'The University Is not an Agency of Law Enforcement' -- Kansas Court Rebukes...
Courts are growing increasingly impatient with ham-handed university sexual assault and sexual harassment policies. This week’s judicial victim is the University of Kansas, which expelled a student...
View ArticleA Few Quick Thoughts on Trump's Tax Plan
Donald Trump fancies himself a financial whiz and an original thinker, but his tax plan—characteristically vague though it is—runs up against the same problems faced by Jeb Bush and many other would-be...
View ArticleFear the Walking Dead: The Military Wouldn't Crumble
David, I see things a little differently. Here’s the problem The Walking Dead’s writers had to deal with: The military could easily put down a zombie outbreak (absent some other contributors to...
View ArticleBritain's Labor Unions Crush Jeremy Corbyn's Anti-Nuclear Dreams
Ah, to sit and watch the return to the good old days of chronic Labour dysfunction:Jeremy Corbyn has suffered a major blow to his authority after a bid by the Labour leadership to press for a vote on...
View ArticleThe Thing about Tax Cuts
Every Republican tax-reform plan should be rooted in this reality: If you are going to have federal spending that is 21 percent of GDP, then you can have a.) taxes that are 21 percent of GDP; b.)...
View ArticleIn a Zombie Apocalypse the Military Would Be Toast
Jonah, I’m afraid you have a bit too much confidence in our boys in digital-print camouflage. As I understand the dynamics of the Walking Dead universe (at least as illustrated in Fear the Walking...
View ArticleOne Flu Over The Zombie's Nest
David, A few quick points.1. Yes, you started this round, but I’ve been writing about zombies aroundhereforalong time. 2. I guess I gotta go back and watch the first couple shows again, because that...
View ArticleNBC News: Hey, It’s Time to Trim the GOP Field
Today’s Morning Jolt features a long look at where the GOP candidates stand as September comes to a close, a good question on where the alternatives to Kevin McCarthy are, and then this ominous...
View ArticleBourke on Burke
This week’s episode of The Bookmonger podcast is a 10-minute conversation with Richard Bourke, author of Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke. We discuss why 21st-century...
View ArticleFifteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Sept. 29, 2015)
1. Newark, N.J. focuses on persecuted Christians.2. I was in all three cities with Pope Francis last week. I have been announcing, with just a wee bit of hometown pride, that New York won the exuberant...
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Cooking Intel on ISIS: Senators Demand Answers
Two weeks ago I posted on The Corner a story about accusations that the Obama administration has been systematically altering intelligence reports about our fight—or some would say, non-fight—with ISIS...
View ArticleBill Nye the Ideological Guy
There has been much deconstruction of Bill Nye’s sophistry in defense of abortion, including here at NRO, which effectively dismantled his ridiculous assertion that because many embryos don’t implant,...
View ArticleWhy Feminists Should Fear Carly
I wrote about Carly for the home page today: Carly Fiorina is a no-nonsense former business executive who is showing she can play — and throw elbows — with the big boys in the Republican presidential...
View ArticleTrouble in Paradise
DW:Merkel’s migrant stance has had a more mixed domestic reception; losing her typically bulletproof position as Germany’s most popular politician. In two separate polls ranking individual politicans...
View ArticleHow Do You Measure a Campaign's 'Stench of Death'?
The Lexington Herald-Leader declares, “Death watch underway for Rand Paul’s presidential campaign.”The assessment cites reports in Politico and the Washington Post.The Politico report cites an unnamed...
View ArticleFifteen Things that Caught My Eye During the Pope's Visit (Sept. 29)
1. The Festival of Families. Watch here. 2.Where did He send his Son? To a palace? No. To a family. God sent Him into a family! #PopeInPhilly— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) September 27, 20153.For...
View ArticleThe Worst Lines in Obama's Terrible Speech to the U.N.
President Obama actually had the audacity to say this:No matter how powerful our military, how strong our economy, we understand the United States cannot solve the world’s problems alone. In Iraq, the...
View ArticleLesbian Parents Try to Force a Christian School to Educate Their Child
Here’s a question for the secular left — when religious liberty collides with the desires of LGBT citizens, is there any case where religious freedom should prevail? How about when a lesbian couple...
View ArticleTwenty Five Years Later, Paul Ehrlich Is Still Wrong
Today is the 25 anniversary of the closure of the bet on human optimism and ingenuity between the late Julian Simon and the doom-sayer Paul Ehrlich. You can read more about the bet in my colleague...
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