Club for Growth Action to Trump: You Sue Us, We'll Sue You Back
Attorneys for Club for Growth Action, a political arm of the Club for Growth, sent a letter to the Trump Organization’s General Counsel Thursday threatening a counter-suit if Trump sues their...
View ArticleWithout Ex-Im, Boeing Still Managed to Sell 300 Planes to China
Lachlan Markay points us to this news: #BREAKING Boeing announces Chinese order of 300 planes worth $38 bnThat order, by the way, is the largest ever order by a single country. Way to go, Boeing! But...
View ArticleNatural Law at the United Nations
From the pope’s speech this morning:“man is not only a freedom which he creates for himself. Man does not create himself. He is spirit and will, but also nature”. Creation is compromised “where we...
View ArticleBoehner Resigns
Politics doesn’t usually involve sacrifice, but House Speaker John Boehner apparently felt it was the best of a series of bad options facing him.In the hours after Pope Francis addressed a joint...
View ArticleBoehner and the Problem of a Policy-Light Conservatism
Congressional Republicans have rarely done much to set a conservative agenda. They tend to wait to take direction from Republican presidents and presidential candidates. It’s a habit, I write at...
View ArticleWell What Do You Know?
AP: “The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of work-related correspondence as...
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VDH to Be Honored at the NR Institute's 2015 Buckley Prize Dinner -- Join Us
The great Victor Davis Hanson will receive the William F. Buckley Jr. Prize for Leadership in Political Thought at the National Review Institute’s Second Annual Buckley Prize Dinner, this year being...
View ArticleFrancis Flirts with "Nature Rights"
Pope Francis’s strong environmental emphasis is teetering toward a dangerous cliff. Today at the United Nations, he seemingly implied that nature has rights.The left-wing The Guardian celebrates:The...
View ArticleCalifornia Student Defends 'Visually Impaired' Friend from Bully -- Gets...
No good deed, &c. Via the Daily Mail:A California teenager who rushed to help a blind classmate being beaten up by a bully has been kicked off the football team.The high school junior was hailed as...
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Free Speech Day at SMU
David French is wowing the students at SMU with a talk on the First Amendment, part of the National Review Institute’s celebration of Free Speech Day.We’ll celebrate by reposting our 2014 editorial—...
View ArticleGee, It Must Be Friday Night
As Ramesh has already noted, the Obama State Department has suddenly announced the discovery of a trove of Libya-related emails that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to turn over when...
View ArticleLD-B, MVP
Readers of mine will know that Lincoln Diaz-Balart is one of my favorite people in public life, and one of my favorite people. He is my guest on Q&A.For almost 20 years, Lincoln Diaz-Balart was a...
View ArticleStalin Stuff (Mainly Happy)
Earlier this week, we published a piece of mine about Svetlana Alliluyeva (née Stalin). It was adapted from my new book, Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators. I...
View ArticleLight is Faster than Gravity: 100 Years of General Relativity
Physicist Brian Greene has a wonderful essay in October’s Smithsonian magazine on the centennial of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.But then it all seemed to collapse. While...
View ArticleA Brave Man Near Death
Readers of National Review are perhaps familiar with the Cuban street artist Danilo Maldonado, whose nickname is “El Sexto.” At the most recent Oslo Freedom Forum, he was a recipient of the VáclavHavel...
View ArticleAbendland
Not all Swedes are as happy as they might be about the decision by their elites to throw open the country’s doors a few years back.The Financial Times:Sweden has won plenty of praise for its openness...
View ArticlePope Francis’s Religious Freedom Rally at Independence Hall
From the podium that Abraham Lincoln used to deliver his Gettysburg Address, Pope Francis today rallied Americans to defend religious freedom.In this place which is symbolic of the American way, I...
View ArticleHillary on E-Mails: ‘It Is Like a Drip, Drip, Drip.’
The big headline out of the Sunday shows this morning is Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Meet the Press, where she spent nearly the entirety of the interview insisting she had nothing wrong, that the...
View ArticleMcCarthy Is 'Going to Have to Show the Conservatives He’s Ready to Fight'
This morning on Inside Politics, CNN’s Manu Raju contended that tactics, not ideology or policy preferences is what doomed Boehner as Speaker of the House:“He’s a pretty conservative guy on issues like...
View ArticleBen Carson: I Was Extremely Impressed with Kanye West's Business Acumen
Raise your hand if you saw this coming: Appearing on ABC News’ This Week, Dr. Ben Carson said he recently had a chance to speak with his fan… Kanye West.“I did have an opportunity to talk with him. I...
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