The Enforcer
At a Labor Day rally, Hillary Clinton said both that she was “proud” of President Obama’s new sick-leave mandate on federal contractors and that she would “go back to enforcing labor laws.” Which of...
View ArticleTrump: I ‘Always Felt That I Was in the Military’ Because of Boarding School
Yes, yes, comments section, NRO is full of Trump Derangement Syndrome, we’re all GOP Establishment wimps, we’re all in the tank for Jeb, yadda yadda yadda…Because only a Georgetown salon-attending...
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1) On the homepage today, I begin a series — two parts — on Dana Perino and her new book And the Good News Is …: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side. What a wonderful American. A wonderful person....
View ArticleCollege Daze
The way allegations on campus are treated may be bizarre, but it’s not nearly as bizarre as how the Obama administration wants them treated. Hans Bader explains:[I]n a recent investigation finding...
View ArticleFBI: Gun Sales Surged to Record Levels in August
President Obama, champion gun salesman:FBI data suggests gun sales in the U.S. shot up in August after a barrage of high-profile shootings led to renewed calls for stronger firearm laws.The FBI posted...
View ArticleSecond Report Shows Hillary Had 'Highly Classified Information' on Her Server
The New York Timesconfirms that a second intelligence-service review has found that Hillary Clinton had classified information on her home-brew server:WASHINGTON — A special intelligence review of two...
View ArticleHillary Has a Detailed Plan to Show More Spontaneity
Over at the New York Times, Amy Chozick writes about Hillary Clinton’s detailed plan to show more humor and heart in hopes of coming across as more spontaneous and authentic. I suspect that’s because...
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Kim Davis to Be Released From Prison
Per Judge David. L. Bunning, Kim Davis will be released from prison today. Davis has been ordered “not to interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue...
View ArticleThe Coming Purge
The American Political Science Association declares war on academic freedom. Paul Rahe of Ricochet (and my colleague at Hillsdale College) explains.
View ArticleSpeaker Boehner’s (More or Less) Peronist Guest
With the papal visit nearly upon us, The Federalist is running a timely piece by First Things’ Maureen Mullarkey about the man that Speaker Boehner has invited to address the Congress:The article is...
View ArticleLast Call: Be There When Conservatarian Big Cheese Returns to Wisconsin
Following a fantastic reception this Spring at an event in Madison, the National Review Institute’s Regional Partnership Events series is bringing Charles C.W. Cooke back to Wisconsin, this time to...
View ArticleA Planned Parenthood Shutdown?
Republican leaders are afraid that the government will shut down over Planned Parenthood funding. Too afraid, I argue at Bloomberg.
View ArticleThe Pentagon Throws the Book at Bowe Bergdahl
It looks like the Obama administration may have traded five high-ranking Taliban prisoners for someone who was worse than a deserter:Military prosecutors have reached into a section of military law...
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Chevron Case Update: Oh Canada
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled last week that a 17-billion-dollar lawsuit, filed by Ecuadorean litigants claiming oil giant Chevron (via its predecessor, Texaco) caused severe environmental damage by...
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Huge Surprise: Criminals Tend to Get Their Guns Illegally
Thanks to the good folks at Powerline, I came across this study that surveyed Cook County, Illinois, prisoners and asked where they obtained their firearms. The results are below:Note how few purchases...
View ArticleHow to Oppose Iran Deal -- a Response to Paul Mirengoff
My weekend column posited that Congress can still derail President Obama’s catastrophic Iran deal by simply following the unambiguous terms of the Corker law – the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of...
View ArticleCounter-Narratives From a Crisis
Writing in Spiked Online Brendan O’Neill tackles the preening—and worse than preening— of those in the European elite now so keen to show that they #WelcomeTheRefugees.An extract:It isn’t only virtue...
View ArticleStanding Up for Your Principles – in the ’Hood and in the White House
The new movie Dope is pretty funny. It’s about three non-gang-member, self-confessedly geeky black high-school kids who accidentally gain possession of a large drug cache and have to figure out a way...
View ArticleWarren Murphy, R.I.P.
The writer of novels and screenplays–and an all-too-rare force for conservatism in pop culture–has died.
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