The Shooter in Colorado Springs
From early reports, the perpetrator of the horror at a Colorado Spring Planned Parenthood clinic yesterday was a creep, perhaps with serious mental issues. From the Washington Post:To neighbors, it...
View ArticleDoc and Man at Yale
Doctors trained at Yale soon will focus less on anatomy and immunology and more on anti-oppression training. Good to know!
View ArticleThe Fierce Urgency of Now
I see that the world is being saved again, because important officials are gathering in Paris for climate talks.I had a memory — of August 2009. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, said, “We have...
View ArticleUnion Leader Endorses Christie
The Union Leader endorsement is a really nice get for Christie, although its importance shouldn’t be exaggerated. The paper has endorsed two winners in contested primaries since 1988 (when it endorsed...
View ArticleMore on the Shooter
From NBC:Robert Lewis Dear, a North Carolina native who was living in a trailer in Colorado, made statements to police Friday at the scene of the Colorado Springs clinic and in interviews that law...
View ArticleGarrett Swasey, RIP
Amid the political debate about Colorado Springs, it’s important to remember the officer who lost his life trying to save others. From CNN:Garrett Swasey, who rushed 10 miles to help fellow police...
View ArticleRobust Political Debate and Passionate Protests Do Not Cause Murders -- They...
The scene outside the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, November 27, 2105 (via ABC News) It was horrifying to watch yet another mass shooting incident unfold in real-time, and the loss...
View ArticleTrump and His Fans Are Stuck Inside a Feedback Loop
On Meet the Pressthis morning, Donald Trump insisted that:he was “100 percent right” when he said he saw thousands of Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheering the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade...
View ArticleThey’ll Always Have the Climate
I just had a sneak preview of an NR editorial about the upcoming climate jamboree in Paris, and wanted to heave — not at the editorial but at the jamboree and its pretensions.And I thought back to...
View ArticleThe Selective Argument that Political Rhetoric Leads to Violence
From the first Morning Jolt of the week…The On-Again, Off-Again Arguments About ‘Dangerous Rhetoric’ Leading to ViolenceLet me get this straight. In the eyes of the Left…….criticism of Planned...
View ArticleIn Europe, Muslim Refugees Recruited to Radical Islam
In my weekend column on the controversy involving refugees from Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, I explained that even if our government had access to the background information necessary...
View ArticleThe Campus Virus
In the current issue of National Review, we have a piece called “Underground at Brown: A secret forum in which people can talk.” Today, I have expanded that piece on the homepage, in...
View ArticleMonday Links
Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874: Here he is on Islam (and other things).Gallery of 1960’s big hairThe Grandma who went for a walk alone through 14 StatesThese Orcs are excellent...
View ArticleNew York Times Reports that Influx of Low-Skilled, Undocumented Immigrants...
Well, well, well . . . Many here in Eskisehir [a city in Turkey experiencing tough economic times] say that an influx of refugees from Syria and others without Turkish work papers is making the economy...
View ArticleAP: Hillary Clinton Met With Nearly 100 Donors While at State Department
The Associated Press found Hillary Clinton“met or spoke by phone with nearly 100 corporate executives and long-time Clinton political and charity donors during her four years at the State Department.”...
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Webathon Words of Wisdom
We are grateful to the many friends who are stepping up to help NRO in our 60th Anniversary fundraiser (you can make a donation here). As we have recounted several times in recent years, our later...
View ArticleRobert Mugabe to Present Africa's Position at Climate Change Summit
Here’s how you know you can take the global climate change summit seriously: Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe, is attending“where he will present Africa’s position and needs on climate change...
View ArticleRubio on Life and Exceptions
Joe Scarborough said this morning that Rubio had not clarified whether he believes that abortion should be legal in cases where it is necessary to protect the mother’s life. I asked Rubio’s spokesman...
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Careful with the Panic: Violent Crime and Gun Crime Are Both Dropping
Since Friday’s shooting in Colorado Springs, I have spoken to a number of people who have insisted earnestly that America is spiraling out of control. “This is just how we live now,” they have told me....
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A Cyber Monday Shopping Guide...
I trust my colleagues won’t mind my posting the Cyber Monday Shopping Guide from today’s Morning Jolt…Cyber Monday Shopping Guide!No pressure, but I got almost all of my Christmas shopping done this...
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