( Zolnierek/Getty Images) 1996—In Fierro v. Gomez, a Ninth Circuit panel, in an opinion by Judge Harry Pregerson, rules that California’s method of execution by lethal gas violates the Eighth Amendment. 2017—Defying the Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment ruling in Heller v. District of Columbia (2008), the en banc Fourth Circuit rules by a 10-to-4

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hiteness lies at the heart of American degradation, we are told constantly by figures on the left these days. After the horrifying, disgraceful January 6 attack on the national Capitol Building, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed that rioters “have chosen their whiteness over democracy. That’s what this is about.” Progressives blame

Recently, Professor William Jacobson wrote for the Martin Center about a new project of his Legal Insurrection Foundation, a site to explain and track the spread of a noxious bit of leftist mind control called Critical Race Theory. In this post on his site, he goes into the case of Jodi Shaw, who found the

School buses remain unused while schools are closed in San Francisco, Calif., April 7, 2020. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Four members of a northern-California school board resigned on Friday, after they mocked parents who pushed to reopen district schools. The comments by members of the Oakley Union Elementary School Board were recorded by parents during a virtual

A trader outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, February 16, 2021 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The week of February 15: good long-term gloom, the mess in Texas, a trillion here, a trillion there, and much, much more, including the latest in our new podcast series, the Capital Record. Well, the S&P may not

President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address as Vice President Kamala Harris listens during a visit to the State Department in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Biden issued a major disaster declaration for the state of Texas on Saturday, after a winter storm knocked out power and heat across the state

(maroke/Getty Images) 1980—Justices Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, and Stevens dissent from Justice White’s majority opinion in Committee for Public Education v. Regan, which rules constitutionally permissible a New York statute authorizing the use of public funds to reimburse private schools (both religious and secular) for performing various testing and reporting services mandated by state law. The

Cracking down on opioid prescriptions to combat the epidemic of overdoses inflicts a lot of collateral damage on pain patients while doing little good. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), Rob Portman (R., Ohio), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) want to crack down some more, though, ignoring a warning from the CDC. Ramesh Ponnuru is a

Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) speaks on Capitol Hill, December 1, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) said Friday he will not support Neera Tanden’s nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget, citing her “overtly partisan statements.” The moderate Democrat’s opposition imperils Tanden’s confirmation with the Senate evenly divided

President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wis., February 16, 2021. (Leah Millis/Reuters) By creating conditions that could lead the Federal Reserve to slow the recovery, President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief and stimulus proposal might stop the benefits of an expanding economy from reaching low-wage workers. According to my calculations,

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis talks to the media in Miami, Fla., August 29, 2019. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Friday that he will order flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who died this week at the age of 70 after being diagnosed with stage-four

A point that really could have been clearer in much of the coverage of the vaccinations in the past two months: the first dose and the second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the same thing. Many people’s bodies react differently to the second shot, but the substance is identical. “What is injected

Large numbers of American students take Advanced Placement history courses shaped by the College Board’s exams for U.S. History, European History, and World History. Unfortunately, those exams convey a warped sense of history because they have been written to reflect “progressive” views. They’re pro-government and anti-capitalist. In a recent study for the National Association of

Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on her nomination to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Capitol Hill, January 27, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters) In a statement issued Thursday afternoon, the State Department seemed to clean up comments on the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide of the Uyghur

Cases are down 77 percent in the past six weeks, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Marty Makary notes in the WSJ, “If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill.” Dr. Makary boldly predicts we’ll have herd immunity about April. That’s only six weeks away. About 15 percent of

Walmart pharmacist Carmine Pascarella administers a Moderna coronavirus vaccine to Jeff Stone inside a Walmart department store as Walmart and other major U.S. pharmacies take part in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, in West Haven, Conn., February 17, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) An odd alliance has developed over the last few months between those reticent to

Rush Limbaugh at National Review Institute’s fall gala, 2019. (Lila Photo) Jim Geraghty notes the tendency, common in the media in the 1990s, to lump Rush Limbaugh in with Howard Stern as “shock jocks” despite their significant differences. One major distinction: For Rush, shock value was the sizzle, not the steak. If you listened to

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen I was on Senate staff in the final years of the Bush administration, a faction of die-hard ideological conservatives — soon to be known as the “Tea Party” — had coalesced around Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. I called them the “Alamo faction,” because

(eranicle/Getty Images) Last year’s budget deficits exceed any in modern history. During the Great Recession in 2009, Democratic leaders were forced to prepare their rank-and-file lawmakers for the sticker shock of proposing a $787 billion stimulus bill. During the current recession, Republicans are mocked as cheapskates for supporting a mere $4 trillion in relief. Over

There is no shortage of lists of the “best” or “worst” presidents in U.S. History. Historians seem to relish the opportunity to grade our leaders on their performance in the top job. The following list does not take into consideration whether the individual was a good or bad president, but rather looks at the character

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A ppearing at a friendly CNN town-hall event yesterday, President Joe Biden dropped a string of untruths on issues both large and small. One of the president’s most egregious falsehoods was the claim that “we didn’t have [the vaccine] when we came into office.” The first shot was administered back on December

Rush Limbaugh speaks at the 2019 Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., December 21, 2019. (Gage Skidmore) Which is the real Rush Limbaugh — the merry prankster of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, or the unifying voice of conservatives across the country? Just tune in . . . Editor’s Note: The following cover story on

Radio show host Rush Limbaugh speaks at a forum hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., June 23, 2006. (Micah Walter/Reuters) Liberals on Twitter celebrated the death of Conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday, with their messages of disdain for the 70-year-old media legend causing “Rest in Piss,” “Good Riddance,” and “Rot in Hell”

Then—President Donald Trump listens to a question from reporters next to then—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 26, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The former president slammed the Senate minority leader in a long, angry, personally insulting statement. Donald Trump is right about one thing — Mitch McConnell is

President Biden speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 26, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden on Tuesday walked back his administration’s goal to open the majority of schools one day a week by the end of his first 100 days in office, calling the underwhelming target “a mistake in the communication.” Speaking at

I’m sure people have used that phrase over the years as a parody of where immigration euphemisms were headed, and now, thanks to the Biden administration, it has officially arrived. From the Axios afternoon email (and here’s a link to the story): The Biden administration is urging officials to use more inclusive terms for immigrants,

Detail of Thomas Jefferson portrait by Rembrandt Peale, 1800 (Wikimedia) The return of the earmark debate is bringing back fond memories of the late, great Senator Tom Coburn (R., Okla.), who led the fight against earmarks and went back-and-forth with me on the topic on NRO. I defended earmarks on the ground that if money

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T his past Sunday, Bill Gates (net worth, $133 billion) and Anderson Cooper ($110 million) got together on 60 Minutes to discuss the numerous sacrifices Americans will be expected to make to avert an imminent climate catastrophe. First, we should refrain from referring to these sorts of conversations as “journalism,” since Cooper

Then-President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally for Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, ahead of their January runoff elections in Valdosta, Ga., December 5, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Former President Trump criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in a statement released on Tuesday, after McConnell labeled Trump “practically and morally responsible”

School buses remain unused while schools are closed in San Francisco, Calif., April 7, 2020. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Americans parents are growing increasingly frustrated that schools across the country remain closed for in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many places, public schools in particular appear prepared to maintain virtual-only learning with no end in sight.