Students on the UCLA campus in 2009 (Reuters photo: Lucy Nicholson) “As a young conservative,” writes Kevin D. Williamson, “I was taught to despise something we were taught to call ‘moral relativism.’” Kevin may still consider himself to be a “young conservative” — age descriptors are relative, even if morality is not — but he
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Say goodbye to MAGA Country, and hello to … KAGville? “How do you give up the number one call it theme, logo, statement, in the history of politics for a new one?” Donald Trump asked an overflow crowd in Orlando, where he formally launched his re-election campaign. Simple — you declare mission accomplished to Make America Great Again. The new mission
President Trump raised some eyebrows among conservatives last week when he stated that he supported an amendment banning burning of the American flag. The Constitutional amendment was introduced by senators Kevin Cramer (R, N.D.) and Steve Daines (R., Mont.) on Flag Day. The proposed amendment calls for the “constitutional authority to ban the desecration of
President Trump addresses a re-election campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa. May 20, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Making the click-through worthwhile: President Trump kicked off his reelection campaign with a raucous rally last night in Florida, the Me Too movement hits Hollywood yet again, and a Medicare for All poll reminds us how unreliable public-opinion surveys often
(Gabriella Borter/Reuters) Both as a law student and a guest speaker I felt unwelcome at Yale. Ted Cruz’s investigation can be a step toward increasing true diversity and tolerance. Senator Ted Cruz’s ongoing investigation into Yale Law School over its treatment of Christians and conservatives is a good thing for American education. As a Yale
“I don’t use those words to just throw bombs,” says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this bizarre rant. That appears to be exactly what the frosh House Democrat is doing in this Instagram Q&A. Ocasio-Cortez uses Holocaust language to describe detention centers for border crossers and calling Donald Trump a “fascist” for making them an “institutionalized practice.”
Patrick Shanahan prior to his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Feb. 23, 2019. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters) Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has withdrawn from the confirmation process after being nominated to continue in his role on a permanent basis, President Trump announced Tuesday on Twitter. Trump said that Mark Esper, who currently
Presidential candidates and the media keep telling people “it’s immoral” that a few rich people have so much more money than everyone else. They talk as if it doesn’t matter what the rich did to get the money. Instead, the fact that they are rich is itself immoral. Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute
HAPPENING NOW: Vice President Mike Pence introduces President Trump in Orlando, Florida where the Trump 2020 re-election campaign will officially begin with one of the president’s signature ‘MAGA’ rallies. Trump rolls out his re-election bid just as tensions heat up in Congress over growing calls for his impeachment. #FoxNewsLive #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX
The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. is seen from aboard Air Force One. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to provide an additional $250 million in lethal weapons and aid to the Ukrainian military. With the new aid package, the U.S. military will have given a total of $1.5 billion to Ukraine since
Don’t get David Brooks wrong. He’s not celebrating the fact that Donald Trump is “good for business” in this interview yesterday with CBN’s David Brody. In fact, he’s worried that the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media has “made Donald Trump our business model.” This is a lament, not an end-zone
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters after the weekly policy lunch on Capitol in Hill, May 14, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he is opposed to the idea of authorizing reparations for the descendants of slaves brought to the U.S. against their will. “I don’t think reparations
An American flag flies at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) A group of 23 Democratic state attorneys general demanded Tuesday that Congress take steps to strengthen election security ahead of 2020’s elections. In an urgent letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Rules Committee, the group outlined proposals it wants
Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn says Democrats are getting antsy about what the IG report might find. FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company
I wrote about the Oberlin verdict today: If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin College, the notoriously progressive liberal-arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero privilege, gender privilege, you name it. Now, an Ohio jury has identified an entirely new variety, woke privilege, and resolved to hold people who believe
Will the trade war between the US and China come to an end next week? Donald Trump tweeted out this morning that a planned meeting at the upcoming G-20 summit next week will become an “extended meeting.” His description of preparations between then and now offered a strong hint of an agreement in the works:
Security officers keep watch over a tent encampment housing immigrant children just north of the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, U.S. June 20, 2018. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Monday compared the Trump administration’s attempts to control the flow of migrants across the southern border to the systematic extermination of millions in
FACTORYVILLE, Pa. — Joe Biden has always gotten away with being Joe Biden. This was true when he was President Barack Obama’s vice president, and it was true for his decades in the Senate. “That’s just Joe being Joe,” reporters, politicians and commentators would say with a chuckle whenever Biden said something outrageous or awkward,
Outgoing White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders praised Trump in a sentimental moment where the president called Sanders up onto the stage to laud the work she had done for his administration. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and
In its ruling today in Gamble v. United States, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, affirmed 170 years of precedent applying the dual-sovereignty doctrine to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy Clause. As Justice Alito’s majority opinion sums up this doctrine, “a crime under one sovereign’s laws is not ‘the same offence’
Question: What can Congress do to get around claims of executive privilege while pursuing dreams of impeachment? Answer, via Politico — subpoena randos. Oh sure, they’re famous randos, of course, necessary for garnering the headlines that the House Judiciary Committee craves, but legally speaking about as relevant as calling John Dean to talk about Watergate. Which,
FCC chairman Ajit Pai (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) One year ago this month, opponents of the FCC’s decision to loosen Title II regulations told us the Internet as we know it would end. It didn’t. June 11, 2018, was to be a date that would live in infamy, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the
When assessing America’s or any of the Western world’s universities — wondering whether you should send your child to one; whether you should pay for a child to attend one; whether you should go into great debt to attend one; whether you should donate money to one; and related questions — it would seem that
Since when does asserting your legal rights amount to a cover-up? FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A top
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh holds his U.S. Constitution in Washington, D.C., September 6, 2018. (Alex Wroblewski/Reuters) Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School is one of the leading exponents of “organicism,” a strain of legal scholarship determined to construct a coherent schema around the ad-hoc beliefs of “living constitutionalists.” Ackerman and other organicists attempt to
A year ago, the Supreme Court granted cert in an appeal from Terance Gamble in what appeared to signal a willingness to expand the constitutional prohibition on double jeopardy. Gamble got prosecuted by Alabama and by the federal government over essentially the same offense, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Would the
People wave rainbow flags during the 2018 New York City Pride Parade in Manhattan, June 24, 2018. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) California on Monday raised the LGBTQ-pride flag over the state capitol for the first time in honor of Pride Month. “For the first time ever, the Pride flag has been raised at the State Capitol!” Democratic
Joe Biden speaks at an event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa, June 11, 2019. (Jordan Gale/Reuters) Joe Biden, polling first among Democratic presidential candidates, said Monday that he thinks he will beat incumbent President Trump in 2020 in several deep red Southern states, including Texas and South Carolina. “I plan on campaigning
The Supreme Court (Joshua Roberts / Reuters) The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case involving an Oregon bakery that refused to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding, sending the dispute back to a state court and foregoing an opportunity to clarify its position on the matter after ruling narrowly in
If you keep serving this President fat softballs across the plate, he’ll keep on swinging. It’s impossible to tell when liberals are being serious or intentionally hyperbolic sometimes, but plenty of them have suggested that if Donald Trump either loses his next election or completes two terms, he might refuse to leave office. Despite the