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Trump's Spokeswoman Spent October Touting Gowdy's Nonexistent Speaker Bid
Before Katrina Pierson became Donald Trump’s national spokeswoman in November, she was spokeswoman for the Tea Party Leadership Fund.As our former colleague Betsy Woodruff remembered, in October,...
View ArticleDo Christians, Jews, and Muslims Worship the Same God?
Edward Feser answers the question, to my mind persuasively.As much as the question has been debated on the Internet, especially in the last week or two, I’m not sure that a lot rides on it. One thing...
View ArticleDo Republicans Need More Hispanic Voters to Win?
That’s the question I take up at Bloomberg View today. Do Republicans Need More Hispanic Voters to Win in 2016?
View ArticleLeaving NCLB Behind
Michael Gerson sees that the education bill passed by Congress is a retreat from the large federal role envisioned by the No Child Left Behind Act–and he’s not happy about it. He thinks it’s terrible...
View ArticleTwo Cheers for Trump v. Clinton
I think it’s smart of Trump to counter-attack against Hillary the way he is. As someone who doesn’t want Trump to get the nomination, I worry that it may be too smart in that it will encourage some...
View ArticleDr. Murray Is In
One of the more pleasurable things in life is to have a probing conversation with Charles Murray. I did this today, for Q&A. Have a listen.Murray, as you know, is the famous public-policy analyst...
View ArticleGowdy Returned the Tea Party Leadership Fund Donation
A quick update to this morning’s Corner item about Trump spokesman Katrina Pierson spending October sending fundraising e-mails for a nonexistent Trey-Gowdy-for-Speaker campaign: It turns out Gowdy...
View ArticleYou Are Immoral if You Eat Fish!
Animal rights, properly understood, is an ideology that believes the capacity to feel pain is the basis for possessing rights.Hence, several years ago, PETA claimed that eating meat was the evil...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Trump Promising 'Success Without Any Explanation of How'
Donald Trump’s campaign is premised on its own success, that he’s a winner and as president that success will continue, but he never explains how, Charles Krauthammer said tonight.“He never actually...
View ArticleTwelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (Dec. 30, 2015)
1. Earlier this week, I was at Holy Innocents Church in New York City where every year the Sisters of Life and Franciscan Friars of the Renewal lead a morning of prayer and reparation for the innocent...
View ArticleThe Genocide of Christians: Let’s Be on the Right Side of This
Yesterday at a campaign town hall in New Hampshire, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said:What is happening is genocide. Deliberately aimed at destroying not only the lives but wiping out the...
View ArticleMarco and Hillary Together on Christian Genocide
Earlier I noted that Hillary Clinton named the Christian genocide that is happening in Iraq and Syria. Marco Rubio, in an op-ed with Russell Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention, said something...
View ArticleHow Much Will a Wave of TV Ads Help Trump?
Donald Trump can only be helped by his decision to spend $2 million a week on television ads, right?Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he plans to spend at least $2 million...
View ArticleAnother Obama Administration Spying Scandal
The news reports about the National Security Agency snooping on foreign leaders show a White House intent on abusing NSA capabilities for political purposes. As a veteran of the George W. Bush White...
View ArticleClinton Sex Scandals: Fair Game, But Will Voters Care?
Ruth Marcus argues that Bill Clinton’s sexual exploitation of women is “fair game” for Republicans. I agree. But that doesn’t mean bringing up Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, and the rest of them will...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Obama's Spying on Netanyahu 'Interfered' with Legitimate...
The real scandal behind President Obama’s spying on Israel’s Netanyahu is that the rationale was purely domestic, Charles Krauthammer argued tonight on Fox News.“Well, first of all it’s not surprising...
View ArticleNew Year's Eve links
How (Not) to Celebrate the New Year: advice from 700 AD (hint – if you dress up as a stag or a calf you’ll spend 3 years doing penance). Also, advice from 1862: How to Tell Your Fortune for the New...
View ArticleDr. Krauthammer Is In
This is a week of two Charleses. On Tuesday, I told you about a Q&A podcast with Charles Murray. Now, we have Charles Krauthammer.One of the things I ask him about, strangely enough, is the...
View ArticleHow Did Iraqi Forces Really Retake Ramadi From ISIS?
In the aftermath of ISIS’s defeat in Ramadi, there are two key questions. First, how much of the defeat can be attributed to the intervention of Shiite (Iranian-backed) militias? Second, if the Shiites...
View ArticleNever Enough Abortions in California
California is such a pro-abortion state that:1. It allows non-doctor nurse practitioners to terminate fetal life.2. Its voters have twice refused to vote in a “parent notification” law, requiring that...
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