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No, the DOJ Investigation of Planned Parenthood Is Not a Witch Hunt
The Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation into evidence that Planned Parenthood illegally profited from the sale of fetal tissue from aborted babies. And already it is being dismissed as a witch hunt.
The DOJ is merely the ...
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Line Drawing in the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case
During the Masterpiece Cakeshop oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, the two attorneys opposing cake artist Jack Phillips argued that the justices should not protect Phillips’s freedom to abstain from creating expression he disagrees with. ...
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For decades it’s been received wisdom among the smart set of Guardian-reading Londoners that the monarchy is a bit silly, wasteful, embarrassing, and outdated. Private Eye, the fortnightly mix of muckraking and satire that epitomizes left-wing cynicism, styles Queen ...
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The Pro-Life Movement Shouldn’t Embrace Surrogacy
On Thursday, Arizona Republican congressman Trent Franks announced he would resign in the face of an ethics investigation, after having asked women on his staff to be gestational surrogates for him and his wife, who had been struggling with infertility. ...
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What’s Next for the GOP Tax Plan?
The Senate GOP’s tax bill was passed in the middle of the night last Friday. By the end of the process, the bill had changed considerably from the one that had been approved in committee before the Thanksgiving recess — ...
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Can We Be Honest About Men?
When will it end?
Yesterday, Al Franken resigned. Trent Franks resigned. This week, John Conyers resigned. Nevada Democrat Ruben Kihuen and Texas Republican Blake Farenthold cling to their jobs. Roy Moore soldiers on, campaigning through multiple, credible claims of sexual ...
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The Deplorables Come to the Movies
Hollywood hits bottom this week, not from more sex-and-revenge scandals but with premieres of I, Tonya and The Disaster Artist — the two most hateful movies I’ve seen in 2017. Both films are derisive reenactments of real-life stories: the ice-skating scandal ...
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‘Evil’ Tax Cuts? Nope, It’s Blue-State Panic
Ah, the holiday season. It’s a magical time, bursting with joy and merriment, the laughter of children, jolly parties, twinkling lights, mildly terrifying mall-dwelling Santas . . . and the faint sounds of caterwauling blue-state politicians shrieking that the GOP tax bill ...
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Bashing Trump on Broadway, with a Nerf Bat
There are lots of great plays being staged in New York right now, and there’s also The Parisian Woman, a dog’s breakfast of political satire, adultery farce, and tired Age of Trump catchphrases: “Fake news!” “Locker-room talk!” “Cuck!” “...
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Like you, maybe, I have been looking at the issue for, what? Thirty-five years? In my observation, there will never be a right time to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, or to move the U.S. embassy from Tel ...
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Is Flirting Sexual Harassment?
In 2003 a genetics paper revealed that one in 200 men alive in that year was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan (1162–1227). Khan was the Mongol emperor whose armies swept out of the north to conquer pretty much all of Asia. His ...
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Republican Tax Bill Slows Inflation of the ‘Feds, Eds, and Meds’
Are the current Republican tax bills, passed by the House and Senate and being reconciled in conference committee, an attack on “feds, eds, and meds”? That’s a reference to the government, health care, and education jobs that local Democrats ...
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UC–Irvine: Have ‘Fall, Winter, or Spring’ Parties Instead of Christmas Parties to Be ‘Inclusive’
Guidelines from the University of California–Irvine advise the campus to avoid Christmas celebrations — and to celebrate “seasonal themes such as Fall, Winter, or Spring” instead.
“Focus on celebrating a special occasion, instead of a specific holiday,” states a list ...
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Can Theresa May Survive the Brexit Negotiations?
We finally seem to be approaching some sort of crunch in the negotiations between London and Brussels on Brexit. Monday’s meeting between British prime minister Theresa May and EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker had been expected to conclude that ...
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A friend recalls that when Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2014 film Inherent Vice was to be shown to the media for the first time during the New York Film Festival, hacks were camping out in lawn chairs overnight to be assured ...
