Where Did the Clinton Foundation End and the State Department Begin?
From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt…Where Did the Clinton Foundation End and the State Department Begin?Republicans may never again get such a beatable Democratic nominee:Newly released...
View ArticleOf Course Hillary Wants to 'Abolish' the Second Amendment
Before he made his reprehensible “Second Amendment people” joke yesterday, Donald Trump said once again that Hillary Clinton wants “to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment.”Whenever Trump...
View ArticleNew York Times Error
The newspaper of record needs to check the record. Amy Chozick’s long piece on the Clintons’ finances and various homes (“Stress Over Family Finances Propelled Hillary Clinton Into Corporate World”)...
View Article'Some Blunt Talk on Race'
That’s the title of a post I have on John Rosenberg’s fine “Discriminations” blogsite this week. Its basic point is that, by abandoning the married, two-parent family at the same time that the...
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Trump’s Map
The most straightforward path for Trump is to hold all the Romney states (which looks precarious at the moment), and then win Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Click the map to create your own at...
View ArticleHillary Clinton and the Second Amendment: A Response to Kevin Drum
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum misreads my earlier post on Hillary Clinton and the Second Amendment, and then chides me for his misreading. Drum writes:Let me get this straight. Cooke says that for the...
View ArticleCash Under Attack (Again)
Writing in NRODT earlier this year, I argued that:Government gathers power sometimes in great swoops, sometimes by stealth, and sometimes in slow, sly increments, foreshadowed by position papers,...
View ArticleU.S. Has Done Fine with No Government Department of Sports
The U.S. is off to a great start at the Rio Olympics, where they have dominated high-profile events like swimming and women’s gymnastics. They lead gold and total medals.These wins come in spite of the...
View ArticleFirst Temporary Reversal of Recent Bad Decisions on Voter ID
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just issued a stay of the district court decision in Wisconsin, Frank v. Walker that would have forced the state to allow anyone to vote without meeting the...
View ArticleA Crucial Victory for California Christian Universities
Today I wrote about the progressive culture war against California’s Christian universities. California legislators were primed to use state financial aid dollars to punish Christian schools for being...
View ArticleWatch Donald Trump Take Every Side of Every Issue
Kevin’s piece today about Donald Trump’s constant lying was spot-on. He’s on every side of virtually every issue, and the only real constant is that he always advances his current perceived...
View ArticleKrauthammer’s Take: Improper Clinton Foundation E-mails ‘Could Destroy Her...
Discussing how seriously to take concerns that Hillary Clinton mixed business in the Clinton Foundation with duties as secretary of state, Charles Krauthammer speculated that her dishonesty on that...
View ArticleTrump Takes on Somali Immigration
Scott Johnson wrote a great piece at Power Line earlier this week, referencing the Trump campaign’s raising the issue of mass Somali immigration to the U.S. and Trump’s linking this issue to that of...
View ArticleA Great Man Near Death
National Review readers are well familiar with Guillermo “Coco” Fariñas. He is a Cuban doctor, journalist, and dissident. We have commented on him for many years, with great admiration.In 2010, Fariñas...
View ArticleYou Can't Help a Candidate Who Won't Help Himself
From the Thursday Morning Jolt:Trump’s in a Bad Spot, With Few Signs of Hope on the HorizonAnother week of mostly brutal polls for Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton has led the past fourteen national...
View ArticleAnother ‘Genius of Humanity’
Denis Mukwege does pretty much the worst work in the world — but work that is necessary and blessed to do. He is a Congolese doctor. He wanted to be a pediatrician, but he saw how much women were...
View ArticleObama Adm. Says Marijuana Worse Than Cocaine
The Obama Administration has refused to remove marijuana from Schedule 1 under the Controlled Substances Act–”no currently accepted medical use, high potential for abuse.” From the NPR story:The Obama...
View ArticleObama as Founder of ISIS
This controversy strikes me as ridiculous — of course, Trump isn’t being literal. Nonetheless, he would have been well-served by taking this out provided by Hugh Hewitt (although he sort of rejects...
View Article‘The Entertainment Candidate’
While almost all of the political world thinks Trump is blowing himself up with his various controversial comments, Trump probably sees it differently. I wrote about why in Politico today:Trump opened...
View ArticleRe: Trump’s Map
Yesterday, I noted how important New Hampshire could be to a Trump map without Pennsylvania. Well, there’s a new New Hampshire poll that has him down by ten. Of course, all of this is academic if Trump...
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