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Earlier today, I had a post touching on Ferris Bueller, a movie I also touch on in my column today. Avoiding work, I have now watched, on YouTube, the scene in which Ferris takes over the Steuben Day...
View ArticleIs the Cruz–Kasich Non-Aggression Pact Too Late?
Rich, a lot of #NeverTrump folks seem pleased with the belated Cruz–Kasich non-aggression-pact — it’s overstating to call it an “alliance.” But there’s also a palpable sense of “what took so long?”In...
View ArticleIndiana Wants Me? Cruz News, Good and Bad
My pal on the Cruz campaign who is working Indiana says his team “finally knows how to effectively and consistently flip Trump votes.” That’s good. But sufficient ground troops are needed to make that...
View ArticleA Couple of Other Points on Felon Voting
Hans von Spakovsky and I have a column today on Governor Terry McAuliffe’s lamentable decision last Friday to reenfranchise over 200,000 felons in Virginia. But the news coverage of that decision...
View ArticleWinning Through Whining
“I keep whining and whining until I win,” Trump said in August. His opponents have been accusing him of whining about the Republican nominating process in response to some setbacks he has experienced....
View ArticleOh Look, the Ex-Im Bank Is Going to Extend Loans to Airbus
One of the arguments about the need for export subsidies provided by the Export-Import Bank to its No. 1 beneficiary, Boeing, is that it levels the playing field for the company in its competition with...
View ArticleA Different Buckley
The problem isn’t economic inequality, it’s economic immobility–according to F.H. Buckley (no relation to WFB) in his new book, The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America. Check out our 10-minute...
View ArticleThe Promise, and Peril, of a Cruz-Fiorina Ticket
A lot of Republicans would be happy with a Cruz-Fiorina ticket. A big question is, would 1,237 Republican convention delegates like it?There’s a lot to like about Carly Fiorina. She does her homework,...
View ArticleRe: Winning Through Whining
Ramesh, one thing the debate over the rules has definitely done is knock Cruz off-message and into the procedural weeds. This is how Peter Spiliakosputs it over at Postmodern Conservative:I watch...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Recap -- Setting the Table (Plus a Small Rant)
Warning — this is a spoiler-filled post, so if you didn’t watch last night’s Game of Thrones premiere, stop reading. For those who watched and care to bring some Games-talk to the Corner, read on. If...
View ArticleTom Brady’s Suspension Reinstated by Federal Appeals Court
The only real surprise in today’s federal appeals court ruling reinstating the NFL’s four-game suspension of Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady is that the decision was not unanimous.Writing for the...
View ArticleObama, Germany, and ‘The Right Side of History’
Of all of the irritating and intolerable things about the Left, perhaps the worst is their smug self-confidence that they are on “the right side of history.” The assumption that history has a “right...
View ArticleTuesday links
Scientists Stream Netflix Through Pork Loin.The Art and Science of Muskrat Cooking – Do you have what it takes to win a rodent cooking competition?Titanic Food Menus for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class...
View ArticleSubsidies for Supercars
The good people of Ontario are expected to be scandalized that subsidies for plug-in hybrid automobiles are being used to — hold on to your butts! — subsidize plug-in hybrid automobiles.At issue is a...
View ArticleThere Is No New Trump, Continued
From the Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt:There Is No New Trump, ContinuedThe “improved” Trump talk is all pretty moot, because you can’t change the style of a guy with the impulse control of a...
View ArticleNordlinger Speaking in Connecticut Tonight
National Review Institute book fellow Jay Nordlinger will be speaking on his book Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators tonight, April 26, at the Darien Community...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Cruz–Kasich Deal Is ‘Extremely Late’
Charles Krauthammer discussed the 2016 Republican primary and Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s plan to jointly stop Donald Trump, Monday on Fox’s Special Report.They joined forces too late, Krauthammer said....
View ArticleThe Overexposed John Kasich
I didn’t do this one for NRO, since it was an attempt to preach to the heathens in hopes that they might find salvation, but for those who might be interested, I have an article at CNN today that looks...
View Article‘The Working-Class Meltdown’
I wrote today about rising death rates among the white working class:During an era of headline-grabbing advances in medicine, the United States is experiencing a health cataclysm. The latest straw in...
View ArticleMOAR SYRIANS!
President Obama set the number of Syrian refugees to be resettled here this fiscal year at 10,000, with next year’s target probably being 25,000. It’s not that he and Democrats in Congress didn’t want...
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