Tuesday Links
For Aldous Huxley’s birthday, an infographic of Huxley Vs Orwell, a letter from Huxley to Orwell explaining why he (Huxley) was right, and audio of Huxley narrating Brave New World.Toasters of the...
View ArticleEvil and Hope
With a heavy heart I heard the news of the killing of a priest in France during morning Mass today.The Archbishop of Rouen, Dominque Lebrun, released this statement (translated by a friend from...
View Article88 Percent of Sanders Delegates Find Kaine 'Unacceptable'
Hillary Clinton and convention organizers will have a tough time calming down the Sanders delegates – and Tim Kaine might pay the price Wednesday night.On June 16, before Hillary Clinton selected the...
View ArticleCharges Dropped against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt
The Harris County district attorney’s office this morning dismissed all charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, both of whom were indicted in Texas after their undercover videos alleged that...
View ArticlePro Planned Parenthood Prosecution Dismissed
The political left increasingly uses criminal prosecutions–or the threats thereof–as a political cudgel with which to crush differing views.The Planned Parenthood prosecution of David Daleiden and a...
View ArticleProsecuting Journalism Is Worse Than Chanting "Lock Her Up"
As Alexandra notes below, buried beneath the news of this week’s Democratic Convention, the Harris County, Texas District Attorney’s Office has dismissed all charges against David Daleiden and Sandra...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Has Come a Long Way on Immigration
In 2008, Hillary Clinton wavered on the issue of immigration. Asked about an initiative to offer drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants in her home state, Clinton responded with several...
View ArticleOn Immigration, You Can Only Dismiss the Dissenters for So Long
Once again, France has been terrorized. The BBC reports:An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern...
View ArticleCourt Blocks Terry McAuliffe on Felon Voting, but He Won't Give Up
Virginia Governor and former Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe is a very good friend of the Clintons: he was basically their bagman for years, and reportedly was one of the key allies...
View ArticleThe Missing Words at the Democratic National Convention
I’m speaking, of course, about “ISIS” or “terrorism.” On the one hand, this extraordinary. The Democrats, after all, are trying to sell America on voting for a former Secretary of State, the person at...
View ArticleImmigration and Democracy
In a post earlier today written in response to the cowardly murder of an elderly French priest by two ISIS ‘soldiers’, Charlie notes:When a country is attacked, the issue of immigration is inevitably...
View ArticleDemocrats, the Law of Demand, and the ‘Fight for 15’
Gas prices have fallen almost in half over the past two years. So Americans are driving more. Beef prices have risen by a quarter since 2012. Not surprisingly, Americans now eat less beef.Economists...
View ArticleHang with NRI in CA
National Review Institute president Lindsay Craig is out West this week, and hopes to meet with the fans of Bill Buckley’s legacy to discuss just what NRI is up to, and its upcoming initiatives in the...
View ArticleSo Now the Russians Are a Threat
I must admit that it’s a little bit amusing reading the Left after the Wikileaks DNC hack. Huffington Post right now (Tuesday afternoon) is awash in hysterical anti-Putin headlines, declaring the hack...
View ArticleClub for Growth Super PAC Launches New Ad for Embattled Kansas Congressman
Club for Growth Action will go up with a new ad boosting Kansas representative Tim Huelskamp in the final week of his fiercely competitive primary race.The ad, provided first to National Review,...
View ArticleThe Worst Line in Michelle Obama's Speech
The First Lady is getting rave reviews for her speech last night at the convention, and she deserves them. With each Democratic convention her performance has improved. But one of the lines for which...
View ArticleJust How United Are the Democrats Tonight?
To hear the chattering class, Bernie Sanders’ decision to nominate Hillary Clinton by acclimation this evening represents the unification and healing of the Democratic Party. Eh, maybe.A group of...
View ArticleSeven Thoughts on Bill
So I’m in Maine, far from equatorial Philadelphia, in semi-seclusion with my wife, dogs (cats) and a book that just won’t get out of my head. But I am watching the conventions from the relative cool...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: DNC Disunity 'Far More Serious' Than RNC
Charles Krauthammer argues that the disunity on display at the DNC is “far more serious” than what has been shown on the Republican side:It will be the official unity move. It will be the ostensible...
View ArticleA Wasted Opportunity
Yeah, I get it. Bill needed to “humanize” his wife as all the instant-analysts say. But that seemed to be his whole goal here. And that was a wasted opportunity. The simple fact is that everyone...
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