Researcher: The 'Ferguson Effect' Might Be Real After All
Well now, this is interesting:For nearly a year, Richard Rosenfeld’s research on crime trends has been used to debunk the existence of a “Ferguson effect”, a suggested link between protests over police...
View ArticleObama: The Constitution Says What It Has Only Meant 'Over the Last Couple...
President Obama sat down with BuzzFeed to discuss his Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination and what he interprets to be the constitutional duty of the Senate. To put it simply, he got it wrong....
View ArticleGame of Thrones Recap -- Social Justice Edition
Spoilers, of course.Thank you, Stephen, for recapping the best episode this season of the best show on television. I’d summarize episode four as “Lucy finally lets Charlie Brown kick the football.” One...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Hillary Wants to Invoke the ‘Memory of the 1990s’ in 2016
Charles Krauthammer analyses Hillary Clinton’s decision to use the “memory of the ’90s” in her 2016 campaign:It’s the ultimate gaff: She said what she really believes [on coal policy in West Virginia]...
View ArticleNatural Conservatives!
I’m not sure what specifically Kevin was referring to when he wrote in his piece yesterday on the Texas GOP convention that “our friends at the Center for Immigration Studies just last week published...
View ArticleYou Can't Make Me Say It (quoth WAPO)
What’s in a name? The top story in the print version of today’s Washington Post carries this headline: “Justices Return Contraceptive Case to Lower Courts.” In the six and a half paragraphs explaining...
View ArticleRenegades
At Breitbart.com, David Horowitz has written a piece called “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew.” I was thinking about that phrase “renegade Jew.” It occurred to me that someone, in the...
View ArticleAnother Poll Showing Hillary With a Small Lead Over Trump
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:Hm. Another Day, Another Poll Showing Hillary With a Small Lead Over TrumpFrom this morning’s fresh NBC News/Gravis tracking poll:Attention is now rapidly moving to the...
View ArticleAFFH Has No Basis in the Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act (FHA) of 1968 was a great achievement, rightly prohibiting discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. President Obama claims that his wildly overreaching Affirmatively...
View ArticleWhat, Did Trump Forget He Was Being Audited?
Back in February 2015, Hugh Hewitt and Donald Trump had an extensive discussion about whether Trump would release his tax returns. Trump said, “I would release tax returns” and “I have no objection to...
View ArticleMcCain Launches First Ad Attacking Kirkpatrick
Senator John McCain’s campaign launched its first ad of the cycle today, attacking his Democratic opponent, Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, for supporting Obamacare. The ad attacks Kirkpatrick for...
View ArticleIf You Have to Fabricate Evidence, Your Case Is Probably Weak
TheWashington Post confirms what everyone with functioning critical faculties already knew to be true:An openly gay pastor who claimed that a grocery store bakery wrote a homophobic message on his cake...
View ArticleSecret Trump Voters?
I am not the political professional around here. But I suspect there are more Trump voters than show up in polls. I think there are some people who will vote Trump without admitting it to their...
View Article‘The Bathroom Putsch’
I wrote about the transgender edict on the home page today:The authors of The Federalist Papers neglected to explain the fearsome powers that inhere in the “Dear Colleague” letter under our system of...
View ArticleA 'Common Core' for Preschool?
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) — the company that helps develop and administer standardized tests such as the SAT and GRE — put out a research paper a few weeks ago recommending that...
View ArticleDark Doings in Indian Wells
Yale English professor David Bromwich lauds Jane Mayer’s new anti-Koch book for The Nation.Her narrative begins in the middle, with the summit of January 30–31, 2009, in Indian Wells, California: a...
View ArticleDemocratic Superdelegates Could Clinch Clinton's Nomination Today — Why Won't...
Having sewn up the Republican nomination earlier this month, Donald Trump is now actively positioning his campaign for the general election, lobbing daily attacks against “Crooked Hillary” Clinton....
View ArticleSupreme Court to Obama: Why Do We Need This Culture War?
My column on the Little Sisters’ partial victory in court yesterday.Surely the Obama administration could find a way to provide contraception to women without involving a group of Catholic nuns. This...
View ArticleBrexit Update: Lyin’ David, the Bayeux Tapestry and Ever Closer Union
Britain’s Brexit debate has moved onto zany ground with, among others Hitler, bananas and the supposed Brexiteers (if you believe David Cameron) of ISIS all making recent appearances, but this CapX...
View ArticleWhy Trump Could Win
The Washington Post’s Daily 202 yesterday posited 12 reasons Hillary could lose yesterday, which might be summed up as, “she’s not very good at this.” I’d add five additional reasons why Trump could...
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