Norwegian Mass Murderer Anders Breivik: Norway Violated My 'Human Rights' by...
The latest step taken by Anders Behring Breivik is an extraordinary comment on the modern world, completely unimaginable except that it is happening. Breivik is the man who in 2011 shot and killed 77...
View ArticleWhy Obama Refuses Contraception Compromise
The Supreme Court recently gave the parties in Zubik v. Burwell–the contraception case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor–an opportunity to further brief the case in order to find a compromise...
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Pro-Choice Group Features Broken Baby Cookies to Support Abortion
Pro-choicers go to great lengths not to use the term “babies” when it comes to unborn children. Which is what makes it ironic that a University of North Georgia pro-abortion group decide to feature...
View ArticleHarriet Tubman Is a Great Choice, Not a Politically Correct One
If you look at Harriet Tubman and all you see is, “African-American woman,” well then, you’re a historically-ignorant idiot.Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, announcing the decision to put Tubman on the...
View ArticleIf You Can Get 60 Percent There, You Can Get 60 Percent Anywhere?
I’m with Jeremy Carl on the over-reading of the New York result. I wrote about it today in Politico, as well as the new and improved Trump:The past couple of weeks have supposedly been the debut of the...
View ArticleTrump: North Carolina Should Back Down to the Mob
Here. Donald Trump: North Carolina Should Back Down
View ArticleThank You Jack Lew
Boy do I wish I could have written this sentence more often, but here goes: Thank you Jack Lew. You seem to have taken my advice offered in 2015. I’m sure it was my column, and not the hit Broadway...
View ArticleHow Will Senate Democrats Feel in 2017?
Enough speculation about Cleveland in July. Let’s speculate about Washington, D.C., in 2017 instead.David Frum tries to think through how a President Hillary Clinton and a Democratic Senate would...
View ArticleClinton Aides Huma Abedin, Jake Sullivan to Headline Scandal Fundraiser
Top Hillary Clinton aides Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan, who are themselves embroiled in the ongoing Clinton e-mail scandal, will headline an event with the cast of the hit television show Scandal in...
View ArticleKasich vs. Rubio
And now back to convention speculation.Jennifer Rubin writes about just how far-fetched Kasich’s nomination is. Let’s say that neither Trump nor Cruz can get a majority of delegates, and that the...
View ArticleTrump, Entitlements, and the Republican Future
Does Donald Trump’s success mean that Republicans should abandon entitlement reform? No, I argue at Bloomberg View.The real-world alternative to changes that rein in the growth of spending on old-age...
View ArticleESPN’s ‘Inclusivity,’ Ironic and Illogical
In a terse, two-sentence statement, ESPN yesterday announced that it fired Curt Schilling because it’s “inclusive,” an ironic word choice if the intended meaning was that the sports network had a...
View ArticleNo Changes Come from RNC Rules Committee Meeting
Hollywood, Fla. —“This is not the time to be debating rule changes to our rules,” Utah Republican committeewoman Enid Mickelsen told the assembled members of the RNC’s Standing Committee on Rules...
View ArticleHarriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Problematic Now, Too
Not to be appeased, some progressives are upset about Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision to honor a once-enslaved black woman on the $20 bill.Victoria M. Massie at Vox believes replacing Andrew...
View ArticleTrump: Platform Language on Abortion Should Change
On NBC today, Savannah Guthrie asked Trump whether the Republican platform’s discussion of abortion should be modified. “The Republican platform every four years has a provision that states that the...
View ArticleFriday links
Happy Earth Day! Here’s the co-founder who killed then composted his girlfriend.The Origins of 12 Horse-Related Sayings.Could a bird deliver a standard 20″ New York-style cheese pizza in a box? And if...
View ArticlePrince, R.I.P.
I am heartened by the attention being given to Prince upon his untimely passing. I was 13 when Elvis died and it was not treated as a big deal on this level. (Of course, that was not an age of 24/7...
View ArticleChicago Teacher’s Union Chief: Our GOP Governor Is Just Like ISIS!
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:Chicago Teacher’s Union Chief: Our GOP Governor Is Just Like ISIS!In a better world, comparing those who disagree with you to ISIS terrorists would get you...
View ArticleMore Webathon Love
Do you hang around these parts . . . a lot? If you do, if you binge at the NRO all-you-can-gobble bar, think about making a donation (admit it: it’s time you did) so we can keep the grub coming. You...
View ArticleBarack Against Brexit
Barack Obama is currently over in the UK, and he is taking time to urge Brits to vote to remain in the EU (you can see the article he has written in the Daily Telegraphhere). A good number of...
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