A Strange New Awareness of Who's Trying to Cross Our Southern Border
The New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, July 8:On Fox Business on Tuesday, [Marco] Rubio gave a pathetic master class in cowardly evasion, stammering his way though an interview in which he was asked...
View ArticleTrump Not Ruling Out an Independent Bid Again, Despite Pledge
Hey, remember when Donald Trump signed a pledge to run as a Republican and not run as an independent or third-party candidate? Remember when he said, “I see no circumstances under which I would turn up...
View ArticleThe Yoga Menace
Understanding the Yoga menace used to be a fairly straightforward matter. Back in 2011, Father Gabriel Amorth (then described as the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist) helpfully explained what was really going...
View ArticleTrump: 'I Want a Database for the Refugees.'
A fascinating phenomenon — no matter how many times Donald Trump is asked if he supports a database for all Muslims in the U.S., Trump answers as if he’s been asked about a database for Syrian refugees...
View ArticleMeet the Press Roundtable Tackles the National Crisis of . . ....
Four observations from the wide-ranging discussion about Islamophobia on Meet the Press this morning:One: Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor of Islam Monthly, contended that Trump had called for a...
View ArticleTrump on Muslim Cheers in New Jersey on 9/11: 'It Did Happen. I Saw It.'
Another noteworthy exchange between George Stephanopolous and Donald Trump this morning:STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, you made — you raised some eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at — at your...
View ArticleArgentina Votes Evita's Heirs Out of Office
Argentina’s election on Sunday represented the starkest choice the country has faced since the authoritarian era of Juan and Evita Peron began in the 1940s. The seven-point victory of center-right...
View ArticleAn Enemy They’re Comfortable With
The pattern is very familiar: Islamist terrorists commit an atrocity somewhere, and our Left leaps to warn of one thing: “Islamophobia,” or a “backlash” against our Muslim neighbors. That is a fine...
View ArticleA Clash of Our Own
For decades now, I’ve written about clashes of pieties — pieties on the left. For example, you love, love wind power. But the killing of rare birds by the turbines? Um …You love, love abortion — or at...
View ArticleThe Jacoby Treatment
National Review is rich in friends — among whom is Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globe’s star columnist. He has written a valentine to NR, and I now, in the form of a tiny blogpost, send one back: Thank you,...
View Article‘It Doesn’t Reflect Well on Us At All’
The coach of the Turkish national soccer team has said one of the most poignant things I have heard recently, where the War on Terror is concerned. Let me set the stage for you, or you can read about...
View ArticlePoetry
FIREFLIES After sundown you see the first Out of the corner of your eye, then another In the middle distance, the gloaming, Where a grove of maples conspires, Darkly thinking night-thoughts While...
View ArticleMonday links
A round-up of Thanksgiving links: how turkey got its name, why the Lions and Cowboys always play, Ben Franklin’s account of the first Thanksgiving, Buffy Thanksgiving episode (ritual sacrifice, with...
View ArticleThe Americans Slain by ISIS that You Haven’t Heard About Yet
From the first Morning Jolt of the week:The Americans Slain by ISIS That You Haven’t Heard About YetA week ago, Wednesday:Three Dearborn residents, including a mother of four who had returned to her...
View Article'It Made America Look Like a Liar and Weak.'
Over in The New Yorker, David Remnick has a fascinating look at “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (R.B.S.S.), a kind of underground journalistic-activist enterprise that, under the threat of grisly...
View ArticleNaming Names
I spent part of the morning listening to the Michael Smerconish program (incidentally, now the most entertaining thing, certainly the most bearable thing, on political radio) and the subject was the...
View ArticleNew Rubio Ad: 'What Happened in Paris Could Happen Here'
Marco Rubio’s campaign unveiled its first ad, to run nationally on cable networks starting tomorrow.MARCO RUBIO: This is a civilizational struggle between the values of freedom and liberty, and radical...
View ArticleHere Comes Cruz in Iowa
The CBS poll over the weekend had Cruz nosing into second in Iowa. Trump still leads at 30 percent, with Cruz at 21 and Carson at 19. At this point, I think you have to say Cruz is the favorite to win...
View ArticleFourteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 23, 2015)
I turned on Scandal Thursday night and so here is my syndicated column.I was with 500 religious sisters in St. Louis a week ago, wrote a little about it here.1. Jim’s item on Syria:Use of chemical...
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State of Play: Iowa
Everyone knows that the Iowa caucuses kick off the 2016 nomination season, but how much do you know about them? Whether your answer is “uh, not too much” to “more than you, buddy,” you’ll like this...
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