October Jobs Report Brings Nothing but Good News
After two tepid months in a row, the labor market was firing on all cylinders in October, with more jobs, higher wages, and lower unemployment. Keep this in mind the next time we hit a soft patch. It’s...
View ArticleBen Carson Scandal Less than Meets the Eye
I was appalled when I heard a news report claiming that Ben Carson admitted lying about “applying and being accepted” on scholarship at West Point.Then, I saw that he never wrote that he applied, nor...
View ArticleNew, Vulgar Anti-Trump Ad Exploits Children for Political Attack
Donald Trump has made a career erecting phallic monuments to his own ego, and yet his is still not the most vulgar presence in the 2016 campaign so far.That “honor” goes to the makers of a new...
View ArticleJoe Pounder Joins Rubio Campaign
Joe Pounder is joining the Rubio campaign as a senior advisor, two sources close to the Rubio campaign tell National Review. Pounder is currently the president of America Rising. He worked on Rubio’s...
View ArticleChange the Locks
Jonathan Chait writes about the rise of straight-ticket voting and how it has led to a “polarized stalemate”:Republicans — because they are spread more efficiently, have gerrymandered state and...
View ArticleAdventures in Immigration Non-Enforcement
The Obama administration may not give a fig about the real Bill of Rights, but it seems determined to adhere to every emanation and penumbra of a new “bill of rights” for illegal aliens– or, as the...
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Imprecision, Not Fabrication, in Carson's ROTC Account
Dave Weigel posts the relevant section of Carson’s book:Here’s the relevant bit from “Gifted Hands” FWIW. Carson never says he got in to West Point. pic.twitter.com/ypBz4J7hrl— daveweigel (@daveweigel)...
View ArticleWhat Nail Salons Can Teach Us About Immigration Enforcement
Back in May, Sarah Maslin Nir of the New York Times published an extraordinary two-part series on nail salons in New York city, and the extent to which salon owners exploited their low-wage immigrant...
View ArticleLittle Sisters Hysteria Watch
The Supreme Court may rule this term that the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate goes beyond what congressional statute allows, and that contraceptive policy might therefore need to go a...
View ArticlePolitico Is More Dishonest Than Ben Carson
Jim, the longer I look at this Politico story, the more it appears it engaged in its own spin campaign, hyping the story beyond all reason. If a publication is going to accuse a presidential candidate...
View ArticleDave Teeuwen, RIP
My friend Dave Teeuwen passed away this week. I got to know him when we were both in our twenties in Washington D.C., and he was at Radio America, before going on to work at USA Today, where he became...
View ArticleBen Carson, the Yale Years
A damning portrait:One reason that Mr. Carson’s stories are difficult to check is that he navigated the turbulent times of his young adulthood without leaving much of a trace. He arrived as a...
View ArticleJahi Family: Examining Neurolgist Finds She's Alive
When last we visited the Jahi McMath case, a judge gave her mother the chance to file an amended complaint showing that Jahi is alive, with the assurance that if properly pleaded, evidence of life...
View ArticlePeter Keeps Asking Us to Pray for Him. Are We?
Pope Francis began his papacy asking the world to pray for him.He came all the way to the United States and drove that point home.In fact, while at Madison Square Garden, following Mass, he emphasized:...
View ArticleMeet the Press: Carson Defends against Claims of Dishonesty; Trump Pounces
On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, Donald Trump seized on Ben Carson’s recent troubles to cast doubt on his opponent’s honesty. “I feel badly for Ben. I’ve gotten to like Ben,” said Trump. But he...
View ArticleLinebacker, Heal Thyself
A group of black football players at the University of Missouri is refusing to “participate in football-related activities” until the university’s president resigns. The ultimatum comes after a series...
View ArticleEvening in the Village (Greenwich)
When the Olsen twins went to New York University, that campus was the height of cool. That was ten years ago, and I missed that period. But I’m going to the campus on Monday night. And it is still...
View ArticleA Beacon of Civilization
This week, City Journal celebrates its 25th anniversary. City Journal describes itself as “a quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute,” and that is true, so far as it...
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LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S . . . zzzzz . . .
I spotted this near Manhattan’s Columbus Circle on Saturday night, just across from Trump Tower —— but that may have been the most exciting part of Trump’s evening hosting Saturday Night Live. The show...
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