Cruz Super PAC Warns of 'TrumpCare' in New Ad
A super PAC supporting Ted Cruz is airing a new TV ad in Iowa that goes for the policy jugular against Donald Trump, equating his past statements on universal health care to positions held by President...
View ArticleSanders: 'We Should Expand Funding for Planned Parenthood'
Sen. Bernie Sanders said in tonight’s Democratic presidential forum on CNN that Planned Parenthood does “a fantastic job” and the government “should expand” its funding. Sanders also boasted he has a...
View ArticleWhat If You Are Asked to Attend a Suicide?
With California–about 10% of the US population–about to allow assisted suicide and the Canadian Supreme Court imposing a nation-wide euthanasia right, you might find yourself asked to attend an...
View ArticleO’Malley on Raising Wages: We Need To Legalize the 11 Million Illegals
At tonight’s CNN presidential forum, Martin O’Malley unveiled a five point plan for creating jobs and raising wages: hike the minimum wage, create new rules mandating overtime pay, pass a new “equal...
View ArticleClinton on E-mail Scandal: ‘Nothing I Did Was Wrong’
Hillary Clinton called “fair” the Des Moines Register’s criticism that she needs to accept responsibility for her mistakes — but then refused to call her e-mail scandal an “error in judgment.”In...
View ArticleTrump, Cruz, and Beltway Republicans
My new Bloomberg column.Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. This sound aphorism may have a less pithy political corollary: Never attribute to strategy what...
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View ArticleTuesday Links
It’s Australia Day: When the United States declared independence and England could no longer send convicts here, they needed a new penal colony. The first fleet arrived in Australia on January 26,...
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From the Tuesday Morning Jolt:Bernie and His Giant Match Are Coming For You, AmericaIt’s always good to have a little wariness about new technology, particularly in the arena of social media. Sometimes...
View ArticleAre There Economic Policy Answers to Trump Voters' Woes?
Tim Carney, in the Washington Examiner, well sums up the main grievances of both Trump and Sanders voters: the lack of prospects facing blue collar white males. This, he notes, helped fuel the success...
View ArticleGOP Presidential Primary Turnout Is Going to Be... How High?
Yesterday, I pointed out the “likely caucus-goer” screens on the recent Iowa polls seemed at least a little loose – if you project out the caucus participation rate from the sample to the entire...
View ArticleReport from the Grassy Knoll: Reaction to the ‘Against Trump’ Editorial
From the stew of enraged Trumpkins, trolls, nativist misfits, and conspiracy theorists has come the cry for vengeance and this concocted charge: that National Review is violating the law by publishing...
View ArticleHow Many Evangelicals Will Participate in the GOP Iowa Caucus?
Look hard enough at any polling sample, and you can find demographics that look a little iffy. This morning Quinnpiac unveiled a new survey of 651 likely Iowa Republican Caucus participants. In that...
View ArticleWhy West Virginia Is Likely to Become the 26th Right-to-Work State
West Virginia seems almost certain to soon become American’s 26th right-to-work state. Republicans took control of both houses of the West Virginia legislature in 2014. State legislative leaders have...
View Article'America Already Has One Post-Constitutional Party; We Don't Need Another'
Nebraska GOP Senator Ben Sasse is making a quasi-endorsement, or maybe it is better described as an anti-endorsement. Sasse will appear with Marco Rubio, with Ted Cruz, and possibly other...
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 ArticleOn Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Endorsement Mistake
Jerry Falwell Jr. is one of America’s most valuable Evangelical leaders. At a time when even Christian colleges are systematically capitulating to the “social justice” Left, Falwell has built Liberty...
View ArticleWhen in Rome... Oh, Never Mind
Reuters:Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi came under fire on Tuesday after ancient nude statues in Rome’s Capitoline museum were covered up to avoid any possible offense to Iranian President Hassan...
View ArticleVander Plaats Fires Back at Trump, Mocks 'Two Corinthians'
Ottumwa, Iowa – Hours after Donald Trump took to Twitter to hurl a series of insults and accusations at Bob Vander Plaats, the influential Iowa Evangelical and Ted Cruz backer, Vander Plaats returned...
View ArticleKrauthammer: Trump ‘Brilliantly’ Using Reality Show Tactics to Keep Attention...
In threatening to skip Fox News’s Republican debate Thursday over Megyn Kelly’s participation, Donald Trump is managing to keep attention focused on himself, Charles Krauthammer said tonight. “I think...
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