Leftist Catholics Try to Silence Ross Douthat -- Douthat Brushes Them Off
One of the more amusing tempests (at least for those observing from a distance) has been the unbearably self-important and silly effort by a coalition of liberal Catholics to silence Ross Douthat’s...
View ArticleAll Frills — The NYT Reviews RBG
At the New York Times, Jennifer Senior has written a forced smile of a book review, and who can blame her? The volume at hand: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Irin Carmon...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: GOP Candidates Pushing Debate Demands 'Should Quit While...
Republican candidates making demands for future debates risk losing the high ground they left the CNBC debate with, Charles Krauthammer warned tonight on Fox News’s Special Report. “The Republican...
View ArticleNational Review Wine Club Special Offer: Get 4 Exceptional Wines for Just $30...
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View ArticleBeware the Hat
Today on the homepage, I have Part II of my “Michigan Journal.” This one covers Ann Arbor, primarily — my hometown. “A small citadel of the Left,” I have long termed it. Of course, it is more than...
View ArticleNot a Parody
This is a press release from The Nation. Caitlin Graf, The Nation, press [at] thenation.com, 212-209-5400New York, NY – November 3, 2015 – The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine of politics and...
View ArticleNational Review Kept Fred Thompson Awake at Night
As National Review celebrates its 60th anniversary, it is gratifying to find evidence of its influence. In the course of doing research for my appreciation of former senator Fred Thompson, who died on...
View ArticleIf Anything Needs Fixing, Governor, It's Our Governing Class's Contempt
From the Tuesday edition of the Morning Jolt:Can Jeb Fix It?The first test of Jeb’s ability to “fix it” will be seeing whether he can fix his campaign.Besides the fundamental misreading of the GOP...
View ArticleTrump's Nationalist Appeal
Why are so many conservative voters attracted to Donald Trump?Pundits have been scratching their heads trying to figure out why people on the right would back someone who is conservative on neither...
View ArticleFeds: Schools Must Grant Mentally Disturbed Boy Unfettered Access to Girls'...
The Department of Education has lost its mind:Federal education authorities, staking out their firmest position yet on an increasingly contentious issue, found Monday that an Illinois school district...
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Jeb the Builder
Perhaps no other figure has influenced American politics in recent years quite like . . . Bob the Builder. Seven years ago, Barack Obama won the presidency with the rallying cry “Yes, We Can!” Now Jeb...
View ArticleAnother Suicide-Prevention Article Omitting Assisted Suicide
I have repeatedly pointed out that the suicide-prevention community almost always pretends that assisted suicide has no connection to their cause.But it does. Pretending that assisted suicide isn’t...
View ArticleObama to 'Ban the Box'
President Obama will ban federal agencies from asking about prospective employees’ criminal records on their job applications.
View ArticleWhite Liberals Love Black Radicals -- That's Why They Love Ta-Nehisi Coates
Over at the Daily Beast, Felice León reports on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s surprise that so many white people love his work:“Why do you think that so many white people love what you write?” asked the...
View ArticleBen Carson, Mannatech, and Me
I thought I had said my piece on Ben Carson and Mannatech, but now he’s claiming “another campaign” is using National Review to attack him on this issue.No campaign contacted me about Carson’s work for...
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Turkey’s Election Results Stink of Fraud
Like other observers of Turkish politics, I was stunned on November 1 when the ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP) was reported to have increased its share of the...
View ArticleCharity or Philanthropy?
Almshouses are out of fashion, as are, for the most part, alms — the former having been supplanted by alliances, foundations, and the like, and the latter having taken the form of “giving...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's Good News Isn't Necessarily Good News
This headline jumped out of today’s Wall Street Journal: “Clinton’s Explanations on Benghazi Attacks Winning Over Voters — WSJ/NBC Poll.”Are they? Well, yes and no. Here’s the yes:The number of people...
View ArticleThose Iowa and New Hampshire Polls
A few things:–Chris Christie is showing room for growth and he has gotten the bump in favorability that Bush has been hoping for with his ads. Per Monmouth, Christie is up to 54–32 fav/unfav in New...
View ArticleMike Lee Wins Friends
Andrea Drusch reports:Lee, a tea-party favorite who unseated incumbent GOP Sen. Bob Bennett in his 2010 campaign, drew the ire of Utah’s establishment leaders for pushing the 2013...
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