Freedom Partners Makes Big Investment in Pennsylvania Senate Race
A new spot from Freedom Partners Action Fund — part of a $3 million TV and digital ad buy— is a kick in the chops of Democrat Katie McGinty, who’ll be challenging incumbent Republican Pat Toomey in...
View ArticleTrump and the Republican Id
I wrote today about Trump as the candidate of the GOP id, especially in his treatment of the media:At a news conference Tuesday about the money he raised for veterans groups at an Iowa event earlier...
View ArticleGadfly Tulsa Mayoral Candidate Crashes TV Debate
If the presidential debate cartel — as John Fund has termed it — remains closed to third-party candidates this fall, maybe Gary Johnson or, ahem, a certain National Review staff writer should try what...
View ArticleWhat Law—Specifically—Would Have Prevented Yesterday's UCLA Shooting?
Yesterday, at UCLA, a Ph.D. student shot his professor dead. Not too long afterwards, he turned the gun on himself.As soon as the story hit the news, the usual suspects began cranking themselves up....
View ArticleGerman Vote Signifies Backlash against Turkish Alliance
Today is a potentially important moment in German-Turkish relations, as German MPs earlier this morning approved a resolution that named as a “genocide” the killing of millions of Armenians by the...
View ArticleCruel Hoax: The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act
In a unanimous voice vote on May 17, the U.S. Senate approved the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which permits victims of terror attacks and their surviving family members of on...
View ArticleMarco Rubio for Senate — Again?
Marco Rubio has many talents, but he hasn’t exactly excelled at follow-through: he crafted and championed the Gang of 8 bill, then decided he wanted nothing to do with it; mocked Donald Trump until...
View ArticleGeorgia Republicans Endorse Educational Freedom 3-1
One of the most important elections to occur so far this year is one you probably haven’t heard of. Last week in Georgia, Republican primary voters cast ballots on an advisory question: “Should Georgia...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: I'll Be Voting for Donald Trump This Fall
Is it a Trump endorsement? Not a formal Trump endorsement? To quote our illustrious former Secretary of State, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”I’ll be voting for @realDonaldTrump this...
View ArticleHurting the Poor Is No Way to Help Them: Payday Lending Rules Edition
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is at it again. In the name of protecting consumers, it would like to ban or heavily restrict a tool that is very useful to them. This time the target is payday...
View ArticleClimate Change: Ever Chillier For Free Speech
First define heresy, then punish it. That’s how the script always seems to go.Just the other day, I noted how the Portland (Oregon) Public Schools board had approved a resolution aimed at...
View ArticleThen They Came (Maybe) For The £50
Early last month, I noted that the European Central Bank had announced that it would soon cease to issue 500 euro ($575) bank notes on the grounds that these wicked bills could “facilitate illicit...
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The Technocracy Swamps Medicine
Talk about a picture–or graph–being worth 1000 words! Medicine is now an administratively-driven enterprise. This is the consequence of the medical technocracy promoted by most bioethicists,...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 2, 2016)
1.A woman who rejected a marriage offer has been burnt to death in Pakistan https://t.co/ivVPUVOM9xpic.twitter.com/x0gAMv7SG6— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) June 1, 20162. Amazing:#WearOrange because...
View ArticleRe: Back to the Neshoba County Fair
Ramesh, I was 16 years old at the time of that 1980 controversy in which the Carter team tried to “out-South” Reagan, and have a distinct memory of it. One of the big-three evening network newscasts...
View ArticleFriday links
Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches…we shall never surrender” speech: it’s the anniversary of the evacuation of Dunkirk by a flotilla of small boats.The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster.Dagger in King...
View ArticleFrom Baku and Back
In my “Oslo Journal” today — Part IV— I mention Azerbaijan. It is “a lousy place,” I say. “It has been ruled by two men, father and son, since 1993 — the Aliyevs.” I then comment, “That’s nothing....
View ArticleAnother Successful 'Violent Flag-Burning Thugs to Unwittingly Help Trump' Rally
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:Another Successful ‘Violent Flag-Burning Thugs to Unwittingly Help Trump’ RallyIt’s happening again. They might as well organize as ‘Violent Leftist Punks for...
View ArticleWho Remembers the Armenians?
“Who, after all, today remembers the annihilation of the Armenians?” is the question Adolf Hitler put to the world to cover his own intentions to annihilate chosen victims. A century ago, in the course...
View ArticleHow Customs and Immigration Nearly Let a Suspected Terrorist Get Away
The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General unveiled an unnerving report today: If you’re a federal agent hot on the trail of a suspected terrorist, the U.S. Customs and Immigration Office...
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