My Favorite News Item of the Day
John Kasich is beginning to vet his potential running mates. There have been delusional presidential campaigns before, but usually they flame out quickly — Kasich is delusional for the long haul. John...
View ArticleObama Threatens Britain (and the U.S.)
If the British leave the European Union, President Obama said, the U.S. will be in no hurry to conclude a trade deal with them. They’ll be in “the back of the queue” since the U.S. will have a stronger...
View ArticleRights Talk, Hillary Clinton-Style
David Harsanyi notes a comment she recently made about abortion:“Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all,” Clinton recently lamented as she spoke...
View ArticleTranshumanists Want to Be Gods
It is always fun to see what our resident technology-worshipping religious fanatics–the transhumanists–are up to.For those who don’t know, transhumanism is a futuristic social movement–eugenic in...
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Some Thoughts on the RNC Meeting This Week
Hollywood, Fla. — A few thoughts on the RNC Spring meeting here, where I’ve spent my past two days: This week’s meeting was as much about the impression conveyed on the outside as about what was...
View ArticleVox Calls Out 'The Smug Style in American Liberalism'
Several days ago I was having dinner with a new friend from New York who’d never had a conversation with a conservative about poverty and economics (don’t be shocked — it’s hardly unusual to run into...
View ArticleThe Suicide Rate Soars as Americans Lose Hope
The Washington Postreports the sad numbers: The U.S. suicide rate has increased sharply since the turn of the century, led by an even greater rise among middle-aged white people, particularly women,...
View Article“Back of the Queue”
Ramesh has already had some wise words to say in response to Obama’s warning that if the British leave the European Union, the US will be in no hurry to conclude a trade deal with them. Britain will,...
View ArticleCan Trump Etch A Sketch It?
Paul Manafort was caught on tape saying that Donald Trump has been playing a role in the primaries and will change for the general. This is certainly true, and Trump has been saying much the same when...
View ArticleWhy Puff the Magic Dragon Died Young
These days, we have a (more or less) pro-pot, anti-tobacco culture.That’s because, supporters of recreational cannabis often say, marijuana is less unhealthy than tobacco. So let the good times...
View ArticleTonight’s L.A. Adventure, and Major Props to the L.A. Fire Department
It was about 2:30 a.m. in Hollywood, and I was in the Jack in the Box at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Ivar. (Betcha didn’t know I’m a highly sophisticated “foodie.”) I notice, sitting all by...
View ArticleBrexit: Plan? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Plan!
We’ll see in due course what difference Obama’s contribution to Britain’s debate over EU membership (and, in particular, “back of the queue”) will make to the way that voters see the issue. FWIW, I...
View ArticleWilliam Shakespeare, Disgrace
The Guardian:Shakespeare may have been widely championed as a visionary, but this description can’t be applied to his record on gender equality. On average men are given 81% of speeches, while 17% go...
View ArticleMerkel’s Austria Effect
Having given the British his thoughts on how they should vote in their upcoming referendum, Barack Obama now tells Germans that Merkel’s “stance on refugees is on the “right side of history,” a...
View ArticleMonday links
April 25th is ANZAC Day, the anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli: here’s some history, a documentary, and a Lego re-enactment.Gallery of photos from the Halifax explosion – the naval accident that...
View ArticleJohnny Manziel, Victim
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:Johnny Manziel, VictimJohn Branch, pro football columnist for the New York Times:The N.F.L. draft — our coverage of it and our appetite for it — is a cultural...
View ArticleJim Webb: We Can Honor Both Tubman and Andy Jackson
Former presidential candidate and U.S. senator Jim Webb just proved his often admirable views are an antique in the modern Democratic party. In a Washington Post op-ed he called for celebrating the...
View ArticleHillary Among the Hawks
In 1992, Bill Clinton won the support of some foreign-policy thinkers who had previously supported Ronald Reagan. They thought that Clinton would be more willing than Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis,...
View ArticleDanke Schoen (Grazie?)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is chockfull of music, among other things. (Do you know that George Will called it the greatest movie of all time?) You have “DankeSchoen,” “Twist and Shout,” and more. I...
View ArticleThe Cruz–Kasich Deal
It at least gives Cruz a better shot in Indiana and preserves resources that his Super PACs and anti-Trump outside groups would have had to spend trying to replicate the successful effort to tamp down...
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