Young People vs. Gun Control
Millennials are more liberal than their elders, right? Not on guns, apparently. Emily Ekins notes that in 2013, 18-to-24-year-olds were significantly more likely than other age groups to say that...
View ArticleBill Clinton Wanted to Accept a North Korean Speaking Gig
Whether or not North Korea detonated a hydrogen bomb– hundreds of times more powerful than an atomic bomb – or “merely” another atomic weapon, it remains the world’s most repressive, paranoid,...
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'The Assassin Is Still at Large'
One year after the attacks, Charlie Hebdo:After what the staff of Charlie Hebdo has been through, it’s difficult to criticize them. But that cover is a dodge, isn’t it? It wasn’t some undifferentiated...
View ArticleTed Cruz Didn't Flip on Ethanol Yesterday
It was broadly reported yesterday that Ted Cruz had “flipped” on the question of ethanol mandates. Pretty much immediately, Cruz’s critics suggested a) that this shift in position must mean that he is...
View ArticleAfter Cologne (2)
The Daily Telegraph:Some of those involved in a series of sexual assaults against women in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve claimed to be Syrian refugees, according to a leaked police...
View Article‘Ted Cruz Is Nixon, Not Goldwater’
In my Politico column today I make (an admittedly very loose) comparison between Ted Cruz and Richard Nixon: [Cruz] wears his ambition on his sleeve and is not highly charismatic or relatable. In high...
View ArticleA School-Choice Disappointment in Lousiana
Michael McShane:After an unbroken streak of gold-standard, random assignment studies finding either positive or neutral results for school voucher programs, a new paper published by NBER finds large,...
View ArticleIt's a Bad Day for the Clintons When Vox Fairly Explains the Rape Allegation...
I must admit, when I clicked this morning on Vox’s ”explainer” of Juanita Broaddrick’s rape allegation against Bill Clinton, I expected a whitewash. I was wrong. Not only did Dylan Matthews do an...
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In New Hampshire
Yesterday’s PPP poll had Trump leading by 14 and Rubio, Kasich, Christie, Bush, and Cruz basically in a big tie for second (Rubio leads this group with 15 percent). I like looking at the ideological...
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Rubio’s Boot-Gate
Mainstream pundits and fashion editors have recently weighed in on the hot topic of Marco Rubio’s stylish boots — or “high-heeled booties,” as Fit News described them in a piece pondering whether they...
View ArticleLet Them Eat H-2B Visas
On the home page Elaina Plott has a behind-the-scenes look at how the increase in H-2B guestworker visas ended up in the omnibus spending bill. The provision potentially could quadruple the number of...
View ArticleWant Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education? Start With Ending...
Yesterday, Michael Strain penned an excellent post outlining the decline of conservative faculty in higher education and posing a number of questions regarding the reasons. The numbers are indeed...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: China Collapse ‘Good News in the Long Run, Bad News in...
China’s current economic contraction is proving the “Thomas Friedmans of the world” wrong, Charles Krauthammer said tonight. “You get the Tom Friedmans of the world … who come back and rhapsodically...
View ArticleState Department Misses Second Clinton E-mail Deadline in a Week
In the early hours of Friday morning, the State Department fumbled its second court-imposed deadline in a week, failing yet again to release 2,900 pages of Hillary Clinton’s official e-mails that a...
View ArticleThe Sad End to Mike Huckabee's Campaign
From the last Morning Jolt of the week . . . The Sad End to Mike Huckabee’s CampaignThis morning former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, winner of the 2008 Republican Iowa caucus, is at 3 percent in...
View ArticleFriday links
Who really owns Antarctica?100 Skills Every Man Should KnowThe Queen that worked at Macy’s.The mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518.This French Power Plant Runs on Cheese.Did Native Americans Bend These...
View ArticleSorry, Cruz Isn't an Isolationist
Senator Rubio has been describing Senators Cruz and Paul as “isolationists.” Earlier this week, I argued that this line of attack was unlikely to sway Republican primary voters against Cruz. While...
View ArticleClinton ‘Surprised’ at Subordinate’s Use of Private E-mail Account in 2011
During a 2011 e-mail exchange, Hillary Clinton said she was “surprised” a subordinate at the State Department would use a private e-mail account to conduct government business — despite using a private...
View ArticleImmigration Now a Defining Issue for the Right
Once upon a time, abortion wasn’t a defining issue for conservatives and liberals. A candidate could be a pro-choice conservative or a pro-life liberal. Over time that changed. I think we’re in the...
View ArticleThe Worst College President of 2015
We won’t give it away, but over at Minding the Campus, John Leo announces the finalists, and the winner, of “The Sheldon,” the revived honor for the worst chief campus nabob — it’s named after the late...
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