Marco Rubio: The Man with Many Enemies
Eliana posted yesterday on the Rubio SuperPAC hitting Christie. This goes to a dilemma that Rubio has: he’s in competition with almost every other major candidate, which is a downside to trying to...
View ArticlePerhaps Rape and Theft Were Their New Year Resolutions
Below, Andrew notes the gang assaults with which hundreds of young men greeted the New Year in Germany. But the best line from that Times story is down the page, when Cologne mayor Henriette Reker...
View ArticleIn Colorado, a Fake Tale of Anti-Muslim Discrimination
As usual, over at the Daily Beast Dean Obeidallah has his dress over his head, this time about Cargill Meat Solutions in Fort Morgan, Colo., which last week terminated about 190 Somali Muslim workers....
View ArticleRubio Campaign Snags Prominent Strategist Gary Marx
Marco Rubio’s campaign has hired Gary Marx, a prominent Republican strategist with deep ties to the evangelical world, as his senior adviser for conservative outreach, NRO has learned.Marx was...
View ArticleHysterical Response to Immigration Enforcement Theater
Over the weekend DHS took 121 Central American illegal aliens – adults plus their children – into custody to be deported. This is the initiative I wrote about last week, and it appears to be as...
View ArticleThe Oregon Occupation Is Not Terrorism
I’m one of the thankfully small percentage of Americans who’s seen the results of true terrorist violence firsthand, and it’s difficult to describe the horror. I’m not sure which sight has impacted me...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: ‘Obama’s Not Asleep at the Wheel, He’s Not at the Wheel’
President Obama’s gun control executive orders amount to a “trivial change,” which makes it mystifying he’s expending so much political capital on them, Charles Krauthammer said tonight on Special...
View ArticleAbort, or I'll Sue!
A biological father is threatening to sue and financially ruin a surrogate mother who refuses to “selectively reduce,”–meaning abort–one of three babies she is carrying. From the NY Post story:A...
View ArticleTrump’s Populism Is Not Mob Rule
From my most recent NRO article, on a wrong-headed attack against Donald Trump: “He is the only serious candidate who is describing the crisis in its rightful terms, even if he has exaggerated on some...
View ArticleThe Big Opening for Bernie
It is now obvious that Donald Trump has intimidated Hillary Clinton. She said he had a “penchant for sexism” (and people say she has no gift for political rhetoric!), and Trump responded — quite...
View ArticleTrump: Hey, You Know Cruz Is a Canadian Ineligible for the Presidency, Right?
From the midweek Morning Jolt . . . Trump: Hey, You Know Cruz Is a Canadian Ineligible for the Presidency, Right?Donald Trump: Warm to Putin, tough onpoutine.Donald Trump said in an interview that...
View ArticleCommon-Sense Gun Control
The New York Times has written a foolish editorial on the issue of President Obama’s executive-fiat gun-control agenda.Consider first these sentences: “There may be an interesting argument over whether...
View ArticleProgressives Want Wasserman Schultz Out at the DNC
A progressive group collected more than 26,000 signatures in five days demanding Debbie Wasserman Schultz be removed as chair of the Democratic National Committee, contending she “has tried in other...
View ArticleGood Choice
Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona has appointed Clint Bolick to his state’s Supreme Court. Bolick is a co-founder of the Institute for Justice, a leader in the school-choice movement, and an old friend of NR....
View ArticleThe Downside of Legalization
Our friend Robert VerBruggen has a good op-ed over at Real Clear Policy reconsidering his drug legalization libertarianism. He worries that legalizing hard drugs would not be the boon to mankind many...
View ArticleNorth Korea's H-Bomb Test Is a Risk-Raising Nuclear Game Changer
If North Korea’s claim of having tested a hydrogen bomb holds up, then East Asia’s nuclear risk has gone up a magnitude. Mastering the technology of a fusion weapon is not easy, and skepticism abounds...
View ArticleConservative Faculty? Where?
Graph: College faculty political leanings. From https://t.co/2YbcIEHfF1: https://t.co/TFLNAIlpaxpic.twitter.com/5eiKTcB5HD— Michael R. Strain (@MichaelRStrain) January 3, 2016I recently came across the...
View ArticleWhy National-Security Attacks on Cruz Won't Work
At Bloomberg, I write about how Senator Rubio is trying to associate Senator Cruz with an isolationist fringe of the Republican party–and why I don’t think it will work.(disclosure) Why...
View ArticleIs It Good for Presidents to Be Emotional Or Not?
Yesterday afternoon, President Obama conducted a lengthy press conference during which he outlined a set of executive actions that he claims will help to reduce gun violence in America. In the middle...
View ArticleAfter Cologne
With the attacks in Cologne (and elsewhere) sharpening the debate over Merkel’s disastrous immigration policy (even if there is currently no confirmation that any of those involved were part of the...
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