What Is Paul Ryan Thinking?
Paul Ryan has his House Republican colleagues thoroughly confused about whether or not he will run for speaker.An unusual Tuesday night meeting of the House GOP conference might provide clarity — or it...
View ArticleNH GOP Hits Maggie Hassan on Sanctuary Cities
As the Senate voted on the hot-button issue of sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants Tuesday, New Hampshire Republicans were calling out Governor Maggie Hassan, a Democrat running to unseat incumbent...
View ArticleClocking Out: Ahmed and Family Moving . . . to Qatar
And so the traveling circus takes its show abroad, permanently. Via the Dallas Morning News:After finally meeting President Obama last night, Ahmed Mohamed and his family plan to leave the United...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Canada Didn’t Move Left, They Rejected Single-Party...
Tonight Charles Krauthammer downplayed the significance of Canada replacing its conservative government with one headed by the Liberal Party’s Justin Trudeau.“It was a cyclical election,” Krauthammer...
View ArticleThe Anti-Establishment Frontrunner
Eliana had a piece yesterday on the establishment beginning to think that Trump could win the nomination, and now there are a bunch of new national polls confirming Trump’s status as something entirely...
View ArticleSpeaker Ryan's Conditions
(Win McNamee/Getty) It looks like Paul Ryan will do the job, but he’ll do it on his own terms.He laid them out at a Republican-conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, telling his colleagues he...
View ArticleWill the Freedom Caucus Heed Paul Ryan's Demands?
Many House Republicans were upbeat on Tuesday evening when they left the private conference where Paul Ryan finally broke the silence on his potential Speaker bid. Ryan’s message was definitive: he...
View ArticleGrowth >'Democratic Socialism'
My latest column, out this morning, explains why, with a hat tip to WFB in the first paragraph.I write with only a little exaggeration that my jaw nearly hit the floor while watching the Democratic...
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One Cheer for the Galactic Empire
Yes, today’s Morning Jolt features a look at Paul Ryan’s conditional decision and the effort to bring back the Export-Import Bank, but let’s take some time to stop, smell the roses, and discuss...
View ArticleClintonite Insanity
Apparently Gloria Steinem has a theory that some liberal women don’t like Hillary Clinton. Michelle Goldberg writes about it at Slate:“If Hillary had a husband who regarded her as an equal—who had...
View ArticleBreaking: Joe Biden Passes on Presidential Run
After months of breathless speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he will not mount a campaign for the presidency in 2016.The vice president made his decision public in the...
View ArticleRe: Jobs, Wages, and the EITC
Ramesh: Thank you for your comments. I would like to respond to one thing you said. You write that even if the criticisms of the EITC that Chris and I develop in our paper hold, “Expanding the earned...
View ArticleDems Have All Their Chips on Hillary -- Or Is There a Plan B?
Team Clinton has a long history of being able to cajole or intimidate potential rivals out of running for president. New York Governor Mario Cuomo decided not to run at the last minute back in 1992 in...
View ArticleRyan's Rules
When NR editorially suggested that Paul Ryan should run for Speaker, it included a caveat: “For Ryan to lead House Republicans would require some accommodations. He would have to commit to keeping...
View ArticleWisconsin's Shame: Legislature Finally Acts to End 'John Doe' Abuse
At long last, the Wisconsin legislature has enacted much-needed “John Doe” reform. The reforms are designed to end any further abuse of a law that empowered partisan prosecutors to launch years-long,...
View ArticleIn the Battle of Jedi Versus Sith, I'll Take the Sith Every Time
Jim, I deeply appreciate your attempt at a revisionist history of the Galactic Empire, but I fear that you’re missing the forest for the trees. The central conflict of the entire Star Wars universe...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Paul Ryan Needs a Contract with Freedom Caucus 'Signed in...
Charles Krauthammer suggested this evening that Paul Ryan should have secured a contract from the Freedom Caucus “signed in secret, written in blood, witnessed by a Corleone brother — just to make sure...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Appearance Before the Benghazi Committee
Hillary Clinton has done Trey Gowdy an enormous favor. In anticipation of her testimony on Thursday before the Benghazi select committee he chairs, and with a lot of Republican help, she has framed the...
View ArticleBREAKING: House Freedom Caucus Will Not Endorse Ryan
House Freedom Caucus members confirmed that they were not able to reach the 80% thresholdrequired to endorse Paul Ryan for Speaker.Representative Raul Labrador called it a “supermajority support” for...
View Article2016: Outsiders versus Insiders
From my most recent NRO article, on the 2016 campaign: “The peculiarity of the American political scene now is a profound revulsion against the more than 20 years of misgovernment the country has...
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