Among the reasons Democrats and their media sympathizers offer to show President Donald Trump’s alleged “racism” is that he called Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., a “low IQ individual.” At a July 2018 rally in Montana, Trump said: “She is a low I.Q. individual, Maxine Waters. I said it the other day. I mean, honestly, she’s

Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., January 29, 2019. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Democratic 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg’s campaign manager said Wednesday that the impeachment proceedings against President Trump are increasing his chances of reelection rather than damaging them as Democrats hope. “I worry a lot that we’re setting

Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world must be eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly three-quarters of the post-Roman Christian world, thereby permanently severing it. Europe came to be known as “the West”

President Donald Trump outside the White House, November 25, 2019 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump told commentator Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday that he was attempting to label certain Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. “They will be designated,” Trump said during the interview. “I’ve been working on that for the last 90 days. You know,

Hillary 2.0 Is A No-Go My always-incisive colleague Stephen Green wrote a post yesterday that examined the current state of the Democratic presidential race, specifically the shifting at the top due to the recent tumble in the polls by Elizabeth Warren: Warren’s support peaked in the first week of October, when the commentariat was all

Demonstrators march to the U.S. Capitol as part of the Youth Climate Strike in Washington, D.C., September 20, 2019. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) It’s apparently not just airplanes and cows that are killing the planet.    Harvard–Yale climate-change protests last weekend help explain why Americans aren’t buying global-warming extremism or the tantrums of angry youngsters. Are

Families will argue this Thanksgiving. Such arguments have a long tradition. The Pilgrims had clashing ideas about how to organize their settlement in the New World. The resolution of that debate made the first Thanksgiving possible. The Pilgrims were religious, united by faith and a powerful desire to start anew, away from religious persecution in

Alexandra had her hands full responding to other misstatements of fact that the Washington Post published about her recent article about the Democratic party’s increasing extremism on abortion, so I’ll correct the record on another point. The letter-writer claims that “no reputable doctor would abort a viable fetus, because they are forbidden to, both ethically

When I entered college less than a week after my 18th birthday, I had already been programming computers for money for almost five years. Since then, as well as studying computers, I’ve majored in about 11 areas over 7 years and 240 undergraduate hours — History, English, Business, and so on — as an undergrad

(Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Entry into medical and associated professional schools may soon depend on possessing the proper moral views as well as good grades. Say you’re a brilliant student who dreams of becoming an oncologist and saving thousands of lives from cancer. In the not too distant future, if some bioethicists have their way, you had

She’s Building Up An Appetite For Thursday One of the worst people to have emerged as a media personality based solely on hatred for President Trump is Ana Navarro. She’s my least favorite, actually. Her biggest accomplishments are hitching her star to three super-loser presidential bids (John McCain, Jon Huntsman, and Jeb Bush), and putting

(Pexels) Professor Brian Fitzpatrick’s argument for class-action suits is neither conservative nor convincing. When a fellow former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia claims that our client, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, betrays conservative legal ideals through its unyielding opposition to abuse of class-action suits by the plaintiffs’ bar, we take it seriously. But the

The former senior director for European and Russian affairs for the Trump administration, Fiona Hill, testified last week in the House impeachment hearings. At one point, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., asked her: “Would you say that these different theories, these conspiracy theories that have been targeting you, spun in part by folks like Mr. Stone

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) asks a question as Attorney General William Barr testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, April 9, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Over the summer, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence fully backed the move to impeach President Trump, but the Detroit-area Democrat said over the weekend that she has since changed her mind. “I

Pro-democratic winning candidates gather outside the campus of the Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong, China, November 25, 2019. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) Pro-democracy forces’ stunning dominance of yesterday’s District Council elections could further weaken Chinese president Xi Jinping’s shaky grip on power. The Hong Kong pro-democracy movement achieved a stunning victory in Sunday’s district-council elections. With

