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Donald Trump is unfit to be president. He’s a braggart and a liar. And a serial adulterer. He’s behaved shamefully during the primary campaign. He wouldn’t recognize the Constitution if he tripped over...
View ArticleTed Cruz’s Political Masterstroke
The more I think about Senator Cruz’s stunning announcement last night that he is suspending his campaign, the more brilliant I think it is. The No. 1 political handicap he had in this campaign is that...
View ArticleGreat Deal on Michael Walsh’s Most Recent Book
Today only, you can get The Devil’s Pleasure Palace on Amazon Kindle for just $2.99! It’s a romp through postwar intellectual history, focusing on the deep influence wielded by the Frankfurt School,...
View ArticleWednesday links
Video compilation of Small Dogs vs. Big Couches.Why You Never Heard About the Largest Disaster in Maritime History.The Dazzling Physics of Peacock Feathers.In addition to International Respect for...
View Article‘The Lowest Common Denominator’
On the homepage today, we publish Part III of my series on John Dos Passos — and, specifically, his collection The Theme Is Freedom.In this installment, I quote from his essay “The Use of the Past,”...
View ArticleNow, of All Times!
This seems such a strange time for the Republican party to self-destroy. Let me explain.The GOP has a huge lead in state legislatures. The GOP controls more state legislatures than it ever has...
View ArticleA Thank-You Note
Ted Cruz will come in for much criticism, as losing candidates do. (So do winning candidates.) I want to take a moment to thank him.He carried my beliefs — his beliefs, our common beliefs — into...
View ArticleFaux Magnanimity
The speed with which Donald Trump went from suggesting that Ted Cruz’s father helped assassinate JFK to proposing that Cruz was a bright star within the Republican firmament reminded me of this classic...
View ArticleLet’s Unite to Help the Hothead Get His Fingers on the Nuclear Codes!
Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, making a detailed, passionate and comprehensive case as to why Donald Trump should not be elected president, September 10, 2015:Donald Trump is not a serious...
View ArticleKasich to End Presidential Bid
John Kasich will end his bid for the presidency, a Kasich strategist confirms to National Review. Kasich to End Presidential Bid
View ArticleTrump's Contempt for Late Trump Train Passengers — And Mine
Last night in his victory speech, Donald Trump said:Many many people are calling that you wouldn’t even believe. The media, the press, they wouldn’t believe. People that have said the worst things...
View ArticleNew York Court Rules Suicide Is ‘Suicide’
Assisted suicide advocates pretend that suicide committed due to the fears created by a diagnosis of terminal illness — sometimes wrong, by the way — isn’t really “suicide.”They sue, claiming that laws...
View ArticleCan Republican Holdouts Be Guilt-Tripped Into Supporting Trump?
My new Bloomberg Viewcolumn is on whether Trump can unify Republicans to the degree necessary to win in November.In the last four presidential elections, the Republican nominee has never won less than...
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Poll: Whom Should Donald Trump Pick for His VP Slot?
Whom should Trump choose for his vice president? Take NR’s latest poll and let your voice be heard. Poll: Whom Should Donald Trump Pick for His VP Slot?
View ArticleYour Defender of Life, Ladies and Gentlemen
There are some in the pro-life movement who think it’s very important that a Republican president be an articulate spokesman for, and defender of, the pro-life position. Here is Donald Trump this...
View ArticleThus Ends John Kasich's Pathetic and Vain Presidential Campaign
John Kasich is calling it quits. Good riddance. It is however, worth remembering exactly how pitiful, delusional, and destructive his campaign had become. He didn’t start out pathetic. As a popular...
View ArticleNight Thoughts in Midday
The Republican party, today — I mean, this very day — reminds me of Ben Carson. During the campaign, you recall, Trump likened him to a child molester. Twice. He also mocked his religion (Seventh Day...
View ArticleThis Is Just the Beginning
In just a few short weeks, Donald Trump will be receiving intelligence briefings and top secret national security information. Trump is the guy who threw out the private cell-phone number of a member...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: ‘The Question Is: Will Trump Reach Out’ to Cruz’s...
Before Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped their presidential bids, Brett Baer asked Charles Krauthammer Tuesday on Fox’s Special Report about the future of the Stop Trump movement.“Well I think it dies...
View ArticleWebathon Keeps Thonning On
Running out of headline ideas, obviously. But what we are not running out of is support from our friends, who are kindly making donations to their favorite magazine and website — the least favorite of...
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