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Friday, May 25, 2018
The Real Story: Destroying Trump and Protecting Clinton
You don’t need to believe that the special counsel investigating President Donald Trump is a terrible person to conclude that the Obama administration and Clinton machine (and later their holdovers during the Trump administration) politicized and weaponized federal agencies to protect Hillary Clinton and damage Trump.
Conservatives Need to Argue About Ideas, Not About Trump
“Let’s grow up, conservatives.” That call to arms was delivered by Barry Goldwater at the 1960 Republican convention to implore members of the then-youthful conservative movement to hold their noses and rally around Richard Nixon’s candidacy.
Did the Obama Administration Spy on Trump Using Flimsy Evidence? Let’s Find Out
If the Justice Department and FBI are, as we’ve been told incessantly over the past year, not merely patriots but consummate professionals incapable of being distracted by partisanship or petty Washington intrigues, why are Donald Trump’s antagonists freaking out over the fact that an inspector general will assess whether political motivation tainted an investigation into the president’s campaign?
A Conspiracy of Idiocy
Many people love to concoct grand, elaborate conspiracies to explain the world around them. Instead of realizing they made bad decisions, it must have been some malevolent force out to get them.
The Commencement Speech You Never Hear
My youngest son’s college graduation ceremony was scheduled to be held outdoors. The invitation specified that it would be moved inside to the gym only in the event of “severe” weather.
Obama Administration’s Spying on Trump a Departure From Norms
“F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims,” read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18.
Fox Beats Up on God
As the television season wraps up, it seems that Satan is having a bad year on Fox.
Thursday, May 24, 2018
The New Art of the Deal
Political change occurs at the margin. What Mr. Trump does is expand that field of debate so that the margin moves.
With God and Richard Pipes
The most respected academic authority on the Russian Revolution, 20th century communism, and the Cold War has died. He was Richard Pipes, longtime professor of Russian history at Harvard and a remarkable man.
Are the Dems Still Ballot-Proof?
Donald Trump may not be on the ballot in November, but the future of his conservative agenda is. And three waves into this primary season, that seems to be all the motivation Republican voters need.
Fighting for Life
Tuesday night President Donald Trump addressed the Susan B. Anthony List Gala. SBA List is one of the largest pro-life organizations in America, and we frequently partner with them on major initiatives.
Tom Wolfe Is Dead, and I Am in Italy
On May 14, a star failed to come out. Tom Wolfe passed away that day. With his passing, the conservative movement lost its greatest social critic and America lost one of its greatest novelists.
Trump’s Trade Wars Would Avenge Only Mythical Casualties
America’s government declares “war” promiscuously — on poverty, on drugs, on cancer, etc. — except when actually going to war, which the nation has done often since it last declared war (on June 5, 1942, on Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary).
Gambling on Sports Is a Bad Bet
Human nature being what it is, it should come as no shock that the next level of approved gambling in America is sports betting. States already have casinos, the lottery and other ways of separating money from the weak for their ravenous and bottomless coffers, so why not allow betting on sports contests?
Are Health Officials Strangling the Lesser of Two Evils for the Benefit of the Greater?
Tobacco kills 480,000 people a year in the United States. Yet when an innovative alternative that delivers nicotine and eliminates 95 percent of the harm of smoking is available, the wary Food and Drug Administration fails to embrace this revolutionary lifesaving technology. All in the name of the children, of course.
The Doomsday Scenario: What if School Walkouts Don’t Work?
The New York Times seemed to think it was bitterly ironic that some of the students at Santa Fe High School, site of the recent mass shooting, had staged a walkout last month in support of the Parkland, Florida, students.
Trump Is Proving to Be the Most Fearlessly Pro-Life President in History
Many of the same people expressing outrage that Trump would dehumanize vicious gang members have no problem dehumanizing innocent, unborn children.
In Calling MS-13 Gang Members ‘Animals,’ Trump Was Kind
President Donald Trump doubled down on calling members of a notorious street gang “animals.” Good for him for not backing down and for shining a light on an outrageous phenomenon, especially in southern California: Latino gangs that target blacks, whether or not they belong to gangs, for death.
U.S. Has Leverage in Dealings With Iran, North Korea
There has been a lot of misinformation about both getting out of the so-called Iran deal and getting into a new North Korean agreement. The two situations may be connected, but not in the way we are usually told.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
The Chinese Threat Isn’t Just Trade
We are currently engaged in a high-profile negotiation that may or may not succeed in getting the Chinese to buy more of our stuff.