Schadenfreude All Day Long The Democrats officially kicked off their nominating process in Iowa in such a bumbling fashion that questions about whether they actually want to win in November can’t be off the table now. We were assured on Monday that they were more than prepared to get their quest to win back the

Sen. Lisa Murkowski arrives back from a break during the Trump impeachment trial in Washington, D.C., January 31, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) announced on Monday that she would vote to acquit President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial. “I cannot vote to convict,” Murkowski told a mostly-empty Senate chamber. “The Constitution

Feminists have transformed America, Canada, and the West by pursuing a particularistic agenda that is destructive to collective values, institutions, and other segments of the population. They have done so (1) by rejecting the liberal democratic model of society in favor of a neo-Marxist identity class model, (2) by rejecting motherhood, (3) by avoiding marriage

Sen. Joe Manchin speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, May 16, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat, on Monday called on Congress to censure President Trump as he remains undecided on whether to vote for acquittal in the impeachment trial. “What the president did was wrong,” the West Virginia Democrat said on the Senate

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate will vote on whether or not to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial. Last week, Senate Republicans voted against calling new witnesses in the trial, saying they had enough information to rule on the merits of the House Democrats’ charges. Democrats had fought for more witnesses, angling to

Anthony Kern speaking at an event in Phoenix, Arizona. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia ) Although it’s too soon to say for certain, a new wave of state-level legislation directed toward reforming public universities may be building. Beginning in 2015, a number of state legislatures passed laws banning so-called campus free-speech zones (rules that confine outdoor political expression

Mike Bloomberg speaks with supporters at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Ariz., February 1, 2020. (Gage Skidmore) “Mike will get it done” is the concluding message of Mike Bloomberg’s 60-second anti-gun Super Bowl commercial. Get what done? The commercial, which cost Bloomberg $11 million, is about a young aspiring football player who was shot to

If you don’t think the Democrats’ politicizing of impeachment backfired on them, all you need to do is look at Senator Lisa Murkowski, the moderate Alaska Republican, who infamously voted ‘present’ during the Kavanaugh confirmation vote and was seen as a potential vote in favor of new witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial. Most of

President Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Wildwood, N.J., January 28, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) I’m not a Trump partisan, but it strikes me as not unreasonable to frame the president’s appeal in terms of Platonic thumos, or spiritedness. In The New Criterion, political scientist Carson Holloway of the Heritage Foundation makes the case. In

Joseph Matthew Smith was convicted of abusing a student at Midwest Christian Services in 2014. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office is letting him go now because he is on hormones in preparation for a “sex change” operation and the state no longer deems him a threat. The state dismissed the application to continue to hold him

Judge Stephen Reinhardt 2009—Ninth Circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt, acting in his administrative capacity as designee of the current Chair of the Ninth Circuit’s Standing Committee on Federal Public Defenders, opines that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional insofar as it requires that federal benefits available to spouses of federal employees not be extended

I’m a little behind on this because I’ve been following the coronavirus thing, but this is a real headline from a real tweet by sometimes-reasonable Jake Tapper, who seems to be off his meds or something. The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from

Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley. (Noah Berger/Reuters) Today, the president of the University of California, Janet Napolitano, decided to remove the name of John Boalt from the law school building at the University of California at Berkeley. Boalt undeniably made racist remarks opposing Chinese immigration to California in the late

Since my first article on “Wuhan Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV” there have been a lot of developments; it’s time to catch up. Science stuff First of all, what is nCoV? It’s a new strain of a family of viruses that have been known for a long time. Coronaviruses can infect both mammals and birds, and usually,

Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is accompanied by health officials as they speak to reporters about Trump administration efforts regarding the coronavirus outbreak in China during a news briefing at the White House, January 31, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The White House coronavirus task force announced Friday that it was enacting a

The tech world was rocked by Google’s recent announcement regarding its internet browser, Chrome. Over the next few years, the search engine company will begin banning third-party cookies from its platform. The change will prohibit companies unaffiliated with Google from tracking the data of Chrome users. Google heralded the move as a victory for internet privacy, declaring, “Users are demanding greater privacy… and it’s clear the web ecosystem needs to evolve to meet those

Travelers make their way through Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in 2015. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Trump administration on Friday announced it will expand to four more countries the existing travel ban, which bars citizens from certain Middle Eastern and African nations from entering the U.S. due to high rates of extremist violence and poor vetting

Our Little Briefing Is Growing Up Today — barring any last-minute hiccups — my Morning Briefing will be delivered as a separate newsletter to everyone who subscribes to the PJ Media newsletters, which you can do here. Soon, the Briefing will be a stand-alone subscription. This is a good opportunity for me to once again

Alan Dershowitz has been widely taken to be saying that a president can do anything he feels necessary to aid his reelection and not be impeached for it; since the president will always feel that his reelection is in the public interest, it cannot be a corrupt motive. He has, however, protested at this …

Sex education has run amok in America to the point that actual adult film stars are hired to teach little children every possible practice known to mankind before they’ve had their first kiss. What is it doing to our young people? Are they safer, happier, and more equipped to handle life? Father Robert McTeigue says

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Senate voted Friday evening to decline the calling of additional witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial, turning down Democratic-led efforts with a 51-49 vote and setting up a likely vote to acquit the president. All but two Republicans voted against the motion, with Senators Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of

This week’s episode is about the sex-ed programs in public schools that have reduced our kids to animals and are setting them up for a lifetime of depression, disease, and unhappiness. I interview Father Robert McTeigue, priest, philosopher, and professor of natural law and ethics. In part one of this two-part series, Father McTeigue and

Attorney Alan Dershowitz addresses a question from senators during the impeachment trial of President Trump in the Senate Chamber in Washington, January 29, 2020. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) Alan Dershowitz maintained in his Senate testimony this week that a president can be impeached only for treason and bribery (the two offenses that the Constitution

One of the most revealing things about the leftist mindset is the usual leftist’s lack of self-awareness about his own intolerance, hatefulness, and inclusiveness — unless you distort all those terms to whitewash the reality. I will never forget reading (and writing about) the unfortunate experience of Professor Janice Price, an education instructor at DePauw

(Pixabay) The way that Medicaid is funded is incredibly dysfunctional. When a state spends $1 on the program, the federal government automatically kicks in at least another $1 — far more in the poorest states. This encourages states to spend as much as possible, bringing federal money to local health-care providers. Advertisement Advertisement A new

What drives Muslim animus for Israel: brotherly love for “oppressed” Palestinians or religious hatred for “infidel” Jews? A recent incident in Jerusalem goes a long way in answering this question. Hizb al-Tahrir—the “Liberation Party”—held a large, outdoor event near al-Aqsa mosque to commemorate the anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople (May 29, 1453). There, as

White House counsel Pat Cipollone speaks during opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2020. (U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters) Chief White House counsel Pat Cipollone traded barbs with House Intelligence Committee Chairman and impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) over the alleged coordination between Schiff’s

Most of us were shocked at the news that basketball legend Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter on Sunday. I don’t even watch basketball and the tragedy of the incident wasn’t lost on me. It is undeniable that Bryant’s involvement in the crash made it a national story, and that’s why it received the

Medical staff treat a patient with pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 28, 2020. (China Daily via China Out /Reuters ) Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) claimed on Thursday that the coronavirus epidemic spreading across China is worse than the country is willing to admit. “There was a 28%

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists she does not “hate” President Donald Trump. Responding to a reporter’s question after she directed the Democratic House Committee chairmen to draft articles of impeachment, Pelosi said: “As a Catholic, I resent your using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone. I was