They remain aggressive foes determined to strike at America. They must be killed or captured, not invited to negotiations.
Publication: National Review
In Praise of Gerald Ford
This weekend marks the 45th anniversary of arguably the most amazing moment in the history of the presidency. President Gerald Ford issued former president Richard Nixon a full, unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed related to the Watergate burglary and coverup.
Yes, Gun Ownership Is a God-Given Right
Rich Lowry: God doesn’t necessarily want you to own an AR-15, but there is a natural right to self-defense.
Conservatives Should Watch Less Cable News, More Drama and Comedy
The conservative movement in the United States, which identifies itself too closely with the Republican party, is at a low cultural ebb (it is certainly fashionable to be anti-Trump), but American popular culture for the past 20 years nonetheless has been suffused with deeply conservative sentiment — even though conservatives often fail to understand or appreciate it. We should watch less cable news and more drama and comedy.
The Amazon Scam
The G-7 Summit, insofar as it dealt with the fires, relied on a hysteria-induced misunderstanding of what’s happening in the Amazon.
The New York Times Should Stop Whining
If recirculating tweets of employees of liberal news outlets is undemocratic, why isn’t similar activity by left-wing groups also dangerously authoritarian?
Netflix Debuts Its Obama Manifesto
The media celebrate the arrival of the new ministers of propaganda.
Anti-President Trump Conservatives Have No Good 2020 Options
The Republican options beyond the president all have their own considerable flaws.
Democratic Dishonesty on Assault Weapon Bans
When they had the power to reinstate it, they didn’t even hold a vote.
The Coming Migration Out of Sub-Saharan Africa
It could send millions to Europe.
On Ferguson, Elizabeth Warren and Kamal Lied About Michael Brown
David French: Their falsehoods were immoral, divisive, and quite possibly unlawful.
Immigration Restriction Is Not Hate
It can’t be that the only respectable position on immigration, safe for the general public, is whatever the Democrats’ center of gravity on the issue is at any given time.
“My Family Has Been Threatened by Racists. Why Should They Outgun Me?”
David French: The right to effective self-defense has never been more important.
The FBI Crushed the Klan and Should Target Violent White Supremacists Today
They are domestic subversives and terrorists, and deserve to be treated as such.
Confronting the Evil Ideology of White Supremacy
President Trump, a man who is comfortable using his bully pulpit for the most frivolous of reasons, should take the time to condemn these actions…Simultaneously, the president should work with Congress to devote more resources to infiltrating, tracking, and foiling nascent plots…and he should instruct the federal government to initiate an information campaign against white-supremacist violence in much the same way as it has conducted crusades against drunk driving, human trafficking, and domestic violence.
Biden Survives, So Biden Wins
If Wednesday night’s debate doesn’t do any damage to Joe Biden’s numbers, he will probably cruise to the nomination.
Dem Debate: Warren and Sanders Stand Pat, But Look Out for Marianne
A lot of us are laughing about Marianne Williamson, but there’s some of that same dynamic that drove Trump to the nomination in 2016. She’s a figure who’s famous for being connected to the entertainment world, who isn’t interested in policy details, and who emotes in a way that generates raucous applause from the audience.
College Does Not Make You a Better Person
There are a set of implications that, while rarely acknowledged openly, are present nevertheless: that those who do not go to college have in some way failed…that every time a person declines to attend college, he is making America a little stupider on aggregate; and, by extension, that people who lack college degrees but nevertheless are successful are not demonstrating an alternative way of living their lives so much as muddling through as best they can absent vital instruction from their superiors.
Mueller’s Bad Day
If this had been a confirmation hearing, he would have flunked.
Public Losing Interest in Special Counsel
Democrats are at the point where continuing to press the Mueller probe hurts them more than it hurts the president.
Progressives Are Convinced That Trump Is Toast
But that attitude may mean they’ll be burned again.
The South Is a Pro-Life Stronghold
David French: If slavery and Jim Crow are America’s original sin, abortion is America’s second great sin. It’s a regime of mass death, empowered by a Supreme Court elite and sustained by a culture of exploitation and indulgence.
The Democratic Party Is Turning from Trump to Fighting Each Other
Among Democrats these days, it’s a Hobbesian war of all against all. No, that’s not quite right. It’s more of a Seinfeldian war of imagined slights and peevish insults, a slap-fight of grievance and innuendo, a “you-started-it-no-you-started it” toddlers’ rodeo. It’s Mad Max beyond Blunderdome.
Men Literally Died for American Flag, You Idiots
They risked everything for it, not for some idea or abstraction but for the piece of fabric itself.