You Are Not an Ape
It is fashionable these days to denigrate human beings as mere apes.But is that meme supported by science? No.Over at First Things, I point out some of the errors, get into some of the scientific...
View ArticleHow To Think about the Refugee Question
A few thoughts about the current debate.The purpose of the U.S. government is to protect the rights, lives, and property of U.S. citizens. U.S. policies, including U.S. immigration and...
View Article'Shoot First and Aim Later' -- What Is Obama Talking About?
Yesterday, in the midst of his condescending defense of his manifestly failed ISIS strategy, President Obama said something particularly galling. Responding to CNN’s Jim Acosta, who bluntly asked, “Why...
View ArticleVitter Ad: 'Obama's Sending Syrian Refugees to Louisiana!'
Here’s a pretty stinging ad from Sen. David Vitter, who’s trailing in his runoff for governor of Louisiana:One of the Paris ISIS terrorists posed as a Syrian refugee to enter France. Now, Obama is...
View ArticleWait: Did We Win?
This being the 60th anniversary of the founding of National Review, I’ve been thinking about the early days of the magazine and the conservative movement, our mission statement, and the debates that...
View ArticleFirestorm
The latest Bookmonger podcast is with Mark Molesky, author of This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason. We discuss one of the worst natural disasters...
View ArticleLate Adopters
Since I started writing for this website — 2000 (I was late to the Internet) — I’ve regularly brought up my hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich.: “a small citadel of the Left,” I have perpetually called it....
View ArticleThe Obama Style
President Obama loves to blast Republicans (and malign them). He does it at home and abroad. And he has a special thing about doing it in Turkey, or so it would appear.I was scandalized by this as...
View ArticleThe Party Line
No matter what happens in the world — Kim Jong-un and Ayatollah Khamenei could be having nuke-slinging contests — Democrats won’t be moved off their position that global warming, or “climate change,”...
View ArticleA Word for Bill
Fifty years ago, Bill Buckley ran for mayor of New York. He then wrote a book about the experience: The Unmaking of a Mayor. I believe it’s my favorite Buckley book (non-fiction). (My favorite of his...
View ArticleHouse Members Walk Out On 'Useless' Refugee Briefing
Expect a contentious hearing today on Syrian refugees at the House Judiciary Committee, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard, who is in charge of the refugee program, has been summoned to explain...
View ArticleThe Passion of O
I’ve now read a couple of columns on Obama’s anger — how he gets riled up at Republicans, and at reporters, if they ask him even slightly discomforting questions.Longtime readers have heard me say this...
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We're Witnessing a Small Response to a Big Threat
We should be having a good, serious debate after Paris, not just about Syrian refugees, but how our country faces an Islamist threat that isn’t going to go away anytime soon.As mentioned in today’s...
View ArticleHave You Wished National Review a Happy Birthday Today?
From a gift-giver this morning:Happy 60th! It’s nice to know there are still things older than I am. : ) Please keep up the fantastic work! It matters, and YOU matter!Donate to the birthday magazine...
View ArticleThursday Links
Today is President James Garfield’s birthday. When he was shot, Alexander Graham Bell showed up with a metal detector to try to locate the bullet. Related, sort of: the Gettysburg Address was seven...
View ArticleCartoonist Portrays Bevin Hiding from His Own Adopted Children
This is life for a Republican officeholder. If you have four adopted children from Ethiopia, like Kentucky governor-elect Matt Bevin, that will not be seen as a sign of your big heart, compassion, and...
View ArticleRefugees and the Jihadist Fifth Column
It is patently obvious that the Syrian refugees (and, in fact, people from lots of other Middle East hot spots) cannot be vetted by our government. When FBI Director Jim Comey acknowledged this, he was...
View Article‘We Have Enough Refugees Already’
I wrote about the Syrian refugee crisis for Politico today:One wonders when Obama begin caring so much about Syrians? If you put those 10,000 Syrian refugees back in their native country, and let them...
View ArticleUnitedHealth May Quit on Obamacare
Phil Klein has been all over this story this morning.His first installment:“UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurance company in the U.S., on Thursday slashed its earnings outlook, citing new problems...
View ArticleTrump Won't Rule Out Religious ID
I just did a radio interview with our old friend Michael Graham. He told me that Donald Trump says we might have to start putting religious affiliations on drivers’ licenses or some such. I hadn’t...
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