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I Have Absolutely No Problem With the Dallas Killer Robot
The Dallas Police Department reportedly killed suspected shooter Micah Johnson with a bomb delivered remotely by robot, a move that is raising some eyebrows:[UC-Davis law professor Elizabeth Joh] said...
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A Few Thoughts on an Hour of Peril
There are so many angles to the past few days’ anguish over the shootings in Baton Rouge, in Minnesota, and in Dallas. Many of them deserve a lot more detailed expansion, but allow me a few related...
View ArticleCops Wounded in Gunfights in Missouri, Georgia, and Tennessee
After the horror, come the copycats. Friday brings news of shots fired at police in Valdosta, Georgia:Authorities say a man opened fire on a police officer investigating a report of a damaged vehicle...
View ArticleTo Tell the Truth
On our latest Need to Know, Mona and I have a familiar guest — familiar to all NR readers, and other right-thinking people: Andrew C. McCarthy. He discusses the Hillary indictment, or non-indictment....
View ArticleObama Stays Above the Fray on Brexit
Amid all the hair-pulling and general consternation over the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union, one figure has remained admirably above the fray: Barack Obama.Obama was never in favor...
View ArticleHorror in Dallas: 5 Officers Dead, 7 Wounded Following Sniper Attack at...
3:46 P.M.: From Black Lives Matter’s official statement, this rather remarkable line stands out: “To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible.” Indeed.3:31...
View ArticleRunning Against the Media Probably Won't Work for Trump
Readers of a certain age may remember George H. W. Bush’s delight in 1992 in a bumper sticker that read, “Annoy the Media: Re-Elect Bush.” Newt Gingrich is predicting/advocating that Trump employ the...
View ArticleCalifornia Religious Conscience Violations Make the U.S. Sound a Lot like...
In Belgium, a Catholic nursing home has been fined a total of €6,000 for refusing to permit a resident to access euthanasia. After the home prevented Mariette Buntjens’s doctor from entering to give...
View ArticleSo Sweet to Say: ‘Sir Roger’
A few weeks ago, conservatives got some good news: Roger Scruton is now Sir Roger. Yes, the magnificent English philosopher, writer, novelist, composer, and so on was knighted. And Sir Roger is my...
View ArticleDallas Aftermath: It's Time to Address the Sharp Increase in Attacks on Police
Following up on Jim’s post, consider these grim statistics:The number of police officers shot and killed in the USA is 44% higher than at this time last year following the Dallas ambush Thursday night...
View ArticleThe Attacks in Dallas Won't Be the Last
On Friday, in speaking of the previous night’s atrocity, President Obama said, “I believe that I speak for every single American when I say that we are horrified over these events and that we stand...
View ArticleOntario MDs Require All Docs' Complicity in Euthanasia
The enthusiastic embrace of legalized euthanasia by the Canadian medical establishment has been shocking and appalling.Now, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario–the official provincial...
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Midsummer Night’s Monsters
On Monday evening, at 6:30, our Jay Nordlinger will be speaking at a New York public library: the Mid-Manhattan Library, at 40th and Fifth. For info, go here. His topic will be his recent book Children...
View ArticleBrian Wilson and Lincoln’s ‘Better Angels’
Brian Wilson was at the Hollywood Bowl tonight to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys’ classic Pet Sounds album. It’s good to be reminded that that masterpiece came out the year before the...
View ArticleIs Trump’s Veep Pick In Like Flynn?
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:Is Trump’s Veep Pick In Like Flynn?Our Eliana Johnson reports on seven political figures who were sent the documents for vetting to be Donald Trump’s running...
View ArticleFighting Back against Federal Coercion in Madison, Wisconsin
This morning at the Wisconsin state capitol in Madison, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty will be rolling out its new Center for Competitive Federalism. We’re honored to have several...
View ArticleBeware a Pence Fizzle
I understand the impulse for Trump to pick Pence — an experienced pol, in good standing with conservatives, and not much of a lightning rod, at least not yet (the Left tends to make any GOP pick a...
View ArticleTwelve Observations on the Police and Race
1. There’s really little to say about the Dallas shootings. There were horrific and inexcusable.2. Does Black Lives Matter bear some of the blame for them? The argument would be that, by relentlessly...
View ArticleSantorum > Pence for Veep
A few days ago I made the case that Rick Santorum would be Trump’s best v.p. pick, even though he is on practically nobody’s list of the contenders. Indiana governor Mike Pence is now atop that list....
View ArticleAnti-Police Protesters Cheer a Cop Getting Hurt. Are We Surprised?
At around the 2:30 mark of this video of the disgraceful events in St. Paul over the weekend: Anti-Police Protesters in St. Paul Cheer Hurting Cops
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