This Isn't Normal: Ben Carson Suspends Campaign for a Book Tour.
“Why aren’t you taking Ben Carson’s presidential campaign seriously?” demanded the angry Carson fans, right before he announced he was putting all public campaign events on hold for a two-week book...
View ArticleJobs, Wages, and the EITC
Chris Edwards and Veronique de Rugy have a new report for the Cato Institute pulling together the various arguments against the earned income tax credit. In passing, they criticize me for writing that...
View ArticleMedia Segregates Anti-Euthanasia in ‘Religion’ Box
The liberal political commentator, Kirsten Powers, has a piece in today’s Washington Post, in which (among other policy objections to assisted suicide) she decries the Orwellian word-engineering that...
View ArticleStill Looking for That Jeb Bush Surge in the Early States...
In mid-September, Jeb Bush’s SuperPAC, Right to Rise PAC, unleashed $24 million in advertising in key early primary states.Using the RealClearPolitics average as our measuring stick, Bush moved from...
View ArticleMore Problems for the F-35
The Pentagon’s F-35 fighter jet is in the news again with more technical problems. According to reports, the latest issue comes in the form of “a potentially life-threatening blunder as [the F-35's]...
View ArticlePolitics Changes Fast
Over at the New Republic Elspeth Reeve has written an interesting piece on Jim Webb, who, she suggests, was once “supposed to be exactly what the Democratic Party needed.” In 2005, Reeve recalls, the...
View ArticlePalestinian Morality at Work: Terrorists Deserve Honorary Law Degrees
Here’s a dog-bites-man story. It turns out that influential Palestinian institutions — like the Palestinian Bar Association — honor terrorists:The Palestinian Bar Association, whose heads are Fatah...
View ArticleBen Carson Campaign: No Suspension, We're Continuing to Hold Public Events
Ying Ma, the deputy communications director for the Ben Carson campaign, tells me that “rumors about Dr. Ben Carson suspending his campaign are all nonsense. We will be holding multiple fundraisers and...
View ArticleSix Things that Caught My Eye Today (Oct. 15, 2015)
1. A good read from Bishop Anthony Fisher of Australia: Should Bakers be Required to Bake Gay Wedding Cakes?2. Where Amnesty went wrong.3. Did you see this awful story about the first known American...
View ArticleTwo Good Posts on Afghanistan
My Bloomberg View colleague Tobin Harshaw concludes:Those of us who favor keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan and those who feel it is a waste of lives and money deserve the same thing: presidential...
View ArticleThe Joy and Agony of October Baseball
I have my gripes about baseball, which badly needs reform, but there’s still nothing like it in October. I had the TV on mute and was only half-watching at work during the Cubs-Cardinals Game 4, when...
View ArticleDo Facts Matter in the Battle Over Guns on College Campuses?
Today the Chronicle of Higher Education featured a story about the battle over concealed carry on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. In June, Texas passed “campus carry,” which will...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: History Will Judge Obama ‘Very Severely’ on Afghanistan
History will judge President Obama “very severely” for sending soldiers to war in Afghanistan despite not believing in the mission himself, Charles Krauthammer said tonight on Special Report. [Robert]...
View Article14 Things that Caught My Eye Today (Oct. 16, 2015)
1. A new church dedicated to the 21 Egyptian Copts martyred earlier this year.2.Faithful urged to ‘Adopt a Christian from Mosul’ as Iraq braces for winter http://t.co/Jxdr0sEAH2 (via @AsiaNewsEN)...
View ArticleFriday links
For Rita Hayworth’s birthday: this compilation of her dancing scenes set to Stayin’ Alive will make your day.Lessons from the Sioux in How to Turn a Boy Into a Man.The history of Oktoberfest is much...
View ArticleJourney into a Lived Past
I recommend the new movie Bridge of Spies— starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer trying to broker a famous spy swap in the early 1960s— as a loving and realistic recreation of that era. Some movies certainly...
View ArticleFBI Looking at ‘Gross Negligence’ Laws in Hillary Server Investigation
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:FBI Looking at ‘Gross Negligence’ Laws in Hillary Server InvestigationBetween Kevin McCarthy’s gaffe, the Benghazi committee staffer who complained the panel’s...
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View ArticleOne and a Half Cheers for a Two-Hour GOP Debate
CNBC agreed to the demands from the Donald Trump and Ben Carson camps that the next GOP debate be held to just two hours.The bad news about this arrangement is that it’s likely some candidates will...
View ArticleJoe Biden's 2016 Deadlines
An e-mail from Ted Kaufman, former senator and top Biden aide, to Biden friends and supporters concludes:“He believes we must win this election. Everything he and the President have worked for – and...
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