Chris Christie Pardons Trio That Fell Foul of State's Gun Laws
Good news from New Jersey, where Governor Christie has pardoned three residents who had fallen foul of the state’s ridiculous gun laws. More details to follow. The three certificates are here, here,...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Polling
Planed Parenthood has historically been a popular organization. In 1989, Gallup found that 82 percent of Americans had a favorable impression of it. So it may well be that the public opposes taking...
View ArticleCNBC Unveils Debate Critera That Will Repeat CNN's Lopsided Format
Under the criteria just announced by CNBC for participation in the next Republican presidential debate…National polls will be used to determine a candidate’s eligibility and placement on the stage. To...
View ArticleThrowing Condoms at Carly Fiorina Won't Help Planned Parenthood
Does the Left want Planned Parenthood to be at the center of the Republican presidential primary? If so, it’s doing a great job of moving Planned Parenthood’s abortion business front and center before...
View ArticleIs Boehner's Legacy Going to Be 'He Gave the Democrats All They Want On His...
There are a lot of people wondering what the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, will do in his last days in office. I am sure he is under a lot of pressure from all sides. The question is: Which...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Russia's Targeting Our Allies in Syria 'and We Do Nothing'
Tonight Charles Krauthammer said Russian President Vladimir Putin is directly targeting American allies in Syria and the Obama Administration is giving him a green light. “It’s one thing to be...
View ArticleObama’s Stubborn Refusal to See Putin for What He Is
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt…Obama’s Stubborn Refusal to See Putin for What He IsA reader asked, “What on earth is [John] Kerry thinking? We can’t work with Russia.”Diplomats never...
View ArticleKim Davis, the Pope, and the Press
Michael Brendan Dougherty has an excellent column on the meeting, and the reaction.
View ArticleAmericans Are Right to Worry about Illegal Aliens and Crime
Last week I mentioned the U.S.Comission on Civil Rights’ flawed report to the president and Congress on detention facilities for illegal aliens. Among other things, the report claims that Americans who...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 1, 2015)
1. The Catholic bishop of Phoenix asks men: “Are you ready to step into the breach?”2. From my Q&A with Carl Anderson on the pope’s visit to the U.S., among other things:Every country at the United...
View ArticleKevin McCarthy Gives Hillary Clinton a Gift
Ladies and gentlemen, the man most likely to be the next Speaker of the House: KEVIN MCCARTHY: The question I think you really want to ask me is, how am I going to be different? What are you going to...
View ArticleTrouble in Paradise (2)
Austria’s (Socialist) Chancellor may have been indulging in plenty of moral preening over the migrant crisis (as well as taking the opportunity to step down into the gutter with comments comparing some...
View ArticleOne More Note on Illegal Aliens and Crime
A follow-up to my post below, also taken from my dissent to the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights’ terminally flawed report on immigration detention facilities: Taking data only from the five states cited...
View ArticleA Glimmer of Hope in Afghanistan Further Reveals the Tragedy of Iraq
Last year, ISIS took Mosul. It still holds Mosul. Earlier this week, the Taliban took the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz. Yet they’re already on the verge of defeat, reportedly about to lose the...
View ArticleLack of Evidence Is No Obstacle When ‘Correcting’ Gender Bias in Academia
How many business leaders would waste money searching for new information that they know will not affect their decision making? Politicians do it all the time. They use taxpayer money to fund studies...
View ArticleVDH to Be Honored at the NR Institute's 2015 Buckley Prize Dinner -- Join Us
The great Victor Davis Hanson will receive the William F. Buckley Jr. Prize for Leadership in Political Thought at the National Review Institute’s Second Annual Buckley Prize Dinner, this year being...
View Article‘It’s the Abortion, Stupid’
I’m with Mona on the completely underwhelming Planned parenthood hearing. I wrote today for Politicoon how Republicans seemed mostly incapable of taking on Cecile Richards, and what might be a better...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Fashion Icon?
Yes, that is New York City mayor Bill de Blasio wearing a hat that says, “Make America Fair Again”:God help us.
View ArticleThis Is Why We Have the Internet
It’s outrageous that the Democrats who run the Civil Rights Commission didn’t include Commission member Peter Kirsanow’s dissent to their hatchet-job report on immigrant detention. Luckily, the New...
View ArticleThe Four Dangerous Realities of Putin's Middle East Power Play
To those who are tempted to welcome Russia’s “help” in our war against ISIS, please consider the following:First, Putin wants Russia to supplant the United States as the pre-eminent world power in the...
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