Ben Carson and the Pyramids
As National Review’s designated attack submarine targeting Ben Carson, let me play against type and argue that Carson’s theory about the pyramids doesn’t really matter in the context of the 2016...
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The Red and the Black
From IJ Review, the greatest Tom Wolfe-bait I’ve seen in a long time:Every year, photos of Halloween revelers donning blackface trickle out to the daylight of the internet. But they rarely feature...
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What Will We See in Speaker Ryan's House?
Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan is the new speaker of the House. With him, we are told that we are entering a new era in the House of Representatives. Really? Let’s see.The sequester caps are gone as...
View ArticleOf Course the Empire Is Evil -- and So Is Sonny Bunch
Because my friend Sonny Bunch is one of the most horrible and devious trolls in the known universe, he has managed to recycle [See update] Jonathan Last’s work, and spark a huge debate over whether or...
View ArticleSinai Plane Crash: The Interesting, Cautious Russian Response
Speculation that a bomb brought down the doomed Russian jet over the Sinai has gone from leaks to official pronouncements, with British Prime Minister David Cameron now declaring that it is “more...
View ArticleRubio and Immigration, Ctd.
Mark and Rich would both like Rubio to come out for lower levels of immigration. I’d like that too, since I think that a lower level would be in the national interest. I’m less convinced that it’s in...
View ArticleA Surprising Turn for the VAT
Early in Obama’s administration, Grover Norquist warned conservatives that the new president was plotting to bring America a European-style value-added tax, or VAT. Now a VAT is being proposed by. . ....
View ArticleIn the Musical Trenches
Jaap van Zweden is a Dutchman in Dallas. He conducts the symphony orchestra there. Earlier this week, I had a post about him at The New Criterion: He had guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic. I...
View ArticleDid the 'Stabbing Intifada' Come to America? ISIS-Linked Account Praises...
Here’s Fox News, reporting this morning:As authorities worked to establish a motive for the 18-year-old college freshman who stabbed four people on a California campus Wednesday, more disturbing...
View ArticleWill Rubio's Credit Cards Take Him Down?
Let’s assume — and it’s a big assumption — that the two-years’ worth of Marco Rubio’s credit-card statements contain more of the same: that is, that they show Rubio, during his time as a junior state...
View ArticleRubio's Route Out of the Immigration Doghouse
Ramesh: I can’t speak for Rich, but my position is not that any candidate for the Republican nomination has to call for reductions in immigration to win. As much as I would like that — and as much as I...
View ArticleReturning to Carson's Tax Math
After the last debate, I noted that Ben Carson’s tax math didn’t add up. Here’s what he said about a 15 percent flat tax: “[I]f you’re talking about an $18 trillion economy, you’re talking about a 15...
View ArticleChristie, Huckabee Bumped off Main Debate Stage
Only eight Republican presidential hopefuls will appear on the main stage at the Fox Business Republican presidential debate Tuesday in Milwaukee. Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have lost their...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: If ISIS Downed Airliner, Russia Will Unleash 'Furious...
Both Egypt and Russia are “deathly afraid” ISIS will be found culpable for downing Metrojet Flight 9268, but for very different reasons, Charles Krauthammer said tonight on Fox News’s Special Report....
View ArticleA Case of Merkelmania
The Economist’s long descent into Davos liberalism is well-chronicled, but, even so, “the indispensable European”, its new hymn to Angela Merkel, is remarkable both for the condescension it displays to...
View ArticleColumnist Lauds Robin Williams' Suicide
Robin Williams’ widow has disclosed that he had been diagnosed with a terrible disease that leads to dementia and Parkinson’s-like symptoms.That has Dallas Morning News editorial writer, Tod Robberson,...
View ArticleFriday Links
Here’s video of an elephant herd attacking a motorcycle.How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service.Ten Star Wars movie scenes you’ve never seen.From the archives, this must-listen:...
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New GOP Debate Lineup Exposes Some Blatantly Unfair Polling
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:The New GOP Debate Lineup Exposes Some Blatantly Unfair PollingRemember when everybody said Lindsey Graham won the “undercard” debate? Now we see just how much...
View ArticleO Tempora, O Morrie
This morning’s New York Post has an article by Allan H. Ryskind tilted “‘Trumbo’ is a whitewash of an unrepentant Hollywood commie.” Dalton Trumbo, the subject of a just-released biopic, was one of the...
View ArticleBaby Boomers and the Looming Class War
Over the years, there have been a number of thinkers who’ve endeavored to explain how baby boomers have disadvantaged succeeding generations. Jim Tankersley, writing in the Washington Post, offers the...
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