Trump's Proposed Muslim Immigration Moratorium Is the Wrong Response to...
I completely get the fury over political correctness. I completely understand that the aristocratic political, media, and academic establishment have been lying to us about Islam and the Muslim world...
View Article'We Have to Talk to Them, Maybe in Certain Areas, Closing that Internet Up in...
The entire Morning Jolt looks at the ramifications of Donald Trump’s keep-all-Muslims-out proposal, but let’s not forget his other eye-opening proposal from last night:…Trump talked about “closing the...
View ArticleIran Defies the U.S. Again, Tests Another Ballistic Missile
Iran is a completely trustworthy member of the international community, and we can count on it to abide by all international agreements and U.N. Security Council resolutions:Iran has carried out a new...
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The Polygamist King
My new ebook is available today: The Polygamist King: A True Story of Murder, Lust, and Exotic Faith in America. It’s a work of narrative history, telling the story of James Strang, a religious rebel...
View ArticleThe Muslim World Contains Multitudes
Yesterday afternoon, The Hill reported that Donald Trump had called for a “shutdown” of Muslim arrivals in the U.S., and on social media elsewhere, the paper claimed that Trump had endorsed barring...
View ArticleA Glimpse of a Vanishing American Character
Sometimes you run across something that justifies all the hand-wringing about the vapidity of Barack Obama, the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, the inanity of cable news, the new college...
View ArticleA Muslim Immigration Ban and the Constitution
I continue to contend that the U.S. government establishing a religious test for immigration and entry would violate the Constitution. I find it implausible that Founding Fathers who explicitly wrote...
View ArticleRe: A Muslim Immigration Ban and the Constitution
Jim, I’ll have more to say momentarily about Donald Trump’s proposal. But if the test of constitutionality is not what the Constitution says but what five or more members of the current Supreme Court...
View ArticleShould We Give ISIS What it Wants -- A Decisive Battle in the Middle East?
There’s an argument against boots on the ground to fight ISIS — one adopted by President Obama — that goes something like this: Advocates of a ground war against ISIS are playing right into its hands....
View Article‘Mr. President?’
For the last seven years (give or take), I’ve had a slew of questions I’ve wanted to ask President Obama. I’ve never had an opportunity. Anyways (as we say in the Midwest), here’s another one:Mr....
View ArticleTrumpbait Redux
Donald Trump has everyone’s number. Whenever he’s in trouble — when he’s caught making an outrageous comment, or revealing the depth of his ignorance, or when he says something untrue, or simply when...
View ArticleTaxing Capital and Labor
Americans for Tax Reform and the Conservative Reform Network hosted a tax-policy discussion with representatives of several Republican presidential campaigns this morning. It was illuminating but not...
View ArticleMatters Horowitzian
Yesterday, I did a Q&A podcast with David Horowitz. We headed this one “A Bracing Taste of Horowitz.” You may argue that there are no unbracing tastes of Horowitz. You would have a good argument....
View ArticleObama’s ISIS Strategy Is No Better than the Allies Hiding Behind the Maginot...
Every reasonable person who watched President Obama’s speech Sunday night knows two things.The first is that Obama’s strategy in dealing with the growing threat of ISIS is failing.The second is that...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Trump Is 'Deeply Bigoted, It Is Indefensible'
The biggest problem with Donald Trump’s candidacy is not that it may cost the Republican Party the election, but rather the effect it’s having on American discourse, Charles Krauthammer said tonight on...
View Article‘Solution’ = Problem
As the French establishment ponders how to respond to the success of the [insert political label of choice] National Front in the first round of France’s local elections on Sunday, an article in the...
View ArticleObama: Still Wrong on Islamic Terror
From my most recent NRO article, on the Obama administration and terrorism: “The Obama line from the beginning has been that there has been no such thing as Islamic terrorism; there are many euphemisms...
View ArticleThe Great Gun Debate: The Left Is Losing at 'Culture Bundling'
I enjoyed Jonah’s piece on the home page highlighting the cultural reasons for the Left’s failure. Over at the Los Angeles Times, my good friend Ken White (of Popehat fame) sounds a similar theme —...
View ArticleOmnibus Bill: Search in Vain for the Regulatory Relief
There are certainly some good things in the Omnibus Spending/Tax Extenders bills that dropped early this morning (though I thought this Congress was elected to stop this kind of legislation-by-crisis)....
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Immigration Cronyism Is Alive & Well & Living in the House of Representatives
Tucked into the 2,000-plus pages of Paul Ryan’s monster spending bill to fund the federal government through the rest of this fiscal year are two immigration measures that testify to the strength of...
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