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With Jerusalem Move, Trump Strikes at the ‘Psychological Barrier’
Jihadists, the tip of the sharia-supremacist spear, rationalize mass murder by denying the humanity of their enemies: Their doctrine teaches that non-Muslims are less than fully human and that their existence while refusing to accept Allah’s law is offensive. ...
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President Trump’s Courageous Decision to Shrink Utah Monuments Places Principle Ahead of Politics
President Trump traveled to Utah this week to announce a reduction in the Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. The historic action demonstrates that the Trump administration is committed to abiding by the law — whether a majority of ...
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Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google have grown to encompass duties to the public trust — duties that were never intended to be within their purview in the first place.
A temp worker claims that he “accidentally” deactivated President Trump’s Twitter ...
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Help NRI Cultivate the Next Generation of Conservative Journalists
Bill Buckley asked me for a vocabulary word once. I’d been at National Review for only a few weeks, and he had a few of us over for what turned out to be the last of the editors’ dinners ...
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Editor’s Note: In the November 27 issue of National Review, we had a review by Jay Nordlinger of Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, by Hendrik Meijer. This week, Mr. Nordlinger has expanded that review ...
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The GOP's Tax Wager Is Worth the Gamble
Washington — The Republicans’ tax legislation is built on economic projections that are as confidently as they are cheerfully made concerning the legislation’s shaping effect on the economy over the next ten years. This claim to prescience must amaze alumni ...
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Donald Trump Strikes a Blow against International Anti-Semitism
President Trump’s decision to formally recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and to announce plans to move America’s embassy to the seat of Israel’s government is one of the best, most moral, and important decisions ...
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Trump Exposes the Cause of Palestinian Rage
The reaction from the foreign-policy establishment and America’s European and Arab allies is unanimous. All are opposed to President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Moreover, the very real possibility of violence from the ...
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The John Conyers Abdication
On Tuesday, Representative John Conyers (D., Mich.) announced that he would “retire” from Congress, effectively immediately. Conyers, who has spent the last 53 years in office — Bonanza was the top-rated television show in America the year he joined Congress — didn’t ...
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Overheated Rhetoric on Tax Reform
Even in a town where overheated rhetoric comes as naturally as breathing, the reaction to the Senate version of the Republican tax bill has been somewhat . . . unhinged.
“Armageddon,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned, calling it “the worst bill in ...
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Morrissey: When Demagoguery Goes Pop
While Bruce Springsteen delivers his populist harangue on Broadway, Morrissey brought political complexity to his concert at Madison Square Garden last weekend. This contrast points up a change in pop music’s ongoing political discourse, which seems to have stalled, ...
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Clashing over Commerce: A Historical View of Tariffs and Trade Policy
From the beginning of the American republic, trade policy has been a contentious subject for our political leaders. The trade controversies we are seeing under President Trump are nothing new, and in key ways they echo the past, as Douglas ...
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Politics Then, Politics Now
Editor’s Note: In the November 27 issue of National Review, we had a review by Jay Nordlinger of Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, by Hendrik Meijer. This week, Mr. Nordlinger expands that review in ...
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The Trump administration is trying to loosen regulations on tipping, allowing businesses to require “tip pools” in which non-tipped employees such as cooks get some of the money. The proposal is 100 percent correct as a matter of law, and it’...
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Student Protesters: Defending the First Amendment Is ‘Violent’
A group of students at Western Washington University used their own right to free speech to disrupt a pro–free-speech lecture — calling the idea of complete free speech “violent” — and apparently, they don’t understand the irony.
According to an ...
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Masterpiece Cakeshop Case May Hinge on a Claim against Disparate Treatment
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider the case of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker in Colorado who declined to create a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his deeply held religious beliefs. The case implicates the conflicting ...
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The New Math of ‘Consensual Nonmonogamy’
The equation starts out simply enough: 2+2+1=5. Julie and Joe are married, and so are William and Anna, but not Sayulita, all panelists appearing on a New York Times video called “Married, Dating Other People and Happy.” Giggling like teenagers over ...
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A Lesson from This Cultural Tsunami
‘How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly?” a seemingly emotional Today Show host Savannah Guthrie said after learning that her colleague Matt Lauer had been fired for inappropriate sexual conduct. “I ...
