Highway Robbery: Bill Gives IRS Power over Passports
This Thanksgiving, we were missing a family member. His wife and son were able to join us, but he decided not to travel back to the United States because of a confusing tax situation. The Highways Bill...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Interior-Decorator-in-Chief
In a new batch of those Hillary Clinton e-mails that the media continue to shrug at, it becomes clear that the nation’s prospective Grandmother-in-Chief has a troubling habit of neglecting to address...
View ArticleRe: Yesterday's Giants, Todays Dwarves
Just a couple of minor addenda to VDH’s splendid essay today. First, since none of us is without sin, requiring sinlessness for commemoration means no one will be commemorated — yet even those of us...
View ArticleObama Should Stop Claiming That Mass Shootings 'Don't Happen' in Other...
Speaking in Paris — yes, in Paris— Barack Obama today said this:“With respect to Planned Parenthood, obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted,” Obama said in response to a...
View ArticleThe Homepage
Discerning readers will notice some changes to the homepage today. We’ve tweaked — and we hope, cleaned up — a few things.
View Article‘The Abuse of Colorado Springs’
I wrote today on the effort to shut down the abortion debate after Colorado Springs. I think Rameshput it very epigrammatically in his column yesterday: “Pro-choicers who want pro-lifers to stop...
View ArticleAbolish the Department of Agriculture
I have been writing for months about the Export-Import Bank being one of the worst crony programs in Washington. However, I think the programs under the Department of Agriculture may take the cake. I...
View ArticleMore on Robert Dear
The New York Timeshas an extensive report on him. As you might expect, he is a train wreck — an abuser of women and evidently a rapist. The Times report has this on his views on abortion: A number of...
View ArticleTurkey’s Border-Protection Hypocrisy
The Turks have shot down a Russian fighter that penetrated its air space, possibly by accident. This quite unnecessary act of violence has been followed up with consummate hypocrisy. Refusing to...
View Article'Smart Power' Update: ISIS Consolidates Its Hold on Key Libyan City
It looks like ISIS is expanding its reach in Libya, even to the point of developing a second operational hub far from its Syrian command center. The New York Times has the depressing details:Iraqi...
View ArticleJust for Fun: The Greatest Bench in College Basketball
As a veteran basketball bench-warmer, it’s hard not to appreciate the greatness of the Monmouth Hawks. Had I been this creative, my basketball life would have been orders of magnitude more fun. Watch...
View ArticleHillary's New Twitter Avatar Has a Small Problem . . .
Nobody noticed this? Nobody?The new profile pic of @HillaryClinton. Aside from opportunism, isn’t Rosa Parks sitting in the back of the H? pic.twitter.com/DxxhDpbhqb— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood)...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama's on 'Thin Ground' Lecturing Russia on 'Quagmires'
It’s “remarkable” President Obama, who doesn’t understand America’s national interests, is trying to score points against Putin for not advancing Russian interests, Charles Krauthammer charged tonight...
View ArticleMideast Morass
From my most recent NRO article, on the worsening situation in the Middle East: “The apparent desire of most Americans and of the majority of the Congress just to wash their hands of the Middle East...
View ArticleTrump: 'Take Out Their Families'
On Fox and Friends this morning Trump talked about ISIS and was asked about civilian casualties. “We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” he said. “The other thing is with the terrorists, you...
View ArticleThe Left's Well-Nurtured Paranoia about Violent Conservatives
From the midweek Morning Jolt:The Rhetoric-Triggers-Violence Claims Reflects a Nurtured Disdain for Political FoesOne more key point to add to Monday’s column about why the Left believes conservative...
View ArticleNY Corruption Trials Expose Myth of 'The Little Guy'
New York state, perhaps the nation’s epicenter for “pay for play” corruption by elected officials, has just witnessed the conviction of former Democratc Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Once one of...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Doesn’t Matter
You have to watch this: Black citizens at Black Friday protests in Chicago turn on “Black Lives Matter” activists. No R-E-S-P-E-C-T either for Revs. Jesse and Al. Rebel Pundit was there with the video...
View ArticleYes, Master
So Harvard is going to ban the phrase “Master” because of its “associations with slavery”:The “Masters” of Harvard’s undergraduate residential houses are senior faculty members who serve as the chief...
View ArticleLook Who's Suddenly Singing the Praises of Wall Street!
What does it take to get Barbara Boxer to start singing the praises of Wall Street?When she needs to defend their donations to Hillary Clinton.“There are great people on Wall Street,” Boxer told Chris...
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