Planned Parenthood Chief Whines to MSNBC about Republican 'Sexism'
The martyrdom of Cecile Richards continues. On MSNBC on Tuesday night, the Planned Parenthood executive complained about Republicans’ “sexist” comments:In Richards’ defense, she is only parroting the...
View ArticleMultiple Casualties Reported in Shooting at Oregon Community College
Terrible news from Oregon:Multiple people are reportedly dead at a community college campus in southwestern Oregon, where authorities told Fox News they responded to a report of a shooting Thursday at...
View ArticleTime to End Special Immigration Rights for Cubans
Everyone agrees the Castro Family Regime in Cuba is bad (well, almost everyone). But the Soviet Empire disappeared a generation ago. Cuba is no longer the colonial outpost of a hostile empire. It is...
View ArticleIranian Women's Soccer Team a Manly Bunch . . .
For anyone who still maintains that Iran would never cheat:Iranian soccer fans were left reeling earlier this week after eight members of the women’s national team were found to be men, the Al-Arabiya...
View ArticleTom Terrific
That was the nickname of Tom Seaver, the major-league pitcher. Before that, it was the name of a children’s cartoon. In any case, it certainly applies to Thomas Sowell, the economist, philosopher, and...
View ArticlePsychologist Blinds Woman Who Didn't Want to See
There is a very anguishing mental illness known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder in which the ill person believes their “true self” to be disabled–usually paraplegic or an amputee.Recently, I have...
View ArticleTom Terrific, Part II
Below, I spoke of Thomas Sowell. Another Tom Terrific serves in the Senate, from Arkansas. Get a load of this: “Three years ago when President Obama’s opponent [Mitt Romney] said that Russia was our...
View ArticlePelosi ‘Very Excited’ about the Republicans' Attempt to Revive Ex-Im
I think this tells you all you need to know about today’s Republican party:Pelosi told reporters Thursday that Democrats would support the effort if Republicans can round up the numbers.“Let’s see what...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood: Salaries Up, Cancer Screenings Down
It’s far from clear to me that focusing on Planned Parenthood’s finances, as House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) chose to do at Tuesday’s hearing, was the best course. But a...
View ArticleDeutsche Raus! Germany Evicts Residents and Seizes Property to House Migrants
The Gatestone Institute has an alarming roundup of news from German sources about how citizens are being evicted from their homes and private property is being confiscated by the government to house...
View Article‘Ben Carson raising millions to become fundraising juggernaut’
Per CBS News. When I interviewed campaign managers a week or so ago at the event NR had with Google in Washington, the most interesting of them was Barry Bennett, Carson’s manager. He laid out a...
View ArticleA Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar
Telling, but not surprising news from France.Wall Street Journal:PARIS—French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has moved out of temporary office space to new high-security premises, said a person...
View ArticleBut, But, This is the 21st Century....
Osama bin Laden:“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse.”Lord Palmerston:“Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent...
View ArticleMore Upside for Carson?
A couple of things that jump out from that new USA Today/Suffolk poll, which, overall, is good news for Trump and for the outsiders:–Ben Carson is far and away the most popular second choice of...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama’s ‘100 Percent Knee Jerk Reaction’ Came ‘When...
Charles Krauthammer called it “premature” for President Obama to call for new gun laws in the immediate aftermath of today’s mass shooting in Oregon. “I don’t doubt that the president’s statement was...
View ArticleGod Bless the Martyrs of Roseburg, Oregon, and Three Other Thoughts on a...
With the full understanding that reports are still coming in, and much of what we think we know tonight may be disproven by the morning, I have four thoughts at the close of this dark day.First, God...
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View ArticleIs Yesterday’s Awful Shooting Really Such a Mystery?
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:Is Yesterday’s Awful Shooting Really Such a Mystery?“This is something we should politicize!” — President Obama, speaking to the press, yesterday afternoon. Can...
View ArticleDoes the Media Encourage Mass Shootings?
President Obama raced to his soapbox last night to lecture the American people about our collective responsibility for mass shootings. If Republicans in Congress would only permit common sense gun...
View ArticleJob Openings at NR HQ, and Across the Fruited Plains
Smart, happy, peppy, young, bursting with conservative enthusiasm, and NR love? Well the National Review Institute is seeking a Regional Development Officer. Maybe even a couple (based . . . somewhere...
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