Oozing Festive I’m going for something a little more lighthearted today and tomorrow (yes, there will be a Christmas Day briefing). Just because I have to read the news all day doesn’t mean everyone has to be miserable. Where in the Hell Are the Singing Cats? I have never seen the musical Cats, nor do

(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Ten years of missed opportunities, from health care to education to national security to entitlements to fiscal stability In 2010, the U.S. electorate responded to the overreach of the Obama administration — on health care, but not only on health care — by giving Republicans control of both houses of Congress. The Obama

EVERETT, Pennsylvania — For the past two years, items on layaway for over 200 families at the Walmart here have been paid for by some generous soul who won’t reveal his or her identity. Last year, this modern St. Nicholas paid off $46,000 in items placed on layaway by local residents. This year’s total was

Americans aren’t moving. pic.twitter.com/GI3SR4pNfF — Michael R. Strain (@MichaelRStrain) December 20, 2019 Americans aren’t moving like they used to. This is exacerbating economic inequality between different regions of the country because geographic mobility has been one of the key ways that wages across different parts of the nation converge and lagging regions see their economic

You can’t understand the judicial-confirmation process if you don’t understand the rules governing the process, so it’s disappointing to see this otherwise informative Washington Post article yesterday assert that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell “did away with ‘blue slips,’ which allowed senators to contest judicial nominees from their home states.” Advertisement Advertisement The largest error

THANK YOU For a few minutes on Saturday night, all was right with the program that was once must-see-TV for comedy aficionados. The once-vaunted — and occasionally brilliant — Saturday Night Live has largely been reduced to an anti-Trump diaper-soiling/boring video feelings journal in recent years. Sure, it was in decline even before the 2016

Porn actresses line up at the opening of the “Venus” erotic fair in Berlin, Germany, in 2013. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters) Restriction would be not only constitutional but essential to the political order. The most discussed issue in the conservative blogosphere over the past couple of weeks, outside of the impeachment controversy, has been pornography — specifically,

So now we’re presented with an impeachment that isn’t really an impeachment until the Empress of America declares it to be, by presenting it to the Senate, which she shan’t do until the Senate establishes rules to her liking, Constitution be damned. I probably should gloat a little bit, since this brings us back to

(Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters) “Christianity Today exposed the reality of Evangelical division,” reads the headline to David French’s column today for The Dispatch. He notes “the malleability of the definition” of “Evangelical”: Not all self-described “Evangelicals” share the same beliefs or the same faith habits. Exit poll questions about religious identity are far too imprecise to provide

West Point cadets react during filming of Fox NFL Sunday at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., Nov 10, 2019. (Danny Wild/USA Today Sports) The U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Friday cleared three cadets of wrongdoing after they were accused of making a white supremacist hand sign

A British girl was “passed around like a piece of meat” between Muslim men who abused and raped her between the ages of 12 and 14, a court heard earlier this month. Her problems began after she befriended a young Muslim man who, before long, was “forcing her to perform sex acts on other [and

Shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, Calif., January 30, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) Let’s start by enforcing the law. President Donald Trump’s incompetently executed trade war is set to cost U.S. companies something like $316 billion through the end of 2020, a conservative estimate, and the indications from the tentatively emerging