An American Broadcaster
Last year, I had occasion to go to the Voice of America. It was an interesting experience. I met a number of people who work there — and they all had a story. Of course, everyone has a story. But these...
View ArticleSure, Sanders' Deductions Are Legal. But He Wishes They Weren't.
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:What We Can Learn From Bernie Sanders’ Tax ReturnQuite a few Bernie Sanders fans responded to this piece with the insistence, “he’s entitled to take all of those...
View ArticleKasich’s Poisonous Chill Pills
The Prince of Lightness strikes again.To supporters of a Mississippi law allowing business owners to withhold service that violates their conscience, John Kasich said Sunday on CNN,What I’d like to say...
View ArticleWhat's Got Peter King's Irish Up?
This morning Representative Peter King, New York Republican, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and declared, “I hate Ted Cruz. And I think I’ll take cyanide if he got the nomination.”Now, King is no...
View ArticleThe Three Martini Lunch Payoff!
Jim Geraghty, he of the must-read Morning Jolt (sign up for it and Jonah’s “G File” here), he of the acclaimed and inebriating Three Martini Lunch, has penned a terrific plea on behalf of NRO and why...
View ArticleEthics of Science Too Important to Leave to "The Scientists"
A recent study shows that scientists are viewed as “amoral” by most of society. From the analysis in Pacific Standard by Tom Jacobs:So it seems suspicion of scientists is closely related to people’s...
View ArticleWill John Kasich Catch Marco Rubio’s Vote Total?
Right now, Rubio, who suspended his campaign on March 15, has 3,484,238 votes so far. Kasich, who continued past Super Tuesday to compete in Arizona, Utah, Wisconsin as well as the caucus states, has...
View ArticleTrump’s Free-Speech Activist Base Falls Silent on the Donald's Threats...
A satirical portrait of Donald Trump that has been floating for week around the bowels of the social web (Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter) has finally caught the eye of Trump’s team — and they are not pleased....
View ArticleWhen Will Democrats Return Trump's Donations?
Hillary Clinton has turned up the rhetorical temperature on Donald Trump lately, albeit without a trace of irony as to her choice of venue:“Ugly currents that lurked just the below the surface of our...
View ArticleVIDEO: Joe Biden Forgets What Joe Biden Once Said about Election-Year SCOTUS...
Joe Biden's Merrick Garland Nomination Position Is Hypocritical (Video)
View ArticleWhy New York Will Be a Blowout for the Donald
Repeat after me: There is no such thing as momentum. Two weeks after Ted Cruz’s unexpectedly large victory in Wisconsin, New York Republicans look poised to deliver exactly the same blowout in favor of...
View ArticleTrump, Rush, and the Establishment
Rush said yesterday that the Republican establishment is preparing to vote for Hillary to protect its “fiefdoms” from Trump. This doesn’t make sense to me. Yes, a lot of people in the establishment...
View ArticleSoft Bigotry of Low Expectations Dep’t.
So apparently in his remarks on Tuesday night, Donald Trump referred to the third-place finisher as “Senator Cruz,” not, as he usually does, “Lyin’ Ted.” On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow was talking about this...
View ArticleTrump & Cruz Backers Come Together to Warn Against a "Parachute" Candidate
In what I think is the first example of this, a group of conservative activists that includes both Trump and Cruz supporters has sent an open letter to this week’s RNC conclave in Florida agreeing with...
View ArticleMyroslava (and the VOA), Cont.
On the homepage today, we have Part II of my series on MyroslavaGongadze— our woman on the Ukrainian desk at the Voice of America. She is a remarkable person, and a remarkable story. You will want to...
View ArticleThe Queen Stops Tyranny
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 90thbirthday tomorrow. Inspired by the occasion, Andrew Gimsonpenned an essay with the following interesting argument.The monarchy is one of the greatest, though least...
View ArticleU.S. Treasury Secretaries' Hypocritical Open Letter Urging Britain to Remain...
The Times of London carries a letter signed by no less than eight U.S. Treasury Secretaries from George Shultz to Timothy Geithner, advising the British to vote in their referendum on June 23 to remain...
View ArticleThe Road Ahead for Trump Might Be Almost as Friendly as New York
From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt:The Road Ahead for Trump Might Be Almost as Friendly as New YorkNo point in disputing it; Trump needed a big win in New York yesterday and he got it. Yes,...
View ArticleWell, That Was Brutal
New York was pretty much everything Henry Olsen said, and more. My favorite piece of data from the exit polls is that Trump won 51 percent of voters with a post-graduate degree. How Trumpian was the...
View ArticleHow Badly Divided Is the GOP?
This was notable from last night:…underscoring the party’s deep rifts, a remarkable 57 percent of [Trump’s] opponents’ backers said they wouldn’t support him as their party’s nominee in...
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