Clinton–McAuliffe Coordination on Felon Voting?
Sure looks like it, according to this Washington Examiner article, which begins:New Clinton campaign emails show that there was communication with top ally and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on his plan...
View ArticleUncommon Knowledge: European Disunion
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul and John O’Sullivan discuss the many problems Europe is facing including an aggressive Russia, Brexit, NATO and the asylum crisis in Germany. McFaul and...
View ArticleIn Harlem, Democrats Trade Race Cards and Voter Suppression Charges
Robin Williams used to have a mordant joke back in the early 80s that the violence in Northern Ireland proved that when there were no black, Hispanic or Arab people around, “white people can...
View ArticleKeeping Patient Alive Can Be ‘Non-Beneficial Treatment’
The medical bureaucrats and technocrats are changing the meaning of definitions and terms to permit health care rationing and coerced withdrawal of care.This is the “futile care” controversy, sometimes...
View ArticleAn Uphill Battle for Scottish Independence
Since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union last week, it has become received wisdom that Scotland will, at some point in the near future, secede from the U.K. It’s a compelling theory:...
View ArticlePuerto Rican Debt Comes Due
This Friday, $2 billion of Puerto Rican debt comes due. The struggling U.S. territory has been unable to repay it, but thanks to the efforts of congressional republicans, it should have some more...
View ArticleRe: Clinton-McAuliffe Coordination on Felon Voting?
My friend Hans von Spakovsky notes that the e-mails reveal that the governor was working with progressive groups, who are his political allies, instead of with state election officials, who were...
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Do Children of Same-Sex Parents Suffer from Higher Rates of Depression,...
Of all the battles over same-sex relationships, fewer are more contentious (or harder to resolve) than the battle over same-sex parenting. The phenomenon is new enough and rare enough that it’s hard to...
View ArticleGermany Really Needs to Give Some Thought to Banning Rocket Launchers
I had two thoughts when I saw this tweet earlier today:Islamist extremists hide huge stockpile of weapons near German mosque: https://t.co/WNTos3hlRrpic.twitter.com/33Y4knryxc— Daily Express...
View ArticleDoes the U.K. Still Have a Claim to a U.N. Security Council Seat? Yes (More...
Now that Brits have voted to leave the EU, outraged critics have been saying its global influence will decline and questions must be raised about why it still has a U.N. Security Council seat.Nonsense....
View ArticleSteel Trap
Keith Hennessey writes about Trump’s calls for protecting the steel industry from foreign competition:Steel is an intermediate good. When you raise protectionist barriers against imported steel as Mr....
View ArticleNew Hampshire Gubernatorial Candidate Flips on Support for Planned Parenthood...
New Hampshire executive councilor Chris Sununu, a candidate for governor, no longer opposes renewing the state’s funding contract with Planned Parenthood.Last year, after the release of videos showing...
View ArticlePresidential Projections
President Obama went off on a rant at a press conference, lecturing that “Somebody who labels us versus them or engages in rhetoric about how we’re going to look after ourselves and take it to the...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: For the First Time Ever, Both Parties Are Abandoning Free...
Charles Krauthammer argues that both parties’ rejection of free trade will alter the international landscape:What [Trump] saw from the Republican primaries is that the traditional ideology — free...
View ArticleAbortion
I read a news story this morning that gave me a memory. I dug out the text of a speech I gave, many years ago. The speech was about abortion. And, in it, I outlined how I had come to an anti-abortion...
View Article‘Us versus Them,’ and O
President Obama indulged in what he described as a “rant” — nice admission. (Really.) It included a blast at “somebody,” anybody, “who labels ‘us versus them’ or engages in rhetoric about how we’re...
View ArticleA Second of Sanity
For a brief, shining second, there was hope in America. Justin Timberlake issued a tweet praising a speech given at the BET Awards. Someone responded, “Does this mean you’re going to stop appropriating...
View ArticleAmanpour Irate Over Brexit, Hannan Gives Her What-fer
Our pal Daniel Hannan, British MEP and Leave leader, went toe-to-toe with lefty CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, who cannot contain her digust over the U.K.’s Brexit vote. It’s a classic example of...
View ArticleRationalia, Ho!
Kevin Williamson’s piece on “Rationalia” may be the best thing he’s written in a while — which is quite a high bar. But I may be biased because it is so in my wheelhouse. For those of you who read the...
View ArticleMike Lee Isn’t Ready to Embrace Trump
It doesn’t appear that Utah senator Mike Lee is inching any closer to supporting his party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump.In an interview with NewsMaxTV’s Steve Malzberg, Lee didn’t shy away from...
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