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Cruelty and Sexual Harassment
Observers look for some sort of common denominator that would make sense of the daily news blasts of nonconsensual sexual escapades of media, political, and Hollywood celebrities.
No sooner are these lists of the accused compiled than they have to ...
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The Senate Tax Bill Favors the Middle Class, Not the Rich
Republicans are close to passing the largest federal tax overhaul in decades. The corporate reforms are impressive and promise to lift all boats in coming years with a rising tide of growth. The bill has moved forward despite an unrelenting ...
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Taxing Educational Benefits Is a Bad Idea
Now that they have both passed tax bills, the House and the Senate will have to reconcile their respective plans, which differ on many points. The House plan places new taxes on many educational benefits, while the Senate leaves them ...
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Editor’s Note: Mark Helprin has written a new novel, Paris in the Present Tense. This week, Jay Nordlinger is writing about it, in a series that began yesterday, here, and concludes today.
One of Helprin’s chapters is headed “...
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Social-Justice Blog Asks if Asian Americans Can ‘Appropriate Their Own Culture’
According to an essay in the social-justice blog Everyday Feminism, it actually “might be” possible for Asian Americans to appropriate Asian culture — yes, even though it’s their own culture.
“There are two main reasons why we might be considered ...
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Kill the Child, Spare It No Pain — Cold ‘Justice’ in Texas
Pro-life legislators in Texas are arguing for unborn children to be lethally injected with poison, and even that isn’t enough for U.S. courts and the pro-abortion-rights movement.
Do pro-life Texans want unborn children to be poisoned? Of course ...
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What the President Knew and When He Knew It
The president is not being well served by his lawyers.
As I note in my column this morning, there was a Trump tweet on Saturday afternoon asserting that the president knew that then–National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied ...
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Timmy and Matt Lauer, at Advent
‘He was a seeker.” It was Thursday morning at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the feast day of St. Andrew, the Apostle. At the 7 a.m. Mass, Cardinal Timothy Dolan was preaching about how, once Andrew encountered Jesus, he knew had ...
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Taming the Imperial Presidency
I have a new ritual on Sunday mornings. I wake up, get my coffee, fire up Twitter, and check in on the mental health of the pundit class. More often than not, President Donald Trump has tweeted something that outrages ...
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Politicians All Over the World Aim to Dump Term Limits
Buenos Aires — When Latin American countries turned away from military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s, most of them added constitutional term limits restricting presidents to a single term. Latin politicians are still too often corrupt, but term limits have ...
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Baking a Cake Is Not Constitutionally Protected Speech
The conversation about a cake lasted less than a minute but will long reverberate in constitutional law. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear 60 minutes of speech about when, if at all, making a cake counts as constitutionally ...
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Cultivating Mary’s Heart for Christmas
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood Christian concepts is the Immaculate Conception of Mary, which is about her heart having been “sinless, immaculate, and pure” from the moment of her conception, as Father Edward Looney, a priest in Wisconsin, writes ...
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Mueller Investigation: Politics, Not Law Enforcement or Counterintelligence
Here’s what I’d be tempted to do if I were President Trump: I’d direct the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, including any Obama-administration collusion in that ...
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The Tax-Reform Debate and Defense Spending
It looks very much as if, once again, the national defense is going to get the short end of the budgetary stick this year. But at least other events are exposing the pretenses that have kept the defense sequester in ...
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Why I Oppose the Rubio-Lee Amendment
Federal debt has risen from 33 percent of GDP prior to the financial crisis to 75 percent today — an unprecedented level for this point in the economic cycle — and is projected to rise to 150 percent over the next 30 years as Baby Boomers ...
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The New York Times’ dropping the pretense of objectivity in its crusade against the GOP tax plan should remind wavering Republicans that surrendering to liberal rhetoric is a guarantee of defeat.
We all know that President Donald Trump has often ...
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Should We Remember the Past at All?
Like many of the Corner’s faithful readers, I had the pleasure Tuesday morning of following Michael Brendan Dougherty’s link to the new Douglas Murray audio documentary, which examines the West’s failure to remember Communism’s crimes as ...
