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Properly Measured, Labor’s Share of Income Has Changed Little
A recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report found household incomes still have not recovered from the recession. What has gone wrong? Some liberal analysts believe they know. They point to data...
View ArticleThe Evidence Keeps Mounting -- the 'Ferguson Effect' Looks Real
Remember how the Obama administration and multiple leftists scoffed at the idea that reaction to police controversies in Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago and elsewhere could be contributing to increased...
View ArticleMetaxas on Orlando, Religious Freedom & More
A few other things from Eric Metaxas, not about Donald Trump, in discussing his new book, If You Can Keep It. (Longer NRO Q&A here.)KJL: What are your If You Can Keep It thoughts in the wake of the...
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Petition: Don’t Take Away Our Fifth Amendment Rights!
In the wake of Orlando, Democrats finally have found a way to begin stripping Americans of their Second Amendment rights. First, they’ll strip them of their Fifth Amendment rights.The Fifth Amendment...
View ArticleTwelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 17, 2016)
1. (AP) Christian militias fighting ISIS hope for US support2. (First Things): Rusty Reno on defining terrorism down.3. (Zenit) An ecumenical drive for more palliative care in Canada.4. (Telegraph)...
View ArticleWATCH: People Say Republicans Are More Responsible Than Islam For Orlando Attack
Filmmaker Ami Horowitz this week asked people in New York City if Islam “played a role” in the Orlando terrorist attack. All those in this video said “no.” He then took it a step further and asked them...
View ArticleTwo Veterans Disagree on the AR-15 -- Which One is Right?
Writing in today’s New York Times, a former infantry officer, Nate Bethea, explains why he doesn’t think civilians should own “assault rifles” (I hope his editors added that term because a civilian...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: George W. Bush 'Holds Trump in Contempt'
Charles Krauthammer says George W. Bush is seeking to “separate the party” from Donald Trump:[With Trump as the nominee, I see the Republicans] probably losing [the majority] in the Senate, probably...
View ArticleNew Study Shows ’90s Era Condom Programs Increased Teen Fertility Rates
A new study by a pair of Notre Dame economists received some media attention this week. It found that school districts that instituted condom distribution programs in the early 1990s saw significant...
View ArticleSpooked by ‘SCOTUS!’?
Every day, people tell anti-Trump conservatives like me that we must support Trump, because of the Supreme Court. “SCOTUS! SCOTUS!” they say — and that is supposed to end all discussion.Trump himself...
View ArticleThe Coming "Wellness" Authoritarianism
We live in socially fascistic and technocratic times. “We control the horizontal. We control the vertical,” as the old Outer Limits TV show intro had it.The political left loves the Bureaucratic State...
View ArticleA Murder in Britain
Britain has been shocked by the brutal murder on Thursday of a talented young Labour MP, Jo Cox. That she was the mother of two very small children only adds to the horror. The alleged killer is...
View ArticleGermany’s Foreign Minister: Playing Putin's Tune
Well, this is just great.DW:In comments published Saturday, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier sharply criticized recent NATO military exercises in eastern Europe, calling such drills...
View Article'Them' and 'Us' No More?
Among the commentary in the wake of the Orlando shooting was a Facebook video by Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin. In it, he criticized some Catholic bishops for not universally naming the “LGBT...
View ArticleAnother Trump Team Member Departs
Smart political minds will argue whether the departure of Corey Lewandowski represents genuine good news for the Trump campaign. Yes, some of the campaign’s problems fall on his shoulders: the minimal...
View ArticleIn Initially Airbrushing Orlando Jihadist’s Calls, DOJ Followed Obama-Clinton...
Before reversing itself this afternoon amid rebukes from commentators and Republican leaders, the Obama Justice Department undertook to bleach the Islam out of Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen’s...
View ArticleThe Pharisee and the Publican, Refugee Edition
God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this critic of refugee resettlement.The UN designated today as World Refugee Day. The White House used...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Redacting Orlando Transcripts Exposes Obama...
Charles Krauthammer argues that the Obama administration’s now-reversed redaction of the Orlando shooter’s 911 call demonstrates a ‘fanatical’ aversion to criticism of Islam:Well, they may not have...
View ArticleYour Mind into a Computer Would Not Be You
This transhumanist fantasy about becoming immortal through uploading your mind into a computer is nonsense–even if such a thing could be done.Here’s the goal. From the Express story:Mr Itskov has been...
View ArticleAhead of Meeting, Evangelicals Sense Leverage Over Trump
Donald Trump will meet with an audience of nearly 1,000 Christian conservative activists in New York City on Tuesday, and the summit could hardly come at a more critical time.The event has been on the...
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