What Jeb Bush Gets Right About Fighting ISIS
Yesterday, I had a chance to catch up with Jeb Bush and discuss his recent speech at The Citadel, where he clearly opened the door to a ground combat presence in the fight against ISIS. I had three...
View ArticleTrumpservations, Cont.
1) People tell me, over and over, that Donald Trump is the tribune of the working man, the voice of the working man. I find this so odd (but not necessarily untrue). Donald Trump is a trust-fund baby....
View ArticleThe Palestinian Authority’s Brutal Treatment of Journalists
The Good and the Great, with the president of the United States and the utopians of the European Union in the lead, work single-mindedly for the creation of a Palestinian state. It is axiomatic in...
View ArticleThankful and Generous Friends of NR
Our Webathon proceeds. Please be a part of it — donate here. And now, some inspiring words from some of our donors.With his $50 contribution, Mark says, “Keep up the great work. Open and honest...
View ArticleNRI Seeks Applicants for 2016 Washington and New York Fellows
Did you skip the political-science courses in school, while preparing for your career in other fields? Are you right-leaning, but wish you knew more about the foundational principles of...
View ArticleSkin, Skin, Nothing but Skin
For years on end, we’ve heard about “white privilege.” If you’re white in America, your life is supposed to be nothing but cotton candy, pretty prom dates, glowing health, and riches. A cloud never...
View ArticleA Wonderful Time of the Year
Years ago — 20 — I wrote a piece on presidential Thanksgiving proclamations for The Weekly Standard, where I was then working. Here it is. This is kind of funny:Bill Clinton? It will shock no one that...
View ArticleSweden. The ‘(Humanitarian) Superpower’, Overwhelmed
Sweden’s political elite have liked to boast that their country is a ‘humanitarian superpower’, a boast that has quite a bit to do with years of immigration policies that have made no sense to anyone...
View ArticleMolenbeek: A Troubled Neighborhood in a Failing State
In the course of a post last weekend, I linked to a bleak piece in Politico about Molenbeek, a Brussels neighborhood that has come into sharp focus after it emerged that some of the Paris attackers...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Under Obama, ISIS Has Create Largest Terror-Training...
Under President Obama’s leadership, ISIS has created a terrorist-training proto-state bigger than anything in the history of the world, Charles Krauthammer charged tonight.“We just learned today, we...
View ArticleThursday links
I’ve been accumulating these for years: Way too many Thanksgiving links.The mean drunk gene: Your Appalling Drunken Behavior Might Be Genetic.After 6 Years And 720,000 Attempts, Photographer Finally...
View ArticleAnnals of HR Problems
In the Times (of London) today, there is a curious report:An Italian journalist has resigned after the son of a man he ordered to be murdered was named editor of his newspaper.Adriano Sofri, 73, said...
View ArticleMolenbeek, Belgium’s Present and (Perhaps), Europe’s Future
Belgium’s 7Sur7 is reporting that an official police ‘watchdog’ has reported that the police don’t ‘dare’ patrol parts of Brussels’ Molenbeek district. They will go into ‘quartiers chauds’ only when...
View ArticleOf Contact Lenses and Iranian Bombs
Thanks to the Power Line blog, which linked to it, I learned of an article published yesterday in the Times of Israel. It’s about Iran and the Bomb.The Times, you remember, is the online newspaper...
View ArticleAnother Reminder That Free Speech is not a ‘European Value’
Yes, yes, Cameron, Hollande and all the rest of them marched in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo murders, but if you actually believed what they had to say about the importance of free speech, you hadn’t...
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Now This Is French I Can Understand
Our good friend David French has written a wonderful appeal for National Review’s annual end-of-year webathon. Please check it out and follow DF’s sound advice.Some folks have, by the way. I’m thrilled...
View ArticleWhat a Burger Can Tell You
A lovely piece was written by David Feith for the Wall Street Journal— lovely and true. It’s entitled “A Roy Rogers Thanksgiving Lesson,” and it quotes Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who’s...
View ArticleUS Prepares to Push Human Genetic Engineering
There is this Kabuki dance that “the scientists” perform as they push forward with Brave New World research. First, as a new controversial technology becomes foreseeable, they wring their hands about...
View ArticleHalftime Post
I’m too nervous for my Michigan Wolverines to think, so I opt to blog. (No one thinks when he blogs, right?) They’re losing to Ohio State at halftime.Michigan has a wide receiver named Amara Darboh and...
View ArticleThanks to All Who Have Stepped Up
The NR 2016 End-of-Year Webathon marches on, and accumulates along the way not only the generous support of NRO readers but also their kind regards. Let us share.Big John M sends along a $100 donation...
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