Rationalia's Irrational Constitution
I know this will shock you, Jonah, but Tyson does not appear to have given much thought to what a constitution is for. His proposed constitution consists of one sentence: “All policy shall be based on...
View ArticleThe FEC's Impulse for Censorship
Three Democrats on the six-person Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted, in secret, to punish Fox News for its handling of a Republican primary debate. Though the vote did not pass, the...
View Article‘Trump Makes Protectionism Great Again’
I wrote for Politico today about Trump’s trade speech:Donald Trump is an optimist. He believes there is nothing wrong with America that autarky can’t fix.Trump’s economic speech this week was a...
View ArticleDHS Sec’y on Illegal Aliens: They’re Here and They’re Not Going Anywhere
Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has been testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning. He expressed the Obama administration’s disappointment in the...
View ArticleAttrition Through Enforcement
Andy ably rebuts the administration’s (and seemingly Trump’s) argument for amnesty by making the case for a policy of attrition through enforcement for the illegal population. There’s always a good...
View ArticleGovernment Union Misusing Teachers’ Pensions
Government employee pensions are in crisis. They face a $3 trillion funding shortfall. A new Wall Street Journal article sheds light on one reason why: Unions use government pension investments as...
View ArticleThe Pentagon's New Policy on Transgender Soldiers Is Pure Social Engineering
In the year’s most predictable political move, the Pentagon has ended its ban on transgender soldiers serving in the military. There is no conceivable military justification for this move. The actual...
View ArticleMinnesota Men
In my roundup on the home page of June’s misbehaving immigrants, in honor of “Immigrant Heritage Month,” I missed a big one: The trial of Somalis in Minnesota on terrorism charges, which concluded June...
View ArticleA Great Win for Election Integrity
Yesterday was a great day for election integrity and everyone (other than the Obama administration and its political allies) who wants to make sure non-citizens don’t illegally vote in our elections....
View ArticleMajority of Economists Surveyed Are against the Universal Basic Income
When asked if “Granting every American citizen over 21-years old a universal basic income of $13,000 a year— financed by eliminating all transfer programs (including Social Security, Medicare,...
View ArticleBogus Prosecutions Don't Stop Police Brutality
Yesterday, The Atlantic ran a piece called “An Alternative to the Madness of Proving Police Injustice” advocating the use of so-called “restorative justice” in the event of disputes over police...
View ArticleAfter Boris
As Noah Daponte-Smith has explained over on the home page, Boris Johnson has, as The Sunput it, been ‘Brexecuted’, his bid for the Conservative leadership destroyed just before lift-off by the...
View ArticleFriday links
June 30, 1934 was the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler’s purge of those standing in his way.Star Trek alert: This cutaway diagram shows the new USS Enterprise in mind-blowing detail.Bathing Machines Of...
View ArticleGove
Life seems to move so speedily — and often happily so. Two seconds ago, Michael Gove was one of my favorite political writers. I read him from afar. I remember, in particular, a kind of credo he wrote....
View Article‘You Never Hear Me Apologize, Do You?’
Al Sharpton was one of the perpetrators of the TawanaBrawley hoax. He accused innocent people of raping a girl. One of them was an assistant DA, Steven Pagones. For years, he pursued a defamation case...
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Kate Steinle Day
One year ago today, Kate Steinle was killed in San Francisco by a previously deported felon protected by that city’s sanctuary policies. In the interim, neither Congress nor the administration has done...
View ArticleCelebrate the Anniversary of the Ex-Im Bank’s Crippling
It’s been a year since the Ex-Im Bank lost its ability to extend deals bigger than $10 million. It is an anniversary well worth celebrating.Last year, in the midnight hours of June 30, the Ex-Im Bank’s...
View ArticleNo, Loretta Lynch Is Not 'Recusing Herself' from Emailgate
Big News, via the New York Times: “Lynch to Accept Guidance of F.B.I. in Clinton Email Inquiry”:Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch plans to announce on Friday that she will accept whatever...
View ArticleWATCH: Benghazi Widow Says Hillary Clinton Has 'No Right' to Tell Her to Move On
This week, the Select Committee on Benghazi issued it’s final report absolving Hillary Clinton of any responsibility for the failed response to the attacks. Tyrone Woods, one of the four victims that...
View Article'Open' and 'Closed' Is the Wrong Political Frame
David Brooks argues today that Donald Trump is a harbinger of a coming realignment that will shift the terms of the American political debate from “size of government” to “open/closed.” I think he is...
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