Bad News for Religious Liberty: Court Rules Christian School Has to Hire...
It’s just a trial court ruling (so far), but this is ominous:A state court in Massachusetts has ruled that a Catholic preparatory school violated the state’s antidiscrimination law when it rescinded a...
View ArticleThe Sawbuck Challenge: For the Price of a Cup of Coffee
I’d like you to donate $10 to National Review. That’s the price of one cup of coffee. Admittedly, a 220-ounce cup. But think about how much a . . . dare I call it measly? . . . sawbuck, from those of...
View ArticleGood News for Religious Liberty: Court Refuses to Dismiss Atlanta Fire...
Not all the religious liberty news is bad. My good friends (and former colleagues) at the Alliance Defending Freedom have cleared a key hurdle in their lawsuit on behalf of former Atlanta fire chief...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama Thinks Americans Only Care About Terrorism Because...
President Obama thinks Americans are only concerned about terror attacks because the media “hypes” them, Charles Krauthammer said on Friday’s Special Report. Referring to Obama’s recent meeting with...
View ArticleIn 2013, Cruz Suggested 'Compromise' Was Possible on the 11 Million
The Republican primary this week has been dominated by the clash between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz over the nature of an amendment Cruz offered to the Gang of Eight bill and whether, by stripping the...
View ArticleOh, Hipsters...
This, from Vanity Fair, is fun: “Celebrity hipster chocolatiers reportedly sold remelted commercial chocolate.” Oh, Hipsters...
View Article'Blow, Wind! Come, Wrack!'
I know the only movie of consequence at the moment is the new Star Wars installment — but I’d like to spare a word of praise for the new film version of Macbeth, released two weeks ago and sure to flit...
View ArticleTree-Hugging in High Places
I was interested to read an article by Thomas V. DiBacco in the Wall Street Journal. (By the way, it would be interesting if Professor DiBacco disliked wine — as his name means “of Bacchus.”) The...
View ArticleLa Stupenda to the Rescue
One of the most tiresome and turgid of Christmas carols is “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” You could waste years of your life listening to that carol. For one thing, it is almost always too slow, and...
View ArticleWhy Did Ted Cruz Let Himself Get Tangled Up on Immigration?
Ted Cruz is in a much stronger position on immigration than Marco Rubio–all he has to say is that he opposed the Gang of 8 bill and Rubio supported it, in fact helped craft it and sell it. So this...
View ArticleWhat Should a Christmas Cookie Look Like?
I know a little boy in Norway — four years old. His father is robustly pro-American and pro-Western. A true Reaganite and Thatcherite (Scandinavian version). He sent me a photo of his child cutting out...
View ArticleKidney Donor's Death Shows Organ Selling Danger
Living people can donate kidneys, and since we have two, continue to live normal lives.But not always. Too often, the potential risk to life and health is underplayed.Taking out a kidney is serious...
View ArticleHillary: ISIS 'Showing Videos of Donald Trump Insulting Islam' as Recruitment...
ISIS is using video clips of Donald Trump “insulting Islam” to recruit terrorists, Hillary Clinton claimed tonight in the third Democratic debate. “He is becoming ISIS’s best recruiter.”Here’s her full...
View ArticleClinton Calls Skyrocketing ObamaCare Premiums ‘Glitches’
Hillary Clinton told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that skyrocketing insurance premiums in the aftermath of ObamaCare are a “glitch” of an otherwise successful law. The growing costs, she said, are “because of...
View ArticleA Boring, Almost Pointless Saturday Night Democratic Debate
Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley are now loudly complaining that the Democratic National Committee scheduled two of the four debates before the Iowa caucuses on Saturday nights. They contend the...
View ArticleRand Paul Debuts New Ad Calling Ted Cruz a Flip-Flopper
This morning on CNN’s State of the Union, Rand Paul discussed his new web video that uses a short clip of Ted Cruz stammering when asked about whether he wanted the 2013 immigration bill to pass to...
View ArticleTrump on Clinton's ISIS Recruiting Claim: 'Knowing Hillary, She Made It Up.'
Appearing on ABC News This Week via telephone, Donald Trump scoffed at Hillary Clinton’s claim ISIS is “going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit...
View ArticleMaking a Meal out of Everything
That the doctrine of ‘cultural appropriation’ can be used to enforce a kind of intellectual apartheid is hardly new news. And nor too is the way that finding offense in, well, just about everything,...
View ArticleTrump: I'm Not Praising that Very Nice Strong Leader With High Poll Numbers!
There’s really not much point in looking for consistency in Donald Trump statements.Chuck Todd: Why are you so comfortable praising Vladimir Putin?Donald Trump: I’m not! I didn’t raise him, he praised...
View ArticleKudlow on Omnibus: ‘This Is a Big Political and Economic Mistake’
On his weekly “Money and Politics” radio show, Larry Kudlow took a major swipe today at the Ryan/McConnell Omnibus spending bill, calling it a big mistake that is “larded up with subsidies . . . every...
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