Conversation with Arthur Brooks
If you aren’t watching “Conversations with Bill Kristol,” you should be. The many interviews I’ve watched have all been fantastic. Mr. Kristol most recently interviewed Arthur Brooks, which you can...
View ArticleRNC's Priebus to NBC: You Don't Get the February GOP Debate Anymore
You want Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to take a tougher line with NBC? Here’s a tougher line with NBC:Mr. Andrew Lack Chairman, NBC News 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, New York...
View ArticleThe Anti-Human New York Times
Human exceptionalism used to be considered a self-evident truth. No more. Particularly among political progressives, the idea of unique human value is under sustained assault as a fiction promoted by...
View ArticleFear of Rules
Reviewing a new book on the creation of the Federal Reserve, Robert Rubin concludes with this drive-by attack on unspecified congressional proposals to rein it in:Protecting the independence of the Fed...
View ArticleJustice Kennedy: The Rule of Law Requires You To Enforce the Laws I Made Up
Speaking at Harvard Law School, Justice Anthony Kennedy — author of the lawless Obergefell majority opinion— essentially declared “Rule of law for thee, but not for me.” At an appearance at Harvard Law...
View ArticleObama to Wannabe Illegals: Do as I Say, Not as I Do
In response the surge of Central Americans sneaking into Texas in the summer of 2014, the Obama administration launched an ad campaign in the sending countries earlier this year to stem the flow. The...
View ArticleWait, Wait, Wait: Boeing Lands International Orders Worth $3.5 Billion...
According to Yahoo Finance, Boeing has landed international orders for its 787 airliner worth $3.5 billion.The Qantas order announced on Thursday includes five 787-9 Dreamliners worth $1.3 billion, and...
View ArticleThe War Against ISIS Escalates: American Boots on the Ground in Syria
President Obama is doing what he said he’d never do — send American troops to Syria:President Obama will deploy a small number of American Special Operations forces to Kurdish-controlled territory in...
View ArticleLinda Greenhouse vs. the Little Sisters of the Poor, Again
She thinks that letting the nuns refrain from facilitating contraceptive coverage for employees would “carve a gaping hole in the fabric of civil society” and might even amount to something akin to an...
View ArticleJeb's Coriolanus Syndrome
I have been trying for a while to formulate what it is about Jeb Bush that has caused me, unexpectedly, to prickle. Below, Rick helps. Comparing Jeb to Ted Kennedy, he observes:Each third guy seems to...
View ArticleRubio Talks Bush's Debate Attacks
Orange City, IA — Taking a victory lap in Iowa after a dominant debate Wednesday, Marco Rubio declined to respond to Jeb Bush’s attacks on him during the debate, but told reporters he did not think it...
View ArticleLast Things
Andras Schiff brought a program of last piano sonatas, by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, to Carnegie Hall. Maybe it was his playing, maybe it was the acoustics (Carnegie is a jewel box–a big...
View ArticleChina Changes 1-Child to 2-Child Policy
The Chinese tyranny has amended its one-child policy to “allow” couples to have two children.Why? Not out of the milk of human kindness. China is an aging society and many elderly will not have...
View ArticleJeb Bush's Scorched-Earth Path
There is a still a path for Jeb Bush, but it appears considerably more narrow and treacherous. He needs to destroy Marco Rubio or for him to prove unsuitable in some way, hence his team’s obsession...
View ArticleThe Lion Who Is Lamb
C-SPAN and I came of age at pretty much the same time. The network launched when I was in ninth grade. Through high school, I watched it frequently. I continued in college and beyond. The network...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: Obama Can't Be Trusted with Immigration Reform
Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, the new Speaker of the House promised Chuck Todd that he would not introduce or advance “comprehensive immigration reform” while Barack Obama remained president....
View ArticleProfessor's Calls for World 'One-Child' Policy
China has ended its tyrannical one-child policy. Not because it was a profound violation of human rights. The Chinese Communist Party could give a fig about human rights.No, the policy was ended...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: Honeymoon Will Last 'About 35 Minutes’
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comNew House speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t expect the conservative base to give him much of a grace period before it starts demanding results.“About 35 minutes,”...
View ArticleFred Thompson, American
Fred Thompson passed away today. He was one of the great gentlemen it has been my privilege to know. Fred would have been a great president because – and today’s candidates could take a lesson from...
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