Obama Falls Short of the Gipper
It’s no secret that Barack Obama wanted to be a progressive Ronald Reagan — a “transformational” president who moves the country in a new ideological direction. In some sense I think he’s succeeded....
View ArticleFollowup Re: 'Justice-Involved Youth'
On Tuesday I made fun of the Obama administration for a press release referring to young criminals/juvenile delinquents as “justice-involved youth.” Well, yesterday the administration broadened the...
View ArticleChobani Yogurt Founder Offers Employees the Deal of a Lifetime
I eat a Chobani yogurt nearly every day — preferably mango flavored — but never thought once about where the company came from.Today I learned a heartwarming story about the yogurt I’ve become so...
View ArticleHow Occupational Licensing Is Used to Exclude Competition: Nurses and...
The Wall Street Journal has a good piece about the licensing headache that nurses involved in telemedicine have to face to continue doing their jobs. As things are now, nurses who are in the...
View ArticleNetherlands Push to Euthanize Children
Euthanasia boosters are so full of baloney. To get the death agenda adopted, they promise the moon, that medicalized killing will be strictly limited, and always restricted to competent adults. Then,...
View ArticleBad Economic Numbers Look Like Bad News for Hillary Clinton
Will the 2016 general election take place in an economic environment of mixed news, or a recession or near-recession? The new numbers out this morning look pretty gloomy:The U.S. economy stumbled out...
View ArticleSupreme Court: Hey, Maybe Bribery Laws Are Just Too Vague!
The Supreme Court heard arguments from Bob McDonnell’s lawyers that the bribery law he’s charged with violating is being too broadly defined, and they seem sympathetic to the idea that these darn laws...
View ArticleWell, You Couldn’t Capture the Inside-Washington View...
…of the presidential race better than John Boehner’s unapologetically sophomoric take at Stanford where he made it clear that his personal dislike of Ted Cruz trumps everything else:When specifically...
View ArticleWhy Cable News Loves to Air Trump Rallies Live and Uninterrupted
Campbell Brown, formerly of CNN and NBC, offers a detailed denunciation of television news for basically abdicating its job and turning over its airwaves to Donald Trump for long stretches:Trump...
View ArticleWe Stand on One Side of the Chasm
“The conservative movement is being torn from within,” writes Jonah today in his appeal for you NRO fans to support our Spring Webathon. “It’s close to a civil war. The fault line runs straight through...
View ArticleMisunderstanding Obamacare and Work
Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times:In 2014, the Congressional Budget Office released a report estimating that the Affordable Care Act would “reduce the total number of hours worked, on...
View ArticleTrump Only Narrowly Ahead in Indiana
According to this not necessarily very credible poll, which has it Trump 37, Cruz 35, and Kasich 16. Donald Trump & Ted Cruz -- Indiana Is Neck and Neck
View ArticleWhen Librarians Attack
While the Library of Congress does not often become the subject of political disputes, it has seen occasional dust-ups, including a protracted controversy in the late 19th century over the cement used...
View ArticleLaw and Loyalty
This week the White House released presidential proclamations for Law Day and Loyalty Day, each observed on May 1. They are exactly what you would expect from this administration. The latter...
View ArticleDo Millenials Dislike Capitalism Because It's Not a Safe Space?
So it turns out that a majority of millennials claim they dislike capitalism:In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a new poll shows that most young people do not support...
View ArticleSmugness and Liberalism
Emmett Rensin had some friendly advice for liberals in a recent essay for Vox: Lose the smugness. I comment on the essay at Bloomberg View, concluding that it misidentifies liberalism’s weakness....
View ArticleChristians, Don't Fall for the 'Compassion' Trap
As I mentioned in my piece on the home page, I’ve been saddened at the number of Christians who either sit out the battle for religious liberty entirely or actively take the other side. In my piece...
View ArticleTrump and the "Social Conservative Veto"
David Frum has written a smart article for The Atlantic on Trump and his Republican enemies. You should read it. But I think he is wrong about this:Yet here’s something that traditional ideological...
View ArticleFriday links
Happy Birthday, Duke Ellington: here’s some glorious music and a brief biography.That Time Eisenhower’s Presidential Motorcade Picked Up Two Hitchhikers.Camouflaged Anti-Nazi Pamphlets found inside a...
View ArticleIs Pence Stepping Up?
I’m told that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be on the great Greg Garrison radio show today at 12:06 Eastern to make a “significant announcement.” What that means, I don’t know. But I can only hope it...
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