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All who are anticipating word about that great quadrennial event, wait no more: National Review will be in Manchester on February 6 for a most fun evening of ruminating, riffing, and debate-watching...
View ArticleAn Open Letter from the Obama Administration to Stupid, Fearful Americans
Dear Stupid Americans, We’ve tried repeatedly to tell you that terrorism is no big deal. As the New York Timespatiently explains to you today, you are “more likely to die in a car crash, drown in a...
View ArticleSummer Internship
National Review is accepting applications for its summer internship. The intern will work in our New York office, receive a modest stipend, participate in every part of the editorial process, and have...
View ArticleDissing 'Diversity'
It turns out that the corporate “celebration of diversity” is not only unfair, divisive, inefficient, illogical, immoral, and illegal— it doesn’t work very well by its own terms, according to the...
View ArticleJeb Bush’s Toxic Numbers
Two polls from the last couple of days, Quinnipiac in Iowa and Monmouth in New Hampshire, underline Jeb Bush’s struggles in this race. The numbers are simply terrible. In Iowa, 26 percent of...
View ArticleIran Seizes Ten American Sailors and Two Navy Boats, Accuses U.S. of 'Snooping'
This is not good news:The crews of two small Navy boats were picked up by the Iranian authorities on Tuesday after commanders lost contact with the vessels, and Pentagon officials said that Iran had...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: U.S. Response to Latest Iran Crisis 'Appeasement of the...
Instead of sternly rebuking Iran for seizing U.S. sailors tonight, the Obama Administration is “acting as the lawyers for Iran,” Charles Krauthammer charged.“I think the story here is not that the...
View ArticleObama: 'America Is the Most Powerful Nation -- Period'
Concern that America is getting weaker as our enemies are getting stronger is “hot air,” President Obama argued tonight. “Let me tell you something, the United States of America is the most powerful...
View ArticleObama: ‘When Politicians Insult Muslims ... It Diminishes Us in the Eyes of...
The world respects America “not just for our arsenal,” President Obama said tonight, “it respects us for our diversity and openness, and the way we respect everything.”“When politicians insult Muslims,...
View ArticleHypocrite-in-Chief
That’s our Barack Obama: In one breath, he talks about the need for trust and criticizes those who argue that their political opponents are acting in bad faith; in the next, he denounces his rivals as...
View ArticleIn His Final State of the Union, Obama Inadvertently Highlights One of His...
At several moments in his final State of the Union speech, President Obama highlighted the undeniable reality that America has both the world’s strongest economy and the the world’s strongest military....
View ArticleMaking America Grate Again
If you knew nothing about Barack Obama’s presidency and how he has conducted it, you could be forgiven for thinking this was a reasonable, albeit liberal, and even uplifting State of the Union Address....
View ArticleObama's Valediction
President Clinton’s State of the Union address in 2000 was both a celebration of his achievements and a laundry list of proposals he still wanted Congress to pass or Al Gore to use in the race to...
View ArticleA Good Night for Trump
Won’t Trump and his supporters be able to claim vindication from the fact that both President Obama and the Republican respondent to him, Nikki Haley, gave speeches that attacked him? Indeed, that...
View ArticleNR Tweets the SOTU
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View ArticleHow Obama Stole Dubuque
What state is Dubuque in? If you answered Chicago, you are correct. Chicago’s no state, you say? Don’t be so 18th century — so “constitutional.” Dubuque is in Chicago, which is now a kind of state. Or...
View ArticleSummer Internship
National Review is accepting applications for its summer internship. The intern will work in our New York office, receive a modest stipend, participate in every part of the editorial process, and have...
View ArticleIran's Propaganda Victory in One Illegal Image
Here it is:This photograph violates international law. Article 13 of the Geneva Convention (III), governing the treatment of prisoners of war, requires Iran to protect prisoners against “insults and...
View ArticleFor Obama to Be the Liberal Reagan, Hillary Has to Win
My latest post at Bloomberg View takes a look at the State of the Union address–and the state of Obama’s project to be the liberal Reagan.[T]o leave his mark on American politics for an era, and not...
View ArticleSlow Down the Haley-For-Veep Talk
Back in 2010, I said “Nikki Haley is likely to be the subject of political ticket talk in 2012 and 2016.”After Haley’s response to the State of the Union last night, the “make Haley the GOP nominee’s...
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