People take part in a protest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Boston, Mass., June 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Too often these days, “expert advice” is really just politics pretending to be objective truth. Here’s a perfect example. Public-health experts have had conniptions about public protests against economic lock downs,

Here are the actual and undisputed facts: • The officers were dispatched to the location due to a complaint that Mr. Blake wasattempting to steal the caller’s keys/vehicle. • Officers were aware of Mr. Blake’s open warrant for felony sexual assault (3rd degree)before they arrived on scene. • Mr. Blake was not breaking up a

After Kyle finished his work that day as a community lifeguard in Kenosha, he wanted to help clean up some of the damage, so he and a friend went to the local public high school to remove graffiti by rioters. Later in the day, they received information about a call for help from a local

1971—By a vote of 6 to 1, the California supreme court rules in Serrano v. Priest that California’s “public school financing system, with its substantial dependence on local property taxes and resultant wide disparities in school revenue, violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Specifically, “the right to an education in our public

Increasingly, when scholars run into others who disagree with them, they don’t resort to logic, but to demands that wrong-thinkers be punished. Instances of that have become commonplace this year. You have to wonder what students learn from such professors. In today’s Martin Center article, Sumantra Maitra writes about a nasty occurrence in the field

A demonstrators holds a large cross outside the Supreme Court as the court rules on two cases concerning religious liberty in Washington, D.C., July 8, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Fifth Circuit will soon decide whether to reconsider a case over whether religious groups control their own internal religious matters, or if — in the words

(Getty Images) Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass, has an essay in the New York Times that I encourage you to read. It is an argument that many overweight the importance of economic outcomes in assessing overall well-being. The essay is often confused. Mr. Cass gives short shrift to the human misery caused by

How anti-law enforcement are Democrats becoming? This hostile. A bill passed the Virginia Senate along a party line vote to reduce penalties for assaulting cops, prison guards, and other law-enforcement officials. If one commits an assault and battery because of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, and the other usual categories, it is deemed a

Kenosha, a city of 100,000 in Wisconsin’s southeastern corner, now confronts the question of when lethal force is justified in two different cases. One, the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer, I addressed yesterday. The other is the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is alleged to have killed two people and … Read

President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, August 27, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump brought the Republican convention to a close with a night long on pageantry, and longer on words. Trump’s acceptance speech went on

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, October 17, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) The LA Times reported on Friday afternoon that House speaker Nancy Pelosi has privately committed to fellow Democrats that the House will vote next year to provide unlimited taxpayer funding of abortion for Medicaid recipients: The plan to

John Deberry, April 7, 2014. (Sean Braisted via Wikimedia) Tennessee State Representative John Deberry, a Democrat from Memphis, tore into rioters and demonstrators in Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere in the U.S. in a blistering speech to the Tennessee House earlier this month. Deberry spoke as lawmakers debated a law on August 12 to increase penalties

Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2018 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) is calling on the FBI to investigate the mob of protestors that swarmed him outside of the White House on Thursday following President Trump’s Republican convention speech, saying the group is part of

(eranicle/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A new study reaches the obvious conclusion that ‘soaking the rich’ doesn’t help anyone. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s a well-observed truth that when you tax something, you get less of it. What many of today’s Democrats don’t seem to understand is that the rule applies just as much to taxes on

President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, August 27, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Donald Trump spoke for an hour and ten minutes, and he did not seem as if he was enjoying it.

Mona Charen at CPAC, 2018 (Gage Skidmore) A means, not an end. To be pro-life is to be part of an insurgent political movement that has been disempowered for nearly 50 years. Any such movement needs to obtain and to use political power to effect social change. For pro-lifers, the presidency and reelection campaign of

Rioters didn’t wait to hear the full story of the Jacob Blake shooting before torching businesses in Kenosha, Wis. A gun-wielding, 17-year-old, pro-police counterprotester from Illinois has been arrested on suspicion of killing two in the city on Tuesday night. And half a week after the incident, officials … Read More

It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about. So far, hundreds of police have been injured, dozens of people have been killed, and we have seen billions of dollars in property and collateral damage. Ostensibly, many of the summer demonstrations were in protest … Read More

A man walks by as riots turn into fires after a black man, identified as Jacob Blake, was shot by police, Kenosha, Wis., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Key details still have not been released, but a picture is emerging. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R ioters didn’t wait to hear the full story of the Jacob

Assembly line at the General Motors manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., August 22, 2019. (Harrison McClary/Reuters) Automation and offshoring are no impediment to building things in America. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P erhaps no economic idea has penetrated the American mainstream more successfully than “the manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back.” It’s a high-status position to

Former Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., August 20, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Joe Biden supports the right of unlimited abortion, funded by the taxpayers, up until the moment of birth. It’s a position that remains

Sister Deirdre Mary Byrne, superior of the D.C. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts and a retired U.S. Army colonel and board-certified general surgeon, speaks during the 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (2020 Republican National Convention/Handout via Reuters) Sister Dierdre Byrne, a physician who served in the military for

Sister Loraine McGuire with Little Sisters of the Poor speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) As part of the Republican convention last night, Cissie Graham Lynch said that “Democrats tried to make faith organizations pay for abortion-inducing drugs.” Rachel Maddow was first out the gate with a response, claiming

From left: Sohrab Ahmari, moderator Ross Douthat, and David French at the Catholic University of America, September 5, 2019 (Institution for Human Ecology/YouTube) Whatever legitimate grievances of which Ahmari speaks, actually doing something about them cannot merely be a matter of wish-casting and fan service. ‘Dreams feel real when we’re in them,” says Cobb, the

Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. (Dreamstime) Over the years, one of the very few academics who has stood up for the idea of racial neutrality is UCLA law professor Rick Sander. He came to the conclusion that racial preferences in college admissions did no good and a fair amount of harm. Those conclusions, of

“I Voted Today” stickers at the Democratic primary in Philadelphia, Pa., June 2, 2020. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters) Foundations exist to spend their money on supporting their missions, and nothing else. Last fall, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Northwell Health Foundation gave $5 million to “boost turnout at the polls and help people, particularly minorities,

The global lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic are undoubtedly the most serious infringement on basic human rights and civil liberties experienced by many Western countries in decades, if ever. Among other things, public and private gatherings, religious worship, and enjoying fresh air have been banned or restricted—with public health as the excuse. However, many

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden waves next to Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Wilmington, Del., August 19, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Biden–Harris is the most pro-abortion ticket in history — and the Democratic Party is out of step with its own voters. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t a convention noticeably

It makes sense to prioritize paid family leave. Because families need help. They did before the pandemic, and they need it even more now. I am not fond of the game of including everything but the kitchen sink in a list of what is pro-life, but the fact of the matter is if we value

People line up for taxis across the street from the New York Times building in New York City. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The New York Times runs a “fact check” of the same claim as the Washington Post. It’s by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, whose reporting on this subject earlier this year went awry. I’ll take its false