President Donald Trump greets Chinese Vice Premier Liu He after signing phase one of the U.S.-China trade agreement in the East Room of the White House, January 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) An email in response to my NRO article, “Navarro’s Faith-Based Case for Tariffs.” Your recent observations on China and trade compel me to make
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Here was the inspiration (yes, I’m my own muse) for today’s episode: All Democratic policy is bad medicine. That’s why Dem pols have to hide everything behind the “giving you something for free” ruse. https://t.co/4mBjy3OVwo — SFK (@stephenkruiser) January 29, 2020 The modern American Democrats are bereft of any good ideas, we all know that.
Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) On Wednesday, after the Virginia Senate deadlocked 20-20 on a bill repealing several modest abortion restrictions in the state, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax cast a tie-breaking vote to pass the legislation. Senate Bill 733 would remove Virginia’s requirement that only doctors may perform abortion in order to
Parents of 3- and 4-year-olds attending the taxpayer-funded PS 58 Carroll School in Brooklyn parents are “horrified” by the new curriculum that was recently announced that will teach indoctrinate these young children that they can pick their own gender. “I was kind of horrified,’’ the father of a preschooler told the New York Post. “They
Voters cast their ballots to vote in state and local elections at Robious Elementary School in Midlothian, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, U.S. November 5, 2019. (Ryan M. Kelly/Reuters) On the menu today: an eye-opening poll on political animosity; a powerful argument that America’s elites have forgotten what their positions require of them; and a
The Iowa Caucus, the real start of the 2020 presidential primaries, is next week. Who’s favored to win? Sadly, as I write this, the smart money says it’s the candidate who’s promised Americans the most “free” stuff. Six months ago, my staff and I tallied the candidates’ promises. All wanted to give away trillions —
Hillary Clinton speaks at a panel for the Hulu documentary Hillary during the Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., January 17, 2020. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) A four-hour documentary shows Hillary Clinton is still blaming America for her failures. Imagine a socially maladept but extremely wealthy friend of yours was told, “People like tap dancing. You
Diamonds are the products of intense pressure applied to one of most common substances on earth, carbon. But not all carbon that undergoes such pressure becomes a diamond at all, let alone one of great value. Without the pressure, carbon just remains common carbon. Brad Bannon was a little-known defense attorney when several young, white,
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters after the weekly policy lunch in Washington, D.C., May 14, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Tuesday said he doesn’t have the votes to block a resolution to allow witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial, according to multiple reports. McConnell made the admission in
Here We Go Again Had I been able to accurately predict the alcoholic cat lady levels of desperation and insanity that the Democrats would be driven to by their inability to let 2016 go, I would have paid closer attention to a few things from the time President Trump was sworn in. One thing I’d
“Are You Good Enough at Paperwork to Be a Poor American?” asks the New York Times. The essay is an interesting and valuable read. Most programs that make up the American social safety net have become simpler to navigate over time, with more requirements automated, eliminated or moved online. Participation rates today vary depending in
LEXINGTON, Virginia — Every Wednesday morning, James McDaniel sits along the South Main Street portion of U.S. Highway 11 with a healthy stack of The News-Gazette beside him. He wears a neat white apron with the newspaper’s moniker stitched across the top. He keeps a small, folded tarp tucked away to protect the paper in
DACA supporters outside the White House, September 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The network of groups allied to Charles Koch thinks a pro-Dreamer agreement is close to fruition. Indian Wells, Calif. — There’s no way a Democratic House and a Republican Senate could pass legislation resolving the future of the Dreamers before Election Day. Or is there?
