Abortion supporters and pro-life advocates demonstrate on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Washington, D.C., January 24, 2011. (Jim Young/Reuters) Last week, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission released abortion data for 2018 and 2019. The new data should concern pro-lifers, as they indicate that the incidence of abortion

Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people and injuring another during riots on the streets of Kenosha, Wis., attends his extradition hearing in Lake County, Waukegan, Ill., October 30, 2020. (Nam Y. Huh/Reuters Pool) Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen accused of shooting three people at a riot in Kenosha, Wis., over the summer, has

Lisa Montgomery, a federal prison inmate at the Federal Medical Center Fort Worth in an undated photograph. (Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery via Reuters) Lisa Montgomery’s first experiences of sexual abuse occurred indirectly when she was three years old. She would lie in bed at night beside her beloved half-sister Diane, close enough to touch, while

Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) wears a face mask as he arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters Pool) South Carolina GOP senator Tim Scott comes out against the plans of 13 GOP senators to object to certification of Electoral College results: “As I read the Constitution,

In a noteworthy opinion on New Year’s Eve in Doe # 1 v. Trump, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that President Trump had the statutory authority to issue a proclamation restricting entry of immigrant visa applicants on the ground that they would burden the American health care system. The panel therefore reversed

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D emocratic consultant Jon Ossoff burst onto the political scene in 2017, running for a House seat in a Georgia congressional district where he wasn’t even a resident. On the morning of the election, a CNN anchor shared an inconvenient fact with the candidate: He couldn’t vote for himself. “I grew up

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., AR) participates in a swearing-in for the 117th Congress in Washington, D.C., January 3, 2021. (Kevin Dietsch/Reuters) Arkansas senator Tom Cotton and Utah senator Mike Lee, two of the staunchest conservatives in the GOP Senate caucus, are rejecting proposals for Congress to reject the certification Electoral College votes on January 6.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T his morning, New York magazine unveiled “The Lab-Leak Hypothesis” — Nicholson Baker’s lengthy and detailed exploration of the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus and ongoing coronavirus pandemic is the result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China. Baker goes even further, speculating that the reason this virus is similar to many

Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock appear together at a campaign rally ahead of Senate runoff elections, Augusta, Ga., January 4, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) For over four decades, the Hyde amendment, which bans federal Medicaid funding of elective abortion, has been attached to every relevant spending bill. The measure is estimated to

Senator David Perdue (R., Ga.) speaks during a campaign event in Milton, Ga, December 21, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Senator David Perdue (R., Ga.) criticized Georgia’s secretary of state on Monday for a recording a phone call in which President Trump asked the secretary to “find” votes to overturn the election results. “All I want to

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) Senator Tom Cotton, a possible 2024 presidential hopeful, announced late Sunday that he will oppose Republican efforts to overturn the Electoral College vote in the Senate on Wednesday, saying it would set an “unwise

Students walk past Princeton University’s Nassau Hall in Princeton, N.J. (Dominick Reuter/Reuters) Those voices are still being stifled, even if the disinvitation craze is abating. Has the college-speaker-disinvitation craze ended? Some would have you believe so. The Niskanen Center proclaimed that “the campus free speech crisis” ended in 2018. In 2019, Commentary magazine optimistically argued

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks about the coronavirus relief legislation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2020. (Graeme Jennings/Reuters) The new session of Congress begins on Sunday, and the House will vote on whether to reelect Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, a vote that leaves little room for error given Democrats’ razor-thin majority. The

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urges Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to pass the $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans during her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill, December 30, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Nancy Pelosi won reelection as Speaker of the House Sunday afternoon. House members voted to reelect Pelosi in a 216-208 party

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in front of the Capitol building in Washington, July 2020. (Brendan Smialowski / Pool via Reuters) The homes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were vandalized on Friday and Saturday after a proposal for

