Trump vs. Trump: Second Amendment Edition
Donald Trump may have just won an endorsement from the NRA — but don’t be too sure about where he stands on guns today: Trump v. Trump: 2nd Amendment Edition
View ArticleWednesday links
For fans of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: don’t panic - today is Towel Day!From 32 starlings in the 1890s to 200 million now: The Shakespeare Fanatic Who Introduced the Bard’s Birds to America.Not...
View ArticleWhen Do Violent Anti-Trump Protesters Become the Big Story?
From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt:When Do Violent Anti-Trump Protesters Turn Into a Major Story?No, really, media, you have to start asking questions about the atmosphere of violence and...
View ArticleRyan: 'Republicans Lose Personality Contests . . . We Always Do.'
The office of House speaker Paul Ryan just unveiled this video. Does this sound like a man on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump?I have not seen the kind of bitterness in our discourse, our politics,...
View ArticleBREAKING: State Dept IG Finds Hillary Clinton Violated Government Records Act...
Politicoreports that the State Department inspector general has concluded that Hillary Clinton violated State’s recordkeeping protocols. The finding is contained in a much anticipated report provided...
View ArticleKatie Couric Should Be Ashamed of Herself
Katie Couric should be thoroughly ashamed of herself. Per the Free Beacon:The makers of a new Katie Couric documentary on gun violence deceptively edited an interview between Couric and a group of gun...
View ArticleThe Obama Era Gave Credibility to Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists
The New York Times, NPR, and CNN slam Donald Trump for trafficking in conspiracy theories.Trump has this coming; there’s no evidence that vaccines lead to autism, that Supreme Court Justice Antonin...
View ArticleMore on State Dept IG Report on Clinton Violations and Refusal to Answer...
The Hill has additional details about the State Department inspector general report discussed in my previous post. The report makes clear that, even if we ignore the approximately 32,000 emails Mrs....
View ArticleEPIX Should Be Ashamed of Itself, Too
Per the Free Beacon, EPIX doesn’t seem to care much about Katie Couric’s mendacity:Nora Ryan, the chief of staff for EPIX, the cable channel that is airing the documentary, told the Free Beacon in an...
View Article'Income Inequality'— Missing the Point
President Obama, Paul Krugman tells us, has declared war on income inequality. In fact, income inequality is at the root of just about everything wrong with the economy, according to the Left. If we...
View ArticleFinally — Some Refreshing Sanity from the Left on Transgender Rights and...
I’ve been waiting for smart, reasonable thinkers on the Left to uncover both the contradictions and the lawlessness at the heart of the Department of Justice’s new interpretations of Title IX. Thanks...
View ArticleA True Beauty
Anastasia Lin is an extraordinary beauty queen. She is also an actress. And a human-rights advocate.Last year, she was crowned Miss World Canada. But the international competition was held in China —...
View ArticleTexas, Tennessee, and Nine Other States Challenge the Obama Administration's...
The legal counterattack against the Obama administration’s latest round of lawlessness is now under way. Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and eight other states filed suit today in Texas to block enforcement...
View ArticleWho Are the Sanders Voters?
A fascinating article from political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels:[C]ommentators who have been ready and willing to attribute Donald Trump’s success to anger, authoritarianism, or...
View ArticleOne Tiny Victory over the Regulatory State: Prairie Chicken Edition
In times like these I wonder how anyone can continue to trust government officials and most politicians. Only in the last few days we have had: the White House’s deception on the Iran nuclear deal, new...
View ArticleThe EU’s Cultural Protectionism
Business Insider:The European Union has announced proposals that will force video-on-demand providers like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple iTunes to meet quotas for European movies and TV shows. Under the...
View ArticleReforming the Primaries: The Question of Independents
Jeremy Peters reports in the New York Times that Republicans are debating changing the presidential primaries for next time:Leaders of the Republican Party have begun internal deliberations over what...
View ArticleThe Dog That Didn’t Bark: Trump Voters in Down-Ballot Primaries
One of the great paradoxes of 2016 is that Republican primary voters in races below the presidential level have mostly repeated the pro-establishment tilt of the 2014-15 primaries, even while picking a...
View ArticleBrexit: The EEAs(ier) Way Out
In a recent post, I mentioned how fears about Britain’s economic prospects outside the EU were damaging the chances of a vote for Brexit on June 23.Channeling EU Referendum’s Richard North and the Adam...
View ArticleLegislation: Tax Medicine to Treat Drug Addicts
Just when I thought our elected representatives had reached the apex of moronic ideas.Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) want to tax opioid medicines–needed by very ill and disabled...
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