Twelve Things that Caught My Eye about Pope Francis's New Document on Love...
For search-engine optimization, I thought about titling this post: “What Pope Francis Has to Say to Kim Kardashian about Her Dad Caitlyn.” I didn’t, but I imagined had Pope Benedict XVI issued the...
View ArticleTed Cruz's Wise and Honest Praise for Mitch McConnell
This is probably just the right balance for Ted Cruz:Senior Republicans have been asking Cruz to apologize to [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell so they can unite behind his bid to defeat Donald...
View ArticleRegulating the Convention
Several of us Cornerites had posts yesterday about what the delegates should do if Trump comes to Cleveland with a plurality and Cruz is in second. I argued that the delegates should pick Cruz in that...
View ArticleDelegate "Betrayal"
An email:I am not a Trumpkin. I understand the difference between a plurality and a majority. But when people are talking about Trump delegates switching after the first ballot, isn’t that stealing the...
View ArticleA Reluctant Correction: House Intelligence Committee Says There Is No Formal...
In my April 7, 2015, National Review article, “The Enormous Fraud of the Iran Deal Is Catching Up with Obama,” I said that the House Intelligence Committee has opened an investigation into whether the...
View ArticleOne Indisputable Sign that the World Is Getting Better in Some Ways
The Obama presidency has brought us a world on fire, an $18 trillion debt, a sense of endless economic stagnation for millions of Americans, a major drop in the workforce participation rate, higher...
View ArticleBob Dole Urges Mike Pompeo to Stay Out of Kansas Republican Senate Primary
On Wednesday, former Kansas senator Bob Dole paid a call to Representative Mike Pompeo, who’s been dropping hints that he plans to challenge Senator Jerry Moran in August’s Republican primary.According...
View ArticleCorey Lewandowski, Bully
In case there was any doubt that Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is deserving of America’s opprobrium, reporter Patricia Murphy offers further evidence in her chronicle, up today at the Daily...
View ArticleHayes and Jay and Me
Need to Know is delighted to welcome the venerable Steve Hayes this week to talk about his home state, Wisconsin, and the state of things in the presidential race. Hayes and Jay are reassuring...
View ArticleAmerica: Worth Fighting For
I don’t know if they still do it, but politicians used to talk about “the American way of life.” This can seem nothing but a piece of rhetoric. Something to say on the Fourth of July. Too vague to be...
View ArticleScientist Attacks Human Exceptionalism
Science, properly understood, is a method of obtaining knowledge.But it isn’t as simple as that. The way it is approached often also reflects biases and ideology of the scientist. In other words,...
View ArticleHere's the Real 'Human Catastrophe of Mass Incarceration'
Progressives keep piling on Bill Clinton after he had the audacity to speak the truth to Black Lives Matter protesters. Writing in Slate, Michelle Goldberg says ”Fire Bill Clinton” and holds him at...
View ArticleColorado Is Illustrating Why a Contested Convention Favors Cruz
The delegate-selection process underway in Colorado today is an illustration of why a contested convention, if the Republican primary comes to that, favors Ted Cruz over Donald Trump. Colorado is one...
View ArticleBill Clinton Backs Down
Steve Hayward has details at Powerline. That didn’t take much … BillClintonBacksDown
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Middle East Forum’s Surprising Straw Poll on Trump
The Middle East Forum sent out a questionnaire under my name on April 5 to its mailing lists asking a single question: “How do you see Donald Trump as the Republican party’s presidential candidate?” We...
View Article‘New York Values’
A Republican primary is going on here in New York, and a Democratic one too — but I’m concerned with the Republican primary. Especially this business of “New York values.” In January, Ted Cruz knocked...
View ArticleMonday links
When Given Colored Construction Paper, Wasps Build Rainbow Colored Nests.Goat Rituals and Tree-Trunk Gravestones: The Peculiar History of Life Insurance. Related: How Maritime Insurance Built Ancient...
View ArticleA Priest, A Psychologist & Professors on The Joy of Love by Pope Francis
There’s been a lot of commentary and controversy over the document on love that released by Pope Francis on Friday morning. The fruit of a few years’ work – two synods and a process of pastoral inquiry...
View ArticleThe Trump Campaign Belatedly Realizes How Colorado Picks Its Delegates
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:The Trump Campaign Belatedly Realizes How Colorado Picks Its DelegatesThe headlines on Drudge this morning:SHOCK: Republicans cancel presidential election in...
View ArticleEd Snider Dies at 83
Ed Snider, a wildly successful entrepreneur and founder of the Philadelphia Flyers, has died of cancer.Snider was, among his many enthusiasms in life, an admirer of Ayn Rand’s and a founding patron of...
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