(rarrarorro/Getty Images) 2021’s first full week brings a new Congress, a pair of consequential Senate runoffs, and the electoral-vote count in Washington. With a new Congress convening, two runoff elections in Georgia that will determine party control of the U.S. Senate, and the presidential election’s electoral-vote count in Washington, the first week of 2021 is

Senate Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff speaks to the media following a debate where he appeared on stage next to an empty podium after Republican Sen. David Perdue declined to participate in Atlanta, Ga., December 6, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Jon Ossoff has billed himself as a hard-hitting “investigative journalist,” orchestrating exposés on “corruption, organized crime, and

Immigration hawks and analysts are warning that illegal immigration at the southern border is likely to surge after President-elect Joe Biden takes office, as a confluence of factors, both economic and environmental, has pushed migrants to attempt to enter the U.S. Already Biden’s team has begun to walk back some of his campaign promises to

Production line at the Dongfeng Honda factory in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, April 8, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Western companies and governments must prepare themselves for the fallout. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has re-awoken to a profound truth: Rich, secure capitalists are the natural enemies of authoritarian regimes. In a hybrid autocratic-capitalist model, capitalism is

Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the 2020 vice presidential campaign debate in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Few of us will look back at 2020 with any sense of nostalgia. If we could memory-hole the entire affair, we would. But in this most historic of eras –

Founder and CEO of Free To Choose Network, Bob Chitester (right), with friend and colleague Tom Skinner. (Tom Skinner/Wikimedia Commons) Bob Chitester, the executive producer of Free to Choose, looks back. Imet Bob Chitester 25 years ago like countless others did — with a call out of nowhere from an infectiously upbeat man from Erie,

Lisa Montgomery, a federal prison inmate at the Federal Medical Center Fort Worth in an undated photograph. (Attorneys for Lisa Montgomery via Reuters) Some have said that Donald Trump is the most pro-life president ever. I worry about statements such as this. The law is crucial, of course. But the pro-life movement, which existed before

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ut with a year of calamity, and in with a year of recovery. We conservatives may not be thrilled about the new president, or about the possibility of Republicans’ losing both of the Georgia Senate runoffs. But the threat of COVID-19 is going to shrink rapidly during the first half of

From a policy guy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Cheat sheet on who would get how much in $2,000 checks – pic.twitter.com/RCE76aadG6 — Marc Goldwein (@MarcGoldwein) December 29, 2020 The basic math is that the checks don’t even start phasing out until an individual makes $75,000, or until a married couple makes

Sen. Amy Klobuchar at the Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas, Nev., February 19, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Senator Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) said Wednesday that Josh Hawley’s (R., Mo.) plan to object to the certification of Electoral College votes amounted to a “coup attempt.” Hawley said in a Wednesday statement that he could not “vote

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., December 30, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) said in a floor speech on Wednesday that Democrats’ attempts to pass a standalone bill to disburse $2,000 stimulus checks has “no realistic chance” of passage. McConnell is planning to organize

Luke Letlow campaigning for Congress (Screengrab via YouTube) Luke Letlow, a congressman-elect from Louisiana’s fifth district, passed away yesterday at the age of 41. He leaves behind a wife and two young children. Sadly, the ghouls among us are already trying to use this tragedy to smear Letlow in the name of their political religion.

If you catch COVID-19, you will probably make a full recovery with no lingering health problems. There’s about a four-in-ten chance that you’ll be asymptomatic and not even know you caught it. But there are those rare, tragic, and frightening exceptions, and the late Louisiana congressman-elect Luke Letlow is the latest one. Letlow, 41, was transferred

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here is perhaps no easier political position than supporting broad-based government handouts, particularly for the middle class. Everyone loves free money, and even those who vigorously criticize “tax cuts for the rich” or “welfare for those who won’t work” usually defend middle-class entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare in which

We close our crazed year with an hour of VDH wisdom, as the acclaimed historian discusses the vocabulary of Wokespeak, America’s Animal Farm media and its post-election revision of what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s okay to cover (or not), President Trump’s proclamation on the 850th anniversary of Saint Thomas Becket’s martyrdom, Red China’s global