The FDA headquarters in White Oak, Md., August 29, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) With Robert Califf now in charge, the FDA is likely to promote dangerous chemical abortions. The pro-life movement must fight back. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he confirmation of Dr. Robert Califf as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the latest

(Pornpak Khunatorn/iStock/Getty Images) Medicine should only play a supporting role. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast week, Pope Francis warned his general audience against euthanasia, saying that “we must accompany people towards death, but not provoke death or facilitate any form of suicide.” He’s right that the moral musts and must nots of caring for the

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talks in his chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) In response to Clarence Thomas vs. the Washington Post Charlie, I’ll add one more observation to yours: The Washington Post’s description — in its original and updated form — is simply untrue. Conceding that

President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Russia and Ukraine from the White House in Washington D.C., February 15, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) As of this writing, Russia has not invaded Ukraine. But the outlook certainly seems grim; U.S. government officials say they haven’t seen any signs of that alleged Russian partial withdrawal, and Biden’s

(JerryB7/iStock/Getty Images) The Surface Transportation Board needs to avoid adding new inefficiencies to supply chains by rejecting a cumbersome proposed regulation on freight railroads. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O n March 15, the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the economic regulator of railroads, will begin a hearing about a new regulation on freight railroads that would introduce

Protestors stand on a trailer carrying logs as truckers and supporters take part in a convoy to protest Covid vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 29, 2022. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters) Ottawa — The ranks of protesters are swelling here in Ottawa today, as Canadians from across the country begin to pour

Vance Ginn and Alexander William Salter argue for binding rules on both monetary and fiscal policy to create better outcomes: On fiscal policy, we need to keep spending growth below economic growth. Doing so would ensure that the tax base keeps pace with demands on the public purse. If we follow this rule, debt as a

Demonstrators gather on Parliament Hill as truckers and their supporters continue to protest Covid vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 12, 2022. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Reporters should be demanding answers from those abusing power, not working with them to inhibit political speech. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n Canada, first the doxing, then the struggle session.

Migrants, mostly from India, are transported by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico at Yuma, Ariz., January 23, 2022. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Border Patrol agents encountered 153,941 migrants at the southern border in January, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection filed in federal court on Wednesday. The number of

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to American and French reporters during a press conference in Paris, France, November 12, 2021. (Sarahbeth Maney/Pool via Reuters) The vice president of the United States tweeted this out on her Farsi account — which was shared by our embassy in Iran: .@VP: حقیقت این است: تبعیض نژادی در آمریکا

(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Apparently Kevin Drum has given me the “brass balls award” on his blog for my recent post about the IRS. He says that the reason the IRS is incompetent is that “conservatives have been hellbent on gutting the agency over the past 25 years.” He goes on to recount the alleged misdeeds of

(wildpixel/iStock/Getty Images) I see my country of birth is covering itself in glory once again. Per the Jerusalem Post: A 51-year-old woman from the UK, Tahra Ahmed, was jailed on Friday for posting antisemitic conspiracy theories about the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire on social media, The Independent reported on Monday. Four days passed after

Politico also has a report on five-alarm-fire internal polling for Democrats on the culture issues: A generic ballot of swing districts from late January showed Democrats trailing Republicans by 4 points, according to the polling. It wasn’t all bleak, though: The data showed that Democrats could mostly regain the ground lost to Republicans if they

Author P.J. O’Rourke at Duke’s Hotel in London, England, September 27, 2001. (Ferran Paredes FP/Reuters) In response to R.I.P., P. J. O’Rourke Unlike David Harsanyi, I never had the pleasure of meeting P. J. O’Rourke or corresponding with him, but like most conservative and libertarian writers who came of age in the 1980s or later,

President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Russia and Ukraine from the White House in Washington, D.C., February 15, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In a White House address Tuesday, President Biden pledged to to “respond forcefully” if Russia targets Americans in any potential attack on Ukraine. He also promised to defend America’s NATO allies with

U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Pomona College professor Amanda Hollis-Brusky penned a Washington Post column titled “Biden said he won’t make an ‘ideological’ Supreme Court pick. Republicans do exactly that.” At first glance, this seems to be pro-Democrat propaganda about how Republican justices are ideologues but Democrats, gosh darn it, just reach totally

From the White House today: Climate change is a code red for our nation — and we have no time to waste. That’s why today, my Administration is announcing new actions that will reduce emissions across the industrial sector and create good-paying, union jobs. Code red! Then again, with midterms ahead, there may be a

Left: Ilya Shapiro speaks about constitutional law in 2014. Right: James C. Ho testifies during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on November 15, 2017. (The Federalist Society/via YouTube, Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images) Guest speaker scraps original remarks in favor of unequivocal statement on freedom of speech and declares, ‘I stand with Ilya.’ NRPLUS

A person gets a COVID-19 test in New York City, January 4, 2022. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) On the menu today: The Omicron wave is just about done, with new cases now down 80 percent from the early January peak. But judging from masking and vaccination-policy decisions from Washington, D.C., to New York City to Canada, you

Speaker Pelosi (D., Calif.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 15, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos asked House speaker Nancy Pelosi about inflation. Despite Build Back Better’s being last year’s news, Pelosi still believes that passing it would help bring inflation down. After talking about the

Left: U.S. Attorney John Durham. Right: Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters following the 2016 presidential election in Manhattan, November 9, 2016. (United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut/Wikimedia, Carlos Barria/Reuters) They finally have something potentially worse than Watergate, but this time around they’re content helping Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Colson get away with it. That’s

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino, Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Justice David Lametti, and Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair, at a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 14, 2022. (Blair Gable/Reuters) Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has invoked special emergency

Anti-abortion protestors hold a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., November 1, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters ) The New York Times publishes a ‘report’ attempting to debunk the science underlying pro-life heartbeat bills. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne of the favorite pastimes of legacy media outlets over the past several years has been attempting

The logo of Xiaomi outside the brand’s store in Kiev, Ukraine, August 7, 2018. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters) Belgium warned that products from Xiaomi, the popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer, could play a role in Chinese espionage efforts. In a statement to a Belgian lawmaker today, the country’s Justice Ministry warned that there is “at least a risk

United States Department of the Treasury headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The country lacks a critical mass of citizens disposed to support the hard decisions that would enable America to rein in its national debt. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or one brief moment in the news cycle, the size of America’s national debt was

2007—A Ninth Circuit panel rules (in Phillips v. Hust) that a prison librarian violated the constitutional rights of a prisoner, and is liable for damages to him, for failing to provide him timely access to a comb-binding machine that he wanted to use to bind his certiorari petition to the Supreme Court. Never mind, as Judge

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference following the passage of the Build Back Better Act at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C. November 19, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Sunday claimed that “defund the police” is “not the position of the Democratic Party” after Representative Cori Bush

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan addresses the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) National-Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s claims that Russia might use a false-flag operation to justify invading Ukraine, despite not offering evidence to back up its claims.

Students walk past Princeton University’s Nassau Hall in Princeton, N.J. (Dominick Reuter/Reuters) We cannot let our universities become seminaries for the priests of preselected social-justice causes. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he censorious mob strikes again. Recent weeks have seen universities assault the right of scholars to speak freely. Amy Wax, of the University of Pennsylvania,

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks as President Joe Biden listens during an announcement that Breyer will retire at the end of the court’s current term at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Three-quarters of Americans, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, disagree with President Joe Biden’s promise to