Trump’s Attacks on Clinton’s E-Mails Won’t Help the Case for Her Indictment
One result of Donald Trump’s imminent presidential nomination is that he will be the most prominent figure attacking Hillary Clinton on her many scandals, particularly her e-mail scandal. Though he has...
View ArticleTrue True Conservatism
Much as I respect our friend Ross Douthat, I believe his post-mortem of the Cruz candidacy in the Times today misses the mark: a caricature of “True Conservatism,” the demise of which he undertakes to...
View ArticleThere Are No Uniters in 2016 America
Elizabeth Warren went on something of a tirade against Donald Trump last night. This part in particular stuck out to me:It will determine whether we move forward as one nation or splinter at the hands...
View ArticleWatch: Trump Doubles Down on National Enquirer JFK Report about Rafael Cruz
Watch: Trump Doubles Down on National Enquirer JFK Report about Rafael Cruz
View ArticleThe Department of Justice Just Declared War on North Carolina
To exactly no one’s surprise, the Obama Department of Justice has sent a letter to North Carolina governor Pat McRory demanding that that the state “not comply with or enforce H.B. 2″ — it’s so-called...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court's Most Discredited Rulings
Michael Kinsley is one of the handful of liberals who defend Citizens United. He begins his essay, though, with a curious list:For all the fuss about Supreme Court nominations, very few Supreme Court...
View ArticleBREAKING: Romanian Hacker Claims He Got Inside Hillary Clinton's Private Server
NBC reports:The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton’s private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State’s “completely...
View ArticleThe Country Is In Great Hands
For many years now, it has been the practice of the intelligence community to start providing classified intelligence briefings to the presidential nominees of the two major parties (those who aren’t...
View Article‘The Bully Type’
We are now up to Part IV of my series on John Dos Passos. We’re concluding tomorrow. Today, I quote something that Dos Passos quotes: a statement by Burton C. Andrus. He was an American Army colonel,...
View ArticleThursday links
Happy Cinco do Mayo!The Ten Longest Wars in History.Medieval Pet Names.What phrases commonly used today are derived from obsolete technologies? (spoiler – lots of them)The Doorway Effect: Why Do We...
View ArticleBush 41 & 43 Have No Plans to Endorse Trump
From the Washington Post:For the first time since his own presidency, George H.W. Bush is planning to stay silent in the race for the Oval Office — and the younger former president Bush plans to stay...
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Hillary’s Opening Stumble
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt:Hillary’s Opening StumbleAt first glace, Hillary Clinton is the luckiest Democratic nominee in the history of the party. (Right now, Bernie Sanders...
View ArticleThe CFPB Moves to Ban Arbitration Clauses — Better Lawyer Up
Add another 377 pages to the ever-burgeoning length of the Dodd-Frank Act. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Racket Bureau announced that it would use its authority under the act to prohibit the...
View ArticleAnything Goes Embryo Research
During the great embryonic stem cell research debate, promoters of an unlimited license to experiment promised that using nascent human life as research subjects would be limited to the first 14...
View ArticleApparently, Outside Donations Don't Corrupt Politicians After All
Per the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s self-financing days are over:Facing a prospective tab of more than $1 billion to finance a general-election run for the White House, Donald Trump reversed course...
View ArticleHow Do You Define 'Combat,' Mr. Carter?
When it was reported that a U.S. Special Forces member was killed as a result of an encounter with ISIS in northern Iraq, the White House stayed mostly quiet, leaving Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: ‘You End Up Being United by the Nature of the Opposition.’
Charles Krauthammer said Wednesday on Fox’s Special Report that he believes many previous Ted Cruz voters might ultimately support presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump despite saying they wouldn’t.“I...
View ArticleObama Administration’s Outrageous War on North Carolina
Over on Bench Memos, I’m in the midst of a series of posts showing that the Obama administration’s claim that North Carolina’s H.B. 2 violates Title VII is dead wrong. Part 1 sets forth the basics of...
View ArticleMeet Paul Ryan's Motorcycle-Riding, Arm-Wrestling Primary Challenger
Paul Nehlen will be challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan in his GOP House primary on August 9, and he’s featured on Drudge and at the top of Breitbart.com today. For those who pointed out that Trump...
View ArticleThe Very Quiet New American Ground War in Iraq
Stephen thanks for posting the clip below— which quite clearly shows American troops in ground combat in Iraq. The fact of this firefight isn’t remarkable — after all, we’ve known of the special forces...
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