Obama's Philosophy of War: Set a Goal, Then Prevent the Military from...
Today President Obama announced that he is calibrating his withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, from not-nearly-enough to win by the time he leaves office (5,500 troops), to a-bit-more than...
View ArticleIs Palin Actually Helping Trump?
Sarah Palin has been blasting Republicans who oppose Trump, most recently calling them“TRAITORS.” (In 2014, Palin herself endorsed the de facto Democratic candidate against the Republican nominee for...
View ArticleIf I'm a Bernie Sanders Supporter, I'm Furious Over Emailgate
Here’s a political question for the day — if Hillary Clinton hadn’t lied her way through the primary, would she be the presumptive Democratic nominee? If Democrats knew late last summer that she had...
View ArticleHow Pro-Abortion Does Tim Kaine Have to Be?
Senator Tim Kaine (D., Va.) supports Roe v. Wade. He wants abortion to stay legal even after the twentieth week of pregnancy. When he ran for the Senate, he attacked his Republican opponent for wanting...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Pro-Life Gains Among Millennials
A significant body of polling data dating back to the 1970s finds that young adults are less likely than their older counterparts to identify as “pro-life.” The mainstream media often gives these...
View Article'Overclassification' Is Not a Justification for Hillary Clinton's Misconduct
Over at the New York Times’s “Room for Debate” I’ve placed a short piece arguing that FBI Director James Comey failed to apply the appropriate legal standard to Hillary Clinton:The relevant statute...
View ArticleWATCH: Andrew McCarthy on the FBI and Hillary's E-mails
Earlier today, National Review writer and former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy appeared on Facebook Live to discuss the FBI recommendation not to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her e-mail scandal:...
View ArticleAnother Police Shooting; Another Day the News Feels Like It’s In Reruns
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt:Another Police Shooting; Another Day the News Feels Like It’s In RerunsBrace yourselves: here comes another national discussion about whether police...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Cool Kid
National Review readers are well familiar with Danilo Maldonado, the Cuban street artist and dissident known as “El Sexto.” (The nickname has nothing to do with dirty texts. In Spanish, it means “The...
View ArticleTrump’s Polling in the High 20s in California
For most of the past year, you’ve seen some bold, daring political voices suggesting Donald Trump could compete strongly in California, win it outright, or at least force Democrats to spend money...
View ArticleDistrust in Both Government and Businesses Breeds More Government
A lot has been said about Tuesday’s FBI press release. One of the most frequent comments was that it is further eroding what little trust people still have in government officials and the government in...
View ArticleFBI Director Comey’s Suggestion that Congress’s Gross Negligence Statute Is...
Director Comey’s explanation is now clear, though he did not lay it out in his report earlier this week: The statute criminalizing gross negligence in mishandling classified information is invalid...
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A Few Thoughts on the Killing of Philando Castile
A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post:A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver.The victim, 32-year-old...
View ArticleTyranny Wins Out in Quebec
A few days ago, I mentioned here that Quebec’s Health Minister had ordered a hospital palliative care center to permit euthanasia rather than transfer to-be-killed patients to another wing in the...
View Article‘Rigged 101’
Well, with Lynch’s announcement yesterday, the FBI and the DOJ have cleared the decks for Hillary in the space of about a week from her interview to Lynch’s formal decision not to indict. I liked this...
View ArticleDirector Comey’s Concession that States Prosecute Negligent Homicide
FBI Director Comey’s legal theory that gross negligence is constitutionally suspect as a mens rea (state of mind) element of a criminal statute – such as Section 973(f) of the federal penal code, the...
View ArticleTrump's Insane Response to Week of Golden Opportunities
The post-Independence Day week began with the second-best news Donald Trump could possibly get. Yes, an indicted Hillary would be even more vulnerable, but the FBI’s investigation found Clinton and her...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Smashes (Positive) Stereotypes about Women Leaders
Feminists like to have it both ways: Women and men are supposed to be seen as interchangeable… except for all the ways in which women are better. This is doubly so when it comes to women in leadership...
View ArticleNever Forget that the GOP Establishment Preferred Trump to Cruz
Sorry to have been away for a while. I’m the proud new father of a one-month-old girl, and with four other children aged nine and under at home and a day job at Hoover that keeps me quite busy, I’ve...
View ArticleThis Sentence Is Programmed to Self-Destruct
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law: “If my father in law’s fast-moving team was careless in choosing an image to retweet, well part of the reason it’s so shocking is that it’s the actual candidate...
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