U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) listens as acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2019. (REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan) Big Tech hawk Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) leveled heavy criticism at two mainstream technology firms during a Senate subcommittee hearing that the Senator

MT. LEBANON, Pennsylvania — Army combat veteran Sean Parnell kicked off his race as a Republican running for the U.S. House here at Pamela’s Diner. It’s within a stone’s throw of the district office of Rep. Conor Lamb, the Democrat he’s challenging for the 17th Congressional District seat in 2020. “My plan for today is

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Remember Florida’s referendum last year that restored the right to vote to more than 1.4 million felons? A bit more than 64 percent of Floridians voted in support of it, and on January 8, an estimated 1.4 million people with felony convictions became eligible to register to vote. But in July, the Republican-controlled

Across the media and political spheres, impeachment is the watchword of the month. What will the House do? How will President Donald Trump react? Will Republicans stand with Trump or with Democrats? If you live in Virginia, Fairfax School Board Member Elizabeth Schultz wants you to forget all of that for a few minutes today.

The Justice Department building stands in Washington, D.C., February 1, 2018. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) The Department of Justice sent a warning letter on Monday to the publisher of a book authored by an anonymous senior Trump administration official, saying the author may be in violation of nondisclosure agreements. “We request that you immediately provide us with

The left-right divide in America is, unfortunately, unbridgeable. There are three reasons. First, we are divided by our vision of what we want America to be. The right believes the founders’ vision was brilliant and moral; that bourgeois middle-class values are superior to alternative value systems; that rights come from God, not man; and that

President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C., January 2, 2019. (Jim Young/Reuters) No Surprise: The Second Circuit in NYC clears the way for the president’s accountants to turn over records relating to his dealings more than a decade ago. Today’s Trump v. Vance decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

President Donald Trump in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 23, 2019 (Leah Millis/Reuters) Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held nomination hearings on two of President Trump’s nominees to the Ninth Circuit, Lawrence VanDyke and Patrick Bumatay. The Ninth Circuit continues to be transformed: Assuming VanDyke and Bumatay are confirmed, President Trump will have appointed 13 of

Seal on the Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Building in Washington, D.C. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) The FBI in conjunction with the National Institute of Health is investigating the theft of U.S. biomedical research by scientists with links to China, according to the New York Times. 71 institutions, including some of the top medical research facilities

Sen. Elizabeth Warren responds to a question during a forum held by the Giffords group and March For Our Lives in Las Vegas, Nev., October 2, 2019. (Steve Marcus/Reuters) Whatever their many flaws, Medicare for All advocates used to have a decent answer to the question of how they’d pay for it. Taxes would go

(Pixabay) Further thoughts on Sohrab Ahmari and ‘David Frenchism’ The leading anti-immigration voice in our country belongs to my friend Mark Krikorian of the Mayflower Krikorians. Two of the most prominent voices associated with our dotty new blood-and-soil nationalism are linked to the surnames Buchanan and Ahmari. My colleague Michael Brendan Dougherty calls himself a

Lawrence VanDyke testifies before Congress, October 30, 2019. (via YouTube) He’s humble and hardworking to a fault, as well as patient and kind. I met Lawrence 17 years ago. It was the first week of his first year at Harvard Law School. He came to a social event sponsored by a journal I edited. You

Tulsi Gabbard, the marginally sane candidate in the Democratic presidential field, said Thursday that Saudi Arabia is “undermining our national security interests” and that “it is our government — our own government — that is hiding the truth” about Saudi involvement in the 9/11 jihad attacks. Gabbard noted that “for so long, leaders in our

Two follow-ups to my post yesterday: 1. In his “Best of the Web” column, the Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman highlights my post but argues that Bill Clinton’s broader credibility problems mean that “Justice Ginsburg deserves every benefit of the doubt in responding to the new Clinton claim.” I disagree. To be sure, Clinton shouldn’t

