Why Would Any Candidate Forsake a Data-Driven Turnout Operation?
Tuesday, Donald Trump announced he won’t be using “the kind of sophisticated data operation that was a centerpiece of Barack Obama’s winning White House runs.”“I’ve always felt it was overrated,” Trump...
View ArticleNew Reuters-Ipsos Poll: Clinton 41, Trump 40
Reuters conducts its national poll online, so some folks may want to take it with a grain of salt; the pollsters weigh the data to match the U.S. current population data by gender, age, education, and...
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One Thing Government Is Great At: Making Improper Payments
This is the time of the year where I wonder why the government continues to pay out billions of dollars in improper payments and does nothing to fix the problem. Seriously, how can we tolerate this? In...
View ArticleWATCH: Obama's Speechwriters LAUGH at 'If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep...
One of the most misleading parts of Obamacare was the lie told repeatedly by President Obama that “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.” It was one of Obama’s big selling points — and...
View ArticleStopping the Bureaucrats Requires an End to Chevron Deference
Anyone who studies the power bureaucrats have over ordinary Americans’ lives swiftly comes to the realization that the courts, which are meant to redress grievances, will be of little help. That’s...
View ArticleAs We Wrap Up the Webathon . . .
Thanks so much to those who gave, and for what we are about to receive. The giving can be done right here. I’d like to share some kind comments that have accompanied the generosity of some:With David’s...
View ArticleWrongthink in Wyoming -- Opposition to Gay Marriage May Cost a Judge Her Job
Conscription into the sexual revolution continues. In Wyoming, the state supreme court is now set to consider whether a municipal judge should be tossed from office merely for stating that she would...
View ArticleRe: Trump's Time Bomb
John Fund’s column today is, no matter what comes in the next few days, the most important column of the week, as it explains why Donald Trump’s weasel-like refusal to release his tax returns is a...
View ArticleNews From the World of Tolerance — the American Bar Association Considers a...
This was inevitable. It appears that a committee of the American Bar Association is recommending that the ABA amend its Model Rules of Professional Conduct to include a rather blatant speech code....
View ArticleOn that Quinnipiac Poll
The most striking thing about the Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday showing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton neck-and-neck in three swing states — Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania – is the gender gap...
View ArticleConfession of a Pro-Life Convert
Ten minutes into the local news tonight came a long story about the fact that a shark was beheaded over in Newport Beach. It was treated as a big deal, evoking a lot of deep ethical concern and moral...
View ArticleGuttmacher Study Shows Both Opportunities and Challenges for Pro-Lifers
Earlier, this week the Guttmacher Institute released a study on the demographics of women obtaining abortions. (They release a report of this nature approximately every seven years.) This report...
View ArticleToday’s Best-Case Summit Scenario: Trump Calls the Speaker ‘Tryin’ Ryan’
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt:Today’s BestCase Summit Scenario: Trump Calls the Speaker ‘Tryin’ Ryan’Man, the Donald Trump–Paul Ryan conference today is the most wildly hyped meeting of...
View ArticleGratitude
Our Webathon, now over, had hoped to raise $150,000 to underwrite NRO’s operations. It was a stretch, or so we thought. I am happy to say that thousands of you made donations, and as for the final...
View ArticleAbout That New Speech Code for Lawyers
David, in 1995, “in conduct related to the practice of law” (to quote from the proposed ABA Model Rule on attorney’s speech), I submitted evidence to a court to the effect of, and argued to a jury...
View ArticleObama's Complaints Invariably Presume that He Gets to Set the Congressional...
Politico reports that Obama is still irritated by the Republican party:“I’ve always shown myself willing to compromise — principled compromises that would still advance the interests of the American...
View ArticleGoogle Bans Payday Loan Ads: Who Needs Operation Choke Point?
Yesterday, Google announced in a blog post that it was changing the terms of its advertising service to ban payday-loan ads. Their reasoning was that payday loans are harmful:We will no longer allow...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Begins His Journey to a Trump Endorsement
House speaker Paul Ryan began the slow, arduous journey to a Trump endorsement today.Oh, he may insist he’s not there yet, and that he and Trump will need more time to work out differences. But Ryan’s...
View ArticleTrump Backs Away from His Proposed ‘Muslim Ban’
Since he locked up the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump has furiously backtracked on a number of key positions he took during the heated primary.As my colleague Jim Geraghty has...
View ArticleObamacare Lawsuit: House Republicans Win a Round Against the Obama...
Federal district court judge Rosemary Collyer ruled today for the House of Representatives and against the Obama administration — holding that the administration unlawfully spent money that Congress...
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