One Question Thankfully We Don’t Have to Ask
Another Birthday message:Happy Birthday to National Review a magazine that has and continues to have a positive effect on American HistoryWhat would the world have been like in the last 60 years if the...
View ArticleThe Jihadist Fifth Column, cont’d
From Fox News:ISIS supporters stab teacher at Jewish school in France, prosecutors sayThree people claiming to be Islamic State supporters stabbed a teacher at a Jewish school in Marseille, France...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Must Resign
Republicans have a problem. They must see that a Republican becomes president in 2016. But they have no right to concentrate all their energy and angst on the next election, because this president...
View ArticleNational Review Turns 60 -- Have You Given Your Gift?
From a $25 donor today:NR is incredibly valuable. It is a great tool to counter attack the main stream media. I host a conservative talk/news morning show in Oregon. My show is a red show in a very...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts about the Latest Polls
Bloomberg has a new national poll and Fox has a poll in New Hampshire. A few observations: Trump hasn’t collapsed after Paris, and why would he? He’s a fierce nationalist who is a hardliner on...
View ArticleWhat Portland Police Should Have Said
From the Portland Police Bureau:On Tuesday November 17, 215, at 4:39 p.m., Central Precinct officers responded to Lewis and Clark College, located at 615 Southwest Palatine Hill Road, on the report of...
View ArticleDistorting Trump
Marc Thiessen notes this complaint from Donald Trump’s son Eric:The point isn’t just deporting them, it’s deporting them and letting them back in legally. He’s been so clear about that and I know the...
View ArticleFor 60 More
Today is the 60th birthday of National Review. One reader sent a $25 gift to mark the occassion with the note: Looking forward to another 60 years.Put your down payment on the future here.
View ArticleOur 'Vetting' Process Has Been a Deadly Failure for 14 Years
As I’ve written before, the Obama administration is insulting our intelligence by claiming that it can adequately and appropriately “vet” 10,000 or more Syrian refugees. How do we know this? Because...
View ArticleHappy Six-O to NR, from Pat Toomey
Much obliged, senator. His remarks from the Congressional Record:Mr. President, I wish to honor and congratulate National Review for 60 years of valuable contributions to American political...
View ArticleThe Cowards in Missouri
The question cannot be avoided: Are University of Missouri acting president Mike Middleton and MUPD chief R. Douglas Schwandt moral cowards? Each has had adequate time to act in the matter of...
View ArticleAmerica Is So Overrun With White Supremacy That it Gave the National Book...
the white liberal celebration of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ hatred of white people (and, of course, this country) continues. Last night, he received the National Book Award for nonfiction, and in his acceptance...
View ArticleRefugee Bill Easily Passes House; Almost Certain to Get Blocked in Senate
Per CNN: The House easily passed a bill Thursday that would suspend the program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. until key national security agencies certify they don’t pose a security...
View ArticlePay Medicare Beneficiaries to Prepare Advance Directive?
Bureaucracy everywhere we look.Now that doctors will be paid to engage in end-of-life discussion with patients, a bipartisan group of US Senators and Representatives want to create an electronic...
View ArticleOn Our 60th Anniversary, Thanks to All Our Friends for the Good Wishes
As NR celebrates its 60th anniversary, we’d like to thank our friends for their kind wishes today (some of which appear below). Here’s to 60 more years (and many more after that!) of standing athwart...
View ArticleFriday links
A Thanksgiving miscellany: Mark Twain, science, WKRP, Cicero, the best turkey fryer PSA ever, and more.Crazy Russian Hacker has some kitchen tips to help you out with Thanksgiving festivities. The...
View ArticleEveryone Likes a Good Hanging
One of the most interesting events of the season took place on Wednesday evening. A portrait of IleanaRos-Lehtinen, the Miami congresswoman, was unveiled in the hearing room of the Foreign Affairs...
View ArticleDear Health Insurance Companies, Get Yourself Out of This Mess.
From the last Morning Jolt of the week:One of Obamacare’s Biggest Supporters Finds It Unworkable, Pulls OutDear health insurance companies… get yourself out of this mess. We tried to stop you from...
View ArticlePrinceton President Caves to Mob Occupying His Office
It took only 20 protesting students from the Black Justice League just 32 hours to hold a sit-in in his office for Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber to cave to their demands.Here’s...
View ArticleRefugee Theater
One of my staff accompanied me to yesterday’s House immigration subcommittee hearing on Syrian refugee resettlement and she said afterwards, “We didn’t learn anything.” Never having attended a...
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