What's the Matter with Saying ‘Government Schools’ in Kansas?
Julie Bosman reports in the New York Times that conservatives in Kansas have taken to calling public schools “government schools,” and that other people are upset about this use of a “calculated...
View ArticleThe Purpose of Gun Research Is to Enact Gun Control?
The recent spate of shootings has brought fresh denunciations of the “Dickey Amendment,” a 1996 law seen as restricting the Centers for Disease Control from researching gun violence. To its critics,...
View ArticleKooks Love Emotive Political Movements
Micah Xavier Johnson seems to have been a kook. This is not a great surprise.Johnson, according to the Daily Beast, attempted to join a black-power group after his discharge from the military. Ken...
View ArticleNew Study Suggests Police Are Less Likely to Shoot Black Suspects
A new study from Harvard’s Roland G. Fryer Jr. (which Robert VerBruggen examines on the homepage today) shows that while police are more likely to use various types of force – pepper spray, handcuffs,...
View ArticleGermany's Rape Jihad Was Worse than You Thought
The German people have been deceived on a massive scale:At first, there was complete silence from officials. As rumors spread on social media, police had nothing to say about allegations of mass sexual...
View ArticleIn the South China Sea and Elsewhere, East Asia Stumbles Toward Conflict
On Tuesday, the long-awaited ruling from the Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration may mark a legal watershed in Asian international relations. Brought by the Philippines in January 2013, the case...
View ArticleVirginia Court Boosts Anti-Trump Delegates -- Holds that Party Rules Are...
Earlier today federal district court judge Robert Payne permanently enjoined enforcement of a Virginia statute mandating that all Virginia delegates vote for the candidate who received the most votes...
View ArticleBlacks and Use of Police Force
Robert VerBruggen had a good catch on a study cited by the New York Times the other day that demonstrates greater use of police force against blacks:If you start on page 23 and scroll you can watch the...
View ArticleMichael Flynn: Iranian Spies Are Up to No Good in New York City
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:Michael Flynn: Iranian Spies Are Up to No Good in New York CityAs mentioned yesterday, one of Donald Trump’s potential running mates is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the...
View ArticleQuestions for Attorney General Lynch Re: E-mailgate
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is testifying today before the House Judiciary Committee. Members of that panel will query her under oath for hours. While she is in that position of maximum potential...
View ArticleDutch MDs Help People Suicide by Starvation
Once the culture of death sinks its venomous teeth into a society, corruption follows upon corruption.The medical sector is among the first to corrode. Witness the Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) that...
View ArticleLarry the Cat Remains at His Post, Despite Changing of the Guard
Many have taken recent events as evidence that that Britain is undergoing rapid and dangerous change, but in keeping Larry the cat at No. 10 Downing Street, the Tories demonstrate their attention to...
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CBO Long-Term Budget Outlook: Debt-to-GDP Ratio of 141 Percent in 2046
The following charts are from the CBO’s Long Term Budget Outlook:Deficits, CBO notes, are growing because spending is growing faster than revenue, “in particular, spending grows for Social Security,...
View ArticleDallas Police Chief David Brown Is Helping Pull a Nation Back from the Brink
It’s difficult to imagine a more difficult challenge than running a police force during the worst massacre of law enforcement officers since 9/11 — all against the backdrop of intense protest and...
View ArticleNew Medicare Part B Rules Will Restrict Your Choice of Medication
A few years ago, I finally found a medication that offered genuine relief to a persistent health problem. The copay was rather more than the usual amount, but it was clearly worth it. Then two years...
View ArticleWho Thought that Politicizing Obama's Speech Was a Good Idea?
President Obama was giving a pretty good speech this afternoon. And then, suddenly, he wasn’t:Obama: “It’s easier for a teenager to get his hands on a Glock than a computer…or even a book!”...
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No, Baton Rouge Was Not Tiananmen Square
A viral photo of a Black Lives Matter protester standing in front of a police barricade in Baton Rouge is being hailed as “iconic” and “legendary,” and the Huffington Post, among many others, says that...
View ArticleOne Video Perfectly Illustrates Why It's So Hard to Believe Black Lives...
Yesterday, Rich posted the video below and focused on the incident around the 2:30 mark, when a protester mocks an obviously injured cop, screaming “That’s right! One piggly-wiggly down!” Her fellow...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's Unbearably Boring Veep Options
Noah Rothman asked why we’re seeing so much less interest in Hillary Clinton’s running mate search than Trump’s.A couple of reasons, high among them that Hillary Clinton, as the leading candidate,...
View ArticleThe Platform Fights Are the Political Equivalent of Fantasy Football
No offense to the fine reporters covering the arguments about the GOP party platform in Cleveland, but I don’t particularly care. I don’t particularly care if the platform declares pornography to be a...
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