Evan McMullin Press Statement: ‘It’s Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing’
Provided by staff. His website is now liveEvan McMullin was born in Provo, Utah on April 2, 1976 to David McMullin, a computer scientist, and Lanie (Bullard) McMullin.He graduated from Auburn High...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Ransom That Was
Last week we found out that the Obama Administration paid $400 million in cash to Iran on the same day four Americans were released from Iranian custody. As our Andrew McCarthy wrote on Saturday: The...
View ArticleBLM Matters — a Lot to the Left. It Should to Conservatives, Too.
At the end of last week, David French wrote an excellent piece on Black Lives Matter, and the see-no-evil media’s ignoring BLM’s“anti-American and fundamentally Marxist demands.” His dead-on analysis...
View ArticlePolarization Helps Donald Trump, But it Helps Hillary Clinton More
Over at the Washington Post, James Hohmann writes about Trump’s “high floor.” The news cycle can be brutal, and he can make mistake after mistake, but Hillary Clinton is almost certainly not winning in...
View ArticleThe Difficulties of a Statesman
Well done, Wadi Gaitan. The chief spokesman for the Republican party in Florida has resigned his post because he believes that he cannot in good conscience support Donald Trump.Too often, people in...
View ArticleIt Is Hard to Win a Case When You Are AWOL
As my coauthor John Fund explains on the homepage today, in the last few weeks, we have seen federal courts in Texas, Wisconsin and North Carolina throwing out or limiting voter-ID laws. Those...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Clinton Has Lied So Much "She Lies About Her Lying"
Dissecting the current state of Hillary Clinton’s anatomy of misrepresentations regarding her email server, Charles Krauthammer pointed out that she is having to labor to use FBI director James Comey’s...
View ArticleTuesday Links
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori? Today is the anniversary of the 480 BC battle of Thermopylae.The History of French Fries.Man fought off armed would-be carjackers with high-pressure car wash...
View ArticleThe Orlando Shooter’s Father, the Taliban Fan, Is Behind Hillary… Literally
From the genuinely jolting Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt:The Orlando Shooter’s Father, the Taliban Fan, Is Behind Hillary… LiterallyEach morning, you think 2016 election cycle can’t get any more...
View ArticleLive from Homs
My new Bookmonger podast is with Marwa al-Sabouni, author of The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria. The book caught my eye because the writer of the foreword is Sir Roger...
View Article‘The Easy Way’
Impromptus today is a typical mélange, comprising presidential politics, Puccini, the city of Cleveland, and more. It begins with a little item about Nixon. And Trump.“Some have counseled that I take...
View ArticleMass Delusion
The Democrats’ reluctance to mention Islamic terrorism during their convention reminded me of a point I’ve been meaning to write about. A fair amount of time in this country is spent discussing...
View ArticlePoll: Can Trump Overcome His Own Gaffes?
Take NR’s latest poll and let your voice be heard. Poll: Can Trump Overcome His Own Gaffes?
View ArticleSorry Vox, the Swedes Are Irrelevant to the Second Amendment
It’s hard to know what’s more annoying to read. Is it a gun control piece by a progressive who knows nothing about guns? Or is it a gun control piece by a progressive who actually owns guns but...
View ArticleTrump on 2A
Here we go again. Trump said this:Trump verbatim: “if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I donno”— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August...
View ArticleBattleground Ohio and the GOP’s Politics of Subtraction
Quinnipiac reports that Clinton holds a slight lead in Ohio. It’s the first Ohio poll in more than two weeks but is in line with a handful of such polls conducted last month.No poll tells us the...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Trump Seems Incapable of Turning the Corner
Charles Krauthammer did not take a recent Trump comment as a genuine call for Hillary Clinton’s assassination, but he went on to say that the Republican strategists’ hope that Trump would turn the...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Wins Big Time
As I noted the other day, Paul Ryan’s primary against Paul Nehlen tonight in Wisconsin’s First District was an early test of whether the Republican Party has truly embraced Trumpist ideology and style...
View ArticlePresumably There Is More Where This Comes From . . .
. . . regarding the Clinton Foundation and the State department. Clinton Foundation-State Department Nexus Is Disturbing
View ArticleTrump Engages on the Childcare Issue
Donald Trump deserves credit for taking on the issue of childcare, rather than ceding the topic to the Left.In his economic speech this week, he called for making childcare expenses tax deductible....
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