Save D.C.'s School Voucher Program
Our friends at the American Federation for Children note a disappointing absence from the FY 2016 omnibus spending bill hammered out this week: Language reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship...
View ArticleGames with Borders
Take the time to think about this for a moment.EUObserver:(my emphasis added)Dissenting EU states may end up in court or face as-of-yet undefined sanctions if they refuse to let the European Commission...
View ArticleTrump: 'Great Honor' to Be Praised by 'Highly Respected' Vladimir Putin
Will this bump his numbers up, too?Russia’s strongman took time out from bumping off political adversaries, putting his muscle in Iran’s service, and annexing other countries’ territory to praise GOP...
View ArticleKrauthammer: ‘Ridiculous’ DHS Would Value Immigrants’ ‘Privacy’ over National...
It is “incomprehensible” the U.S. is only now starting “pilot programs” to review public databases when screening refugees, Charles Krauthammer said tonight. The information came to light earlier in...
View ArticleMan Who Bought San Bernardino Guns Hit With Terrorism Charge
The government is throwing the book at the man who bought the rifles for the San Bernardino terrorists.Enrique Marquez, 24, has been charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists....
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House GOP Leadership: Foreign Worker Increase Needed Because of "Labor Shortage"
House GOP Whip Steve Scalise sent an e-mail to his members this morning defending the immigration increase that the Republican leadership had secretly slipped into the omnibus funding bill. (It is...
View ArticleThe "Racist" Scalia continued
Professor Richard Sander, who has done research on the so-called “mismatch” problem created by large preferences in college admissions, has a good piece in todays WSJ. Our podcast interviewed his...
View ArticleFriday Links
Lots of ugly Christmas sweaters, plus instructions for making your own.In the Christmas In Other Cultures category, here’s a Klingon Christmas Carol. Also, how to have a British Christmas, Sweden’s...
View ArticleRabbis Make a Plea for Christian Victims of Genocide
Two orthodox rabbis plea the case for Christian victims of genocide in the Middle East. Will the Obama administration listen? Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Rabbi YitzchokAdlerstein, both of the Simon...
View ArticleHillary on Obamacare: 'Unfortunate Incentives That Discourage Full-Time...
On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton belatedly acknowledges that Obamacare, a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, gave employers an enormous incentive to move their employees from full-time to part-time:“That’s why...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Was Ash Carter Thinking?
As far as Obama’s cabinet goes, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter seems a bit more competent than the rest of the team, but this judgment seems inexplicable:Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter relied on a...
View ArticleEleven Things that Caught My Eye Today (Dec. 18, 2015)
1. 80 journalists have been killed in Russia since 1993 https://t.co/gkxKFOOpcC— Conrad (@conradhackett) December 18, 20152. Integrity, mission, and the Little Sisters of the Poor and more from Helen...
View ArticleStar Wars Is Fun Again
While I hesitate to disagree with the esteemed Armond White, I unambiguously loved Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The movie restored what was excellent about the original trilogy (especially the first...
View ArticleOmnibus Bad-Wish List
It has a lot of competition, of course, but a case can be made that, pound-for-pound, the worst bureaucracy in the Obama administration is the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Here’s...
View ArticleGreasing the Skids for Age-Based Healthcare Rationing
The big problem with Obamacare isn’t the exchanges for me. It is the centralized control. Once technocrats seize power over a sector, its political nature is to determine winners and losers, favored...
View ArticleA Christmas Gift for Trump
Mark has already written much of what needs to be said about the GOP House leadership’s bone-headed (I can think of rougher adjectives) decision to slip in a provision quadrupling the number of...
View Article‘. . . Right This Very Minute’
I recorded a Q&A today, but not a traditional Q&A, and not a Q&A at all, really. I cheated — using this podcast to play some Christmas music. I play just seven tracks, and some of them...
View ArticleDemocrats, You're a Party Full of Wimps.
As noted in today’s Morning Jolt, there’s another Democratic debate Saturday Night — up against a football game, the new Star Wars movie, and the last Saturday before Christmas, full of holiday...
View ArticleFlynn, Gates, Panetta and Now Hagel: Uniform Criticism of Obama on ISIS
At the beginning of the month, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Read told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the Obama administration ignored reports about the...
View ArticleCruz's Own Words
The mood in Republican ranks on the topic of immigration has shifted dramatically since 2013. At the time, many Republicans favored “fixing” the “broken” immigration system by improving border security...
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