The Revolution Eats Its Own
The new wave of campus radicalism has spread to Princeton, as John Fund points out. At the top of the agenda for left-wing Princetonians: shoving Woodrow Wilson down the memory hole (to borrow a term...
View ArticleTerror Attack in Mali Vividly Illustrates Jihadists' Reach
By now you’ve no doubt seen this news:Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital on Friday with 170 guests and staff, killing at least three people and taking hostages in a city that serves as a...
View ArticleWatch Trump's Exchange on Muslims Registering With the Government
Watch Donald Trump’s exchange with a reporter about requiring Muslims to register with the U.S. government and judge for yourself.Here’s a transcript of their exchange:MSNBC Reporter: Should there be a...
View ArticleCruz and the Politics of National Security
Senator Rubio has criticized Senator Cruz for voting to “weaken U.S. intelligence,” and other Cruz critics–including the inveterate ones at the Wall Street Journal–are hitting him on national security....
View ArticleLet’s Not Do That Again
As Jim explains at some length below, even the insurance companies that were the greatest boosters of the so-called Affordable Care Act are fleeing the exchanges or preparing to flee them; certain...
View ArticleUh, the House Bill to Pause the Syrian Refugee Program Doesn’t Really Pause...
It was nice to see the House get a veto-proof majority for its Syrian refugee bill. The problem is, when you get down to it, it doesn’t do anything. The bill doesn’t explicitly pause the in-take of...
View ArticleWant 'Power' in College? Read a Book.
A Columbia University undergraduate is on the super-super-senior track to graduation because of, you guessed it, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, et al. From the Daily Caller:Columbia students and faculty...
View ArticlePew Report Shows Attrition of the Illegal Population Is Possible
Is the era of mass migration from Mexico really “at an end”?That’s the claim of a new report from the Pew Research Center titled ”More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.” It finds a net decline...
View ArticleNR at 60: The Musical
Enjoy this wonderful commemorative video courtesy of our sister organization, the National Review Institute:
View ArticleDon't Bet on the Harvard Law School ‘Hate Crime’
There are few student species more nakedly ambitious, focused, and future-oriented than the average Harvard law student. Having likely spent his undergraduate years planning admissions maximization...
View ArticleColbert Mocks Conservatives, and His Ratings Decline
It looks like the liberal cocoon comedy of late-night political satire doesn’t play quite as well to a broader audience. Via Instapundit, I discovered this:For Stephen Colbert, the late-night honeymoon...
View ArticleMore Evidence that Democrats Are the Party of Geezers . . .
This new DNC ad suggests a serious hearing impairment:
View ArticleCollege Sports Nomenclature Update
After much defiance, foot-dragging, and gritting of teeth, the citizens of North Dakota have finally, reluctantly chosen the name Fighting Hawks for the University of North Dakota’s athletic teams. The...
View ArticleIt's Long Past Time For Fixit
Finland’s economic woes are not news for anyone who follows the news from that part of the world, but, as the Daily Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard highlighted earlier this week, they illustrate...
View ArticleOn Wilson's Progressive Racism
I still haven’t decided what I think about the tumult at Princeton. I’m against caving into the mob. I’m also against airbrushing history. But I also really hate Woodrow Wilson. I’ll keep pondering....
View ArticleDC Circuit Judge: ‘Metadata Collection Entirely Consistent with Fourth...
The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has denied a request to rehear a challenge to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of metadata – i.e., telephone usage information but...
View ArticleCommunalism in Bradford
From the Daily Mail, October 2 2015:An Asian family who converted to Christianity claim they are being driven out of their home for the second time by Muslim persecutors. Nissar Hussain, his wife Kubra...
View ArticleTerrorists, Climate, and Trump.
On Need to Know this week Jay and I welcome the great Steven Hayward of Powerlineblog.com to discuss the elaborate Kabuki show that is about to unfold in Paris — the climate summit. As Steve says, he...
View ArticleSweden and Belgium: Silencing and Denial
Sweden’s immigration catastrophe is hardly news, but, writing in the New York Times, Benjamin Teitelbaum underlines how much of the responsibility for it lies with the refusal of ‘establishment’...
View ArticleThe ISIS Debate Is Now an Immigration Debate; Of Course, That Helps Trump.
Are you ready for Donald Trump’s war on terror? According to ABC News’ new poll out this morning, most Republicans are:Forty-two percent of leaned Republicans say they trust Trump over his top four...
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