Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon on a recent episode of the company’s YouTube channel. (Babylon Bee/via YouTube) CEO Seth Dillon talks to NR about the brazen efforts by powerful media outlets to misrepresent and silence his satirical publication. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n its short life, the Babylon Bee, a satirical website often described as

Senator Ted Cruz speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Reuters) Republican lawmakers, including Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) have called for an end to Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption after the league announced it would pull the 2021 All-Star Game

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred addresses representatives from the grapefruit league in West Palm Beach, 2019. (Steve Mitchell / USA Today Sports via Reuters) Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, has managed to get to the left of Stacey Abrams on Georgia’s election law. Even Abrams, who still claims she is the rightful governor

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer holds his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol, December 17, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will “move forward” with legalizing marijuana with or without the support of President Biden, according to a new report. In an interview with Politico this week, Schumer, who

Marriage wedding rings 2008—Some nine months after his nomination to the Fourth Circuit, federal district judge Robert J. Conrad has still not been afforded a confirmation hearing, even though he received the ABA judicial-evaluations committee’s unanimous highest rating of “well qualified” and enjoys the strong support of both home-state senators. Trying to defend his obstruction

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver remarks during a stop at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) On this week’s second installment of The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Maddy discuss Biden’s enormous infrastructure bill, the allegations coming out against Matt Gaetz, and more bullying over Georgia’s voting law

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 26, 2019. (Ints Kalnins / Reuters) Many moons and a few million news cycles ago, Donald Trump was impeached for a conversation he had with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he asked that head of state to investigate Joe Biden, the former

How eager are the politicians running Vermont to prove they’re good antiracists? So eager that they have decided to make the COVID vaccine available to minority groups first. Hans Bader explains in this Liberty Unyielding post that Vermont’s action is flabbergastingly unconstitutional. Why do “progressive” politicians do things that are flagrantly illegal and will lead

Iowa has abolished its permitting process for concealed carriers, becoming the 19th state to do so. Per the Des Moines Register: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a law allowing people to buy and carry handguns in Iowa without a permit, fulfilling a longtime goal of gun rights advocates. The law, which advocates call “constitutional

Coronavirus vaccines are prepared as vaccine eligibility expands to anyone over the age of 16 at the Bradfield Community Center through Health Partners of Western Ohio in Lima, Ohio, March 29, 2021. (Megan Jelinger/Reuters) Is dystopian too strong a word for this, from Phil Scott, Vermont’s Republican governor? If you or anyone in your household

An American flag flies outside a church in Queens, N.Y. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Good Friday reminds us that the red–blue divide in our politics is a proxy for a larger confrontation over the religious character of the nation. ‘Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” So

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) I am no fan of the United Kingdom’s health advisory board, known as NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). But there is one thing about which you can rest assured. It ain’t a religious fundamentalist organization. That is why this important story needs to be amplified until the windows rattle. NICE

Jon Ossoff, one of Georgia’s new Democratic senators, says he opposes the proposal to move Major League Baseball’s All Star Game out of Georgia. (Ben Gray/Pool via Reuters) President Biden said Wednesday in an ESPN interview that he would “strongly support” Major League Baseball’s moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest the state’s

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds the daily press briefing at the White House, March 30, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Fox News’s Peter Doocy and White House press secretary Jen Psaki sparred over a question from Doocy on border security this afternoon. Doocy: On immigration, has the White House considered beefing up border security now that

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell listens to another Senator speak after the Republican lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 23, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) indicated that congressional Republicans would not support the Biden administration’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, in comments to reporters on Thursday. The proposal “is

President Joe Biden swears in presidential appointees in a virtual ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House, January 20, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Biden, in an interview with ESPN ahead of today’s opening day, said he would “strongly support” MLB moving baseball’s All-Star Game from Georgia over its election law which he

Mark Janus addresses the news media outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., February 26, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) True fulfillment of the landmark court decision might take years, but conservatives are up to the fight. Editor’s Note: This is the third and final article in a series of occasional pieces on the political impact of

President Joe Biden speaks about his $2 trillion infrastructure plan at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 31, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Today in Pittsburgh, Joe Biden announced his plan for more than $2 trillion in spending on infrastructure and an oversized grab bag of other priorities, including housing, manufacturing, elder care, and even

Cesar Chavez in 1979. (Library of Congress) “You can’t forget what he taught us by looking at that statue.” That’s what President Biden said about the bust of Cesar Chavez sitting on a table behind his desk in the Oval Office. The occasion was Biden’s proclamation declaring Wednesday as Cesar Chavez Day, on what would

Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccines at Northwell Health’s South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y., March 3, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Johnson & Johnson has paused shipment of its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States while the Food and Drug Administration investigates a factory mixup that ruined roughly 15 million doses of the vaccine. Workers

Earlier this month, Montana governor Greg Gianforte signed into law Senate Bill 140, which eliminates the state’s Judicial Nominating Commission that had limited the governor’s options to fill midterm state court vacancies. Now the governor may fill the vacancies, with approval by the state senate, without an unelected commission severely limiting his options. Liberal critics

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) speak to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., November 12, 2020. (Hannah McKay/Reuters) “Power tends to corrupt,” Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, “and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” One

The Campus Intellectual Diversity Act is back. Bills based on the model Campus Intellectual Diversity Act I published with the National Association of Scholars in 2019 were introduced in a number of states in 2020. Those bills would establish an Office of Public Policy Events on public-university campuses. The offices would organize debates, panel discussions,

In response to Noem’s Argument for Vetoing South Dakota’s Pro-Woman Bill Makes No Sense Adding to David Harsanyi’s post: Governor Kristi Noem’s defense of her veto has a peculiar structure. We hear about how she shares the bill’s aims but just wants a legally bulletproof way of realizing them, how she’s a great fighter and

A demonstrator holds a sign during the Third Annual Women’s March at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The deadline expired four decades ago, and Congress doesn’t have the votes to send a new amendment to the states for ratification. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S hortly before Congress skipped town for its

A medical staff member receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla., December 15, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) A Yahoo News story warning that “Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny” incorrectly framed the key finding of the study it profiled, according to the principal researcher of the study in question as well

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during Republican National Convention in Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (RNC via Reuters) I returned the women’s sports bill to the legislature because we have to pass a bill that can win in court. Executives make decisions every day. And those decisions send a signal to the world: Does

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo before getting vaccinated at a church in the Harlem, N.Y., March 17, 2021 ( Seth Wenig/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s relatives and close associates were reportedly given special access to coronavirus testing in the early days of the pandemic, with state troopers on standby at state coronavirus testing centers

Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, D.C., December 10, 2019. (Al Drago/Reuters) The former Chicago mayor’s big idea is not new — and not constitutional, either. In another case of poll-driven confirmation bias, Democrats have overestimated the popularity of their gun-control efforts as another House bill

President Joe Biden, ‪with Vice President Kamala Harris,‬ delivers remarks after a meeting with his COVID-19 Response Team on the coronavirus pandemic and the state of vaccinations at the White House, March 29, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden, speaking on a day in which his CDC director voiced her sense of “impending doom” over the