A Jeb Idea Other GOP Candidates Should Steal
There are many things to like about Jeb Bush’s new tax reform proposal, including its overhaul of the corporate income tax, its expansion of the earned-income tax credit (EITC) for childless workers,...
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Yale Divinity School Abandons Actual Messiah, Invites Fake One for Lecture...
Only the Ivy League could come up with something so stupid. Take note of Lecturer #1:Yes, that Deray Mckesson. According to Yale Divinity School’s blog:YDS is launching its new program in...
View ArticleDon't Blink, It's a Kind Word for Donald Trump!
Mark, I think my status as a Trump critic/Trump Derangement Syndrome test case is well-established. Having said all that, there’s little evidence Trump courts or even wants white nationalist support....
View ArticleBREAKING: RICK PERRY SUSPENDS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
The headline: “Today I am suspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States.”Perry’s full announcement:Governor Perry’s Remarks to the Eagle ForumSeptember 11th, 2015Thank you. It is such...
View ArticleFirst Casualty: Rick Perry Drops Out
Rick Perry used his speech before 700 people at Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum convention in St. Louis to announce he is suspending his campaign for President. Many in the audience gasped, and several...
View ArticleOn Joe Biden's 'Amazing Honesty'
I’ve long enjoyed reading the Washington Post’s Chris Cilliza. His blog (“The Fix“) is a daily stop, and I find him to be fair, thoughtful, and always interesting. That’s why I did a bit of a...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Sept. 11, 2015)
1. A priest remembers being a first responder on 9/11:2. More videos.3. “After the prayer service, we can walk out and enjoy freedom. So many of our brothers and sisters cannot do that,” D.C.’s...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama Prefers Living 'in a Different Universe' over...
In a panel themed around how America has changed since 9/11, Charles Krauthammer said tonight that despite threats multiplying across the Middle East, President Obama “wants to live in a different...
View ArticleWinner of the Week
I was on Special Report tonight and I was supposed to pick a winner and loser of the week. Alas, I didn’t have much time to discuss my winner, Bretagne. She’s the last surviving 9/11 search-and-rescue...
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UPDATED: Office Depot Stands By Employee's Refusal to Make Copies of a...
An Office Depot in Illinois last month refused to print copies of a flyer that contained facts about Planned Parenthood (mostly taken from Planned Parenthood’s own annual report) along with a pro-life...
View ArticleBritain's Labour Party Elects Jeremy Corbyn As Leader
They actually did it:Veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn has been elected leader of the Labour Party by a landslide.Mr Corbyn, who began the contest as a rank outsider, saw off a challenge from...
View ArticleDawn of a National Curriculum
As I argue in an OpEd in The Washington Post, the national curriculum that nobody claims to want is already here. And of course it’s controlled by the left.Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the...
View ArticleIs This Who We Are? A People Who Abandons the Vulnerable?
From Los Angeles, Archbishop Jose Gomez makes a plea, as the state moved closer to legalizing assisted suicide last night: We need to be clear about our language so we can understand what the...
View ArticleWhy Medical Elite Support Planned Parenthood
The editor of the New England Journal of Medicine took to its pages last week to castigate the Center for Medical Progress for picking on poor Planned Parenthood.Boo hoo. Jeffrey Drazen doesn’t rebut...
View ArticleKnow Corbyn by The Company He Keeps
As Charlie explained here, the nasty piece of work better known as Jeremy Corbyn, a creepy authoritarian fanatic man of principle with a revealing fondness (or is it just thrills by association) for...
View ArticleBeing Beastly to the Hun(garians) and other East Europeans Too
Not only has Germany’s stumblebum chancellor made Europe’s migration/refugee crisis even worse than it was always going to be, she (along with the EU’s prominenti and many in the media) have taken the...
View ArticleLook North, Chancellor Merkel
A mix of kindness, naivety, pre ‘peak labor’ orthodoxy, moral preening, and, on the part of elements of the center-right, libertarian open-borders thinking has led Sweden into becoming a country of...
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Mitch McConnell Should Follow House’s Lead on ObamaNuke Deal
The fight against ObamaNuke isn’t over until the thin gentleman sings.Under the rules, the U.S. Senate’s svelte majority leader Mitch McConnell has until at least Thursday, September 17 to keep the...
View ArticleCindy Williams, WFB, and Presence of Mind
I had the good fortune on Saturday of meeting one of the most likeable figures in American pop culture: actress Cindy Williams, of Laverne & Shirley fame. She was talking about her new memoir,...
View ArticleA Tisket a Gasket
On Friday morning, Mona and I recorded a Need to Know. See what you think, here. She had just returned home from Texas; I had just arrived. We spend some time singing a hymn of praise to that state. It...
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