There Is No Radical Christianity That Compares to Radical Islam
One of the persistent fallacies that emerges from the left side of the political spectrum after really any sort of mass atrocity, regardless of who perpetrated it or why, is that there is some sort of...
View ArticleOpting for Brexit
I don’t agree with absolutely everything (although it comes close) that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has to say in this powerful piece for the Daily Telegraph explaining why he is voting for Brexit, notably...
View Article‘He Hasn’t Kept Us Safe’
I wrote about Orlando today:President Barack Obama desperately wanted to be a peacetime president, yet is ending his second term with Islamic terror attacks looming larger than at any time since 9/11....
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You Don’t Say?
I love the last sentence of this Wall Street Journal caption of English soccer fans in action: England vs. Russia: Soccer Match Ends in Mayhem
View ArticleFighting Tax Harmonization Isn't ‘Trading with the Enemy’
The Washington Post had a story Friday about the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and its almost two-decade long fight against tax harmonization. In 2000, I co-founded the Center with Dan Mitchell and...
View ArticleTrump vs. WaPo
If you had said to me, “There will come a time when you defend the Washington Post against the Republican presidential nominee,” I would have said, “You must have smoked something, and you must have...
View ArticleDoes America Really Believe Hillary's a Hawk?
I enjoy reading the “Daily 202” at the Washington Post. It provides an often insightful and always interesting morning rundown of news and analysis, and while it’s obviously not written from a...
View ArticleLanguage Arts
As Andy notes, President Obama’s insistence today that only dumb Republicans make a fetish of the language we use to describe our enemies in the war on terrorism contradicts his own administration’s...
View ArticleRemember When Trump Was Neck-and-Neck With Hillary?
There was a stretch in mid-May when Donald Trump was doing rather well in national polling – up by 3 in the Fox News poll, up 5 in Rasmussen, up 2 in the ABC News/Washington Post poll. Talk of a...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama 'Deliberately Trying to Deny' Radical Islam...
Charles Krauthammer argues that President Obama’s unwillingness to acknowledge the Islamic nature of modern terrorism is intentional:Look, the fact that the President goes way out of his way, for...
View ArticleSign Physicians' Declaration Against Euthanasia
The Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia has an excellent declaration that doctors and lay persons can sign. From the Declaration.Patients at the end of life should receive diligent and competent...
View ArticleWednesday links
Magna Carta was signed on June 15, 1215: history, quotes, Horrible Histories and Monty Python explanations. Related, Mark Steyn’sThe Field Where Liberty Was Sown, on re-learning those lessons.The...
View ArticleDon’t Let the Orlando Discussion Shift Away from the Government’s Failure
From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt:Don’t Let the Orlando Discussion Shift Away from the Government’s FailureThis is the most important aspect, and the one most likely to be under-discussed,...
View ArticleSwixit
The Swiss are not hasty: They’ve had a European Union membership application idling for 24 years. The Swiss government stopped pursuing it when the Swiss people rejected it in a 1992 resolution. (It...
View ArticleScapegoating, You Say?
The New York Times is now blaming Republicans for the massacre in Orlando, arguing that a mass-murdering ISIS groupie who may have been a conflicted homosexual was inspired by . . . conservative...
View ArticleAffirmative Discrimination for Firefighters
There are, alas, no minorities or women in the Cranston fire department— the only Rhode Island city so stained. But the city is aware of the ignominy and is aggressively trying to find suitable...
View ArticleHow Bad Are Trump's National Polls? Some History.
National polls remain a less-than-ideal way to measure the presidential horserace, but they are often the quickest way to compare where today’s race stands to campaigns of the past. We can compare...
View ArticleTrafalgar on the Thames
It’s not just American politics that’s gone a bit loopy this year.Earlier today, one of the more bizarre scenes a political reporter will ever encounter happened on the River Thames, in central London....
View ArticleBoeing Cashes in on Obama’s Iran Deal – Thanks GOP
When more important matters die down, I will have more to say about Senator Bob Corker’s rant on Fox News last week, accusing me of making “purposeful misstatements” about his legislation that enabled...
View ArticleThe Reid-Clinton-Trump Pre-Crime Proposal Doesn't Go Far Enough
Panic makes strange bedfellows.In the wake of Sunday’s terrorist attack in Orlando, Florida, the Democratic party has resuscitated its attempt to strip those placed on the “terror watch list” of their...
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