This LA Times Columnist Didn’t Do His Research before Attacking Me
The LA Times contract reporter Michael Hiltzik wrote a piece criticizing me for my chart and post here on The Corner about improper government payments. His main beef with me is that I cherry-picked...
View ArticleDon't Blink! Trump Delivers Actual Good News for Conservatives!
Genuine good news for conservatives from the Trump campaign today. The likely GOP nominee, no doubt feeling unbearable heat from my column this morning, released that list of eleven potential Supreme...
View ArticleBuzzfeed Helpfully Exposes the Century-Long Dehumanizing Oppression of the...
Buzzfeed has printed an extended piece that I urge you to read. It’s long. Very long. But don’t worry, while it feels likes it’s longer than War and Peace, it’s really only about 4,300 words. Yet in...
View ArticleIraq and the Costs of Coming Home
Like the Vietnam War before it, the War in Iraq was won on the battlefield and then lost by the political leadership in Washington. The purpose of the war was two-fold. The first was to remove Saddam...
View ArticleAnnals of Bad Arguments, Cont.
On a pro-Latin website is posted the following quote from Italian author Giovanni Guareschi: “Latin is a precise, essential language. It will be abandoned, not because it is unsuitable for the new...
View ArticleNo, U.S. Schools Aren't 'Resegregating'
The front-page headline on the Washington Post today screams, “New data shows U.S. schools are resegregating.” Not true. Segregation means the government separating students by race and telling them it...
View ArticleTrump’s Judicial Appoints List Is Filled with Outstanding Conservatives
I still don’t believe Trump is a conservative on domestic policy or responsible enough to lead our nation’s foreign policy. But he may be starting to unify the party with the right moves — if his list...
View ArticleGovernor Ehrlich and the Present Pass
Readers of National Review are well familiar with Bob Ehrlich, who was governor of Maryland in the 2000s. He is one of my favorite politicians — one of my favorite people. His latest book is Turning...
View ArticleThree Thoughts on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court List
Donald Trump released a list of eleven potential Supreme Court nominees today, and as Jim Geraghty notes, if you take the list at face value, it’s a good one, with a number of solid conservative names...
View ArticleThe Meaning of a Flag
In my “Prague Journal” today, I have an item about a ceremony or rally I came across: to mark the end of World War II. It was largely a Communist rally, replete with hammers and sickles and red stars....
View ArticleCan Trump Be Trusted on the Courts?
The question with which John Yoo ends his post is the crucial one. Trump’s list of judges is a good one–but could he be trusted to actually nominate people like that to the federal courts?Ordinarily...
View ArticleTwo Must-Read Pieces on the High Cost of Sexual License
The first — in The Federalist— is by a self-described gay conservative Democrat who supports gay marriage, and he is unhappy with gay culture:The problem is that the entire milieu in which gay men’s...
View ArticleMrs. Trump Deserves Some Sympathy
There has been a fair amount of snickering over Melania Trump’s comment that her husband is “not Hitler.” Yes, that’s a low bar; yes, it usually goes without saying that one’s spouse has cleared it....
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Trump’s SCOTUS List Will Have ‘Dramatic Effect’ on...
Charles Krauthammer analyzes Donald Trump’s release of a list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court:I think it will have a dramatic effect [on Republicans]. The one thing holding back people from...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (May 18, 2016)
1. Two amendments introduced by Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry that passed the House tonight (description from a Hill staffer who works on religious-liberty issues):Our first amendment expresses...
View ArticleWhat Brought Down EgyptAir Flight 804?
Today’s Morning Jolt features a big roundup of the disturbing news out of Egypt this morning:Not a great day to be flying:EgyptAir Flight 804 vanished from radar on its way from Paris to Cairo with 66...
View ArticleThe Collins Amendment Won't Save You, Senators
Senator Mike Lee explained why he is offering an amendment defunding President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation, in a speech on the Senate floor yesterday. (Video and...
View ArticleCan Any Republican President Be Trusted on the Courts?
The question Ramesh and John Yoo raise, namely “Can Trump be trusted on the courts?” should be tempered by a look back at the track record of Republican judicial appointments since Richard Nixon. Many...
View ArticleThe Scurrilous Charge of Political Activism on the Trump Judge List
University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias is quoted in Politico characterizing Donald Trump’s list of putative Supreme Court “candidates” as “fairly notable people but more for their active...
View Article‘Rhetorical Deportation’
This, from a Trump supporter and early endorser no less, surely gets it right on Trump’s deportation plan:“I call it a rhetorical deportation of 12 million people,” Collins said. He then gestured...
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