Why Can’t a Woman Be Less Like a Man?
Two conflicting strains of contemporary obsession collided fatally in Parkland, Florida, two weeks ago, when an unstable teenage boy brought a rifle to the Marjory […]
Free Speech
You Can’t Win the Budget Battle Until You Win the Trust War
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) ended Saturday, and it went out with a bang. During a panel discussion about the #MeToo movement, National Review […]
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Stop calling “snowflakes” snowflakes. Stop misrepresenting the greatness of the latter with the god-awfulness of the former, whose ranks include students and citizens too precious […]
Once Again, A House Divided
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. —Mark 3:25 (King James Version) In the wake of the horrific shootings in […]
“You Got a Problem with That?”
Contrary to what many sheltered millennials seem to think, bigotry and prejudice were not simply given a free pass in the bad old days of […]
“Run, Rabbit, Run!” Rabid Parents on the Prowl
These days, nothing is safe from an attack of the PC moralists. Not even classic children’s literature. In the latest edition of the PC “police […]
Triumph of the Shills
Let’s begin with Godwin and get it out of the way. Imagine for a moment that Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister for the Third Reich, was […]
Tear Down That Wall . . . of Silence
As the Obama wall of silence begins to crumble, the FBI’s reputation is befouled by its own rash actions, a politicized Justice Department stands revealed […]
Counterfeit Elitism
Those damn dairy farmers. Why do they insist on trying to govern? Or, put another way: Why are Republicans trusting Devin Nunes to be their […]
Hatred By the Numbers
How do they hate thee; let us count the ways. Critics of President Trump came up with a variety of numbers for their hatreds after […]
A Tale of Two Countries
Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-Mass.) had the unenviable task of rebutting President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address this week. Kennedy found himself […]
NeverTrump “Conservative” Michael Medved: A Look Back
Now that Donald Trump has had what is, by many accounts, an astonishingly successful first year—according to the Heritage Foundation, at any rate, an even […]
Be Grateful Trump Broke the Overton Window
On the eve of the first anniversary President Trump’s Inauguration, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said something remarkable. It points to why many of […]
From Conspiracy Theories to Conspiracies
Not all conspiracy theorists are unhinged paranoids—even when they insist there was a loosely organized if not sometimes incoherent effort to destroy Donald Trump’s candidacy […]
Can the First Amendment Protect Us from the Ruling Class?
Congress shall make no law” restricting the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, or of association. Aside from Christ’s distinction between duties to God […]
Feminists in Wonderland
Twinkle, twinkle, pussyhat! How I wonder what you’re at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea tray in the sky. (With apologies to […]
Snowflake Feminism
The anonymous attack on comedian Aziz Ansari, essentially for being a lousy date and inconsiderate sex partner, has led some to think that the spate […]
Covering Your Kids’ Ears About ‘Shithole’? Grow Up
My prodigious use of profanity is one of my many shortcomings as a human being and as a mother. No matter how many times I’ve […]
King for a Day: The Greatness of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On this day, which is no ordinary holiday for no ordinary man, let us speak a truth: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great […]
This is CNN . . . in 1945
What if something like CNN and modern communications were around in early 1945? What if the rules of presidential news coverage were then as they […]