I Don't Get It
I’m on vacation but I had to watch FBI Director Comey’s statement. I was not surprised that he opted not to recommend prosecution. I was surprised by his explanation. He said at the outset:Our...
View ArticleFBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation...
View ArticleHow the Reaction to Kevin Durant Explains Our Conflicted Feelings About Free...
In some ways, sports fans’ hyperbolic reaction to professional athletes’ free agency decisions mirrors the country’s perspective on free trade: we love having freedom of choice for ourselves, but we...
View ArticleWhat Edward Snowden and Hillary Clinton Have In Common
Enron Corporation, in the years leading up to its implosion due to carefully concealed financial risks, ran a a print ad with a slogan along the lines of “it’s what you can’t see that makes the...
View ArticleWould You Hire Hillary Clinton?
One of the many extraordinary things about this present political crisis is the reality that the Democratic establishment is lockstep behind a woman who has unquestionably failed the public in...
View ArticleAn Act of Civic Hygiene
Comey’s announcement today that Hillary beat the rap has hacked out another large chunk of the remaining legitimacy of our constitutional order. Sure, it’s outrageous that a person like her could get...
View ArticleVP Watch: Newt to Stump with Trump in Ohio
Newt Gingrich, who is among the finalists to become Donald Trump’s running mate, will join the presumptive nominee at his rally Wednesday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio, according to two sources.One...
View ArticleThe Problem with Diversity Training
The Washington Post reports: ”In the cover story of the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review, sociologists from Harvard University and Tel Aviv University explore the counterintuitive idea that...
View ArticleThose Globalist Christians
Brussels is to secular, post-Christian Europe as Rome was to Catholic Europe before the Reformation. That sounds about right. The observation was dashed off casually by Catholic blogger Father Ray...
View ArticleComey-Clinton Supercut
Our friends at Reason have put together a pretty useful video. Clinton Comey Supercut
View ArticleMake Her Pay
In a better world, Hillary Clinton would be made to pay for being, at a bare minimum, “extremely careless” (FBI Director Comey’s words) with classified information. In fact, as Shannon Coffin and Andy...
View ArticleDear Iowa Christians, Use the Right Pronouns in Church . . . Or Else
I’m old enough to remember when Christians who expressed concern that LGBT activists would attempt to regulate church services were dismissed as paranoid nutjobs. Well, welcome to our new paranoid...
View Article‘An Accelerating Process of Unraveling’?
Agree or disagree (I frequently do both) with what he has to say, the British philosopher John Gray is almost always worth reading. ThisNew Statesman article on, so to speak, the tectonic shifts...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Comey’s ‘Logic Was Completely Wrong’ on Not Prosecuting...
Charles Krauthammer argues that FBI director James Comey used flawed logic in deciding not to indict Hillary Clinton: I guess the conclusion of the day is that she is a criminal liar. The lying is...
View ArticleThe Conservatives, and the U.K., after Brexit
From my most recent NRO article, about Britain’s Brexit aftermath: “The vitriol being hurled about in London is, as usual with the British, very fluent and often entertaining. Americans can keep it in...
View ArticleHillary, the FBI, and America
About the continuing immunity of Hillary Rodham Clinton, I have a few comments:Confidence in government depends on a roughly evenhanded application of the law. Confidence in government is important in...
View ArticleMr. Comey, Hillary Wants Another Job That Requires a Security Clearance
From the midweek Morning Jolt:Mr. Comey, Hillary Wants Another Job That Requires a Security ClearanceIt would almost have been easier if FBI Director James Comey came to the podium and said simply, “we...
View ArticleTrump, Saddam, and Us
Yesterday, Donald Trump was at it again, defending and praising Saddam Hussein. To see the video, go here.Trump has long said that Saddam, bad as he was, killed terrorists. Therefore, the U.S. and its...
View ArticleComey's Was an Extremely Careless Decision
The way in which FBI Director Jim Comey has disposed of Hillary Clinton’s case may convince some that high government officials don’t take seriously the duty to protect classified information. In my...
View ArticleIndict Huma Abedin
A quick question. The relevant law in Hillary Clinton’s case — the law she broke, but, hey, #YOLO (to paraphrase Jim Comey) — is 18 U.S. Code § 793(f). That section reads, in full:Whoever, being...
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