Capitalists are the Worst Salesmen for Capitalism
Kimberly Strassel has a characteristically great column this morning about how craven business executives are when it comes to defending free markets from the likes of Bernie Sanders. It reminded me of...
View ArticleGermany Must Choose Between Free Speech and a Foreign Ministry That Acts as...
The Post reports:German Chancellor Angela Merkel has cleared the way for the prosecution of German comedian Jan Böhmermann, whose poem mocking Turkey’s president has become the centerpiece of a clash...
View ArticleIf You’re Explaining, You Los- Eh, No, Wait, You’re Doing Your Job.
I’ve always disliked the oft-cited political axiom, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing.” It may generally be true, or be better rephrased that voters are more receptive to simple explanations than...
View ArticleProsecuting a Comedian: Merkel’s Mini-Munich
So the investigation into German comedian Jan Böhmermann, for “offending” Turkey’s thuggish president has gone to the next stage. As Charlie notes (with appropriate disgust), Chancellor Merkel has...
View ArticleMajorities Should Decide the Republican Nomination
Donald Trump’s central complaint about how Republicans choose a presidential nominee isn’t that Colorado picked the wrong method of selecting delegates. It’s that the requirement that a candidate get a...
View ArticleThe Three Parts of the Republican Race
The Republican nomination race has three more stages to go, and each of the three candidates left in it is concentrating on a different one.First, the candidates have to win votes in the remaining...
View ArticleTen Things That Caught My Eye Today (April 15, 2016)
1. “All sin is irrational and self-destructive. If we don’t get that, we don’t know what sin is.”2. When your house winds up with 600 million IP addresses.3. Jonah’s latest.4. Crux on Christians in the...
View ArticleHow Many Americans Can Our 'Allies' Kill?
Earlier this week, I highlighted an excellent 60 Minutes report that reported on calls to release 28 pages redacted from the 9/11 report — pages that could provide details of a previously-undisclosed...
View ArticleBanking Chairman Shelby Tells McConnell He Won't Help Crony Ex-Im Bank Regain...
How many examples does it take for one’s action to tell us all we really need to know about one’s true beliefs? In this case, the question is how many times does Majority Leader McConnell needs to...
View ArticleBen Carson: 'During the Jim Crow Era, Those Were the Rules, Too'
There was a time when Republicans as a whole and conservatives in particular used to really object to willy-nilly comparisons of the controversy du jour to the Jim Crow Era.Apparently that time ended....
View ArticleHillary Clinton 'Smart Power' Update: ISIS on the Offensive in Libya
Hillary Clinton used to call the Libyan intervention “Smart power at its best.” Now Obama calls the failure to plan for the aftermath his greatest mistake. Well, here’s your smart power/greatest...
View ArticleCentralized Medicine Erodes Individualized Care
The socialized NHS is infamous for having doctors practice to the bureaucrats’ memos.It’s now happening here. Federal law requires hospitals to have patients fill out satisfaction surveys to determine...
View ArticleJordan and Tiger and Jack — Oh My!
Jordan Spieth is the greatest golfer of our day. Last Sunday, he had an epic meltdown at the Masters (where he was defending champion). Then he charged back bravely — but came up short.I discuss this...
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Vint Lawrence, R.I.P.
Vint Lawrence–the caricaturist who for many years was to The New Republic what Roman Genn right now is to National Review–has died. He was one of the greats. Here’s his rendition of WFB. Vint
View ArticleA New Gothenburg, A New Malmo, A New Stockholm, A New Sweden
Quartz:In relation to its size, Sweden has long accepted more refugees than any other European country. So when over a million migrants came to Europe last year, with even more on their way this year,...
View Article'Learning' The EU at School
The European Parliament has decided that the classroom could do with some new math, specifically this:2+2 = 5The Daily Mail:Children should be taught about the benefits of the European Union in schools...
View ArticleWatch: College Kids Can't Explain Why a Short White Man Isn't a Tall Asian Woman
From the Family Policy Institute of Washington comes this amusing video, where a conversation about gender-neutral bathrooms turns into something a bit more interesting:Watch as the students struggle...
View ArticleYes, Outlaw Organ Biological Colonialism!
Rich (often) westerners increasingly buy kidneys from the destitute in a trade I call biological colonialism, otherwise known as “organ tourism.”It is a terrible exploitation of the desperate by the...
View ArticleMonday links
T’was the eighteenth of April in seventy-five: The midnight ride of William Dawes and Samuel Prescott (and Paul Revere).A hotel safe can be opened using a neodynium magnet and a sock.The History of the...
View ArticleTrumpageddon
The other night, David Brock said some interesting things to a group of Democratic donors in California. Brock, as you know, is Hillary Clinton’s other Sid, so to speak. He said that his organization...
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