I’ll Never Get That Naked Hotel Sofa Pic Out of My Head I left California to avoid things like this. Katie Hill was elected after my departure from the Golden State, and if I had never found out anything about her I would have been happy. Hill resigned from Congress so quickly after the sordid

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developer conference in San Jose, Calif., June 4, 2018. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Thomas Philippon’s misdiagnosis of rising profits justifies economic policy that would discourage risk-taking, impede growth, and gradually reduce competition. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, by Thomas Philippon (Harvard, 344 pp.,

(Leah Millis/Reuters) They have broad bipartisan support, and they might reduce the hysteria of nomination battles. Murmurs of concern swept through Washington, D.C., Friday night as news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a four-time cancer survivor, was back in the hospital. Luckily, doctors said it was only because of chills and fever,

The holiday season is rapidly approaching and, honestly, I don’t usually ask for much. This year I think I’m ready to make a bargain with God, family, and friends, however. I will gladly give up receiving any future gifts if the United States will take steps to legally ensure that an election year is, you

Since Frozen was a nearly perfect Disney feature, Frozen II brings with it the expectation of magic. Magic is really hard to pull off, though, and this time the sparkle is gone. In Frozen II, the story is strange, the jokes are terrible, the romance is nonexistent, and the songs are clunkers. Fairy tales that

President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting at the White House, November 19, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Trump has thrown out plenty of rascals — mostly ones he appointed. One theory of the Donald Trump presidential campaign was: “He’ll break stuff.” Mission accomplished. The idea of Trump-as-bulldozer, blunderbuss, and agent of chaos — the burn-it-down ethos

(Carlos Jasso/Reuters) Iran must pay $180 million in damages to Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian — who was imprisoned in the country for eighteen months — and his family, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Rezaian had travelled to the country while he was the Post‘s senior Iran correspondent, and was detained with his newlywed wife

(Andrew Kelly/Reuters) 1998—Purporting to be “mindful that a solemn act of the General Assembly carries with it a presumption of constitutionality that is overturned only when it is established that the legislation ‘manifestly infringes upon a constitutional provision or violates the rights of the people,’” the Georgia supreme court instead shows itself eager to continue

On October 27, Abdelnasser Rashid, 30, announced his bid for Cook County Board of Review as an independent Democrat in 2020. Rashid, who currently serves as chief policy officer for Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi, and who previously served as deputy state director for the 2012 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, previous ran for the Cook

Since Frozen was a nearly perfect Disney feature, Frozen II brings with it the expectation of magic. Magic is really hard to pull off, though, and this time the sparkle is gone. In Frozen II, the story is strange, the jokes are terrible, the romance is nonexistent, and the songs are clunkers. Fairy tales that

As the Democrat impeachment circus concludes its run on the outskirts of fathomability and the prospect of a Senate trial looms, the imponderables stack up. Among those imponderables is the question of how Senator Mitt Romney will vote if there is such a trial. At least twenty Senate Republicans would have to vote for impeachment

Nathan Phillips (right) confronts a student from Covington Catholic High School in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Kaya Taitano/Social Media/via Reuters) Federal judge William Bertelsman on Thursday allowed Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann’s $275 million libel lawsuit against NBCUniversal to move forward, rejecting the media company’s attempt to have the suit dismissed in

“How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!” insisted teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction!” Many people say that we’re destroying the Earth. It all sounds so scary. But I’ve been a consumer reporter for years, and I’ve covered so

Chairman Ajit Pai speaks at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, U.S., December 14, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Friday to block two Chinese telecommunications companies from accessing billions of dollars in federal broadband subsidies. Wireless companies will not be able to use the government’s $8.5-billion-a-year Universal Service Fund to

She Almost Makes Me Miss Hillary Maybe the reason that Elizabeth Warren thinks college should be free because she has firsthand knowledge that a university degree doesn’t necessarily make one smart. When Fauxcahontas was working her way up through the ranks of this massive candidate pool, she was merely irritating. Now, she’s firmly entrenched in