Gowdy on Clinton: 'I Can't See What She Takes Responsibility For'
“When [Hillary Clinton is] asked whether she takes responsibility, she says yes, but when you ask responsibly for what, I can’t see what she takes responsibility for,” Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House...
View ArticleWithin the Mitten
I wanted to let friends — in particular, Michiganders— know about a few events next week. I’ll be making three stops, talking about my new book, Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and...
View ArticleMontage: CNN Asks Rubio About Trump Eight Times in Five-Minute Interview
On State of the Union this morning, CNN’s Jamie Gangel sat down with Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), where she picked the Republican presidential candidate’s brain on a variety of topics. Such as:Why...
View ArticleBiden: Oh, That Heartbreaking Anecdote in Dowd’s Column? Never Happened.
From the first Morning Jolt of Jim-Relentlessly-Promotes-His-New-Book-Week:Biden: Oh, That Heartbreaking Anecdote in Dowd’s Column? Never Happened.Okay, somebody’s lying.Vice President Joe Biden, last...
View ArticleMonday Links
Yesterday, October 25, was the anniversary of three major battles - Agincourt, the charge of the Light Brigade, and Leyte Gulf: history, maps, Shakespeare, and documentaries, including one that...
View ArticleKnoxville Knews
In August, there was a kerfuffle in Tennessee. The director of the Pride Center at UT–Knoxville said that everyone should really learn new pronouns: “ze/zir/zirs,” “xe/xem/xyr,” and other such exotica....
View ArticleTrump Is Right That We’d Be Better Off With Qaddafi . . . Which Was...
In a post on Sunday, Jim reports on Donald Trump’s assertion that it is “100 percent” certain that the United States would be better off with Saddam Hussein and MoamarQaddafi in power in, respectively,...
View ArticleWe've Seen 'Just Asking Questions' About an Opponent's Religion Before
Appearing on the Sunday shows, Donald Trump insisted he didn’t mean to attack or insult Ben Carson’s faith when he said in Florida, “I’m Presbyterian. That’s down the middle of the road, folks. I mean,...
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The GOP's Not That Dysfunctional, and It's Not Sarah Palin's Fault
William Daley, Obama’s former chief of staff, writes in the Washington Post today that “the GOP dysfunction began with Sarah Palin.” He cites a front page Post story that declared, “Republicans are on...
View ArticleRegulatory Freeze Needs to Be Part of the Deal
Representative Bill Flores’s Terms of Credit Act, which sought to pair the debt limit increase with significant spending cuts and deregulatory measures, failed to win enough support to advance in the...
View ArticleWe Will Know Soon Where Republicans Stand on Cronyism
At least 42 Republicans in Congress will vote today to revive the Ex-Im bank through a discharge petition which they initiated under the leadership of Tennessee’s Stephen Fincher. In this rare...
View ArticleWalking Dead Therapy Thread: Please Tell Me He's Still Alive
I’ve spared the Corner my zombie-blogging since the finale of Fear the Walking Dead several weeks ago, but last night’s Walking Dead episode was traumatic. My son and I were yelling at the television...
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WaPo's Problematic Op-Ed on Narrowing Racial Achievement Gaps
An op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday calls on K–12 schools to improve their racial and ethnic mixes in order to close academic achievement gaps — most specifically, that is, to help black students...
View ArticleMarriage of Convenience
Bill and Hillary Clinton have taken to arguing that they supported the Defense of Marriage Act in order to head off a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage. “I think what my husband...
View ArticleOn Tony Blair's Mostly Correct Iraq War Apologies
Over the weekend former British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a nuanced “apology” for the Iraq War, essentially apologizing for a number of key mistakes without apologizing for removing Saddam...
View Article'The Event Felt Like Democrats Have Concluded the Race Is Over'
Sorry, Democrats, the 2016 primary is over already; Democrats at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner have spoken.“The event felt like Democrats have concluded the race is over,” said David Yepsen, who wrote...
View ArticleTed Cruz Makes an Argument That Needs To Be Made Over and Over in 2016
Here’s Ted Cruz, speaking Friday:One more liberal justice and our right to keep and bear arms is taken away from us by an activist court.What is he talking about? This — from a piece I wrote earlier...
View ArticleA Brief Note on Libya
Over at Quartz, Tim Fernholz has a short, convincing piece on ”the real legacy of Benghazi“:The legacy is that the attack, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, caused the...
View Article2016 Officially Begins: Hillary Clinton Calls Critic Sexist
Republicans, gird your loins. Via the New York Times, a sneak peak of the next 12 months (at least):Hillary Rodham Clinton has seized on remarks Senator Bernie Sanders made in the first Democratic...
View ArticleSixteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Oct. 26, 2015)
1. You can join this joint National Review Institute/Heritage Foundation in person in D.C. on Thursday or from anywhere via live streaming: Beyond Planned Parenthood: Alternatives for Women2. Knights...
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