Friedrich Nietzsche is best known for his declaration that God is dead, and we have killed him. Nietzsche insisted that Christian morality was weak and squeamish, holding humanity back from evolution. Evolution requires a harsh struggle so the fittest can survive and thrive as the weak are culled from the herd. That poor Christianity called
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a news conference, January 22, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Just one day after a leaked excerpt of John Bolton’s upcoming book revealed that he directly witnessed President Trump condition Ukrainian military aid on a politically beneficial investigation, Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow claimed during Monday’s impeachment trial that “not a single
“My life is worth more than his life.” Such is the seemingly odd explanation that a Muslim man of African origins gave for mutilating and nearly killing a police officer with a machete, after the latter stopped him in a routine traffic stop in the UK. According to the January 15 report, A hero police
(Demetrius Freeman/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Monday that there is “no room for compromise” in the policy debate surrounding how society should cater to the desires of transgender people. “Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic
Indian Wells, Calif. — “The faculty thought the university existed for them, and it doesn’t,” declared Michael Crow, the president of Arizona State University, stirring laughter and applause from the more than 600 members of Stand Together, the network of political and charitable groups headed up by Charles Koch. “The students were the reason for
I have to admit that I’ve gotten bored of impeachment already. As much as I was looking forward to the Senate trial, the reality is we’ve seen this all before during the House impeachment inquiry, which was only marginally more exciting, because Democrats thought they had a slam dunk, only to see Republicans dismantle the
Barbers Hill High School senior DeAndre Arnold interviewed on KHOU. (KHOU/via YouTube) A public-school system beset by conformism, in Texas and across the country It seems almost inevitable that long hair is unwelcome at Barbers Hill High School. There’s a touch of aptronymic poetry in Texas public-school dress-code disputes. When I was in school in
Two weeks ago, the United States seemed on the brink of starting another war in the Middle East after a drone strike killed Iran’s most notorious spymaster, Qasem Soleimani, as he departed an international airport in Baghdad. The shadowy general, in charge of the Iranian equivalent of the CIA, was one of the … Read
As conservative writers for online magazines are all too well aware, their leftist adversaries are not interested in serious debate or mannerly conversation. Civility is not the left’s strong suit. Tactics vary along a spectrum of readily predictable talking points, false assertions, vituperation and obscenity, the stock in trade of those who have come to
Clayton Christensen at a TED Talks in 2012 (via YouTube) The guru of innovative technology leaves a legacy that extends well beyond the business world. Read through the marketing materials for a given startup and one adjective will inevitably appear: “disruptive.” The term “disruptive technology” might induce semantic satiation nowadays, but the man who coined
The New Year began with an uptick in slaughter attempts on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority. First, on January 12, 2020, a Muslim man crept up behind a Coptic woman walking home with groceries, pulled her head back with a hand full of hair, and slit her throat with a knife in the other hand. Nearby
Two weeks ago, the United States seemed on the brink of starting another war in the Middle East after a drone strike killed Iran’s most notorious spymaster, Qasem Soleimani, as he departed an international airport in Baghdad. The shadowy general, in charge of the Iranian equivalent of the CIA, was one of the … Read
On Episode 3 of The Fringe; Women Lie, I go over the dangerous demand from the left that we have to #BelieveWomen at all times about whatever women have to say, especially about crimes. Due process matters and piggy-backing off last week’s show about the bail reform bill, I go deeper into the specifics of
Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter attend an NCAA basketball game in Washington, D.C., January 30, 2010. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) They deny Trump the right to present a defense, then complain that he has produced no evidence. Imagine you get indicted in a swindle. The prosecutors represent that they can prove you and your
This is one of those times when you have to wish, as Henry Kissinger famously did, that they could both lose. Google’s original pure-as-the-driven-snow exhortation “don’t be evil” has, well, drifted; it’s been the running rumor for at least 30 years that Larry Ellison is in fact a Romulan spy. And the current battle is
Rep. Adam Schiff peaks next to Rep. Jerry Nadler during a news conference on the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump in Washington, D.C., January 22, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) Trump’s team says the House should have gone to court to compel witnesses – but when the House did, they said it wasn’t a judicial
Is the Tea Party movement dead? Did it accomplish anything? What is the future of conservative activism? Politico Examines Leftist Incivility and Finds…the Tea Party In today’s episode, I answer each of this definitively. Sort of. The link just above this sentence is the post I mentioned. Anyway, this is my message of hope for