Will Ted Cruz Make Me Eat Crow?
One month ago, I wrote that Ted Cruz was unlikely to win the GOP nomination. The reason: his support and entire political persona was based in the most conservative portions of the party, portions that...
View ArticleOn Our Way to Webathon Goal
Late yesterday we launched the final phase of our end-of-the-year Webathon effort to raise $25,000 for social-media outreach — to bring many more thousands into the NRO fold, to introduce to the wisdom...
View ArticleThe On-Again, Off-Again Rule About Criticizing Politicians' Children
About a year ago, the Washington Post ran a piece blasting Elizabeth Lauten, then the communications director for Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher, for a Facebook Post that criticized Obama’s daughters. The...
View ArticleNine Things that Caught My Eye Today (Dec. 23, 2015)
1. ISIS warns against celebrating Christmas.2. This apocalyptic landscape is all that remains of one suburb in Syria’s capital Damascus https://t.co/iqi2f4FQANpic.twitter.com/3rmKpDM94h— Daily Mail...
View Article‘The Right’s Post-Constituional Moment’
My column today in Politico: No one will ever mistake Donald Trump for a student of James Madison.The real-estate mogul has demonstrated about as much familiarity with the U.S. Constitution as with the...
View ArticleAre We Finally Having a Meaningful Debate Over the Rules of Engagement?
This morning the Washington Post reported that there may be meaningful discontent over the Obama administration’s extraordinary rules of engagement restricting our war against ISIS:President Obama’s...
View ArticleNativity's Complex Meaning
The Art Genome Project provides a fascinating history of Christian nativity scenes, complete with images of some of the scenes most beautiful renderings.One of the most recognizable scenes of Christian...
View ArticleContra Media Spin, Support for the Pro-Life Position Remains Stable
Supporters of legal abortion had a tough year in 2015. However, a recent Associated Press poll appears to be giving them some optimism. It shows that 58 percent of Americans think that abortion should...
View ArticleCruz, Paul Tax Plans Court Disaster
Writing in the Wall Street Journal today, John Cochrane has it exactly right: the best strategy for conservative tax reformers to follow at this point is to move the system towards taxing consumption...
View ArticleA Republic, If We Can Keep It
Rich is spot-on in identifying Trump’s “post-constitutional” appeal, and that provides a useful way to look at the nominating contest. The fight is not so much between the establishment and the base,...
View ArticleSlouching toward R'lyeh
I enjoyed reading Jonah today, as I always do. But, for the record, I still think he’s backing the wrong guy. (“Guy” here being understood to include both inter-planetary and inter-dimensional entities...
View ArticleThe Castro Who Stole Christmas
In recent days, I’ve written a post on Mussolini and Christmas trees. And on Jeremy Corbyn and Enver Hoxha. Can you stand one on Corbyn and Christmas? And Castro (Fidel)?An article from the U.K....
View ArticleQuebec Succumbs to the Culture de la Mort
Quebec’s euthanasia legalization has been given the go ahead by a court. From the Canadian Lawyer & Law Times story:Realize this law outlaws assisted suicide and requires lethal...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: The Problem with Carson Isn't Staff, 'The Problem Is the...
Dr. Ben Carson’s planned shake-up to his presidential campaign won’t make much of an improvement, because “the problem is the candidate,” Charles Krauthammer argued tonight on Fox News’s Special...
View Article2016 Prediction: Rubio Beats Hillary
From my most recent NRO article, on the 2016 campaign: “Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been unexciting, accident-prone, and not sharpened by serious competition, such as she provided for Obama eight...
View ArticleChristmas Eve links
Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter...
View ArticleMD Caring for Jahi says Alive!
The doctor currently caring for JahiMcMath has signed a declaration under penalty of perjury that she is alive. From the San Francisco Chronicle story:Dr. Alieta Eck, Jahi’s current doctor, has made a...
View ArticleA Buckley Christmas Tradition
Bill’s acclaimed program, Firing Line, had a delightful Christmas tradition: to rerun his wonderful 1981 interview with Malcolm Muggeridge on “How Does One Find Faith?” After you digest your figgy...
View ArticleJesus’ Birth Has a Backstory
Christmas music annoys me. For a month, beginning in November, the playlist at Starbucks consists of about eight songs — “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” and a few others, including your...
View ArticleToday, in the Town of David
I’m always puzzled by the fact that, for some people, the virgin birth is a particular stumbling block to belief in Jesus. After all, if an omnipotent God does exist, then He stands outside and above...
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