Donald Trump Is All Over the Place on Taxes
Yesterday morning, Donald Trump said the following about his tax plan:“By the time it gets negotiated, it’s going to be a different plan,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ “This Week.”In...
View ArticleWhy We Are Sick of Washington
John Kerry just announced to the graduating class at Northeastern University: “You’re about to graduate into a complex and borderless world.” Of course, Kerry himself never believed in a “borderless...
View ArticleWith Obamacare, the Worst Is Still Yet to Come
Remember when we were promised that Obamacare would solve so many of our health-care problems? Instead, we get this: Insurers have begun to propose big premium increases for coverage next year under...
View ArticleGame of Thrones Recap -- What the Show Gets Right About Faith
Spoilers abound, so read with care.If it’s tough to be Stark, it’s even tougher to be a Stark direwolf. In a rare Stark win, Jon Snow is indeed alive, but fiction’s most hapless family can’t have two...
View ArticleIslamist London
I am afraid that grim reality requires choosing the second of David Pryce-Jones’s two ways of looking at London’s election of Sadiq Khan as mayor: By choosing an enabler of Muslim extremism, the...
View ArticleTrump Would Be Slightly Less Bad Than Hillary
David, it’s 50 years since Blonde on Blonde came out, and now we have a blonde-on-blonde election. I agree that some shades of difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are as subtle as...
View ArticleJindal Is Voting for Trump, 'Warts and All'
Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal– “I’m Voting Trump, Warts and All” isn’t as disheartening as it could have been to those of us who oppose Trump and once...
View ArticleThe Coming GOP Platform
I was contemplating the Republican platform, to be presented in Cleveland this summer. I hope the Republicans will have the courage of their convictions.For instance, their nominee alleges that Ted...
View ArticleWell That’s Reassuring
Here’s something that someone working for a presidential candidate who will be the nominee of one of our two major parties said aloud about that candidate, according to Politico:“He doesn’t want to...
View ArticleThe Future's So Bright
Conservatives may be in the doldrums in 2016, but the distinguished conservative historian Donald Critchlow–now a professor at Arizona State University–insists that Republicans are well positioned for...
View ArticleTrump's Isolationism Threatens Japan's Security
Japan has been one of Donald Trump’s favorite targets. Sounding as though he just stepped out of a 1985 Delorean, Trump has railed against Japan’s economic policies, concluding that it is stealing U.S....
View ArticleCensorship Is a Good Deal Scarier than Bigotry
The British government has arrested a 28-year-old man for the high crime of making an obnoxious video:A YOB has been arrested after a video of a dog giving Nazi salutes to anti-Jewish slurs sparked...
View ArticleHow Much Welfare Spending Does the Average Immigrant Household Consume?
U.S. immigration policy is an irrational hodgepodge put together without the best interests of Americans in mind. This should already be obvious, but today we have even more evidence.Some quick...
View ArticleThe ‘Don't Do What I Do’ Hypocrisy of the Day
Hypocrisy in the public sphere is nothing new. Political and social elites have long behaved one way while urging, or mandating, the rest of us to live another way. But it’s particularly galling when...
View ArticleClinton, Trump, and Conservatives’ Two-Front War
In the likely event that Trump leaves Cleveland as the Republican nominee, the segment of his own party that will be opposing him, withholding support, or mumbling only a terse, perfunctory endorsement...
View ArticleTrump’s Pivot
We shouldn’t be surprised that he’s beginning to throw overboard some of the conservative-ish things he said in the primary: His core issues are opposing foreign trade, browbeating foreign allies that...
View ArticleIs Donald Trump Anti-Adoption?
Probably not. But according to Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, Mitt Romney was a lousy choice for Republicans in 2012 because he was “pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, [and] pro-adoption.” (For the...
View ArticleSingle-Sex Education Makes You Smarter
Economist C. Kirabo Jackson has a new working paper studying the effects of single-sex education on students’ academic outcomes and criminal activity. (I’ve done some work on this subject as well.) The...
View ArticlePlaying The Verdun Card: Cameron’s Turn
I have writtenbefore (often) about the way the EU’s defenders play the ‘Verdun card’ whenever the debate or the polling is turning too strongly against them. The EU, so the argument runs, is all that...
View ArticleGOP Megadonor Paul Singer Rips Trump at NYC Dinner
One of the Republican party’s most influential donors signaled that he will support neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton in the November election. Paul Singer, the New York City hedge-fund manager...
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