CA Votes for Suicide During Suicide Prevention Week
You can’t make this up. It is (invisible) National Suicide Prevention Week! Didn’t know that? Not surprised. Suicide prevention receives very short shrift in an increasingly pro suicide culture.And...
View Article‘Look at That Face! Would Anyone Vote for That?’
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt:‘Look at That Face! Would Anyone Vote for That?’Oh, I see. Donald Trump thinks Carly Fiorina isn’t physically attractive enough to hold the office of...
View ArticleFrom a Great Man to a Great Dane
1) I’ve jotted some notes about the late, great Robert Conquest — a most consequential historian. These notes are mainly personal. But they are general as well.2) Let me recommend a column by Bret...
View ArticleDavid Brock to NYT: Hie Thee to Hell, Foul Demons!
Apparently David Brock has a new book coming out taking dead aim at the New York Times. That’s not surprising. Brock’s whole shtick at Media Matters has been to work the refs for Hillary Clinton. Sure,...
View ArticleKim Davis and Judicial Supremacy
The homepage is featuring an article I wrote on judicial supremacy and the presidential race for the latest issue of NR — an article I wrote right before the clerk’s office in Rowan County, Kentucky,...
View ArticlePoll Suggests a More Gun-Focused Electorate in 2016
Deep in the numbers of the newly released CNN poll, we find 42 percent of registered voters said the issue of “gun policy” would be “extremely important” to their vote for president next year. In 2012,...
View Article‘No, America Isn't Moving Left’
Politico Magazine is out with its annual list of “thinkers, doers and visionaries.” Several friends of this publication are on it, including Oren Cass, Veronique de Rugy, Charles Murray, my wife, and...
View ArticleVideo: Trump v. Carson -- the Front-runners Clash
With CNN’s latest poll now showing the national race as a battle between Donald Trump and Ben Carson, direct attacks were inevitable. Last night, Carson fired the first broadside:Carson took direct aim...
View Article‘Hillary Comes Clean’
In my Politico column today, I write about what Hillary would sound like if she began really apologizing:I want to apologize to all those people professionally obliged to defend me, who have had to go...
View ArticleA Problem for Trump: People Like Carson and Fiorina
David, I’d also note that Trump’s past slams of GOP rivals carried much less risk. When Trump rips into Jeb Bush, he’s going after a figure not particularly liked by Republicans. The latest Monmouth...
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It's Time to Reform Our Bankrupt Disability Insurance
Decades of promises, subventions, entitlements, and safety nets issued by the federal government that simply cannot be paid for are starting to take a toll on our finances. Their consequences are going...
View ArticleThe U.S. and the Migrant Crisis
A friend e-mails pointing out that the U.S. accepts more migrants than any country on Earth:We also are the only country that routinely hands out citizenship docs to migrants (while giving it...
View ArticleSenator Ted Cruz and House Republicans Move to Block Obama’s Iran Deal
We have an excellent editorial on the home page today, urging the Senate to follow the House’s lead and attempt to put the brakes on President Obama’s Iran deal rather than pushing it to the finish...
View ArticleThirty-Three Cheers for Jindal, Contra Trump
Bobby Jindal made a superb, sharply pointed speech today at the National Press Club, embracing Donald Trump’s assault on “political correctness” in order to use politically incorrect, but utterly...
View ArticleCooking the Intelligence on ISIS
The Daily Beast has a story that should stir Republicans to confront Obama on his failed ISIS policy, at last. The Beast (no conservative Koch brothers mouthpiece) is reporting that some 50...
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Can Tennessee Seventh Graders Be Required to Declare That There Is No God but...
This morning, Breitbart led its news coverage with a story from — of all places — my home county. The Maury County, Tennessee, school district has kicked up a firestorm with a Five Pillars of Islam...
View ArticleHealing the Wounded, Broken Hearts
As a culture where marriage and family is in crisis, we certainly cannot afford to welcome, celebrate, or encourage divorce and annulment. Still, we also know that they are a painful reality for many,...
View ArticleTrump’s Allergy to the Words ‘Freedom’ and ‘Liberty’
Jim has a piece on the homepage on something very odd about Donald Trump’s political vocabulary as a Republican:Did you think you would see the day when the GOP front-runner rarely uttered the words...
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ObamaNuke Really Is an Atomic Obamacare
“This is probably the biggest thing that President Obama will do in his second term on foreign policy,” Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said of Obama’s Iran nuclear deal last fall. “This is...
View ArticleTrump on Jindal: 'I Only Respond to People That Register More than 1 Percent...
Here’s Donald Trump’s response to Bobby Jindal calling him a “narcissist,” an “egomaniac,” and “a carnival act,” among other things, in a speech this morning. He did not make the debate stage and...
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