Are We All Prisoners of Facebook?
Some people run afoul of Facebook’s rules and find themselves locked out of their accounts for a few hours or a few weeks. They call […]
15 Months After Steve Scalise Was Shot and Nearly Killed . . .
Somebody has doxxed U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Which is terrible, but doesn’t sound especially unsurprising in these […]
Why Obama Is Great for Republicans
Barack Obama is the best president Republicans have ever had. In his eight years in office, the 44th president helped deliver to the GOP (in […]
‘Donald Trump Is an Ideological Heretic. He Simply Must Be Stopped’
Liberal anti-Trump columnist Damon Linker alights upon what is, as far as I’m concerned, the most egregious and infuriating part of the anonymous White House […]
Being an Establishment Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
You must read Spengler’s cold-eyed assessment of John McCain’s funeral, “A funeral for a world that never was,” at the Asia Times. “Senator McCain served […]
Imagine Trumpism Without Trump? It’s Easy If You Try
President Donald Trump is doomed for sure. Special counsel Robert Mueller is tightening the rope around the 45th president. It’s only a matter of time […]
F. H. Buckley on Trump vs. The New Class
F. H. Buckley’s new book, The Republican Workers Party, arrives in bookstores this week. In anticipation, Spectator USA has published an excerpt from the book’s […]
This Is Why All Americans Should Support President Trump on Immigration
Donald Trump was serious when he campaigned on stricter enforcement of immigration laws. With “zero-tolerance” for illegal border crossers, a travel moratorium from certain countries […]
State of Resistance: San Francisco, ‘City of Bans’
My friend and former colleague Steve Greenhut has a pungent column at the American Spectator about the California city we all love to hate, San […]
Politico Writer: NeverTrump Should Go Full Borg
Or words to that effect. Here is what Bill Scher, in fact, writes near the end of a lengthy appeal at Politico for sad NeverTrump […]
State of Resistance: San Francisco, Beset with Homeless and Covered in Human Excrement, Moves to Ban Plastic Straws
Priorities! The Associated Press reports: San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to give plastic straws the cold shoulder, following the lead of Seattle, another eco-conscious West Coast […]
Twitter Shadow Bans Republicans: Report
Is anyone surprised? VICE News on Wednesday reported that Twitter is “is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as […]
Cory Booker’s Perverse Religious Test
When we last saw the junior U.S. senator from New Jersey, he was shedding “tears of rage” over President Trump’s alleged comments about “shithole countries.” […]
Justice Department: The Term Is ‘Illegal,’ Not ‘Undocumented’
CNN reports that the Justice Department is dispensing with an obnoxious euphemism: The Justice Department has instructed US attorneys offices not to use the term […]
The Dems ‘Had Made Ball-Gagged Submissives of Us All’
Sometimes it’s useful to remember that while “the Left” can be useful shorthand to describe our political opposition, the Left isn’t an undifferentiated monolith. If […]
End Birthright Citizenship
Michael Anton argues in the Washington Post today that “birthright citizenship”—the idea, which the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to affirm in 1898, that simply being […]
What Roger Scruton Doesn’t Get About Trump
In case you missed it, the great British philosopher Roger Scruton published a commentary in the New York Times on July 4 headlined, “What Trump […]
GOP Candidate: ‘Outside of Western Civilization, There is Only Barbarism’
Kansas State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, who is seeking the Republican nomination to replace retiring Rep. Lynn Jenkins, visited the July 2 meeting of the Leavenworth […]
Anthony Kennedy Retires
Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday announced he would be leaving the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of July. You know what that means . […]
Hey, @JuddApatow: Your Nazi Analogy Is Stupid, Facile, and Wrong
David Harsanyi refutes Judd Apatow and Kumail Nanjiani, a pair of high-profile Twitter fools who think they know something about history: Moreover, by 1934 — […]