Re: Faith Less
Ramesh, I don’t think so, unless millennials are driving their elders to an early grave. The increase in mortality is in “midlife” white non-Hispanic Americans, but the recent growth in ranks of the...
View ArticleTrusting Presidents on Immigration
Speaker Ryan writes: “The House of Representatives will not vote on comprehensive immigration legislation as long as President Obama is in office. And the reason is simple: The American people can’t...
View ArticleHillary Stands Up for Rights of Criminal 'Former Presidents'
Slate notices Hillary Clinton made a funny Freudian slip in a speech at an NAACP banquet in South Carolina Friday, declaring, “As president, I will take steps to ‘ban the box’ so former presidents...
View ArticleWill We Seize the Opportunity to Make the Debates More Substantive?
Efforts to unite the GOP presidential campaigns to take more control of primary debate are struggling, but that doesn’t mean (some of) the underlying impulses at work are wrong. Chief among them was...
View ArticleRe: Re: Faith Less
That’s right, Andrew: The decline of religious faith in the time period of that Pew study, concentrated as it is among youngsters, can’t explain the distressing statistics bearing on the happiness of...
View ArticleThe Bathroom Wars and the 2016 Presidential Election
Yesterday’s sweeping defeat (61% to 39%) by Houston voters of an ordinance that (among other things) broadly banned discrimination based on “gender identity” starkly displays the potency of voter...
View ArticleBREAKING: Kevin Brady Will Succeed Paul Ryan as Ways & Means Chairman
The Republican Steering Committee has chosen Texas’s Kevin Brady, a longtime ally of Paul Ryan, to succeed the new speaker as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.Wednesday afternoon, in the...
View ArticleRubio Must Reject Schumer, and All His Works, and All His Empty Promises
Ramesh, I think you’re right that Rubio’s role as Chuck Schumer’s front man in pushing the Gang of Eight amnesty/immigration-surge bill doesn’t have to doom him in the primaries. But getting past that...
View ArticleTrump in New Hampshire
Check out this great Tim Alberta dispatch on the home-page. This was particularly amusing:He took a plodding journey up the statehouse steps, turning in every direction to give autographs and answer...
View ArticleRush Talks Up His NR Magazine Essay
From today’s EIB broadcast, El Rushbo discussed the response to his essay:I’ve been talking about the National Review 60th anniversary magazine, the issue, and that the editors asked me to write a...
View ArticleSome Second Thoughts in The Humanitarian Superpower
Sweden has taken considerable pride in the idea that is a ‘humanitarian superpower’, an idea that came to encompass extraordinarily generous asylum and immigration policies. These policies fueled the...
View ArticleTalking Down Brexit
With the UK moving towards a referendum in 2017 (some think it’ll be in 2016, but I doubt it) on whether to quit the EU (“Brexit”), there will doubtless be considerable pressure from the “international...
View ArticleRather Not
Never was a movie more ironically titled than the new rewriting of history called “Truth.” It attempts to make martyrs of Dan Rather and Mary Mapes. Head shaking all around. On Need to Know this week,...
View ArticleThe Dumb, Dumb, Dumb Effort to Get Trump Off Saturday Night Live
From the Thursday edition of the Morning Jolt, a good indicator of the Left’s love for the hecker’s veto and preference for confrontational, disruptive efforts over the more subtle and effective...
View ArticleThe Daily Beast Publishes an Odd Piece About Ben Carson and Medical Malpractice
Here’s the headline an article yesterday in The Daily Beast: “Ben Carson Was Sued for Malpractice at Least Eight Times.” Uh oh, is this an actual hit piece against Carson’s medical record? Isn’t that a...
View ArticleSanders on Hillary's Server: 'Let the Investigation Proceed Unimpeded'
Oh, sure, nowBernie Sanders stops defending Hillary Clinton on her e-mails. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sanders indicates it’s a perfectly legitimate topic for the FBI to...
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When Gender Is Fluid
There’s a good editorial on the homepage about the Houston toilet referendum, and I think it’s worth adding that many women don’t wish to share bathrooms with men for reasons that have nothing to do...
View ArticleRubio’s Immigration Problem
Ramesh and Mark discussed Rubio and immigration yesterday. I wrote my column at Politico about it today, taking up the question of how conservatives can trust him on the issue after he was the prime...
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Who Would Inherit Trump or Carson Voters?
The new Fox News poll doesn’t indicate it’s Cruz. Carson goes up without Trump in the race and Trump goes up without Carson.
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