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CHART: The Truth About Gun Ownership in America Isn't What Liberals Think
The truth? The number of guns in the United States has increased by 62% since 1994 but gun violence has decreased by 49% since 1993:
View ArticleMass Immigration, Nationality, and Supranationalism
I posted some comments yesterday on a Financial Times article by Martin Wolf, the son (as he points out) of immigrants himself, in which he knocked the (idiotic) idea that mass immigration was somehow...
View ArticleDan Rather Still Insists His Anti-Bush Memo Story from 2004 Was True
Here’s Dan Rather, insisting to this day that the Rathergate story was true: “Our story was true…They couldn’t attack the truth of the story, so they attacked the process by which we arrived at the...
View ArticleJeb Bush's Solid Health-Care Plan
Bush, as I write at Bloomberg today, has made the right choices on health care. He has a plan to replace Obamacare and reduce the federal role in health care without causing people, especially those...
View ArticleIt's Increasingly Clear Biden Doesn't Really Want to Run, Huh?
Politico’s morning newsletter notes, “Some close to the V.P. had thought he’d make a decision during time with his family in Delaware this weekend, but he didn’t. Now, advisers are saying the real,...
View ArticleJeb Bush’s Obamacare Replacement
This morning in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush announced some of the key details of his proposal to replace Obamacare.It’s a strong and smart proposal, along the same lines as replace proposals advanced by...
View ArticleOther Reactions to the Bush Health Plan
Philip Klein and Jeffrey Anderson, writing respectively for the Washington Examiner and Weekly Standard, offer analyses of Bush’s plan that are largely consistent with my own: All three of us suggest...
View ArticleHillary Ally: 'She Simply Wasn’t Equipped to Deal With All This'
Here’s a gem in Politico’s latest story on how the Hillary Clinton campaign is handling questions about her private e-mail server:“I am having two problems,” she bluntly told the supporter at a social...
View ArticleArizona Republic Writer Amazed that the Second Amendment Is Part of the Bill...
A classic line from a frothing Arizona Republicop-ed on the Second Amendment:Other rights have reasonable limits that can be discussed and accommodated. The Second Amendment has been turned into the...
View ArticleWill Dustin Hoffman Play Scott Johnson?
I wrote today about the perversely titled movie Truth, lionizing Dan Rather and Mary Mapes for one of the great journalistic fiascoes of the last decade (and, as always with the National Guard story,...
View ArticleDon't Confuse Punishment and Deterrence
At Slate today, Dahlia Lithwick argues that we should more harshly prosecute parents who leave firearms out for their children to find and use. In and of itself, I’m not against this idea. But I’m not...
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NR Poll: Should the U.S. Have Pursued a Deal with Iran While an American...
NBC News: “Jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian has been convicted in Iran, according to the country’s judiciary and his newspaper. Rezaian, a dual American-Iranian citizen, was detained for...
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U.S. Spox: 'Too Much Energy Spent Trying to Cast Blame' for Bombing of...
According to Dutch officials, a 15-month investigation has determined that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was destroyed by a Russian-made Buk antiaircraft missile, bolstering the notion that the plane was...
View ArticleTrashing Paul Ryan Could Mean John Boehner Never Leaves
No one denies there is pushback against the idea of drafting Paul Ryan as speaker from a variety of conservative media sources, including the Drudge Report. As the New York Times reports: “The current...
View ArticleDid Jeb Bush Plant a Questioner at Trump's 'No Labels' Event? (Probably Not.)
The curious tale of the Jeb Bush “plant” at Donald Trump’s “No Labels” appearance yesterday cries out for the application of common sense.Speaking at the New Hampshire convention on Monday, Trump faced...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood: ‘We Haven’t Done Anything Wrong, But . . . ’
Joel: So, let me see if I understand: Planned Parenthood maintains that what it has been doing is completely and totally legal, but it is going to stop doing that completely and totally legal thing...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Subtle Ways Public Schools Promote Islam at the Expense of...
Here in Tennessee, the public battle over Islamic indoctrination in public schools rages on. Last month, I reported that parents in my home county were upset after their Middle School-age children were...
View ArticleDelusional White House on Iran Missile Test: UN Resolution Implementing Iran...
In its continuing humiliation of President Obama – who clings to his Iran deal despite Iran’s continuing to call for “Death to America,” banning of further negotiations with the U.S., convicting of one...
View ArticleMartin O'Malley Is the Only Democrat Willing to Really Criticize Hillary
Sure, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley is at only four percent among Democrats… er, in his home state. But tonight he might be the only candidate on stage who’s willing to throw a metaphorical...
View ArticleAngus Deaton and the Strange Case of Somaliland
Angus Deaton, the Scottish economist who was just awarded the prestigious Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Prize, is a noted critic of the notion that foreign aid can help poor countries grow their way...
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