A sign informs travelers arriving at Logan Airport in Boston, Mass., about the restrictions imposed by a Massachusetts Travel Order, August 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Public officials and the media should frame risks in a practical, comprehensible manner. Pictures of crowded bars and restaurants could lead one to conclude that people are terrible at understanding

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears by video feed in this frame grab from the DNC in Milwaukee, Wis., August 17, 2020. (Pool via Reuters) Ideally, a party whose top two presidential-primary finishers are approaching 80 would have more potential White House talent on its bench. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he first night of the

Among the subjects touched upon in the latest Capital Note are some new proposals to increase taxes in California (yes, it’s a day ending with a y). They are all bad, and in all likelihood, self-defeating (yes, it’s a day ending with a y), but it’s worth noting that they include a wealth tax, something

(simpson33/iStock/Getty Images Plus) He has a lot to lose. It is called the allocution. It is the most important part of a guilty plea in federal court. It comes — if it comes — when the judge personally addresses the accused, who has been placed under oath, and asks him to explain in his own

Senator Kamala Harris laughs during a forum at the annual NAACP convention in Detroit, Mich., July 24, 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Restoring the presidency to its proper constitutional role is the only way to ensure that such megalomaniacs don’t come so close to occupying it. Kamala Harris does not want to be the president of the

Governor Andrew Cuomo wears a mask as he arrives to speak during a daily coronavirus briefing in New York, July 13, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo is writing a book about his experience managing the coronavirus pandemic and his relationship with the Trump administration, his publisher Crown announced Tuesday. “American Crisis,” set

President Donald Trump gestures in front of supporters in Oshkosh, Wisc., August 17, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Charlie Sykes and Jonathan Last attacked me for the sin of ‘anti-anti-Trumpism.’ NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C. S. Lewis, writing in 1941, coined his famous definition of the logical fallacy of Bulverism: You must show that a man is wrong

During the virtual Democratic National Convention tonight, New York governor Andrew Cuomo had the temerity to tell a national audience that, “Our way worked. And it was beautiful.” The shameless and vulgar self-aggrandizing — which he’s only able to get away with because of criminal lack of media scrutiny — didn’t end there, as Cuomo

President Trump applauds during a signing ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump’s replacement of liberal judicial hero Stephen Reinhardt with Ken Lee, a constitutionalist judge, was a significant milestone in the Trump administration’s ideological balancing of the notoriously left-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, more than 100 U.S. congressmen have called on the Internal Revenue Service to cease providing tax deductions for abortion procedures by designating them as “medical care.” “In all but the most extreme circumstances, abortion is an elective procedure that has nothing to do with, ‘the prevention or

Former Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks at the site of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 2019. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) Former governor of Ohio John Kasich will speak at the Democratic National Convention tonight. With the ongoing — and frequently overwrought — worries that the U.S. Postal Service will collapse upon the waves of

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) On the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, former Chicago mayor and Obama administration White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel argues that his party can and should make this year’s “Biden Republicans” part of

(saengsuriya13/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The pandemic has forced new thinking into medicine — and it’s about time. The virus pandemic has put American medicine to the test like few other events in our history. As horrible as its toll has been, COVID-19 has also unleashed medical trends that will have the long-term effect of improving medical

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on location in June 2019 (Mike Segar/Reuters) As news broke Friday that John Durham’s criminal probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation had resulted in a former FBI lawyer pleading guilty to doctoring FISA evidence used against the Trump campaign, the formerly Russia-obsessed mainstream media did its best to look

Outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Calif. (Noah Berger/Reuters) Who says conservatives have lost California? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Second Amendment has won a small victory in California, with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down as unconstitutional the state’s ban on so-called high-capacity magazines — which, as the

In December 2015, I sat with about 10,000 other students in Liberty University’s Vines Center for one of the thrice weekly Convocations, this one featuring remarks by Jerry Falwell Jr., the school’s president, chancellor, and son of its famous founder. It was already well-known by the student body that for … Read More

Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, May 1, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) We can end the speculation. Yesterday, Attorney General Bill Barr indicated in an interview that, on Friday, there would be an announcement, significant but not earth-shattering in nature, about the Durham investigation into Trump–Russia probe that was launched

In December 2015, I sat with about 10,000 other students in Liberty University’s Vines Center for one of the thrice weekly Convocations, this one featuring remarks by Jerry Falwell Jr., the school’s president, chancellor, and son of its famous founder. It was already well-known by the student body that for … Read More

President Donald Trump speaks about a peace deal reached between Israel and the United Arab Emirates from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 13, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Flanked by some of his top advisers in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Trump announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates

Michael Flynn arrives at a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) And if he somehow doesn’t prevail, he’ll be pardoned. So why all the legal maneuvering? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE G eneral Michael Flynn is going to lose the battle. That was the takeaway from Tuesday’s hearing before the D.C. Circuit

In December 2015, I sat with about 10,000 other students in Liberty University’s Vines Center for one of the thrice weekly Convocations, this one featuring remarks by Jerry Falwell Jr., the school’s president, chancellor, and son of its famous founder. It was already well-known by the student body that for … Read More

(tupungato/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Cross-partisan talks about another pandemic-relief bill are clearly bogged down. But the rhetoric, and even a lot of the journalism, around how that has happened tends to mask more than it reveals. Republicans say the Democrats are clinging to unreasonable demands and irresponsible spending levels. Democrats say Republicans don’t want a bill

Dr. Scott Atlas speaks at a White House press briefing, August 12, 2020. (Screengrab via Fox Business/YouTube) The media-driven attempt to paint his views on health policy as “unscientific” is a smear. Almost as soon as Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford University was named a special adviser to the president last week, having been brought

J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building in Washington, D.C. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Some interesting things to note about the false statements to which former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is pleading guilty today. Criminal Information Charging False Statements The charge is contained in a criminal information. That is a form of formal allegation the Justice Department uses

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine issues involving race and policing practices in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, June 16, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool/Reuters) Making someone as extreme as Kamala Harris a president-in-waiting is a bone-chilling prospect. No conservative or moderate should support it. NRPLUS MEMBER

(Carlos Barria/Reuters) German doctors were hanged at Nuremberg for killing disabled infants — part of the medical Holocaust. That same act — killing a baby because he or she is disabled or terminally ill — is now accepted with a shrug in the Netherlands under a bureaucratic infanticide checklist known as the Groningen Protocol —

Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris smiles at a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., August 12, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) On the menu today: why John Eastman’s ideas about Kamala Harris and who else does and does not qualify as a U.S. citizen don’t hold water; a warning about a deep depression among America’s young

Shoppers walk past social-distancing signs following the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in London, England, July 1, 2020. (Toby Melville/Reuters) CNN yesterday: UK economic output shrank by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, the worst quarterly slump on record, pushing the country into the deepest recession of any major global economy. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Allister

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction that a lower court had placed on several pro-life laws in Arkansas, sending the case back to the district judge for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on abortion policy. The Arkansas provisions in question would prohibit a second-trimester abortion procedure

Attorney Steven Donziger speaks with reporters outside the United States Court of Appeals in New York City, April 20, 2015. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Steven Donziger, the attorney with connections to the Obama and Cuomo administrations who was at the center of a massive effort to extort billions of dollars out of Chevron, has been disbarred for