Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) I’m hearing from a few Republicans who are wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would effectively do a potential President Biden a favor, by discouraging hard-left cabinet nominees

Demonstrators are seen in a line at a march for voting rights on Election Day in Graham, N.C., November 3, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Pollsters were widely wrong in 2016, yet learned nothing about their flawed methodologies. So how do they remain credible after 2020? A republic is not just a nation of laws. It also

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump reacts to early results from the presidential election in Washington, D.C., November 4, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Donald Trump’s campaign on Wednesday declared victory in Pennsylvania, though hundreds of thousands of votes are still to be counted. Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien told reporters the campaign is “declaring

Counting mail-in ballots in Lehigh County, Pa., November 4, 2020. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters) Elections are not like criminal cases. On the matter of vote fraud, there is law and there are facts. We’ll hear plenty about fraud, but we’ll have to remind ourselves to ask: Did it make a difference? Even if the Trump campaign has

1. [embedded content] 2. [embedded content] 3. [embedded content] I hope you watched one or more of those. These women are amazing. Advertisement 4. Bottom line: Looks like a win for Catholic foster parents—possibly a broad win by a broad margin. And the Justices clearly understood that protecting religious freedom here is not only required

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. These articles and the one below reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National … Read More

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. These articles and the one below reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National … Read More

(Brendan McDermid/Reuters) In Colorado today, voters will decide a ballot initiative that would prohibit abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy, with an exception for cases when a physician deems abortion necessary to save the mother’s life. Colorado is one of the states with the fewest protections for unborn children; the state currently has no gestational

(Pixabay) At the polls today in Louisiana, voters will consider this proposed amendment to the state constitution: “Do you support an amendment declaring that, to protect human life, a right to abortion and the funding of abortion shall not be found in the Louisiana Constitution?” If passed, the amendment would serve as a protection against

Judge Emmet Sullivan of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., has apparently taken some time off from usurping the power of the United States Department of Justice to decide which cases to prosecute. He’s now running the United States Postal Service, too. Judge Sullivan caught a case filed in late August that alleges the

Mail-in ballots at the Northampton County Courthouse in Easton, Pa., November 3, 2020. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters) This is yet another semantic battle the Left has won before the Right even realized it was on. The latest talking point in the election coverage, which I’ve seen or heard in several places today, is that the Supreme Court

Traders watch President Donald Trump speak from the White House on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 13, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) A lot of economic thought concerns the ways that markets can go awry: how the pursuit of profit by firms and individuals might not maximize social welfare, and

Law enforcement personnel and military vehicles are seen as protesters rally outside Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The National Guard has been activated in at least ten states and is ready to respond in case violence breaks out on Election Day and over the following days.

President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Fayetteville, N.C., November 2, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) There’s a good chance that the short-term pain of a Trump loss would mean sustainable gains for conservatives down the road. Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays

Election worker processes mail-in ballots ahead of election day in Houston, Texas, November 2, 2020. (Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters) More evidence that the Supreme Court has set itself up for some very contentious post-election rulings, at least if the race turns out to be close. As our Mairead McArdle reports, a federal judge in Houston has turned

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found  here, here, here, here, here and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the … Read More

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found  here, here, here, here, here and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the … Read More

It hasn’t been mentioned much, but a major reason the Left wants to oust President Trump from office is seize control of the Labor Department. Politico reports Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s “Sandalista Socialist,” has expressed a strong interest in becoming Joe Biden’s secretary of labor. One reason is that Bernie’s beloved unions have seen their power and

Before being appointed by President Trump to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Andrew Oldham had a distinguished career as an appellate litigator. A former law clerk to Justice Alito, Oldham was an attorney-adviser in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel before working in private practice at Kellogg Hansen.

A demonstrator holds a sign in protest of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., October 13, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not the primary reason for their agitation. When Joe Biden finally answered, after several weeks of hemming and hawing, whether

White nationalist leader Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute speaks at an event not sanctioned by the school at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, December 6, 2016. (Spencer Selvidge/Reuters) The Atlantic’s White Noise, perhaps inadvertently, demonstrates how the white nationalist movement is more pathetic than powerful. After a four-year investigation, The Atlantic

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy arrives at President Trump’s State of the Union address, February 28, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The problem with Kennedy is that even if he had a coherent view of the Constitution, his jurisprudence was often inscrutable. Editor’s Note: The following essay about the nomination of former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speak during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Donald Trump’s ignorance, laziness, malice and buffoonery have poisoned an already rancid national discourse, hobbled his associates and allies, and distracted from their accomplishments. Two, maybe three of his administration’s

An illuminated view of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 3, 2018. (Alan Freed/Reuters) A Pittsburgh, Pa., newspaper has backed Donald Trump just days before the general election in the paper’s first endorsement of a Republican presidential candidate since 1972. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette released its endorsement on Saturday, just before the general elections are set to take

New York governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at the unveiling for the Mother Cabrini statue in Manhattan, October 12, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Cuomo, doing his best Trump impression, coos about his book’s “ratings” mid-pandemic. A solid majority of New Yorkers approve of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. This is true even though the

(Chip East/Reuters) 1972—By a vote of 5 to 4, the en banc D.C. Circuit, in an opinion by Judge J. Skelly Wright in United States v. Robinson, rules that a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when, in the course of searching a person whom he had lawfully arrested, he opened up a crumpled cigarette

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, here, here, and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National … Read More

President Donald Trump points a finger as he arrives to hold a campaign event in Allentown, Pa., October 26, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) In the final Pennsylvania poll of the 2020 presidential election conducted by Muhlenberg College on behalf of the newspaper Morning Call, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump 49 percent to 44 percent. The same

Sen. Susan Collins talks to reporters about the Supreme Court nomination of federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 17, 2018. (Mike Segar/Reuters) At a Maine Senate debate this week, incumbent moderate Republican senator Susan Collins criticized her Democratic challenger for refusing to take a position on increasing the

Editor’s Note: If you would like to read more pros and cons on voting for President Trump, further essays on the subject, each from a different perspective, can be found here, here, here, here, and here. These articles, and the one below, reflect the views of the individual authors, not of the National … Read More