RIP Journalistic Accountability Just a few things today, and I promise I’ll have you out of here in no time. It is a safe bet that anyone who is a regular reader of the Morning Briefing is no big fan of the mainstream media. My purpose here this morning is not to convince anyone of

James Comey speaks to the media after giving a private deposition on Capitol Hill, December 7, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) James Comey maintained that the FISA process abuses detailed in Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Monday report were the result of “sloppiness” in a Sunday morning interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, and claimed

It was a bitter morning in February 2021, with a blanket of fresh snow on the lawn. Nancy Pelosi woke up on the wrong side of the bed. “I got you, Babe” was playing on the radio as she took her motorcade to the Capitol. “Really? Again?” an exasperated Chuck Schumer asked Nancy as she

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An Asian guy, two black guys, three white women (one of whom spent much of her life claiming to be Native American), a Pacific Islander woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, two elderly Caucasian Jews (one a billionaire, the other a socialist), a self-styled Irishman, and

I’ve yet to do a holiday-themed column this Christmas season so I will go ahead with this one even though it probably won’t win me any friends. I hate secular Christmas music. Loathe. Despise. If Frosty the Snowman were real I would punch him in the face. The mere fact that I can write the

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz arrives to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, December 11, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) The participation of the court allows executive officials to evade accountability. [Author’s Note: This week’s release of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on FISA abuse (among other investigative irregularities) in the

The UK Guardian is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s new smooth and probably Botoxed or siliconed mug is “radiant” and “glowing,” but to some of us, it’s just frightening. Who is that? The UK Guardian wrote, The radiant former First Lady, 72, showed off a wrinkle-free complexion and plumped-up cheeks as she joined her husband Bill

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An Asian guy, two black guys, three white women (one of whom spent much of her life claiming to be Native American), a Pacific Islander woman, a gay guy, a Hispanic guy, two elderly Caucasian Jews (one a billionaire, the other a socialist), a self-styled Irishman, and

One of the most meaningless statements made by CNN concerning the recent Pensacola naval air station shooting—where Ahmed Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi man, killed three people and injured eight—was to say: “It does not appear Alshamrani had ties to terrorist groups, two sources told CNN. He had been training at the Florida base for two

‘The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts,” wrote George Eliot in Middlemarch, “and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” The passage provides the title

So Much for the AOC Endorsement (Note: Slightly shorter MB today because I was having internet problems at home and at my remote coffee place office. Still…the show must go on!) Shot: AOC Joins the Left’s Swelling Ranks of Anti-Semites with Corbyn Endorsement Chaser: Exit Polls: Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party Demolishes Labor Party in Election

Yesterday The Atlantic ran my article on the impeachment saga. The fatal weakness in the Democrats’ case for impeachment, I argue, is that from the start they have presupposed, as established fact, the very proposition to be proved, namely that President Trump acted with corrupt intent. That’s why they alleged a bunch of actions that all had

A holiday love letter in verbal form from me to the American stock market and economy. The perfect antidote to Fauxcahontas, the Vermont Commie and the brain-dead idiots who believe them. Also, a brief mention of two of the Seven Deadly Sins. Here is the story that got me thinking about this. ___ Kruiser Twitter

There’s good news on the Wall Street Journal‘s op-ed page: Victoria Gray of Mississippi recently became the first U.S. patient with a genetic disorder to be treated using the Crispr gene-editing technique. Doctors used a novel drug to overwrite the function of a faulty gene that gave rise to her sickle-cell disease. Advances in life

If cosmic justice were to prevail, Democrats would drop their impeachment sham in confessed disgrace and move to give President Donald Trump a second term by acclamation for having ceaselessly abused their power in trying to nullify his first term. Though cosmic justice won’t prevail, the Constitution will, including its prescribed Senate check on impeachment

(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Increasingly, no. Remember Duke historian Nancy MacLean’s odious book Democracy in Chains, a disreputable hatchet job on James Buchanan and public choice theory generally. Rather than trying to come to grips with Buchanan’s thinking and its implications — chiefly that if you believe government will solve problems, you’d better think again because government officials

I’m not a religious man, but what has happened to the makeup of the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit over the past few years could drive me to prayerful gratitude. Indeed, many have believed for years that nothing short of divine intervention — or disbanding the 9th Circuit altogether — could

The best thing I’ve read about the report is by Julian Sanchez. An excerpt: The heart of the Horowitz report deals with the Carter Page FISA application, and documents a progression that ought to sound familiar to anyone who’s studied the history of the intelligence community: An investigation begins with a kernel of reasonable suspicion,

Nikki Haley recently ignited a firestorm by defending the fine people of South Carolina who banded together after the horrific white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof killed nine members at a black church in Charleston in 2015. Roof notoriously held the Confederate flag* in a photo with his manifesto, and Haley said he had “hijacked everything

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks about articles of impeachment against Preisdent Trump as she stands with Maxine Waters (D-CA), Adam Schiff and other Democratic committee chairs at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 10, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Over at The Bulwark, Tim Miller more or less pleads for Democrats to start acting

Former Vice President Joe Biden remains the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination largely because of massive support from black voters. A CNN poll two weeks ago showed Biden ahead of his rivals at 28%, with Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at 17% and 14%, respectively. Biden’s support among black voters

William F. Buckley Jr. Kudos to The College Fix for its coverage of efforts to suppress the distribution of Athwart Magazine, the new conservative journal published by students at Colorado College, who pay homage in the premiere issue to our founder (and who name the publication after the famous editorial he penned in National Review’s

“If Islam is terrorizing the West today, that is not because it can, but because the West allows it to. For no matter how diminished, a still swinging Scimitar will always overcome a strong but sheathed Sword.” Those are the very last words of my 352-page book, Sword and Scimitar, which chronicles fourteen centuries of

President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., July 17, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The charges against President Trump are shaky, so why not wait and let voters make the call? The Democrats have filed Articles of Impeachment. No one is surprised, because impeachment has been the goal for the radical Left and others

I felt it would have been remiss to avoid talking about the drama after the Democrats’ dog and pony articles of impeachment show. Spoiler alert: I’m not kind to them. ___ Kruiser Twitter Kruiser Facebook PJ Media Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and “Straight Outta Feelings: Political

The top of the cap of a graduating student is pictured during their graduation ceremony at UC San Diego in San Diego, California, U.S. June 17, 2017. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Federal intervention into education began in earnest under LBJ and has had terrible consequences at all levels. Student aid for college has succeeded in raising the

SAVANNAH, Georgia — Tyler Merritt has taken the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” and turned it a bit sideways. He’s building a village, literally, to allow adults to raise themselves up. His village is a stabilizing rail, or a stepping stone to a better life. Merritt, a former Army captain and

(File photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The teacher is accused of violating school policy and the student’s free-speech rights A  Michigan high-school student is claiming that her teacher “grabbed” her in order to forcibly remove a “Women for Trump” pin that she was wearing — and now the police are reportedly investigating. “I was just really shocked that

If you’ve ever wondered what Judaism is, here is a list of its principle beliefs. This is not an official list, but these beliefs have been widely held by religious Jews for thousands of years. As for my background, I have taught Judaism all of my life including two years as a member of the

(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to target anti-Semitism on college campuses, the New York Times reported on Tuesday evening. The order will define Judaism as a nationality in addition to a religion, which would allow the Department of Education to withhold funding from colleges that are too accepting of