Trump vs. The Iron Lady
One other thought on Trump’s SNL gig.Measuring by the online response, the exception to a fairly lackluster evening seems to have been Trump’s appearance in a parody of rapper Drake’s new song,...
View ArticleWhere Even the Black Guys Are White
Forgive the commentary on a very old and obscure article, but this piece from Daily Kos, which I only discovered today, is a great example of one of my favorite journalistic subgenres, which is...
View ArticleWhiter Than Thou
I scoff at Kevin’s claim that he is the whitest thing going. Have you seen the Democratic presidential field?
View ArticleVideo: This Is What a Social Justice Warrior Looks Like
The video below has been making the rounds on the internet. It shows a young woman screaming in the face of Yale professor Nicholas Christakis about the alleged plight of minority students. Why the...
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SPLC: Part Karl, Part Groucho
The Southern Poverty Law Center is rightly seen as a pernicious and loathsome racket. It warns that terrorists lurk among veterans and Tea Partiers; its labeling of the Family Research Council as a...
View Article‘We Are United by Love’
Twenty years ago, I was working at The Weekly Standard with Scott Morris, who has since become a novelist (and was a budding one then). He had studied philosophy in two Oxfords — Mississippi and...
View ArticleAhmed Chalabi Could Have Been Iraq’s Charles de Gaulle
Ahmed Chalabi gave quite a lot of people hope that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would be an unqualified victory for democracy and freedom. I was one of those people. American soldiers pulling down...
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Caught on Camera! The Making of the Fraud of the Century
The leftist attempt to shake down Chevron — over concocted claims of environmental calamities in Ecuador — continues. Despite being beaten again and again in U.S. and international courts, the liberal...
View ArticleI Told You So
The prediction business is a tough racket. I’d love to say that I hate to say “I told you so,” but, as much as I hate to say it, I love to say “I told you so.”One March 23, our old friend Jamelle Bouie...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 9, 2015)
1. Surely you’ve heard about the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Supreme Court, late Friday news. This interview I did with Sister Constance Veit about the case a while back is here and...
View ArticleBill O'Reilly vs. George Will
George Will’s column on Bill O’Reilly’s new Reagan book led to this on-air exchange on Friday. O’Reilly insisted that Will had a professional obligation to give him a heads-up about the negative...
View ArticleMedicaid Expansion Is Proving to Be the Budget Buster We Predicted
It’s amazing how many lawmakers still fall (or pretend to fall) for the myth that if you create a new government program or expand an existing one, it will cost taxpayers nothing. Medicaid expansion is...
View Article'Genocide Is Not a Joke'— but Social-Justice Warriors Are
Below, David notes the nonsense currently under way at Yale over, yes, a Halloween e-mail. I thought I’d add a personal anecdote, since I happened to be at Yale on Friday for the William F. Buckley Jr....
View ArticleMeacham on George H. W. Bush: 'Would Say and Do Almost Anything to Amass Power'
Jon Meacham’s biography of George H.W. Bush isn’t published until tomorrow, but advance copies have already made news. In Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, the...
View ArticleDefine ‘Religion’
To Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry’scritique of Lawrence Krauss’s New Yorker article “All Scientists Should Be Militant Atheists,” I would add that Krauss conflates theism, which he doesn’t define, with...
View ArticleThe Obama Legacy
Bill Scher writes over at Real Clear Politics that liberal panic over the recent elections (as well as two disastrous midterm elections — and every other down-ballot election since Obama was elected)...
View Article'Clinton Making Gender a Focus of Her Presidential Bid'
So the Washington Postreports, perhaps superfluously. It’s interesting that Clinton is hitting this note–elect me because I’d be the first woman president–much more frequently, explicitly, and...
View ArticleTime for Accountability: UVA Frat Files $25 Million Lawsuit Against Rolling...
This is good news:The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine, which published an article in 2014 that alleged a...
View ArticleVideo: Mizzou Protesters Are Strong Enough to Depose a President but too Weak...
I’ve got a piece on the University of Missouri nonsense on the home page, but I had to comment on this additional news item — apparently the Mizzou student protesters are brave enough to take down a...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Hit Pieces on Ben Carson 'Ridiculous,''Preposterous'
People are sick of the media’s “petty” attacks against Dr. Ben Carson, Charles Krauthammer said tonight on Fox News’s Special Report. Citing anecdotes from others who’ve been offered admission to West...
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