The Amnesty Team of Gutierrez and Ryan
PBS aired a Frontline documentary this week on the 2014 attempt to get an amnesty bill through the House of Representatives. The star was Luis Gutierrez, the most strident amnesty pusher on Capitol...
View ArticleDemocrats Cull Their Long-Shot Candidates. The GOP Lets Them Hang Around.
In a one-week span, the Democratic presidential field trimmed Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee and Joe Biden stayed out. It’s late October, and the Democratic field is down to three – four if you count...
View ArticleLooking Ahead to the General Election
The other day NRO ran an article of mine laying out why I think Hillary Clinton is likely to win next year. I’d like to make three clarifying points in response to some of the feedback I have gotten on...
View ArticleWhy Not Abolish the Department of Education?
In his appearance last Sunday on Fox News, Donald Trump reiterated that he would abolish all or part of the Education Department. News reports have implied this is another example of Trump’s extremism,...
View ArticleComparing the Bushes
One aspect of Jeb Bush’s campaign that has gotten lost in coverage of the horse race, where he’s far behind, is that he has now spelled out a lot of policy positions that put him to the right of his...
View ArticleIf the House Elects Paul Ryan Speaker, It Should Trust Him to Lead
Paul Ryan is right to run for speaker, and he is doing it the right way. He understands the rules, protocols, and culture of the House, and he has the leadership and communication skills to do the job,...
View ArticleSix Hundred Requests for Help
The conventional wisdom in the mainstream media today is that Hillary Clinton survived the Benghazi hearing and put the matter behind her. Predictable. After all, most of us expected that the media’s...
View ArticleThe White Vote
Great Scott Alexander post:[T]he [polls with racial breakdowns that] we have suggest that Donald Trump’s supporters are about as diverse as any other Republican’s and maybe more so. . . . On the other...
View ArticleMitt Romney: 'Without Romneycare, I Don’t Think We Would Have Obamacare'
Mitt Romney took responsibility for the passage of Obamacare on Friday, allowing that the health-care policy he enacted as Massachusetts governor paved the way for the national law.Romney made the...
View ArticleOne Banana Short of a Republic
I think this makes it clear that the Department of Justice either cannot or will not do its job. Lois Lerner’s cynical, overt politicization of the Internal Revenue Service, and the fact that she and...
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'If I Want to Make Changes, I Have to Infiltrate the System'
Bernie Sanders’ candidacy has had the advantage of outing today’s Democrats as the socialists they are. As Brother Geraghty put it recently, “America Now Has an Openly Socialist Party“.But Sanders...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Story of American Challenges in Syria
American planners are hoping to take aim at Raqqa, ISIS’s informal capital, but we’re having trouble finding a ground force that is either capable or — more importantly — willing to advance on the...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama ‘Openly Holding Hostage’ America’s Military Funding
President Obama is “openly holding hostage” America’s military funds, Charles Krauthammer charged tonight on Fox News’s Special Report. “John McCain is apoplectic and he should be,” Krauthammer said....
View ArticleP-J in Full
You don’t need an excuse to talk to David Pryce-Jones— the simple fact of life will do — but there is one, and a very good one: Fault Lines, his new book. It’s an autobiography, but more than that, I...
View ArticleNice Beavers Falling From the Sky
For your edification: The really good stuff starts around the 8:00 minute mark.Though it would be better if the narrator said, “As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly!”
View ArticleSupporting a Tax Because It's a Spending Cut
Economists Lawrence H. Summers, Treasury secretary under President Clinton and top economics adviser under President Obama, and N. Gregory Mankiw, CEA chair under President George W. Bush, team up this...
View ArticleTrump: World Would Be '100 Percent' Better With Hussein and Gadaffi in Power
This morning in an interview with Jake Tapper, Donald Trump offered what might be the clearest vision a “Trumpist” foreign policy, a forthright endorsement of brutal dictators who keep order in their...
View ArticleCarson: You Think I Lack Energy? I Spent 20 Hours Performing Surgery!
Ben Carson brushed off Donald Trump’s mockery of his “low energy” on Meet the Press this morning. BEN CARSON: Everybody has their own personality. If you like to do that, that’s fine. That’s not who I...
View ArticleTrump Insists He Didn't Insult Seventh Day Adventists
Donald Trump speaking in Jacksonville, Florida yesterday: “I love Iowa. And, look, I don’t have to say it, I’m Presbyterian. Can you believe it? Nobody believes I’m Presbyterian. I’m Presbyterian. I’m...
View ArticleNew Video Shows Delta Force and Kurdish Forces Raiding ISIS Prison
Separately from the political news this morning, the Sunday shows like This Week and CNN are discussing this video from a Kurdish news site which features “helmet-cam” footage of the U.S.-Kurdish joint...
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