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Saturday, April 1, 2017
Nunes Nonsense
Thursday news broke that two White House officials — Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis — had provided documents to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA). Chairman Nunes has said the documents indicate that the Obama administration monitored the Trump campaign and transition team on matters unrelated to Russia.
Putting the NC in NCAA?
It was a buzzer-beating shot, but when legislators tried to appease the NCAA, no one in North Carolina won. The “fake repeal” of HB2 (as liberals called it) was — as far as most people were concerned — worse than doing nothing. Desperate to pass something before the NCAA’s midnight deadline, lawmakers attempted to piece together a bill that reset the state’s bathroom, locker room, and shower policies to the pre-2016 standard. To the Left’s frustration, also bars anyone but the state from enacting gender-free ordinances like Charlotte’s for at least three years.
Friday, March 31, 2017
The Crisis of Trumpism
Trumpism is in crisis. This isn’t a function of poll numbers, or any melodrama of the past months, but something more fundamental: No officeholder in Washington seems to understand President Donald Trump’s populism or have a cogent theory of how to effect it in practice, including the president himself.
High Anxiety Over Health-Care Reform
ObamaCare proved to be a catastrophic victory. The Republican plan had the makings of another one.
Trick or Tweak? Both Sides Pan HB 2 Deal
If the goal of compromise is to ensure that nobody’s happy, then North Carolina is succeeding!
Democratic Vendetta
We are witnesses to an abuse of power by government that represents a test of our democracy. Anyone who fails to rally to the cause of the Americans victimized in this case should be discredited.
Doesn’t Anybody Know How to Play This Game?
“Dare I suggest,” writes the economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, “that the quality of governance in this country has taken a downward turn of late?” Or as Casey Stengel, while managing the New York Mets on their way to a 40-120 season in 1962, reportedly asked, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Devin Nunes Has No Reason to Recuse Himself
The day after House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes, R-Calif., held a press conference saying he’d seen reports that show the government may have collected information on Donald Trump’s transition team or family and inappropriately shared it, journalists jumped into action.
The Road to Single-Payer Health Care
Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and the House Republicans appear unable to reconcile their differences.
Go Therefore
As the Northern Hemisphere begins its slow tilt toward the sun, American Protestants will start giving their churches money to send their children away. These spring break and summer excursions will most often be to tropical places or a few remaining snowy places for skiing.
Reaction to Pence Story Shows Traditional Christians Face Double Standard
I’ve heard numerous versions of this story, but I’ll go with the one reportedly told by Dr. Abraham Twerski, a renowned psychiatrist and Orthodox rabbi. (I’ve trimmed and paraphrased it a bit.)
The Enemy Within
Drexel University Professor George Ciccariello is back in the news. He made headlines in December when he tweeted, “All I want for Christmas is White Genocide.” By the way, Ciccariello is white. Drexel said he was being sarcastic and refused to fire him.
Four Days in Israel Verify Biblical Places and Events
I have wanted to visit the Holy Land for years and I am finally here. The experience is, as promised, exceeding my enormously high expectations. Finally, I can use the word “awesome” correctly and without exaggeration!
Samantha Bee: Great World Leader?
One might think that Fortune would want to keep a sober reputation as a magazine for business executives. But it made a fool of itself. It came out with a list of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” and on that list was once-a-week late-night TBS “comedy” scold Samantha Bee.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Why Sen. Feinstein’s Argument Couldn’t Be More Wrong, and Dangerous
During the marathon hearing on Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Democratic senators kept pushing him about his views on precedent. His answers didn’t seem to satisfy them — but then that would have been impossible, since their views on precedent are political, not legal.
The Right Cure for ObamaCare
“This is not the end of the debate.” Rep. Mark Meadows said that on ABC’s “This Week” regarding the House leadership’s failed health care bill, and he’s exactly right.
Planned Parenthood’s Killer Workout
No one has done a better job persuading people to defund Planned Parenthood than, well, Planned Parenthood. In video after undercover video, the organization has been its own worst enemy in the fight for taxpayer dollars. Out of its own mouth, it’s let Americans into a dark world where killing is currency and empires are built on the backs of innocent children. One after another, the tapes sound like something out of a horror movie. If only they were. Instead, the gory trade — often joked about by the employees involved — is putting an exclamation point on taxpayers’ insistence that Congress defund Cecile Richards’s group.
Cornwall Alliance Applauds Energy Independence Order
“President Trump’s ‘Executive Order on Energy Independence’ will save the American people hundreds of billions of dollars every year that would have been wasted on purely symbolic efforts under former President Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ and other regulations,” Cornwall Alliance Founder and National Spokesman E. Calvin Beisner said today.
Gorsuch Against the Extremists
The trials of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as he is almost certainly en route to his place on the Supreme Court, reveal one of my favorite findings regarding modern politics, to wit: The Democrats are the extremists; the Republicans are mainstream.
The Yanks Over There – 100 Years Ago
One hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The ongoing conflict ended just 19 months later with an Allied victory.