Don't Blame Trump for Warren's Unsupported Native Heritage Claims
You may have heard an objection during Donald Trump’s press conference yesterday, when he called Senator Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.”As [Trump] spoke, Nicole Robertson shouted from the audience:...
View ArticleZoe Lofgren's Epic Cheap-Shot at Gail Heriot
Liberal websites have been abuzz for the last couple days about a confrontation at a House hearing on the Obama administration’s controversial guidance letter on transgender bathrooms. Representative...
View ArticleGreenhouse: Can We Please Stop Talking About the Little Sisters?
Linda Greenhouse thinks that conservative commentators including me have “perpetuated” a “widespread misunderstanding” of a recent Supreme Court case by making it sound as though it were “about nuns.”...
View ArticleA Trump-Sanders Debate Would Exacerbate Democratic Party Tensions
Are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders going to debate? CBS News hears that Trump’s people say he was kidding; last night on Jimmy Kimmel’s program, Sanders said he’s ready and willing, and now they are...
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Feminism in the Flesh: Kurdish Pop Star Risks Her Life to Make Music That...
It must have been difficult for 27-year-old Iraqi-born Kurdish singer HellyLuv to film her music video, “Revolution,” which recently went viral. In the video, bullets are flying, suicide bomber-esque...
View Article#withJuncker
Although the root cause of the UK’s discontent with the EU can be found in the way that the ‘Common Market’ was originally (and dishonestly) sold to the British electorate, the battle of Brexit can...
View ArticlePreparing for Memorial Day
Looming larger as a reliable source of America’s disappearing e pluribus unum is Turner Classic Movies, which has always honored Memorial Day with a serious three-day exhibition of military films...
View ArticleRon Unz, Immigration Convert
Libertarian tech millionaire Ron Unz was very active in the immigration issue in the 1990s, and not on my side. As he put it in Commentary:My political activities in California had extended back a few...
View ArticleConfusion or Dishonesty in the Boston Review
David Sehat, a professor at Georgia State University, has written a relentlessly stupid article on religious liberty for the Boston Review. Here I’m going to concentrate on the portion of it where he...
View ArticleHannan Seeks Unemployment
#SackHannanpic.twitter.com/NpFF0FgEXH— Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) May 27, 2016 Hannan Seeks Unemployment
View ArticleAt Yale, the Bullies Win
The Tom Wolfe novel-in-waiting that is the saga of Nicholas and Erika Christakis has come to a disgraceful close.The Christakises, whose opposition to micromanaging students’ Halloween costumes...
View ArticleBerlin: ‘Moderate’ Asylum Seekers Beat Fellow Muslim to a Pulp Over ‘I’m...
Yes, what we definitely need are tens of thousands more refugees from the Muslim Middle East who cannot be vetted.In Berlin, a 23-year-old Iraqi Muslim asylum seeker figured his co-religionists would...
View ArticleTrump and Susana: A Study in Contrasts
As you may have seen, Donald Trump was in New Mexico earlier this week. He attacked the state’s governor, Susana Martinez. Who is a conservative Republican. A Reagan Republican.I know her a little bit....
View ArticleWinter Is Coming — If We Let It
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are involved in something of a bromance. Putin has praised Trump; Trump has praised him back. “I’ve always felt fine about Putin,” says Trump. No doubt. That is one...
View ArticleDebate Time Next Fall: An Imagining
A lot of us — maybe not enough to win elections, but a good number of us — would like a third option on the fall ballot. An honorable conservative, someone we can vote for with appreciation.Maybe Mitt...
View ArticleGary Johnson for President?
Gary Johnson has secured the Libertarian nomination for president. Here’s my profile of him in the current issue.At a time when many conservatives harbor deep doubts about the man who will head the...
View ArticleMonday links
Happy Memorial Day.Here Come the Laser Helicopters.An 80s Replica of the Saved By the Bell Diner Opens Next Week.Here’s Kurt Vonnegut’s May 29, 1945 letter home after imprisonment in an underground...
View ArticleIgnoring the Ill and Disabled in Suicide Prevention
If we want to keep ourselves from becoming a suicide culture, we have to work to prevent all suicides, not just of the young and those that are based on impulse.But we don’t. Increasingly, many support...
View ArticleThe Worst Ad for Libertarianism Is Its Adherents
I belatedly saw the strip-tease at the Libertarian Party convention in Orlando, and read Ian’s color piece on the gathering. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere word ”Libertarianism” draw...
View Article‘Never Trump’: Be Ready Always to Give a Reason
We tend to reverse-engineer our reasons for supporting candidates for public office. “Rather than choose a candidate whose views match their own, voters often change their views to align with the...
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