Can Jeb Bush Lead the Fight Against Crony Capitalism?
This morning, Jeb Bush declared that as president, he would “end crony capitalism”:The influence peddling industry in Washington will fight every step of the way to defend their fiefdoms and special...
View ArticleThe Junk Science behind 'Unconscious Bias' Studies
The claim that unconscious bias is everywhere is, well, everywhere these days. But Andrew Ferguson has an excellent article about problems with replicability in the behavioral sciences generally and...
View ArticleI Don’t Get This
First Read covers the Trump-Bush 9/11 flap today:Spoiling for a fight: Why the aggressive response from Bush now? One thing that’s clear from Team Jeb’s big reaction on the Trump comments is that this...
View ArticleHillary Is Pushing Her Luck on Gun Control
Per the Huffington Post, the Hillary campaign has really ramped up the gun control talk:It’s “worth considering” whether the United States should emulate Australia by instituting a national gun buyback...
View ArticleIt Is Good to Be a Communist
Today, I have a “Colorado Journal,” which includes a visit to the university in Boulder. They have — drum roll, please — a Dalton Trumbo Fountain Court. I have since learned that a major motion picture...
View ArticleConservative Reagan Experts vs. Bill O'Reilly
Craig Shirley, Kiron Skinner, Paul Kengor, and Steven Hayward write:“Killing Reagan,” by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, is supposed to be a book of new scholarship on the Reagan presidency. Instead,...
View ArticleSome Eye-Popping Poll Numbers on Guns and Self-Defense
Let’s take a look at one vivid indicator of just how much Hillary Clinton is pushing her luck on the issue of gun control, as Charlie writes…OnMessage Inc., a GOP consulting firm that includes the NRA...
View ArticleHillary Admits It, Finally
A few of us grind our teeth every time Hillary Clinton says “it was allowed” in reference to her stealth server. And since she’s been saying it so much, I’ve ground my teeth down to nubs. For instance,...
View ArticleTrump Is Trolling Bush -- And It's Working
Rich– I’m not sure I even get why the Bush team thinks this is potentially a good fight for them.” As a matter of honor and loyalty, I think it’s right and proper — never mind correct on the merits —...
View ArticleGuns and Gallup
Gallup is out with a new analysis headlined, “Americans’ Desire for Stricter Gun Laws Up Sharply.” That contradicts most of what I’ve been reading on this subject over the last few years, so I was...
View ArticleTime to Panic about Trump?
Jay and I are joined by the always perspicacious Ramesh Ponnuru on our latest Need to Know podcast. We talk about the pros and cons of the Trump candidacy. Or, if not pros, exactly, then at least the...
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MSNBC Airs Propaganda Map of Palestinian 'Land Loss'
Apparently unsatisfied with merely skewed coverage, MSNBC went for out-and-out propaganda during last Thursday’s Live with Kate Snow, airing a map of Palestinians’ “loss of land” since 1946:Obviously,...
View ArticleVox's Matthew Yglesias: The Democrats Are in 'Deep Trouble'
Over at Vox, Matthew Yglesias is noticing that the Obama era has led to historic Republican majorities in the House, Senate, in and state capitols across the country. His conclusion? The Democrats face...
View ArticleIf You're Recycling, You're Wasting Your Time
I don’t recycle. I stopped recycling in 2001, when I lived in Ithaca, New York, and recycling was mandatory. We had to throw away our garbage in clear plastic bags so that the recycling police could...
View ArticleAdding Light to the Payday Lending Debate
Me and three scholars of payday lending, writing at the New York Fed:Except for the ten to twelve million people who use them every year, just about everybody hates payday loans. Their detractors...
View ArticleKrauthammer: Biden Will Run So Democrats Have ‘Insurance Policy’ if Hillary’s...
Charles Krauthammer predicted tonight that Joe Biden will enter the presidential race, but only to be able to easily pick up the nomination should Hillary Clinton be indicted. “One of the reasons I...
View ArticleIt’s Now the Republicans vs. the Socialists in 2016.
Did you feel that? Does anyone have whiplash? As noted in today’s Morning Jolt, the Democrats just took another sudden, dramatic shift to the left again…It’s Now the Republicans vs. the Socialists in...
View ArticleEyes on Texas (and Ferris -- Bueller)
On the homepage today, I have an “Austin Journal” — Austin as in Texas. And this leads, of course, to some general remarks about Texas. I’d like to make a few more here.For a long time, Texas has been...
View Article"It's true. All of it. The Dark Side. The Jedi. They're real."
The official trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Wow.
View ArticlePushing Back
The latest group of voters given the chance to react to Europe’s current migrant wave were Swiss. And they don’t seem to be too enthused by what they are seeing.The Wall Street...
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