WATCH: This TV Clip PERFECTLY Illustrates How You Feel This Election Season
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View ArticleThe Jungle Book
This week’s Bookmonger podcast is with William Carlsen, author of Jungle of Stone: The Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya. In a 10-minute conversation, he describes the “Indiana Jones”...
View ArticleThe Trump Campaign Keeps Digging, and Digging, and Digging...
Pop quiz: The Democratic convention featured Muslim parents of a slain U.S. serviceman, contending that the Republican candidate “has sacrificed nothing and no one” and understands nothing about the...
View ArticleA Star Wars Conversation
This election cycle has been tough — I find myself wishing I lived a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . . (I’m sorry; I couldn’t resist.)I sat down recently with Cass Sunstein to discuss his...
View ArticleBiden Goes from Opposing Same-Sex Marriage to Presiding Over One
Vice President Joe Biden officiated at the wedding of two male White House staffers yesterday, despite belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, which teaches that marriage is a sacrament that can occur...
View ArticleTrump Is Right to Sign Pledge Protecting Children from Pornography
Donald Trump recently signed the Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge, promising to “uphold the rule of law by aggressively enforcing existing federal laws to prevent the sexual exploitation...
View ArticleWhat’s Better than Santa Claus Coming to Town?
It’s Andy McCarthy showing up in your neighborhood. And if you live in the San Fran-Palo Alto area, well, you are in luck. On Wednesday, August 10th, the National Review Institute Fellow and Willful...
View ArticleGary Johnson, First Amendment Scholar
Last week, Libertarian party candidate told the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney that “religious freedom, as a category, [is] a black hole.” Another overlooked gem from that interview, in the same...
View ArticleThe Continuing Khizr Khan Controversy
Three thoughts:1) It would have long ago died down if not for Donald Trump’s attacks on the family.2) One positive consequence of the controversy is that it led Susan Kristol to write this thoughtful...
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The Republican Convention Was a Failure
The Washington Post reports:Conventions aren’t that complicated, really. It’s the beginning of the general election push, the formalization of a party’s candidate and a chance for that candidate to...
View ArticleRyan: I Never Asked For Trump's Endorsement
The Republican speaker of the House is, for all intents and purposes, calling the Republican presidential nominee a liar.The backstory: In Wisconsin’s first congressional district, Paul Ryan faces a...
View ArticleHuelskamp Loses
Representative Tim Huelskamp lost his seat Tuesday evening, falling to Dr. Roger Marshall in the Republican primary in Kansas’ 1st District. In this deep red western Kansas district, the winner of the...
View ArticleWednesday Links
Is Your Washroom Breeding Bolsheviks?Dan Aykroyd’s Fascination with the Paranormal and How It Inspired Ghostbusters.Trial by Touch was a method used occasionally in colonial America to determine guilt...
View ArticleKnights of Civic Renewal
On Tuesday in Toronto, I was reminded why it is that I’m so happy to know the Knights of Columbus exist.This year, in a particular way, this is the case, because of the work they have been doing to...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Don't Call Them Mistakes, Trump's Words Are 'Reflection...
Discussing the prospects for Donald Trump’s election in November, Charles Krauthammer said that the only winning argument left for Democrats is that Trump is unfit for the office, and it may work...
View ArticleEarly Voting Starts in 51 Days
If Donald Trump supporters don’t insist a poll is skewed, they’ll dismiss it as meaningless “at this point.” What the confident Trump fans largely ignore is that we don’t have Election Day anymore; we...
View ArticleWhen Not Spouting About Presidential Qualifications, Obama Piles $400M Cash...
Yes he did do that.From the Wall Street Journal:The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans...
View ArticleOn Releasing Deposition Videos, Judge Curiel Rules in Favor... of Trump!
Gonzalo Curiel, the most famous and perhaps consequential district court judge in the country, reached another decision yesterday in one of the two class-action lawsuits against “Trump University.”...
View ArticleEurope's Political Elites Expect Their Populations to Grow Accustomed to...
Thousands of people gathered in or around Rouen cathedral for the funeral service of Father Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest butchered while saying mass in his own church by two 19-year-old...
View ArticleA Lesson From Tim Huelskamp's Loss
Anger at Washington is not a mandate for ideological purity.That’s one valuable lesson from Tuesday night’s primary result in Kansas’s first congressional district. And Representative Tim Huelskamp...
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