The U.S. Capitol dome prior to a vote in the House of Representatives on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., December 18, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Revisiting Faithless Execution and Congress’s “indispensable” power. On impeachment, am I part of the problem? I don’t think so . . . but it’s a

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker releases this weekend, and it will feature an LGBT moment like the one from Beauty and the Beast (2017): this time a lesbian kiss in the background. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have supported a compromise bill outlawing discrimination against LGBT people called “Fairness for All,” and the Church of Jesus

Then-NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers participates in a session at the third annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, D.C., in 2016. (Gary Cameron/Reuters) Former National Security Agency director and retired Adm. Michael Rogers has met multiple times with U.S. attorney John Durham as part of an ongoing probe into the origins of the

Nothing has done more to unite Republicans — from GOP congressmen in Washington, D.C., to malodorous Walmart patrons in rural America — than the Democrats’ quixotic, vendetta-fueled crusade against President Donald Trump. Trump’s election was a seismic blow to the left, which has paralyzed it with hatred and reduced it to a gigantic mob of

(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Before skipping town on Thursday afternoon, the House of Representatives passed a bill to lift the $10,000 cap on state and local income taxes (SALT) that may be deducted from income for federal tax purposes. The cap, which was imposed with the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, would be

The Political Equivalent of a Trip to the Dentist The Democrats were spared the embarrassment of having an all lily-white debate stage when Andrew Yang became a late qualifier. Still, that would be a difficult group to locate if you were outside in a blizzard. Greg Gutfeld made an observation that I think even Democrats

Two of my AEI colleagues, Greg Weiner and Adam White, have written pieces here at NRO this week that ought to be read, and read together, to get a sense of the responsibilities of the Senate in the coming impeachment trial. I really recommend them (Weiner’s here, and White’s here). Weiner reminds us that the

“To be one of only three impeached presidents in American history, even if you are not convicted by the Senate, is to know an asterisk will be forever attached to your presidency, your offenses prominently recorded,” wrote Ezra Klein at Vox back in September. “It’s a humiliation for you and a warning to your successors.” Considering

Andrew Yang speaks at the 2020 Democratic primary debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., December 19, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Andrew Yang distanced himself from fellow presidential candidates in opening remarks in the Democratic debate on Thursday night, criticizing Congress and media networks for “missing the reason why Donald Trump became our president

I’ve been on record a couple of times saying that the Democrats couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to actually go through with impeachment, considering the certainty he’d be acquitted, and the risks involved in an actual trial — like seeing Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, Adam Schiff’s staff, James Comey, James Baker (the FBI lawyer), John

U.S. Attorney General William Barr in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) William Barr pushed back Wednesday on James Comey’s assertion that he had no knowledge of the “particulars” of the FBI’s infamous Crossfire Hurricane probe, in which the bureau was found to have made 17 “significant errors” in pursuing FISA warrants to surveil

Hey Democrats… Nancy Pelosi finally brought her Impeachment Kabuki Theater production to the stage on Wednesday. To the surprise of no one, the show was met with completely partisan reviews. Trump-supporting Republicans hated it, while Democrats, their media lapdogs, and their Bulwark #NeverTrump houseboys treated it as if it meant something super-duper important: House Dems

A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 vote Wednesday that Obamacare’s individual mandate, which required Americans to buy health insurance under threat of fine, was unconstitutional. “The individual mandate is unconstitutional because it can

I suspect I became cynical about the press a lot younger than most other people. In my teens during the Vietnam War, I was hearing about the war directly from people who had been on the ground in theater — long family associations with the military, friends and family on active duty from NCOs to

Federal government forms for applying for health coverage at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act in 2013. (Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) You can read it here. The main takeaway is that the court punted on the key issue, and the case will probably continue for a long time before it’s finally resolved. Unfortunately,

