National Review- George Floyd Square Businesses Sue City of Minneapolis for Allowing Rampant Crime, Driving away Customers November 29, 2023The businesses, all of which are owned by one family, are seeking more than $1.5 million in damages from the city.
- Pope Francis Punishes Conservative Critic Cardinal Burke, Revokes His Apartment, Salary November 29, 2023Burke has criticized the Pope’s efforts to relax restrictions around gender and sexuality.
- Senior CIA Official Shared Pro-Palestinian Facebook Images after Brutal Hamas Attack November 29, 2023McFadden holds one of the senior-most positions within the agency and previously oversaw the production of the presidential daily briefing.
- New Georgia Project’s Vaunted Turnout Operation in Doubt amid Financial-Mismanagement Allegations November 29, 2023Founded by Stacey Abrams, the group claims credit for registering tens of thousands of voters, but a recent report suggests its heyday is over.
- U.S. Suicides Reached Record High Last Year November 29, 2023The increase in suicides was largely driven by older Americans, specifically older men.
- George Floyd Square Businesses Sue City of Minneapolis for Allowing Rampant Crime, Driving away Customers November 29, 2023
- Quillette
- Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas? November 28, 2023Sectarian morality arises from the concept of collective guilt.Julian Adorney
- Victim Blaming Revisited November 28, 2023Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.Richard B. Felson
- The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association November 27, 2023It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.Holly Lawford-Smith
- Why Does the Intersectional Left Defend Hamas? November 28, 2023
- Jay Nordlinger
- Cuts and Controversies November 29, 2023On Maria Callas, the centennial of whose birth is marked on December 2, 2023.
- Maria Callas: More Than a Myth November 29, 2023On the great soprano (1923–77) on the occasion of her centennial.
- A President, Appreciated, Etc. November 27, 2023Reader mail on George W. Bush, Gertrude Himmelfarb, John Smoltz, and more.
- Cuts and Controversies November 29, 2023
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Hillary’s War on the Bill of Rights
To the surprise of exactly no one, Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech was mainly the same old plodding boilerplate that she has been droning on about for decades. But it’s worth going through, because underneath it all lies a collection of … Continue reading
Donald Trump: Comedian
Donald Trump now says he was only joking when he invited Russian intelligence agencies to find and release Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 missing e-mails. Sure he was. Watch his delivery in the video below and see what a thigh slapper his … Continue reading
Quick Hits July 25, 2016
More Hacks Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook charged that leaked DNC e-mails were leaked by Russian intelligence agencies for the purpose of helping Donald Trump. The Clinton campaign also argues, rather implausibly, that the candidate’s home brew server was … Continue reading
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Vote Your Conscience
“I am your voice,” bellowed Trump from the podium. “I alone can fix it. I will restore law and order”. The audience went wild, bursting into applause. Hail Caesar! Hail Trump! The day before Ted Cruz, calling on … Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton Tries Again to Crush Free Speech
Hillary Clinton, one of the most corrupt politicians in U.S. history, and certainly the most corrupt to become the presumptive nominee of a major party, has promised to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and thus gut the first … Continue reading
Review: The Intimidation Game by Kimberly Strassel
Scientists ask questions. They form hypotheses around those questions and then collect and analyze data to see if and how well their hypotheses hold up when subjected to testing. They report the results of their work (often in peer reviewed … Continue reading
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Crunch Time for #NeverTrump
The Rules Committee for the Republican Convention meets this Thursday July 14, 2016. Gordon Humphrey and Kendal Unruh are cofounders of an organization called Delegates Unbound. In prior years (1979 – 1990) Gordon Humphrey, a delegate to the convention, served … Continue reading
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FBI Director Comey Goes to the Hill
FBI Director James Comey went up to the Hill to answer Congressional inquiries about his stunning decision to lambaste Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of highly sensitive classified data, but then to refrain from recommending that she be criminally charged. … Continue reading
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Politics and the Law
After making an ironclad case for Hillary Clinton to be criminally charged for mishandling classified information, FBI Director James Comey announced he would not recommend that the Justice Department move to prosecute her. Comey offered the rationale that the FBI … Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton Dodges Another Bullet, Comey Takes One
FBI Director James Comey presented a strong case for Hillary Clinton’s prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 793 (f) which creates criminal liability for gross negligence in the mishandling of certain classified information related to the defense of the U.S. And … Continue reading
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