One of the best ways to understand a person’s state of mind about politics, is to ask them whether they think that a politician they generally disagree with, has ever done anything good. Is there one decision or policy they favor? Just one? If the answer is “no,” you know you’re dealing with someone who’s

(Pixabay) 1979—President Carter appoints Harry Pregerson to the Ninth Circuit, where Pregerson will remain in active service for the next 36 years. The newly created seat to which Carter appoints Pregerson is one of ten additional seats on the Ninth Circuit created by a 1978 judicial-expansion act. That act increased the seats on the Ninth

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (via YouTube) The majority of House Democrats may believe that the outcome of the impeachment inquiry has been clear for a while: Trump will be impeached on a largely party-line vote in the House, and acquitted on a largely party-line vote in the Senate,

Rainbow flags at a Gay Pride parade in New York City, 2007. (Chip East/Reuters) Kentucky’s Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against a print shop owner who refused to make an LGBT Pride T-shirt because doing so would violate his conscience. The high court ruled that the plaintiff, Lexington’s Gay and Lesbian Services

In our previous visit, gentle readers, I discussed Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson’s decision to skip President Trump’s Monday speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police. President Trump, Johnson said, did not reflect the values of the people of Chicago. From this we of course are intended to conclude that it is the

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg enters the office of Senator Josh Hawley while meeting with lawmakers to discuss “future internet regulation” on Capitol Hill, September 19, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of the critical Mark Zuckerberg biography “The Social Network,” took aim at the Facebook CEO over free speech in a New York Times

People seem shocked that recent polls show millennials are enamored of socialism — an economic system that reasonable and educated Americans have long known is disastrous. They shouldn’t be; this has been a long time coming. The latest survey by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation shows that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist.

President Donald Trump talks about imposing fresh sanctions on Iran as Vice President Mike Pence looks on in the Oval Office, June 24, 2019. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) No, the Constitution doesn’t allow impeachment just because you despise the president. The Constitution is quite clear: The president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction

A week ago here at PJ Media, I criticized New Hampshire State Representative Steven Smith and his colleagues in the Sullivan County Republican Party of New Hampshire for being cowards and fools and allowing the Left to dictate the parameters of what they could do and could not do. And here they go again, providing

Rep. Mark Meadows speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, October 29, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) While there perhaps were plausible strategic concerns for some lawmakers, others seemed to have more parochial, even personal, reasons for their opposition. The House resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday despite opposition from eleven Republican members, two

As California suffers under disasters and its own delusions, the Dallas Morning News weighs in with a brilliant editorial outlining the difference between that failing state and a far more stable and successful state to its east. Here is the difference between California and Texas: In California, even the public utility, funded by customer fees

Senator Josh Hawley (R, Mo.) appears on Fox News (via YouTube) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) plans to make good on the threats he leveled against Chinese human rights violators in a recent Senate floor speech by introducing legislation on Wednesday that would slap sanctions on government officials involved in the totalitarian crackdown on pro-democracy

President Donald Trump ignited yet another controversy when, on Twitter, he compared the Democrats’ pursuit of his impeachment to a “lynching.” His tweet that launched a thousand denunciations read: “So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due

Field workers pick strawberries on a farm in Oxnard, Calif., in 2013. (Reuters photo: Gus Ruelas) David Bier of the Cato Institute draws attention to a new immigration bill that is likely to pass the Democratic House but will presumably struggle in the Republican Senate — to say nothing of the White House. This is

Any clear-sighted observer can see that America is now undergoing its most severe crisis of legitimacy since the Civil War of 1861-1865. The Democrat Party has gone hard left, the education system is indoctrinating the young with a socialist syllabus as extensive and invariant as the Nazi curriculum of the 1930s, the media are irremediably

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks during the Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Moines, Iowa, August 10, 2019. (Scott Morgan/Reuters) According to a new national survey of the Democratic primary field released today by Suffolk/USA Today, Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard is leading California senator Kamala Harris, by one point, a surprising new development in the race.