Army Chief of Staff and Marine Corps Commandant: Women Should Register for...
This morning, the New York Times had a short article covering the testimony of the Marine Corps commandant, General Robert B. Neller, and the chief of staff of the Army, General Mark A. Milley, before...
View ArticleThe Two Kinds of Presidential Primary Personality Cults
One of the unpleasant features of presidential primary campaign season is the personality cults that surround candidates. Anyone who has been involved in arguments about primaries in this or other...
View ArticleFourteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb 3, 2016)
1. It is right to describe as genocide the persecution of Christian religious minorities by Islamic State https://t.co/eviGNWC2Hs— Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (@JSaryuszWolski) February 3, 20162. From that...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Rubio May Sneak Ahead if Trump & Cruz Keep Sniping at...
Donald Trump insisting he won Iowa and accusing Cruz of cheating is showcasing Trump’s “psychological need” for attention and may inadvertently clear a path for Marco Rubio, Charles Krauthammer said...
View ArticleTrump's Terrific People
Forgive me for repeating a point that’s already been made by Rich and others, but I think it bears sustained consideration.Donald Trump’s professed strategy — for everything— is: I’ll find the best...
View Article‘That’s What They Offered:' Clinton Explains Why She Took $675,000 for Three...
Hillary Clinton said she took $675,000 for three speeches to powerful Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs because “that’s what they offered,” adding that she wasn’t really thinking about running for...
View ArticleThursday links
February 5th is World Nutella Day - here’s a canonical list of Nutella recipes.Some Super Bowl reading:Life magazine archive of photos from Super Bowl 1.An Animated Guide To American Football For...
View ArticleWhat to Watch For in New Hampshire Polling
From the Thursday Morning Jolt:What to Watch For in New Hampshire PollingIowa voted Monday; Tuesday would be the first full day of polling that has the Iowa results “priced in” to the respondents’...
View ArticleDebating Hillary Clinton's E-mails in the New York Times
I went a couple of rounds on Hillary Clinton’s classified emails with American University law prof Stephen Vladeck in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” feature. Basically, Steve and I did one post...
View ArticlePaul Ryan to Washingtonians: ‘Pray without Ceasing’
I’ve always had a little bit of mixed feelings about the National Prayer Breakfast, which this year was held this morning just a stone’s throw from the White House at the Washington Hilton. In a...
View ArticleMandatory Diversity Training and the Racist Injustice of Serena Williams's...
Let’s check in on the University of Missouri. Last semester, campus radicals pushed out the president largely because of a few alleged racial incidents that no sentient person believed he caused or...
View ArticleGender Commute Gap — Another Reason Why Men Earn More
Americans hear a lot about the wage gap, and how women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. Countlessstudies and commentaries have pointed out how misleading this statistic is. It doesn’t...
View Article‘Don’t Discount Donald Trump’
I obviously want Trump to go away as soon as possible, but I wrote in Politico today about how he could still have life in New Hampshire — a much less conservative and Republican electorate than Iowa...
View ArticleWe Wanted Workers, But We Got People Instead
Harvard’s George Borjas, “America’s leading immigration economist,” according to the Wall Street Journal, has started a new blog. The spark was his upcoming book, We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the...
View ArticleConversations with Bill Kristol
I talked about Trump and the state of the GOP race with Bill Kristol for his Conversations series the other day: Bill Kristol and Rich Lowry Talk Trump
View ArticleGun Sales Continue at an Extraordinary Pace
And to think that I suggested that Obama’s executive actions would have no tangible effect. Per Newsmax:More than 2.5 million gun background checks were performed in January, a record for the month,...
View ArticleDeRay for Mayor — or You're Racist!
As if that city hadn’t suffered enough. Via the Baltimore Sun:In a surprise move, civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson jumped into the already crowded contest for Baltimore mayor Wednesday night,...
View ArticleTrump 25, Cruz 21, Rubio 21
We live in a poll-obsessed time. We have a Republican presidential candidate who has vested more in his standing in the polls than any candidate in the history of the Republic, and a media that...
View ArticleThe Return of the 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy' Excuse
You would think, after going out and repeatedly lying to the American people and insisting that all of the allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” Hillary...
View Article‘The Boy in the Bubble’
Chris Christie has smacked Marco Rubio as “the boy in the bubble.” This makes sense as Christie’s campaign now faces an existential challenge in New Hampshire and Christie wants to portray Rubio as too...
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