Rove's Super PAC Unveils 'On Her Majesty's Secret Server'
A funny, hard-hitting web video from the folks at American Crossroads, the super-PAC formed by Karl Rove… “On Her Majesty’s Secret Server.”It’s a James Bond parody that features a hacker getting into...
View ArticlePonnuru: Trump Has No History of Conservatism
National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru appeared on today’s Morning Joe to discuss the magazine’s latest cover story, “Trump: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”: BRZEZINSKI: “The cover of National Review. ‘Trump,...
View ArticleThough Today’s Job’s Report Is Weak, There Are a Few Hopeful Signs
No two ways about it, today’s employment report was weak by the standard of the past few years. Job growth was slow, wages were flat, hours fell, and the labor force dropped. As a result, a rate hike...
View ArticleA Logical Misfire
William Saletan writes in Slate that Obama is “raising a question that Republican candidates for president ought to answer: Our country has a strikingly high rate of killings. If it’s not because of...
View ArticleWill CNN Demand Gun Control Specifics from the Democrats?
Hillary Clinton, last night: “I know there is a way to have sensible gun control measures that help prevent violence, prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands and save lives. And I am committed...
View ArticleCooke on Shootings: Sometimes Doing Nothing Is Smarter than Doing Something
In case you missed it, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke also appeared on today’s Morning Joe. Facing a panel of hosts and guests demanding politicians “do something” on guns, Cooke suggested that...
View ArticleA Very Unfortunate Event
Good author, bad politics. Via the New York Daily News:Author Daniel Handler — better known by his pen name, Lemony Snicket — announced this week that he and his wife, Lisa Brown, will donate $1...
View ArticleIs It Hot in Here? Or Am I Just a Profiteering Climate Scientist?
I wrote yesterday about George Mason University professor Jagadish Shukla. Besides being the lead signatory of a now-vanished letter recommending the federal government use RICO laws to prosecute...
View ArticleNo More Mr. Nice Jeb
Meet the new aggressive Jeb Bush campaign. Right to Rise had a tracker– a guy with a camera, recording every statement they can, hoping to catch a useful gaffe – thrown out of a Rubio campaign town...
View ArticleIs the Vatican Walking Back the Pope's Visit With Kim Davis?
As expected, the Left exploded with anger after the Pope Francis’s meeting with Kim Davis, even featuring theories that he was “swindled” into the meeting. In response to the growing controversy, the...
View Article'Greater Love Hath No Man' -- Unarmed Army Vet Reportedly Attempted to Stop...
Within the deep, dark cloud of the Oregon mass shooting, there is the silver lining of this act of courage:An Army veteran who bravely blocked the door as the Oregon gunman barged into a community...
View ArticleTrouble in Paradise (3)
Open Europe:A new ARD-Deutschlandtrend poll shows that 51% of Germans are afraid of the large number of refugees coming to the country – a 13 percentage point increase compared to last month. This...
View ArticleNo President Obama, America Is Not 'Like' Australia or Britain
After his much-commented-on “politicize gun control!” speech last night, President Obama said this to the assembled press corps:We know other countries in response to one mass shooting have been able...
View ArticleThe Oregon Shooter Obtained All His Guns Legally
As is the case in pretty much every single mass shooting, the killer in Oregon got hold of his guns legally. The New York Times confirms the inevitable:ROSEBURG, Ore. — The man who killed nine people...
View ArticleEconomic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Deirdre McCloskey, Yuval Levin, and...
It was quite refreshing yesterday evening to take a break from the details of public policy and to discuss the broader context and bigger picture in which that policy takes place. Washington think...
View ArticleCongress: The More You Know About It, The More You Loathe It
As House Republicans prepare to select new leaders, they would be wise to consider just how unpopular Congress has become.According to the Gallup Poll, 79% of Americans think Congress is “out of touch...
View ArticleBlocking a Bailout in Puerto Rico
I write about how to do it at Bloomberg View today. The basic principle on which Congress should insist: “Creditors, not taxpayers, should take the hit for unwise loans.”
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No, Jeb Bush Did Not 'Shrug Off' the Oregon Shooting
Even for those of us who track it on a daily basis, the rank dishonesty of the press can be astonishing. Friday’s leftwing feeding-frenzy comes courtesy of Jeb Bush’s Q&A at the Conservative...
View ArticleOn the Docket
The National Review Institute and the Pacific Legal Foundation organized a panel discussion earlier today with some of the top Supreme Court litigators in the country on what to expect in the coming...
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