Beating Up Berta
Expected news: The Ladies in White have been beaten very badly. They are the human-rights advocates in Cuba, who are attacked by state-security agents when they do things such as try to attend mass....
View ArticleNot Even Record Turnout Can Dispel the Whiny ‘Voterless Elections’ Spin
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:Not Even Record Turnout Can Dispel the Whiny ‘Voterless Elections’ Spin“Voterless elections” is the new favorite rallying cry of the Trump campaign, repeated by...
View ArticleTwilight of the Climate Change Movement
Don’t be fooled by the post-Paris fanfare. The climate change movement faces major trouble ahead:Its principal propositions contain two major fallacies that can only become more glaring with time....
View ArticleThe Depps Confess Their Crimes
Johnny Depp and his wife smuggled their dogs into Australia, which is verbotten. They were caught and forced to make this public apology.I say: Well played! The Australians are entirely correct to be...
View ArticleSenator Gillibrand's Relentless Flip-Flopping
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is a piece of work. In an interview with Politico, the Hillary Clinton–backing Democrat claims that Bernie Sanders isn’t sensitive to families who have seen a...
View ArticleVIDEO: George Clooney Thinks the Amount of Money George Clooney Puts into...
Actor/director George Clooney held a couple of high priced fundraisers for Hillary Clinton while simultaneously lamenting the amount of money in politics today. George Clooney & 'Money in...
View ArticleRe: Not Even Record Turnout...
That Trump is losing so badly in the delegate-selection game raises the question: Who is going to be in Cleveland to do all the rioting? Donald Trump — ‘Voterless Elections’ Whining
View ArticleUncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: Charles Koch
Charles Koch discusses his life’s journey, from engaging in manual labor as a youth to attending MIT and working as a consultant. Having learned the principles of classical liberalism through his...
View ArticleThe Christian-Oppressor Narrative of Islamic History Is Tired and Wrong
Here’s my question — are intelligent liberals actually ignorant of Islamic history or do they actively attempt to whitewash its extraordinarily long record of military aggression? Over the weekend I...
View ArticleLove Across Party Lines, and Other Topics
I will be interviewing Jeanne Safer, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst and my wife, about her latest — The Golden Condom and Other Essays on Love Lost and Found (Picador). We will discuss obsession, betrayal,...
View ArticleDefending the Rules
One line of defense against the Trump “rigged” charge is just to say that the rules are the rules. Jay Cost over at The Weekly Standardgets to a deeper point about why the rules make sense:The...
View ArticleSanders Supporters Want a Socialism without High Taxes
A Vox poll asked Bernie Sanders supporters how much they’d be willing to shell out to fund his college and nearly universal health-care proposals.From IJ Review:The study found that more than half of...
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Contrary to White House Claim, Compensation Has Been in Line with Productivity
The White House has been among those touting the “productivity-pay gap“ claim i.e., that workers’ productivity rose at a high rate over the last four decades but real earnings growth failed to keep...
View ArticleTed Cruz's Work on the Dildo Case Was Admirable, Not Creepy
This isn’t a sentence I ever expected to write, but here goes nonetheless: Ted Cruz was entirely justified in taking the position he did on the constitutionality of Texas’s anti-dildo law, and those...
View ArticleSCOTUS Hears Arguments in Executive Amnesty Case
I left today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the Texas lawsuit against Obama’s lawless 2014 amnesty decree more firmly of the opinion that the court will split 4-4, thus upholding the injunction...
View ArticleWhere Are Donald Trump’s Tax Returns?
Today is Tax Day — that damnable scar on the American calendar.Nothing good can come from Tax Day. But the marker does bring up an interesting question for one Donald J. Trump, organizational...
View ArticleA Curious Analysis of the 'Executive Amnesty' Oral Arguments
I’ve been reading with interest the various news reports detailing the oral arguments in U.S. v. Texas, better known as the case challenging Obama’s so-called executive amnesty (you can read my...
View ArticleGOP Primary Rolls Slowly Into Maryland
Towson, Md. — “God bless the great state of Maryland,” Ted Cruz said as he took the stage in an airy, well-lit American Legion Hall Monday afternoon.It’s not a phrase Marylanders have likely heard a...
View Article#NeverCoup: Why this Week’s RNC Rules Committee Meeting May Determine the GOP...
There’s a lot at stake at the RNC’s rules committee meeting this week during the party’s spring retreat in Florida—and a lot of misinformation out there as well. Most of it revolves around a proposal...
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