Is Trump Pleasing Critics and Disappointing Fans with a Pence Pick?
Assuming this isn’t the biggest head-fake of all time and Donald Trump doesn’t shock the world by announcing someone else, his selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his running mate will do...
View ArticleWebathon Reveals Andy Adoration
Thanks to those of you who have sent generosity our way, a vote for the exceptional analysis and commentary NR writers produce all day, every day, a vote in particular of appreciation for the brilliant...
View ArticleRecklessness, Stupidity, and Pussilanimity
The JV team is whipping the Super Bowl champs because the latter’s coaches are weak, stupid, and deluded. Fredo on steroids.Our enemies didn’t get the message that the tide of war is receding. It’s...
View ArticleMark Krikorian
From Nice, will be doing Facebook Live at 12:30 p.m. ET. Watch and react and ask questions here. Mark Krikorian
View ArticleOn Last Night’s 'Town Hall' on Police and Race
I noted Wednesday that, in his speech at the Dallas memorial service, “the president ignored [an] elephant in the room: He said not a word about the catastrophic out-of-wedlock birthrate among African...
View ArticleMike Pence Changes A Lot In Indiana, But Nothing Nationally
Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s running mate seems like a peace offering to Beltway Republicans, but one that is likely to satisfy few of Trump’s critics. The Pence choice has a huge impact – on Indiana...
View ArticleDon't Ever Forget That Mike Pence Threw Religious Liberty Under the Bus
I keep seeing writers on the Left and Right praising Mike Pence as a stalwart conservative. Have they forgotten the Battle of Indiana? The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway hasn’t:Recall that last year,...
View ArticleCan Nationalism Be Conservative--and Inclusive?
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam have written an excellent essay on how conservatism can change and prosper.[Trump's] primary-season base was more working class and less religious and libertarian than is...
View ArticleWhat Pence's Pick Says About the Trumpified GOP
A lot of social conservatives felt disappointed, or betrayed, when Gov. Pence agreed to weaken the religious-liberty law he had just signed. But it is social conservatism for which Pence has been best...
View ArticleThe Path to Atrocity
Israelis are, sadly, all too familiar with the way that the Nice atrocity was carried out—driving a vehicle into a crowd of people—but extending this technique elsewhere is something that ISIS has...
View ArticlePence -- Was Trump Not Feeling It?
That’s what the reporting suggests:Scoop: @realDonaldTrump was so unsure about @mike_pence that around midnight last night he asked top aides if he could get out of it— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) July...
View ArticleA Note on Muslims, the Constitution, and 'Suicide Pacts'
I don’t know if Newt Gingrich was making one last desperate play to be Donald Trump’s vice president, but last night he out-Trumped Trump with this unconstitutional nonsense:Here is Newt Gingrich’s...
View ArticleThe Republican Party Bets It All on Trump.
Yes, Donald Trump was tied with Hillary the national CBS/New York Times poll yesterday, but this morning NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist showed a slew of bad numbers in swing states:In Colorado,...
View ArticleReports: Coup Underway in Turkey, Fighter Jets Over Ankara
In case you’re wondering, no, it is not normal for fighter jets to buzz around Ankara, Turkey in the middle of the night.Ankara’daki jetler pic.twitter.com/iCTd5ARKVw— Hazal Koptagel (@HazalKoptagel)...
View ArticlePence’s Calculation
We are safe in assuming that Mike Pence isn’t sincerely a Trump guy:It’s disorienting to have had commiserated w/someone re: Trump – about how he was unacceptable, & then to see that someone become...
View ArticleObama's JAMA Talking Point
James Capretta hits the main points of President Obama’s JAMA article on his health-care law. Here I want to write about a partisan talking point Obama’s people worked into this allegedly “scholarly”...
View ArticleOne Country’s Agony
Earlier this week, I read one of the most arresting reports I have read in a long while. It was datelined Caracas. I will give you the first four paragraphs:The people waiting for hours in front of the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Military Coup in Turkey
9:31 P.M.: It seems the coup is failing. Per the Associated Press:Private NTV television is showing footage of large crowds gathering at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport to greet President Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleUN Believable
I hope the UN concludes that we have freedom in America. Fingers crossed!United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai will visit the United States of America from 11 to 27 July 2016 to make an in-depth...
View ArticleRe: UN Believable
John, I have a different finger working on this one … and it’s definitely not crossed. Re UN Believable
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