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#IStandWithAhmed -- Against Authoritarian Idiocy
Someone’s been watching too much Jeff Dunham. Via the Associated Press:A 14-year-old Muslim boy has been arrested in North Texas after a high school teacher decided that a homemade clock he brought to...
View ArticleDebate Prep on Refugees
A question on the refugee crisis facing Europe is likely to come up at the Republican debate tonight and I have a slim hope that some of the candidates will come up with a coherent answer. Here’s a...
View ArticleWhat Texas PolitiFact Won’t Admit about the State’s Defunding of Planned...
This Sunday, Texas Politifact released a review of some statements I made in a recent Washington Examiner editorial. In it, I noted that, as the debate over federal funding for Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleThe Importance of the Counterfactual
Justin Wolfers, a University of Michigan economist and left-of-center public intellectual, recently tweeted a chart on the number of people lifted above the poverty line by various social programs,...
View ArticleTonight’s Debate
If you’re an advisor to one of the candidates tonight, how do you advise him or her to have a moment, and make it entirely authentic and preferably completely spontaneous? Ben Carson benefited the most...
View ArticleWhy Is Labor Productivity Growth So Sluggish?
How can we reconcile the fact that there are many sectors of the U.S. economy in which we’re seeing dramatic technological advances, yet labor productivity growth is so low that it was actually...
View ArticleNR Tweets the GOP Debates . . .
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View ArticleGraham: 'The First Thing I Am Going to Do as President ... Drink More'
Senator Lindsey Graham, defending himself for once calling Hillary Clinton a “national treasure,” invoked Ronald Reagan, whom he credited with saving Social Security thanks to regularly drinking with...
View ArticleNancy for Hillary? Please.
Since I’m on the media-bias beat today, a small complaint about a piece of GOP debate coverage: A correspondent on Sirius XM POTUS—apologies, I didn’t catch which one—was interviewing a representative...
View ArticleFiorina: I Wouldn't Talk to Russia, I'd Rebuild Missile Defense in Poland
Responding to Donald Trump saying“I will get along” with Vladimir Putin, Carly Fiorina said tonight, “Having met Vladimir Putin, I wouldn’t talk to him at all; we talked way too much.”Fiorina then made...
View ArticleCarly Fiorina's Passion about Planned Parenthood
Carly Fiorina laid out the harsh and cold truth about Planned Parenthood in a way no other candidate has to date, amidst the media blackout — and a CNN questioning panel that seemed indifferent,...
View ArticleTrump to Jeb: 'I Hear Your Wife Is a Lovely Woman'
Jeb Bush tonight asked Donald Trump for bringing his wife into the center of their immigration debate. Trump declined, but offer that she’s “a lovely woman.” BASH: “Governor Bush, Mr. Trump has...
View ArticleRubio: I'd Rather Spanish Speakers Hear Me Convey Conservatism Directly, Not...
After Donald Trump criticized Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail, Sen. Marco Rubio defended the practice, arguing it’s better for Spanish speakers to hear his message...
View ArticleCarly to Trump: ‘Why Should We Trust You to Manage the Finances of this...
In one of the more heated exchanges of the night, Donald Trump attacked Carly Fiorina’s record at Hewlett Packard, citing a scathing attack from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale professor, who called her one...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Shrinking
“The world will respect us like never before?” Do you respect Donald Trump tonight like never before?The personal attacks that have worked so well for Donald Trump these past few weeks fell flat...
View ArticleWhile We’re Young
Pardon the dorky heading. My guest on the latest Q&A is Toby Young, the British journalist. More than a journalist, he is a personality, an adornment to society. For example, he was a judge on Top...
View ArticleThe New Trump
Trump was a much more conventional candidate this time–which seems to me to carry more risks than rewards for his candidacy.
View ArticleCarly's Night
(Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty) Carly had a terrific night. Her handling of the Trump insult of her looks was pitch perfect, understated, but pointed. Her answer on Planned Parenthood was moving. She...
View ArticleCarly Shines in the CNN Marathon
From the post-debate Morning Jolt:Where Are Our ‘I Survived the GOP Debate Marathon 9/16/2015’ T-Shirts?If you watched both debates last night, you watched about five hours. Exhausting.Logistics:...
View ArticleAbout Last Night
I know I’m late to the party when it comes to debate reactions. I was just too exhausted to write anything last night. I’m also glad I slept on it because I finished that debate in a fairly foul mood....
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