"Yale Classmate: We Did The Prank Test That Ben Carson’s Talking About"
Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea for the media to rush to the conclusion that Ben Carson’s life story is a tissue of lies.
View ArticleTuesday links
It was a dark and stormy night – 2015 winners plus a selection of greats from the Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction writing contest.Tournament: who’s the worst character on television? Vote here.Football...
View Article‘Vetting’
The mainstream media are very interested in Dr. Ben Carson’s past, and his portrayal of his past. Good for them. That’s their job, or part of it.But isn’t there a difference between “vetting” and...
View ArticleThe Right To Try
My latest Bookmonger podcast is with Darcy Olsen, author of The Right To Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Life-Saving Treatments They Need. We discuss what’s wrong...
View ArticleStop Paying for College
I have a proposal: Let’s turn the whole damn campus into a “space of healing.”Such “spaces,” we learn in Rich’s excellent column on the Mizzou mau-mauing (to be read in conjunction with similarly...
View ArticleThe Sputtering Effort to Get Universities to Divest from Fossil Fuels
With college campuses on the nation’s mind, it’s a good time to note the minimal results from the effort by activists to get universities to pull out of coal, oil, and gas investments and put their...
View ArticleRepeat, and Repeat
On the homepage today, we have a piece by the sterling Sir Charles Cooke on the subject of repetition in politics, basically. It’s headed “‘Canned’ Debate Performances Are a Problem Only for Pundits...
View ArticleWe Need the Oxford Comma
Dear world, I am stylish, useful, and, in some cases, absolutely necessary. See below. Sincerely, Oxford Comma pic.twitter.com/LJvjw3d5Gf— Oxford Comma (@IAmOxfordComma) September 10, 2015
View ArticleAlma Mater Mia! — Jay Nordlinger Coming to Holy Cross
NR senior editor Jay Nordlinger will be speaking this afternoon (4:30 p.m.) at the College of the Holy Cross — in partnership with the National Review Institute and the the school’s Charles Carroll...
View ArticleHow Many U.S. Citizens Will Trump's Deportation Force Round Up?
My latest column, out this morning, asks this question.So let’s make an educated guess. Based on a 2011 paper by Northwestern University professor Jacqueline Stevens and a 2011 report from the...
View ArticleCNN Skeptically Examines Hillary's Tale of Trying to Join the Marines
If Ben Carson’s tale of a “full scholarship to West Point” is going to get reviewed and fact-checked, why not some fact-checking of Hillary Clinton’s more implausible claims? To give credit where it is...
View ArticleRand Paul vs. Marco Rubio on Taxes
At the debate Tuesday night, Paul said that Rubio was unconservative in favoring an expansion of the military budget and the child credit–two policies that Republicans have supported off and on for...
View ArticleThe Mugging Continues
Irving Kristol famously quipped that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. I don’t think Jonathan Chait is quite there yet, but as the muggings continue, there is something...
View ArticleCampus Cattle
Interesting e-mail from an academic who works deep in the belly of the beast:Jonah, I saw the link to Powerline that you retweeted with the e-mail from CMCOne very important point to note as this...
View ArticleIs Enforcement First the Same as Mass Deportation?
My Bloomberg View colleague Francis Wilkinson takes aim at Rubio for saying that immigration laws should be enforced at the workplace before any illegal immigrant is given legal status. Making...
View ArticleThe Left Is Starting to Tear Itself Apart: College Coeds Are Like Yazidi Slaves?
This is sheer lunacy: While ISIS endorses rape, American college administrations similarly facilitate the rape of women on campuses https://t.co/kxz5KrwVAS— Ms. Magazine (@msmagazine) November 11,...
View ArticleYale & Missouri: Power Play
The Spectator’s Ed West peers behind the curtain to look at what is driving the current dramas at the University of Missouri and at Yale. He wouldn’t claim that he is trying to explain everything (and...
View ArticleWhy Ted Cruz Gets No Respect
I wrote about Cruz’s coverage for Politico today.Ted Cruz gets no respect. At least no respect in keeping with the impressiveness of the campaign he’s built and his increasing odds of winning the...
View ArticleWill the White House Consider Christians in Any Genocide Declaration?
The White House is considering calling what ISIS is doing in Iraq a genocide. It’s unclear whether or not Christians will be included.My conversation with Andrew Doran from In Defense of Christians...
View ArticleThe Hidden Cost to Crazy Leftist Domination of Universities
Over on the homepage, I have an extended piece describing the lawless corruption of the university Left. Towards the end I described a scenario experience by all-too-many conservative parents — where...
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