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Republicans Should Keep the Johnson Amendment
The 1954 Johnson Amendment, though seldom enforced, currently bans tax-exempt groups — including churches — from directly endorsing political candidates. At the urging of some church leaders and with the support of the president, House Republicans included a repeal of the amendment in ...
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Did the DOJ Misuse the Steele Dossier — to Spy on the Trump Campaign?
Will he or won’t he?
Will President Trump order the disclosure of any warrant applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (the FISA Court) in which the Justice Department and FBI presented any information derived from the Steele dossier?
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Public Servants, Your Responsibilities Trump Your Right to Partisan Participation
Earlier this week, my friend and esteemed colleague Andrew McCarthy wrote a thought-provoking essay urging Americans to withhold judgment on Peter Strzok, the FBI agent dismissed from Robert Mueller’s team after he allegedly exchanged anti-Trump text messages with his ...
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President Trump’s Democratic Opponents Ranked
CNN informs me there are “at least” 22 Democrats thinking of running for president in 2020. So who among them had the best 2017? Below is my list, in descending order, of the strongest members of the emerging 2020 Democratic field, along with some ...
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Who’s Playing Politics on Israel?
As far as the New York Times was concerned, it was simply a matter of fact: The only possible explanation for President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was politics, pure and simple. A ...
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Public Unions Can’t Deny Their Activism
Public-employee unions are expected to lose their power to coerce fees from non-members when the Supreme Court rules on an Illinois government worker’s case next spring. The Trump administration recently declared its support for this outcome, and new evidence ...
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The Supreme Court versus the Constitution
Since the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, we have been hearing much about the two contending approaches to the Constitution. These are often referred to as “originalism“ and “living constitutionalism,” but these terms obscure the underlying issue. ...
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John Lennon’s Life after Death
When I first moved to New York’s Upper West Side in 1992, one of my top priorities was to visit Strawberry Fields in Central Park on the anniversary of John Lennon’s 1980 murder, which took place across the street, at ...
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On a Campus in Canada, Speech Isn’t Free
Many Americans lament the decline of the university. The treasured concept of academic freedom has become a rusty, broken-down relic in less than a generation. Meanwhile, the cherished principles of free speech and intellectual discourse on campus have been replaced ...
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How Democrats Corrupt English to Create Hysteria
Whenever passable Republican legislation materializes — a rarity these days — Democrats quickly warn that thousands, or perhaps even millions, of lives are at stake. Tax reform? Health care? Bogus international treaties? Internet regulations that were instituted only last year? It really ...
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The Garbage Case for Roy Moore
In his Alabama appearance for Roy Moore, Steve Bannon turned in an intellectually and morally putrid performance even by his standards.
There is a partisan case for voting for Moore, which is simply that Republicans can’t afford to lose ...
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Trump Puts Fact Ahead of Fiction in Israel
The most exhausting thing about the Middle East — except for the bloodshed, poverty, tyranny, etc. — is that it refuses to conform to how it’s described in the West.
It’s like journalists, diplomats, and politicians want to announce a ...
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Taylor Swift Is a Silence Breaker
Thanks to decades of overblown media attention and a certain Twitter spotlight shone by our commander-in-chief, Time magazine’s Person of the Year issue arrived to much fanfare and even more relief. The periodical wisely chose #MeToo, the movement of ...
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Sexist Media Men Didn’t Cost Hillary the Election
In her latest op-ed for the New York Times, feminist commentator Jill Filipovic contends that the slew of sexual-misconduct allegations against leading journalists proves that media sexism — rather than crippling unpopularity and a coinciding populist wave — cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 ...
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Bannon’s Ill-Conceived War on the Establishment
We already know Steve Bannon believes that politics is war. But during the course of his speech at an Alabama rally for Roy Moore this week, he gave the country an ugly lesson in what scorched-earth political warfare really entails. ...
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Trump’s Non-Radical Decision on Jerusalem
President Trump made the laudable decision Wednesday to recognize reality: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and our embassy should be in that city.
That is not a radical position. It has been the consensus in the United States for ...
