Leftward, Ho!
For Politico today, I write about Sanders and Trump are pulling their parties, and the nation’s political debates, to the left:If the grass-roots movement that Sanders has built will pressure Democrats...
View ArticleTrumpmentum Is Real
Trump leads Hillary in the Fox poll that came out yesterday. He’s clearly gotten a bump from his nomination victory and Hillary is still in a two-front war, so we need to wait a few more weeks to get a...
View ArticleThe Anti-Trump Ad Barrage Begins with a Whimper
One big question in the race is if Democrats can severely wound Trump out of the gate with a barrage of negative advertising, as they did with Romney in 2012. If the answer is “no,” Trump’s odds of...
View ArticleTransgender Extremism — Two Videos Show How Quickly the Absurd Became...
Here’s the first, thanks to my friend Ryan Anderson. If Saturday Night Live ran this sketch today, heads would likely roll:Could Saturday Night Live do this sketch today? https://t.co/LT6VxAFVnk— Ryan...
View ArticleUncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson: The Texas Plan with Governor Greg Abbott
Every branch of the federal government has strayed from its original purpose, meaning that no candidate for president will be able to fix the underlying issues that plague them. Texas governor Abbott...
View ArticleEverybody Loves Shouting?
We are yuge fans of screaming — something you’d conclude if you knew nothing about America other than what you learned at presidential campaign events or on social media and comments sections...
View ArticleFederal Judge Issues 'Extraordinary' Order Sanctioning the DOJ for Misconduct...
In one of the most stinging court opinions I’ve ever read, federal district judge Andrew Hanon blasted Department of Justice officials for misleading the court during the course of executive amnesty...
View ArticleCanadian Court: Euthanasia For Non-Terminally Ill
The idea that assisted suicide and euthanasia can ever be permanently limited to the dying is poppycock. Those jurisdictions that so limit facilitated death are expedients, the honey (if you will) to...
View ArticleMedicaid and the Safety Net
Oren Cass argues in this paper that too much of what the government spends on low-income Americans is spent on health care. He also explains why that is, and offers some suggestions for spending these...
View ArticleThe Senate Republicans' Latest Disgrace
To nobody’s surprise, the Lee amendment to defund the Obama Administration’s radical Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH), (a rule that essentially turns the federal government into a...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (May 19, 2016)
1. In the New York Times: An Ayatollah’s Daughter Prompts a Debate on Religious Persecution in Iran2. Beware the populist leader promising a new dawn. Disaster will follow3. In a piece on Public...
View ArticleFriday links
Early attempts to produce the flying car we were supposed to have by nowHow to find out everything Google knows about you.Why Do We Put Candles on a Birthday Cake?The Bloody History of the Barber...
View ArticleThe Choice for Gun Owners: An Unreliable Ally or a Certain Foe
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:Today, Donald Trump Meets America’s Gun OwnersGreetings from Louisville, Kentucky, where this afternoon, Donald Trump will address the attendees of the NRA Annual...
View ArticleHumanizing Aborted Fetuses Through Burial
A new law in Indiana requires that the bodies of aborted fetuses by treated with the respect due any dead human body. From The Atlantic story by Emma Green:She will be given a list of her options for...
View ArticleThe Out-of-Date Template for Lefty Sneering About the NRA Convention
Our Charles Cooke wondered if we would see the traditional “the NRA is hypocritical because you can’t open carry at their convention” stories this year.Those stories would suggest that critics of the...
View ArticleDid Medicaid Expansion Keep Hospital ERs from Closing?
One of the many rationales offered for the Affordable Care Act was that the previous system kept too many Americans uninsured for too long, resulting in part in higher utilization of hospital emergency...
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California Will Put Minimum-Wage Theories to the Test
California employers must pay at least $15 an hour by 2023. Adjusted for inflation, that works out to $13.39 an hour in today’s dollars — higher than any other country’s real minimum wage, even...
View ArticleDiversions
Like many others, I’ve been typing my fingers off about politics. I’ve also done a little journaling (ugly word). (For a “Prague Journal,” go here. For a “Danube Journal,” go here.) And then there’s...
View ArticleWhy Rand Paul Doesn't Mind Making People Uncomfortable
Louisville, Ky.— Rand Paul is running in a different race than he hoped to be at this moment: reelection for a second term in the U.S. Senate instead of the presidency. Today Paul made his case to...
View ArticleEx-Im Special Interests Gearing Up for a Fight, Wisconsin Edition
During this rather unusual election season, some of you may need a little good news. Here it is: You may not realize it but conservatives and free-market advocates have actually achieve a significant...
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