Sen. Rand Paul just wrote a book, “The Case Against Socialism.” I thought that case was already decided, since socialist countries failed so spectacularly. But the idea hasn’t died, especially amongst the young. “Hitler’s socialism, Stalin’s socialism, Mao’s socialism. You would think people would have recognized it by now,” says Paul in my latest video.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with fellow Republican senators, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, January 23, 2018. (Reuters photo: Aaron P. Bernstein) Steve Schmidt, George Conway, Rick Wilson, and John Weaver have jointly authored a New York Times column in which they lay out their plan to defeat Donald Trump and purge the Republican

One Day This Will All Be Over Just not today. Schiff’s Folly finally gets its vote, and all that remains to be seen is if Grandma Nan was able to talk vulnerable red state Democrats into tossing their careers away the way she did with the Obamacare vote back in the day. The lefties have

A PETA activist protests outside a clothing store in Berlin in 2007. (Tobias Schwarz/Reuters) An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with the ideas of others. Truman State University has rejected a student’s request to start an animal-rights club — due,

After years of a bitter trade war with China, a nation consistently hostile to American interests in Asia and around the world, there may finally be a light at the end of the tunnel. On December 13, 2019, the two countries announced Phase 1 of a nascent trade deal between them. President Trump made the

Rep. Jared Golden (Official portrait/golden.house.gov/via Wikimedia) Representative Jared Golden (D., Maine) announced Tuesday that he would split his votes on the two articles of impeachment against President Trump, becoming the first House Democrat to publicly signal that he would vote “nay” on either article. Golden, who represents a district Trump won by ten points in

Many on the left (as opposed to liberals) have been warring on Christmas for more than a generation. Leftists always deny there is a war on Christmas and mock those who claim there is. There is a mind-blowing chutzpah or lack of self-awareness when people do something and yet deny that they are actually doing

Protestors gather during a demonstration against the Republican repeal of the Affordable Care Act, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., June 21, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) In the private sector, Donald Trump famously called himself the “king of debt.” With the spending deal negotiated by his administration with Congress, he is carrying that title

Commie Fever Depending on which pundit or poll you are paying attention to, Joe Biden is either as inevitable as the come or in deep trouble in his pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination. His demeanor doesn’t really give away what he thinks about his chances. He acts like a slow kid on a sugar

Sen. Rand Paul (Gage Skidmore) The Kentucky senator backs antitrust exemption letting newspapers negotiate better terms from the tech giants. Kentucky senator Rand Paul is signing on to a bill attempting to help a struggling industry, print and digital news organizations, by giving them more power to negotiate the terms under which Google and Facebook

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Congress finalized negotiations Monday on a broad $1.3 trillion federal budget bill to cover fiscal year 2020, and the legislation is now expected to be passed and sent to President Trump for approval ahead of Friday’s potential government shutdown. The bill’s provisions — $738 billion for the military and $632 billion for non-defense

Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road To Majority” conference in Washington, U.S., June 10, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina criticized President Trump for “impeachable” conduct and the Republican Party for being “all about pledging fealty to Donald Trump no matter what” in an interview

Happy, Romantic Couples at Christmas…THE HORROR The cultural civil war against Wokescold Nation wages on, today forcing me to defend two things I generally loathe: happy people and romance movies. Seriously, I got a headache just typing that. Over the weekend, the Hallmark Channel came under fire for its lack of wokenicity. The company committed

1995—The Minnesota supreme court rules (in Women of the State of Minnesota v. Gomez) that the state constitution requires public funding of supposedly “therapeutic” abortions when the state funds childbirth-related medical services. In dissent, Justice Mary Jeanne Coyne points out that the majority’s suggestion that “only abortions necessitated by significant health considerations will be state-funded”

Mark Ruffalo in Dark Waters (Mary Cybulski/Focus Features) Donors to conservative candidates should also finance media projects that promote their values. ‘Politics is downstream from culture” is an aphorism the late conservative iconoclast Andrew Breitbart was famous for coining, He believed that in the end the people who win elections are the ones telling the