the marketplace where health insurance is to be sold under the so-called Affordable Care Act. But, each state has the right to decide for itself if it wants to […]

As the popular vote counts emerge and we move out from under the shadow of the media spin, we are learning the real reason Mitt Romney lost. The mainstream media is pushing the story that a massive turnout among minorities and the young drowned the white male vote as America changes its demography. But the […]

Democrats want illegal immigrants to vote — because they are likely to be supporters — but not to work — because of union sensibilities. Republicans, on the other hand, want them to work — in agribusinesses and the like often owned by their fellow partisans — but not to vote. So the key to a […]

Asked what could effect a change in his governing plans, incoming British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan said “events, dear boy, events.” Events are what will save the Republican Party. Start with a fundamental question: Are President Obama’s policies right or wrong? If you think they are correct, stop reading this column right now. Events will […]

The months and months of campaigning, the hundreds of millions of TV advertising, the incessant travel schedules of the candidates and the vigorous efforts of both sides to get their vote out, made little to no difference in the outcome of the election of 2012. To begin with, only two states — North Carolina and […]

While I was wrong in predicting a Mitt Romney win, I was, unfortunately, correct in saying that President Obama would move to sign a U.N. Arms Control Treaty right after the election whether he won or lost. On the very day after the election, the Obama administration voted to reopen talks on the treaty at […]

I’ve got egg on my face. I predicted a Mitt Romney landslide and, instead, we ended up with a President Obama squeaker. The key reason for my bum prediction is that I mistakenly believed that the 2008 surge in black, Latino and young voter turnout would recede in 2012 to “normal” levels. Didn’t happen. These […]

Yup. That’s right. A landslide for Mitt Romney approaching the magnitude of President Obama’s against John McCain. That’s my prediction. On Sunday, we changed our clocks. On Tuesday, we’ll change our president. Romney will win the states McCain carried in 2008, with the addition of Florida, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, […]

Natural disasters usually follow the same political trajectory: First the incumbent experiences a bounce as he tours the impacted area, shows his concern and pledges help to his beleaguered constituents. Then reality sets in and the shortages, delays, mishaps, deaths and devastation become apparent. People turn against the incumbent. George W. Bush had his Katrina. […]

As Election Day approaches, we must be very sensitive to last minute changes in the polls. Remember, George W. Bush fell from a 4-point lead into a tie over the last weekend in 2000, and Bill Clinton rose from a tie to a 5-point win in the last weekend of 1992. With that caution in […]

Whether deliberately or not, The New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac Poll is wrong! It shows President Obama carrying Ohio, Florida and Virginia. In reality, Mitt Romney is leading in all three states and will carry them all. Here’s the deal. The Times is weighting the raw survey data to reflect the ratio of Democrats to Republicans who […]

Voters have figured out that President Obama has no message, no agenda and not even much of an explanation for what he has done over the past four years. His campaign is entirely based on persuading people that Mitt Romney is a uniquely bad man, entirely dedicated to the rich and ignorant of the problems […]

Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, was cruising along with a five point lead over his Democratic opponent, Congressman Joe Donnelly, when he opined during a debate that when a rape happened “it was what God intended.” His foray into theology almost cost him the election — and the Republicans yet another […]

As the Mitt Romney wave sweeps through the country and gathers momentum, both inside and outside the swing states, a number of new Senate contests are opening new opportunities for Republican takeaways. In each of these races, the polling indicates that a Republican victory is possible where once it was unthinkable. The foremost of these […]

There were at least four separate debates going on Monday night when the candidates met for the last of their presidential matchups. The foreign policy debate: This was the contest that was advertised. It largely featured agreement between the candidates. If anyone had hoped that a Mitt Romney presidency would represent a sharp break with […]

As incredible as it sounds, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — an arm of the United Nations — is sending more than 44 election monitors to observe the U.S. election and report on voter suppression activities at the polls. The OSCE observers will come from Europe and Central Asia and will […]