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The Christian Baker Need Not Have Ended Up at the Supreme Court
On December 5, the Supreme Court heard the case of Jack Phillips, the Christian baker who can’t in good conscience design and create wedding cakes that celebrate same-sex marriages. The justices now will decide whether states, consistent with the First ...
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Electronic Monitoring Can Be a Boon to Criminal-Justice Reform
Regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v. United States, using powerful technology to monitor criminal offenders will remain lawful. The Court may rule that police need a warrant to obtain suspects’ cell-phone records, but such a ruling ...
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As a survivor of the Bosnian war of the 1990s, I was naturally drawn to the trial of Ratko Mladić before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The tribunal found, Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general, guilty late last ...
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Pearl Harbor and the Legacy of Carl Vinson
Seventy-six years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese fleet surprise-attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Japanese carrier planes killed 2,403 Americans. They sunk or submerged 19 ships (including eight battleships destroyed or disabled) and damaged ...
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On Strzok, Let’s Wait for the Evidence
I’m taking a “wait and see” attitude on FBI agent Peter Strzok, who is now enmeshed in a political storm involving both the Clinton and the Trump investigations. You know why? Well . . . it’s because I can’t stand ...
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Cut Corporate Taxes Now, Not in a Year
Eureka!
Betsy McCaughey, the Republican former lieutenant governor of New York, has discovered the formula for delivering a 20 percent corporate-tax rate in January 2018, as the U.S. House of Representatives wishes, not 2019, as the Senate voted, in an act that ...
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Steven Spielberg’s The Post Is Good, and It’s Not About Trump
An erratic, vindictive, tantrum-prone president. Two great newspapers trying to do their jobs in the face of his withering attacks. An epic fight over the First Amendment. 2017? No, it’s 1971, in Steven Spielberg’s eerily timed Pentagon Papers drama The ...
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Organic Food Won’t Help You Get Pregnant
Struggling with infertility is a crushing experience. It is humiliating and painful, both physically and emotionally, because treatments often involve a litany of invasive tests and surgeries. Infertility patients take several rounds of powerful drugs, followed by careful monitoring, more ...
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Socialism by Any Other Name
Seattle city councilwoman Kshama Sawant wants you to believe she’s a socialist. Even though councilmembers are nonpartisan, she declared her affiliation with the Trotskyite Socialist Alternative party during her first campaign back in 2015. In her inauguration speech, she reminded ...
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Putin Conspiracists Often Sound Envious
The obsession with Vladimir Putin’s supposedly decisive influence over events in the West, particularly the unwelcome ones, is spreading from America’s political class outward. First it was believed that Putin somehow “hacked” the American election, or that Donald ...
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Pyongyang on the Prairie, Part I
A criminal justice system that operates in the dark is arbitrary, unjust and criminal.
In Oklahoma this year, a Kafkaesque set of sealed motions, secret orders, and closed-door hearings completely shut out a criminal defendant, his public defenders and the ...
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How to Tell When Deficits are Bad
If you’re a normal person who pays attention to politics, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Washington can’t decide whether deficits are bad or not. Well, I have one easy trick that will help you make sense ...
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On Monday, President Donald Trump visited Utah to announce the largest reductions to national monuments in U.S. history. His order will shrink two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante, by roughly 2 million acres in total. The decision ...
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The Kennedy Center Honors Reveal Why Trump Won
The Kennedy Center Honors isn’t shy about proclaiming its importance. According to its website, getting tapped at its annual ceremony is the moral equivalent of a British knighthood or the French Legion d’Honneur.
When the honors began in 1978, ...
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The Incredible Tale of a Reckless, Partisan FBI Agent and Our Partisan Bureaucracy
If the story hadn’t been verified by virtually every mainstream-media outlet in the country, you’d think it came straight from conspiratorial fever dreams of the alt-right. Yesterday, news broke that Robert Mueller had months ago asked a senior ...
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The Newest Round of Anti-Trumpism
It is hard to believe that Trumpophobic idiocy can plumb depths more profound than it has reached in the last few days. Just as the Russian-collusion argument, which was never supported by anything except Hillary Clinton’s sulky evasions of ...
