Another Cover-Up?
The Financial Times:Sweden’s prime minister has condemned his country’s own version of the Cologne mass sexual assault allegations and alleged police cover-up, calling claims of similar events at a...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: Hillary's E-mail Excuse 'Worse than Denial,''It's Cynicism'
If Hillary Clinton’s e-mail instructing a staffer to delete a classified marking on a document and send it over an unsecured line is “innocent and routine,” as she argued yesterday, “why would you...
View Article“Fairly rugged”
I had missed the fact that the Financial Times, like Time magazine, had anointed Angela Merkel its person of the year last month.This caught my eye:The chancellor once criticised multi-culturalism. But...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Jan. 11, 2015)
1. For the third time in three months, a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen has been attacked. https://t.co/AxbmEFYACy— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) January 11, 20162. Prince Charles...
View ArticleWrong, Wrong, Wrong
I read Stephen Prothero’s new book, Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars, so you don’t have to. In the Wall Street Journal, I explain why he’s wrong. culture wars
View ArticleTo Hell With Ted Cruz Birthers
From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:To Hell With Ted Cruz BirthersAnn Coulter, who is now insisting that Ted Cruz is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and cannot be president, when confronted with the fact...
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King and Chambers
What would Florence and Whittaker, two of NR’s greatest writers, have thought of each other? Well, they are likely figuring that out now. Oremus.We have a handful of copies of this special collection...
View ArticleObama's Gift to Big Gun
I know the kerfuffle about Obama’s gun push has died down a bit, though I assume he will revive it tonight in the State of the Union. One point that I’ve been meaning to make for a while – which may...
View ArticleEurope Covers Up the Rape Jihad: Sweden Edition
My weekend column dealt with the rape jihad in Germany. I observed the “Stasi-like information suppression” by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government in attempting to cover up the mass sexual assaults...
View ArticleThe Debate over Immigration and Wages Heats Up
Last fall I blogged about a new study by George Borjas that reassesses the wage impact of the “Mariel boatlift.” The boatlift has a special place in the minds of labor economists. After Fidel Castro...
View ArticleTerrorist Attack in Turkey
At least ten people have been killed in a terrorist bombing this morning in Istanbul, at one of Turkey’s most popular tourist attractions.Turkish government officials are saying that the strike was...
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Eleven Things that Caught My Eye Today (January 12, 2016)
1. Giving Crux and the Boston Globe credit on religious persecution. Thank you, John Allen!2. When the pro-life Democrat governor of Louisiana was inaugurated yesterday, he included advice from Mother...
View ArticleMitt Romney, Kingpin
Last night, I took stock of Sean Penn’s interview with cartel jefe“El Chapo” in the latest Rolling Stone, and I include this nugget, straight from Penn’s pen:Unlike many of his counterparts who engage...
View ArticleDon't Expect Much Substance Tonight
I have to confess that I have a hard time watching the State of the Union address. That’s true no matter who’s delivering it. But I expect that tonight will be particularly painful, as we can expect...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's Pro-Abortion Nightmare
Hillary Clinton has called for ending the Hyde Amendment that prevents federal money from being used to fund abortions on Medicaid. From the Breitbart News story quoting a Clinton speech that aired...
View ArticleA Divided Germany?
For all his faults, Kohl united Germany, Merkel not so much:Reuters:Over 200 masked right-wing supporters, carrying placards with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the eastern city of Leipzig on...
View ArticleBy the Wall
From December 2008, an intriguing Standpointarticle by Tobias Ruther on David Bowie’s time in Berlin. Of interest, primarily, to those interested in Bowie, but then there’s this:On 6 June 1987, David...
View ArticleBurke’s Birthday (Observed)
Today, January 12, is generally agreed among scholars of Edmund Burke to be the great man’s birthday. That agreement is no small matter. It’s a kind of achievement. But it only goes so far, because...
View ArticlePresident Obama Still Thinks He’s a TV President
The White House is holding its third annual “Big Block of Cheese Day,” to gin up attention for President Obama’s final State of the Union address. The phrase is a reference to a West Wing episode in...
View ArticleHarry Reid, Call Your Office
Today’s Washington Post:A forthcoming book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer says that the father of the politically influential Koch Brothers helped build a refinery in Germany in the 1930s that was...
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