Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (Sept. 15, 2015)
1. Pope Francis in an interview with an Argentinean radio station: “Fundamentalists take God away from his people, disembodying him. In the name of that ideologist God, they kill, attack, destroy,...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Why Is McConnell Letting Dems Filibuster Iran Resolutions?
Charles Krauthammer criticized Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Iran deal strategy, saying the Majority Leader shouldn’t even countenance Democrats’ filibusters.“Look, the whole idea of any of this is to get on...
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View ArticleNow the Obama Team Promises Better Cyber-Security
Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited the European Cybercrime Center at The Hague and declared the Obama administration is hard at work on cyber-security:“The Department of Justice I lead – and the...
View ArticleFourteen Things that Have Caught My Eye Today (Sept. 16, 2015)
1. Pope Francis today:From the beginning, God entrusted His creation to man and woman. Despite our rejection of His original blessing, He continues to watch over our efforts to make this world our...
View ArticleReligious Persecution Abroad and Us
A few days ago, I was on a panel at the In Defense of Christians National Leadership Convention on Capitol Hill discussing “Building Bridges between Eastern and Western Christianity.” The first...
View ArticleDebate Prep on Immigration
Participants in the two Republican debates later today are certain to be asked about their views on illegal immigration and the Middle Eastern refugee crisis. The answers are not difficult, and yet one...
View ArticleThe President and PC
President Obama made some excellent remarks on Monday about free speech on campus. Maybe he should repeat them to his Department of Education.
View ArticleCalling All Nutmeggers . . .
The good people of the Yankee Institute are co-hosting — along with our pals at the National Review Institute— the Future of Freedom Summit on Saturday, September 26th at the Omni Hotel in New Haven....
View ArticleHonking and Dealing
Impromptus today is devoted to “Sticky Issues: A wide, gaudy, screwy world of bumper stickers.” This is mainly a romp, but laced with political seriousness, I would say. Anyway, it’s mainly fun (though...
View ArticleTwelve Things that Shouldn’t Stay at the In Defense of Christians Convention
A few highlights from Friday in Washington:1. His Beatitude Ignatius Yousseff III Younan, patriarch of Antioch, about the Syriac Christians he shepherds: They are in danger of disappearing in Iraq. “We...
View ArticleSome Friendly Wording for the Iran Deal on the Washington Post's Poll Question
Here’s how the Washington Postworded a poll question on the Iran deal: “As you may know, the U.S. and other countries have announced a deal to lift economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran...
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Will You Have the Guts . . . to Enjoy This Iconic Poster?
He was a brash editor of a conservative fortnightly who took the political world by storm by running for Mayor of New York City in a campaign that riveted the nation and revived and inspired a...
View Article‘Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty’
In Politico today, I wrote about how the GOP race is lining up very well for Ted Cruz:Such is the disgust with the Republican leadership, that there is no longer such a thing as going too far. Cruz...
View ArticleWhat Does Bernie Sanders Say About The Dems?
AEI’s Stan Veuger:The fact that Sanders is a senator, not a reality TV star, as well as an acceptable presidential candidate to large and growing segments of the Democrat base is a sign of how much the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Says Sexual Assault Survivors Have the 'Right To Be Believed'...
Hillary had to know this was awkward, but modern conventions of political correctness now require liberal women to stand unequivocally behind alleged victims of sexual assault. So, here was Hillary on...
View ArticleBears and Wolves and Scorpions, Oh My!
Why yes, Leon Wolf, this new Ted Cruz ad . . .. . . does seem a lot like this Reagan ad from 1984 . . .. . . but it also is like this George W. Bush ad from 2004!It’s a dangerous world out there, full...
View ArticleReturning to the Copy Desk, Briefly
MEMO FROM: Copy deskTO: New York Times Foreign deskRE: Diaa Hadid for AM interntional; mark-up attachedHEAD: Jewish Man Dies as Rocks Pelt His Car in East Jerusalem[ED: “As rocks pelt his car”? How...
View ArticleAustralia’s Liberal-Party Voters Aren’t Happy with the Ousting of Tony Abbott
Reading today’s media coverage of the Aussie Liberal-party backroom coup that ousted Tony Abbott and made Malcolm Turnbull prime minister makes it clear what happened. It was an old-fashioned...
View ArticleObama’s Utterly Hypocritical Response to Trump’s Criticisms of His Record
President Obama just said this about Donald Trump’s disparagement of the last seven years:“In the echo chamber that is presidential politics, everything is dark and everything is terrible.”...
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