Pro-life demonstrators carry a banner outside the U.S. Supreme Court during the 47th March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Today was the 47th annual March for Life in Washington. Thousands of Americans gathered from across the country to protest the scourge of legal abortion christened by the Supreme Court’s 1973

TICK, TOCK… ICYMI — we’re all for real actually super duper no not kidding this time totes legit gonna die: Treacher wrote about it yesterday, perfectly describing the inanity of it all: And this means as much as it’s meant for the past 70-odd years: nothing. Real clocks are instruments of science; the Doomsday Clock

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address in Manhattan, New York City, January 7, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Former vice president Joe Biden said at a campaign event in Iowa Thursday that most undocumented immigrants benfitting from the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are “more American

I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of Rep. Adam Schiff and the Democratic horde’s portraying every charge against President Donald Trump as Trump’s effort to interfere with this or that election. In his opening statement at the Senate impeachment trial, Lead House Impeachment Manager Schiff, puffed up with false indignation, did

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) Trump’s obsession with the trade deficit is front and center. In confronting China, policymakers tend to prioritize one of two broad categories: economics or

This is a new one. The New York Times headline read: “Minimum Wage Raises Could Lower Suicide Rates, Study Says.” But there was a subheadline: “It was the latest study to suggest that effects of wage increases reach beyond economic welfare, but some experts pushed back on the findings.” Let us “push back.” The study

(Freerangestock) It has been reported here by Ed Whelan and by the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal that the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the U.S. Judicial Conference, a body of 15 judges that issues advisory opinions containing ethical guidelines to members of the federal bench, is seriously considering a ban on

Hardest Hit: The “Muh Principles” Crowd There were a lot of conservatives in 2016 who were neither Trump enthusiasts nor vehement Never Trumpers. Those of us in that gray area were merely skeptical that he would be very conservative. We have all been pleasantly surprised many times over since he took office, especially when it

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks before a Senate Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee hearing titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse.” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2019. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon ) Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) told reporters Wednesday that House impeachment manager’s Adam Schiff’s focus on the propriety of President Trump’s request

After the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC (2010), Barack Obama and other liberals warned that America was headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. “Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes… The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together

Rep. Adam Schiff (left) and Rep. Jerry Nadler hold a news conference on the rules for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2020. (Mary F. Calvert/Reuters) If they have to testify, they have the Democrats’ chief impeachment manager to thank. You opened the door. Trial lawyers live in fear

What to do when confronted with bad news? Kill the messenger, of course. The report broke last Friday that in Britain, Muslim rape gangs were “ignored by police for fear of stoking racial tensions.” One police inspector explained: “With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to come out.” “Asian” is British media code

For a liberal Democrat, Larry David sometimes comes off as America’s reactionary id. Last night, on a superb tenth-season opener of Curb Your Enthusiasm, David made an extended joke about the (in)famous Make America Great Again cap. To a certain extent, I think the joke here is on Larry David. David’s … Read More

Mini-Stalins Do Not Impress James O’Keefe is currently in the midst of rolling out what I now think is my favorite sting project of his, and I’ve known him since the ACORN days. O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action is doing a characteristic slow-play release of some hidden-camera footage obtained from inside the Bernie Sanders campaign. Megan

National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks in Moscow, Russia on October 23, 2018. (Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS) Several Senate Democrats are reportedly mulling a potential deal to exchange testimony from Hunter Biden for the testimony of former national security adviser John Bolton in the impeachment trial of President Trump. While most Democrats want to prevent Biden from

Reporters complain about business. We overlook the constant improvements in our lives made possible by greedy businesses competing for your money. Think about how our access to entertainment has improved. “When I was a kid,” says Sean Malone in a new video for the Foundation for Economic Education, “my TV broadcast options were PBS, Fox,

An employee walks with shopping carts at a Costco store in Fairfax, Va., in 2010. Costco (Larry Downing/Reuters) In Lakewood, Wash., some of the city’s homeless and other residents have made a habit of stealing shopping carts from various grocery and retail outlets and dumping the carts on road verges and other public-facing locales. The

As we, um, celebrate the final phase of the impeachment shenanigans I offer my wholehearted praise of keeping the electorate starkly divided. I can’t find political common ground with commies. Also, I suggested watching the first season of What We Do in the Shadows instead of watching the impeachment trial. Here’s the trailer for that: [embedded

Ever since she began explaining how her Medicare for all plan would be funded, and how she would pass it, Elizabeth Warren has been sinking. Ahead of last week’s debate, her camp leaked a story that her friend Bernie Sanders met with her in 2018 to discuss plans for 2020, and that at this meeting,

One of the great values of modern Western culture is equality. “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” and “all men are created equal” are historically important statements of the basic importance of equality. For 500 years in the West, especially in England, activists such as the Levelers strove to have special legal provisions for aristocrats nullified, and to

Rudy Giuliani in Washington, U.S., July 9, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani responded Monday to allegations made by his former associate Lev Parnas, saying that the Ukrainian-American “didn’t just lie, he lied stupidly.” Giuliani said he was “heartbroken,” by Parnas and still feels “sorry for him.” “Lev is someone I was

Here are some unhappy statistics: In America between 1946 and 2006, the suicide rate quadrupled for males ages 15 to 24 and doubled for females the same age. In 1950, the suicide rate per 100,000 Americans was 11.4. In 2017, it was 14 According to Grant Duwe, director of research and evaluation at the Minnesota

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (right) listens as Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks to journalists after the beginning of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, January 16, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A copy of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R., Ky.) proposal for Senate impeachment trial procedures, obtained by reporters on Thursday, was

Democrats know that that Trump won’t be convicted in the U.S. Senate. Yet, we’ve seen them push for a fight over witnesses that could very easily extend the trial longer than necessary at a time they really don’t want to be pulling their candidates off the campaign trail. So, what’s their strategy exactly? Is it

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks during a town hall event in Davenport, Iowa, January 5, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Their child-care plans would incentivize two-income households. That’s no coincidence. For all the dishonesty on display in the Democratic primary, the candidates have been forthright about their desire to have government functionaries raise your children.

Help Us Cocaine Mitch, You’re Our Only Hope Phase Two of Impeachmentpalooza is about to roll into the collective conscience of politics-weary America and the best we can hope for is that the Republican-controlled Senate will treat this thing like the impertinent toddler temper tantrum that it is. Thankfully, this round is in the hands

(Reuters/Files) The New York Times editorial board announced Sunday evening that it would endorse two candidates for president for the first time in the newspaper’s history: Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota received the paper’s support. The Times’s editorial board interviewed nine of the top candidates last month for in-depth interviews and documented

In May 2018, with Robert Mueller well on his way to a crash-and-burn appearance before Congress, I wrote a column asking, “Will the Deep State Conspirators Ever be Held Accountable?” We’re still waiting, and the signals are mixed. At the time, my favorite comment on the piece (in a gallows humor kind of way) came

Former President Ronald Reagan in 1991 (Gary Cameron/Reuters) His example has lessons for today’s conservatives. Politically correct attitudes have toned down conservative officeholders — with the notable exception of Donald Trump. Elected officials all share a private terror that somehow, somewhere they will say something that will offend a political or ethnic minority. Opponents comb

The bail and discovery reform bill is outraging everyone in New York except me. You’re all going to be mad at me about this subject, but get over it! We need to look at all sides and ask ourselves if we really believe in the concept of “innocent unless proven guilty.” In certain circumstances, conservatives