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It’s the early 1990s, and a young man is sitting in a human-resources office at the Coca-Cola Company, which has just offered him a terrific job. But he is nervous. He begins asking his HR liaison a series of ...
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Pope Francis’s Bad Advice on Free Markets
Meeting with global-finance students recently at the Chartreux Institute in Lyon, France, Pope Francis warned them “to remain free from the lure of money, from the slavery in which money traps those who worship it.” He also counseled them not ...
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The Perils of Reform in Saudi Arabia
An ambitious crown prince impatient to modernize a conservative kingdom. A grand plan to diversify an oil-dependent economy. The introduction of a swathe of liberalizing reforms from women’s rights to education. Efforts to curtail the powers of a traditionally ...
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Why The Godfather Endures
If The Godfather (1972) had come out a decade earlier than it actually did, audiences would have resisted it. You can imagine viewers asking: How are we supposed to get wrapped up in the internal disputes of this band of amoral ...
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No, Michael Flynn Didn’t Violate the Logan Act
In December 2016, Michael Flynn was three weeks from becoming the national-security adviser to the next president of the United States.
This is a pertinent fact in evaluating the conduct underlying his plea deal with Robert Mueller. Flynn admitted to lying ...
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Everyone Got What They Wanted from the Failure of Brexit Negotiations
Let’s catch up. Today Prime Minister Theresa May was set to have lunch with Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, who would judge if she had delivered “sufficient progress” on three Brexit items before they could move ...
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George Will Is Wrong about Masterpiece Cakeshop
It’s astounding how many defenses of the state’s position in Masterpiece Cakeshop depend on misrepresentation and misconceptions. Last week I wrote about the most common misrepresentation — that Jack Phillips discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation when he ...
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It Is Now an Obstruction Investigation
The smoke is clearing from an explosive Mueller investigation weekend of charges, chattering, and tweets. Before the next aftershock, it might be helpful to make three points about where things stand. In ascending order of importance, they are:
1.) There is ...
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This past weekend marked the annual Reagan National Defense Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. It was the first Forum since the Republicans took control of the White House and both houses of Congress. ...
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Mark Helprin has written another novel: Paris in the Present Tense. Another masterpiece, another blow for truth and beauty.
That sentence is subject to some ambiguity, I guess. I’m not talking about a blow against truth and beauty — but ...
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Presidents really only get to do one big thing, or maybe two. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. Franklin Roosevelt got his New Deal and joined the war against Adolf Hitler. Lyndon Johnson expanded the welfare state and signed into law ...
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In 1978 the Berkeley molecular biologist Gunther Stent published a book called “Paradoxes of Progress,” in which he wrote that “the most meaningful [contemporary] definition of progress can be made from the purview . . . of the will to power”; but, he added, “...
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Norman Rockwell Gets His Day in Court
The biggest art-world headline of 2017 is probably, “Leonardo Gets Sold for $450 Million,” but the biggest art-world story of 2017 looks like the little Berkshire Museum’s quest to sell $70 million worth of art to finance a fool’s errand. It’s ...
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I’d Vote for It. You Should, Too.
Warts and all, if I were a voting member of Congress, I would certainly cast a “yea” vote for the tax-cut plan passed by the Senate and House and headed for conference (to work out minor differences) in the weeks ...
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The push for tax reform ran into last-minute complications in the Senate, as Republicans were arguing about the composition of the bill’s tax cuts and searching for places to drum up more revenue. Now, it appears they have the ...
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The GOP Should Put Tax-Loving Democrats on a No-SALT Diet
As the GOP’s tax-cut bill advances through Congress, Republicans completely should scrap the federal deduction on state and local taxes (SALT).
While this reform is not yet enacted, it already is having a positive effect: Liberal Democrats are holstering ...
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What the Flynn Plea Means
Former Trump-administration national-security adviser Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty today to lying to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States.
Flynn, who is reportedly cooperating with the investigation of special counsel Robert ...
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Leftist Hypocrisy in the ‘War on Women’
We are living through the fallout of a very real “war on women.” We’re hearing the stories of this war’s victims firsthand. And many Democrats, who have claimed for years to stand staunchly on the front lines of ...
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