Only Trump Can Hurt Cruz
Ramesh notes how the Rubio attack on Cruz on defense isn’t going to work. It is probably only Trump who can hurt Cruz at this point, and only if he is very serious about doing it. I don’t believe the...
View ArticleThe Return of Birtherism
Will Donald Trump’s passive-aggressive introduction of the fact that Ted Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada, cause problems for the Texas senator? (“I’d hate to see something like that get in his way,”...
View ArticleSanders and Scarborough Laugh About Hillary's Flip-Flops
This morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — two men who are rarely politically aligned — shared a good chuckle over Hillary Clinton’s shifting...
View ArticleJuanita Broaddrick: 'It Never Goes Away.'
Do you remember Juanita Broaddrick? She claimed Bill Clinton raped her in 1978. The media gave her allegations a limited amount of coverage back in 1999, and then largely forgot about her. Last year,...
View ArticleNobody Should Hope for Violence in Oregon
In Oregon, the stand-off continues:The leader of an armed standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge issued an ominous warning to law enforcement agencies Wednesday that any attempt to evict his band could...
View ArticleThe Damages of Big Government: Brazil Edition
You know that feeling you get when you buy something expensive just to find out that the income you were counting on to pay for it won’t materialize? Well, if politicians in Brazil were responsible,...
View ArticleThe Eerie Similarity Between Clinton's Rhetoric on North Korea and Obama's...
In the aftermath of yet another North Korean nuclear test (possibly of a hydrogen bomb), it’s worth remembering a different nuclear deal in a different era. Here’s Bill Clinton celebrating his 1994...
View ArticleBen Carson's Flat Tax
Ben Carson has released his tax-reform plan–for a 14.9 percent flat tax plus a $100 minimum tax on everyone who makes less than the tax’s threshold level–and the Tax Foundation has scored it (that is,...
View ArticleObama's Tears
Charles, have you considered that Obama might have been crying out of frustration that his obviously good ideas are not going anywhere? You will grow familiar with the phenomenon once you’ve had a...
View ArticleRe: The Downside Of Legalization
Jonah, in your post this morning you write that “we shouldn’t sell legalization as a costless no-brainer.” I am not sure that any of the professional libertarians fighting for legalization ever make...
View ArticleOn the Morality of Gun Ownership
In my piece on the home page about President Obama’s tears, I argue that conservatives should aggressively make the moral case for gun ownership. I’ve received a few questions about the paragraph...
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California's Economic Performance Is Hardly a Vindication of the 'Blue State'...
Over the past several years, many Republican leaders and conservative analysts have written about the diverging economic fortunes of Republican-governed states with relatively smaller governments and...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Blame Clinton, Bush for N. Korea Nuke Threat, Not Obama
Charles Krauthammer says the Obama Administration deserves “a pass” on North Korea’s latest nuclear provocation; the blame is more rightly pegged on the Clinton and Bush Administrations.“I don’t think...
View ArticleRest in Peace, Florence
Can a non-believing misanthrope rest in peace? I hope so.For odd and comical reasons, all related to National Review, and my having lived for a few years in Fredericksburg, Virginia, my former...
View ArticleTed Cruz, Natural Born Citizen
Senator Ted Cruz is wise to laugh off Donald Trump’s intimation that his constitutional qualifications to serve as president may be debatable.The suggestion is sufficiently frivolous that even Trump,...
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View ArticleThursday links
A “collection” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.Incredible Star Wars Vehicle Cross-Sections.What happened when slaves and free men were shipwrecked together.Pregnant? Here’s an intravaginal speaker so...
View ArticleCan a Convention of the States Change a Constitutionally-Illiterate Population?
From the Thursday Morning Jolt…A Flaw in Marco Rubio’s Call for a Convention of StatesMarco Rubio’s calling for a convention of states to amend the Constitution:As president, I will promote a...
View ArticleIs Nuclear Power Really Too Expensive?
One of the ways you can tell when Democrats are out of even remotely plausible arguments is that they turn to cost. They never give a damn what anything costs, until they’ve run out of reasons to hate...
View ArticleDutch MDs Oked to Euthanize Alzheimer's Patients
The culture of death is like the universe: It never stops expanding. Once killing is accepted as an answer to human suffering, there are always new fields for the COD to inhabit.In the Netherlands,...
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