Margaret Cho, Theologian
Deep thoughts, from the comedian-cum-religious scholar:I do not believe in a God who would consider abortion a sin. God created abortion. As he did all of us. God created choice for all to DECIDE—...
View ArticleGE's Ex-Im Pity Party Needs to Stop
GE is engaged in an aggressive battle to keep its Ex-Im subsidies alive. By threatening lawmakers to withhold contributions and move jobs and operations abroad, the company has shown it will stop at...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: The Obama Administration Just Gave Putin Syria
Charles Krauthammer said tonight that the Obama Administration went from two weeks ago warning Russia intervening in Syria “was doomed to fail” to today having “not only accepted it – we welcome it as...
View ArticleDown Goes the Corporate Tax
David Gauke, Member of Parliament and Financial Secretary to the Treasury, spoke at AEI this morning on the changes in the U.K.’s corporate tax over the past half decade, the reasons that motivated...
View ArticleThe Pope’s Vital Visit to America
From my most recent NRO article, on Pope Francis’s visit to the U.S.: “At no point in his visit to the U.S. did the pope attack capitalism. Francis said to the Congress that ‘business is a noble...
View ArticleHitler for a Father
A very special Need to Know this week — a podcast devoted to Jay’s utterly gripping new book: Children of Monsters. I pose the questions, Jay responds. We get into some very intriguing psychological as...
View ArticleDid Kim Davis Meet with Pope Francis Or Not? UPDATE: Yes!
Regarding this big, not-quite-confirmed news…[Kim] Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, says the private meeting occurred during the pope’s historic trip to the United...
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Jay Hits D.C.
If you are in the nation’s capital on the evening of Tuesday, October 6, you must attend the special lecture by Jay Nordlinger — hosted by the National Review Institute and the Victims of Communism...
View ArticleDavid ’n’ Ethel
As you may have heard, the New York City government honored Ethel Rosenberg this week, on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. There are many things to say about this. I would like to spend a second...
View ArticleWhy Pope Francis's Meeting with Kim Davis Matters
Pope Francis’s meeting with Kim Davis is delightful for the way that it disrupts the media’s preferred narrative that Francis is rewriting the Catechism of the Catholic Church to align with the...
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Latino Views on Rubio and Cruz? Oh, We Forgot to Ask!
A new NBC News/Telemundo poll asked 250 Latino adults what they think of President Obama, the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ben...
View ArticlePutin Orders U.S. Out of Syrian Airspace, Starts Bombing
Via the Daily Beast:A Russian general asked the U.S. to remove its planes from Syrian airspace Wednesday, just hours before Russian airstrikes began. In Moscow, lawmakers had earlier approved Vladimir...
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Becoming Putin's Poodle
The sound you’d be hearing this morning if you live in the devastated city of Homs in Syria, would be Russian jets doing bombing runs against your neighbors rebelling against dictator Bashar al-Assad....
View ArticleSpeaker Gingrich . . . Unconstitutional?
In my latest column I float the idea of bringing in Newt Gingrich as the Steward of Gondor and by Gondor I mean the House of Representatives and by Steward I mean Speaker. I totally get arguments...
View ArticlePope as Healer and Guide, Not Polemicist
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput hosted Pope Francis in Philadelphia during his last stop and the main reason for his trip: days devoted to the family. Interviewed by Michelle Bauman at the Catholic News...
View ArticleTwelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (Sept. 30, 2015)
1. Kelly Gissendaner sang “Amazing Grace” as a state-administered lethal drug cocktail killed her shortly after midnight this morning.2. Cecile Richards Has ‘Never Heard’ of Abortion Survivors. Here...
View ArticleFraud and Fistfights -- Germany Reaping the Fruits of Its Migrant Policy
Contain your surprise: It’s not strictly a “refugee” crisis after all. Via the Telegraph:Germany estimates that 30 per cent of incoming migrants claiming to be citizens of war-torn Syria are in fact...
View ArticleImperfect Ten
Amity Shlaes writes in favor of a 10 percent flat tax:Experience, never mind scholarship, suggests that when a nation drops its tax rate substantially below that of other countries, it will draw...
View ArticleTaking in (and on?) The View
I was just reading about Rick Santorum and his appearance on The View. I simply want to say how much I admire people such as Rick and Carly who do this. Long ago, I was pretty good at talking with the...
View ArticleRoskam: Playing the Long Game?
“What’s Peter Roskam Up To?” asked Politico on Monday. A few weeks ago he forced the House leadership to change tacks on the Iran deal. Over the weekend he called for a meeting of House Republicans to...
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