J. K. Rowling’s Admirable Defense of Liberty
J. K. Rowling’s full-throated defense of free speech at the 2016 PEN Literary Award Gala in New York is a breath of fresh air:“Only last year, we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from entry...
View ArticleThe Fight for Free Speech on Campus Is No Mere 'Charade'
The New Republic just published a bizarre piece attacking Charles Koch and Michael Bloomberg’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed supporting free speech on campus as a “charade.” Colby College English...
View ArticleCollins Amendment Offers Bogus Diversion from AFFH Defund: Stick With Lee...
I’m sorry to report that Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine has just filed an amendment designed to make senators look like they’re fighting AFFH, when in fact they’re doing nothing. The Collins...
View Article'Donald Trump Is Not Expanding the GOP'
In Politico, Shane Goldmacher provides a corrective to some of the bullishness we’re hearing about the Trump campaign:Donald Trump likes to say he has created a political movement that has drawn...
View ArticleSometimes Working for a Presidential Candidate Asks a Lot
Especially when it’s Donald Trump. Here’s Paul Manafort forced to repeat Trump’s fantastic John Miller denials: Donald Trump — Paul Manafort Repeats Outrageous Denials
View ArticleDoor No. 3?
Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, is interested in an alternative this fall — an alternative to the Trump-Hillary binary. (I learned the word “binary” from the Left, just about a year...
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Culture of Death: The Age of Do Harm Medicine is Here
Today is the publication date for my new book, Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine. It is an updated and revised version of my 2001, Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in...
View ArticleGermany: Neglect On Another Front
I’m not quite sure how to describe the chancellorship of Angela Merkel beyond the obvious observation that the “indispensable European” (The Economist) is by some margin the worst of all the postwar...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Ben Rhodes ‘Embarrassed Himself’ and Exposed Iran-Deal...
Charles Krauthammer says the Republicans’ attempt to compel Obama national-security aid Ben Rhodes to testify was a mistake:When you listen to [Press Secretary] Josh Earnest, that was an exercise in...
View ArticleGlobal Magnitsky Act Set for Markup -- and a Showdown
Earlier this month, I wrote about the curious case of the Global Magnitsky Act, which, shortly after being scheduled for markup in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in April, disappeared from the...
View ArticleObama and Hillary: Incoherence on Foreign Policy and Immigration
From my most recent NRO article, on some issues that will help Trump: “In immigration, as in matters of more urgent national-security importance, dithering, posturing, and pretense are no substitute...
View ArticleWednesday links
Winston Churchill’s Doctor’s Note That Allowed Him to Drink “Unlimited” Alcohol in Prohibition America.The origins of inoculation.Floraphone: The WWI Plan To Turn America’s Trees Into...
View ArticleWelcome, ‘Czechia’!
On the homepage today, I have a “Prague Journal.” On the Corner, I’d like to say something about names. An excerpt from the journal:They have renamed the country, as I understand it: It is no longer...
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Shocking News: Hillary Actually Won a Democratic Primary
From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt:Hillary Roars into General Election by Not Losing to Bernie Here and ThereShocking news last night: Hillary Clinton won a Democratic primary!Another Hillary...
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Poll Shows Viable Path for Third-Party Candidate
A new poll out this morning from Joel Searby at the firm Data Targeting shows a viable path for a third-party candidate. Bill Kristol is celebrating somewhere. The survey of 997 likely voters shows an...
View ArticleTrump: I'm Willing to Negotiate Directly with Kim Jong Un
Donald Trump says he’ll willing to hold direct personal negotiations with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m guessing any summit would be preceded by intense shuttle diplomacy by Celebrity...
View ArticleVideo: Hillary Clinton Lies for 13 Minutes Straight
Thanks to Kathleen Parker’s piece in the Washington Post this morning, I discovered the video below — a compilation of some of Hillary’s most spectacular lies:I’d forgotten how brazenly and...
View ArticleForcing More Workers to Punch a Clock Isn’t Progress
Judging from President Obama’s email announcement that the Department of Labor would today release a final rule expanding overtime pay regulations, you might think that he was footing the bill: If you...
View ArticleRe: AFFH Has No Basis in the Fair Housing Act
Kudos to Stanley Kurtz for his recent post (and leadership generally) regarding the Obama administration’s lamentable “affirmatively furthering fair housing” regulation. My two cents’ worth: First, the...
View ArticleThe Race Gap and the Sex Gap
A point that I did not get around to making explicitly enough in my piece today on why whites and men vote Republican but non-whites and women prefer Democrats: The fact that blacks do not vote for...
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