There’s a growing intolerance of conservative views.
Publication: National Review
Penn State’s Hiking Club Curtailment Is Example of Nanny State Gone Wild
The university explained that the hiking, scuba, and caving clubs are losing recognition due to an unacceptable amount of risk to student members that is associated with their activities.
The Misanthropic Mrs. Clinton
As a college sophomore, Clinton once described herself as a “misanthrope.” Her inability to hide that made her an amazingly poor candidate, one who would have had difficulty capturing a seat on any city council on her own.
California Progressives Launch Another Attack on Free Speech
A California bill would criminalize conservative speech about gender.
David Hogg: Oracle or Useful Idiot?
Though a senior, he brings to life the roots of the word ‘sophomore.”
Hillary Should Just Admit She Hates Half of America
Her comments in India weren’t shocking; they were just the latest example of the contempt she’s displayed all along.
Gina Haspel’s Record Should Be an Asset, Not a Roadblock, to Her Appointment
Gina Haspel’s long career at the agency, including extensive work undercover in the field, is getting blotted out by her reported involvement in the CIA’s black-site interrogation program, which has become a warrant to say anything about her.
Southern Poverty Law Center’s Bias Makes “Hate Group” Labels Scam
The purported fact-finding group is in fact a machine for turning leftist hysteria into cash.
The Child-Soldiers of the Gun Control War
Quite a few advocates of gun control, including many who claim the mantle of “objective” journalism, have taken the view that these kids cannot be criticized. Apparently, it’s fine to push kids suffering from post-traumatic stress…in front of cameras in order to drive public policy, but it’s an affront to decency to disagree with what they say or question the practice of using victims this way.
Why the Media Is Fawning Over North Korea
Ben Shapiro: The most obvious explanation is hatred for the Trump administration. North Korea is being celebrated as a charter member of the international #Resistance — a regime unwilling to sit down for Trump’s militaristic bluster.
Why the Cult of Trump Has Taken Hold
Jonah Goldberg: Never before in modern American history have we had a president so transparently demanding not just loyalty but praise from his subordinates and political allies. He considers criticism of his behavior a greater offense than voting against his agenda — and so do his most ardent supporters.
Nunes Memo: National Security Was Not Threatened
The memo released Friday — which did not have a single word redacted — clearly contained lots of information on intelligence-agency abuses. Here’s what it did not contain: secrets vital to national security.
Mainstream Media’s Big Lie About the Tet Offensive
America’s first major encounter with the Big Lie, with all its disastrous consequences, started 50 years ago today, when the American mainstream media decided to turn the major Communist Tet offensive against U.S. forces and South Vietnam on January 30, 1968, into an American defeat, rather than what it actually was: a major American victory.
California Considers Bill Sending Waiters to Jail for Offering Environmentally Harmful Straws
The state of California is considering a bill that would punish waiters at sit-down restaurants with up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, for offering customers straws — because straws are bad for the environment.
Women’s Movement Rejects Female Conservatives Running for Office
Conservative women running for office are roundly ignored and the millions of women who want their representatives to embody anything other than progressive dogma are left without options in this female revolution.
The US Press Is Freer Than Its Ever Been
Sself-serving complaints about American press freedoms being in peril are unqualified bunk. For one thing, the very breadth and intensity of the anti-Trump press illustrates there are few inhibitions and no strictures on their freedom of expression.
Golden Globes Was a Fiasco of Hypocrisy, Preening and No Self-Awareness
The house rolled over for Oprah Winfrey, the nation’s most prominent retailer of quack medicine, the celebrity shill who made herself some $3 billion pitching supernatural wishful thinking and life-endangering crackpot pseudoscience to poor people and women, and NBC declared her our next president in a tweet.
Democrats Weren’t Always So Concerned About Sexual Impropriety
In fact, there was a time not long ago when many of them argued that such behavior was excusable, even in the Oval Office.
Media Drops the Ball on Trump Stories
Rich Lowry: The media’s errors over the past week haven’t been marginal or coincidental, but involved blockbuster reports on one of the most dominating stories of the past year, Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. They all slanted one way — namely, toward lurid conclusions about the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Russians.
Trump Fights Global Anti-Semitism with Jerusalem Decision
David French: President Trump’s decision to formally recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel…is one of the best, most moral, and important decisions of his young administration. On this issue, he is demonstrating greater resolve than Republican and Democratic presidents before him, and he is defying some of the worst people in the world.
Leftist Hypocrisy and the War on Women
The same Democrats who have bellowed for years about the Republican party’s “war on women,” who never waste an opportunity to lash out at the pro-life movement for being “anti-woman,” and who propelled Barack Obama to his second term….have dropped their weapons and retreated now that members of their own ranks are being implicated in a real war on women: the scourge of sexual assault.
Kennedy, Clinton and Weinstein Sexual Assaults: Accountability Conveniently Timed
Now it’s safe to denounce the worst acts of serial abusers on the left side of the aisle.
Texas Shooting and Gun Ownership
Rich Lowry: Small towns might not even have a police department, and the police tend to be for after-the-fact investigations rather than real-time responses…In swaths of the country, a gun isn’t an optional extra layer of self-protection but a necessary first defense.
Sure, Go Ahead and Politicize Tragic Events
David French: But perhaps moments when the public is energized and interested are among the best times for politicians to make political arguments. Do it tactfully. Respect the fallen. But make your case.