Bush on Cruz: 'I Just Don't Like the Guy.'
Former president George W. Bush just plain doesn’t like Sen. Ted Cruz:It’s George W. Bush’s former employee — Ted Cruz.“I just don’t like the guy,” Bush said Sunday night, according to conversations...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Hysteria: Destroy the Economy to Save Planet!
Writing in Vox, Brad Plumer argues that saving the planet will require destroying the U.S. economy. From, “The Math on Staying Below 2 Degrees Global Warming Looks Increasingly Brutal:”In the United...
View ArticleIf You're in Nashville Tonight . . .
I’ll be speaking at 7:00 p.m. at Trevecca Nazarine University’s Tarter Student Activities Center. The topic will be the Evangelical challenge in a post-Obergefell world — with an emphasis on hope and...
View Article'Heather Mac Donald Explodes Criminal Justice Myths'
Read about her excellent testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee here.
View ArticleThe Art of Managing Obamacare Expectations
On October 15th, Sylvia Burwell, President Obama’s Secretary of Heath and Human Services, set 10 million exchange enrollees as her goal for 2016. She explained that though hitting this target would be...
View ArticleDemocrats ♥ Criminal Aliens
ICE reports there are now 340 sanctuary jurisdictions, i.e., cities and states that protect criminal aliens from deportation by refusing to cooperate with ICE. These jurisdictions, including the whole...
View ArticleThe Quantity of Education and the Quality of Education
In an interview with Chad Aldeman of Education Next, Eric Hanushek, co-author of a new study on income differences across U.S. states, makes the very simple but often neglected point that the quality...
View ArticleWhy Do American-Trained Militaries Fail?
Over at Slate, Fred Kaplan takes a thoughtful look at the recent failure of the Iraq and Afghan militaries. And they have failed — spectacularly. At Mosul, entire divisions of the Iraqi Army – despite...
View ArticleFlorida Debates Open Carry
In spite of the Democratic party’s newfound enthusiasm for national gun control legislation, the liberalization push continues apace in the states. Per the Suwannee Democrat:Local reaction is mixed...
View Article‘Out of One, Many’
“How often, brothers and sisters, do you hear your clergy teaching about Purity?” writes Father John Hunwicke, a Catholic priest and convert from Anglicanism. “How much time would you guess is being...
View ArticleBernie Sanders's Documentary on Eugene Debs
Bernie Sanders is planning to give a “major speech” explaining what democratic socialism means to him. That will certainly be of interest, but Sanders’s 1979 documentary on socialist presidential...
View ArticleAt Brown University, a Male Student Suspended for Sexual Misconduct Takes on...
After being found responsible for sexual misconduct by a campus kangaroo court, a Brown University student is taking the unusual step of suing the university and suing his accuser. He’s accusing Brown...
View ArticleHow Does Carly Intend to 'Change the Future'?
Tomorrow is October 21, 2015… which is the date of “the future” sequences in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II. We don’t quite have hover-boards or flying cars yet. We do have video...
View ArticleWill Canada Now Scrap Its Plan to Buy F-35 Fighter Jets from the U.S.?
One of the campaign promises of the Liberal party in Canada was that if elected it would scrap the troubled F-35 program, which is projected to cost $44 billion over the jet’s four-decade life cycle....
View ArticleSenate Democrats Vote to Protect Illegal-Alien Sanctuaries
Sure enough, Senate Democrats voted to prevent debate on a bill to rein in sanctuary cities that shield illegal-alien criminals from deportation. The final tally was 54-45, short of the 60 votes needed...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Campaign is Broke
That’s the headline from the third quarter campaign filings, summarized here. R. J. Lehmann of R Street writes:The Trump campaign ended the third quarter with $254,772.88 of cash on-hand, which is...
View ArticleEleven Things That Caught My Eye Today (Sept. 20, 2015)
1. Christian persecution on the rise.2. Folks should sign up! It is interesting. https://t.co/24ILQ84GXs— Mark Brumley (@mabrumley) October 18, 20153. Dior discovery:I don’t want to separate women...
View ArticleA Display of Ignorance
New York Magazine recently made some interesting if predictable errors on the subject of gun-control laws in New York and Connecticut. At issue were state bans on so-called assault weapons (an...
View ArticleThe Navy’s Stern Call: Faith, Courage, and Service True
It is easy to get depressed watching the world descend into chaos. A resurgent Russia grows increasingly bellicose as it tries to reestablish the evil Soviet empire, as Ronald Reagan correctly...
View ArticleHuckabee: Expand Social Security
Mike Huckabee is arguing against any reductions in future spending on Medicare and Social Security. Here’s the core of his argument:Sadly, the establishment elites treat Social Security and Medicare...
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