Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., August 6, 2021. (Gabrielle Crockett/Reuters) The House delayed a vote on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Thursday, as progressive Democrats refused to support the bill until Congress acts on a reconciliation package projected to

On Thursday, Politico reported that West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin had signed a letter all the way back in July informing Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer that Manchin wouldn’t support a new reconciliation bill that costs more than $1.5 trillion. This afternoon, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, leader of the House Progressive Caucus, said progressives still

David Leonhardt, who is still acting as the unofficial czar of respectable COVID opinions among liberals, is out today with a big defense of vaccine mandates — specifically workplace mandates. The numbers he examines show that coercion brings vaccination rates from around 70 or 75 percent to over 90 percent: The rationale for workplace mandates:

U.S. Border Patrol agent Carlos Rivera guides migrants to be processed after they attempted to cross the border from Mexico into Sunland Park, N.M., September 17, 2021. (Paul Ratje/Reuters) The Biden administration will again attempt to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy after a district court ruled that the agency must carry out the program,

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counter-terrorism operations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 28, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via Reuters) Amid the partisan battles ensuing in Congress over the two pending legislative reconciliation and infrastructure packages, moderate

Rossi Maloney, aged 2, who featured as a ‘No’ campaign poster child after his mother Emma Maloney credits the 8th Amendment for saving his life after an unplanned pregnancy, holds a Pro-Life poster in Dublin, Ireland May 23, 2018. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters) Earlier this month, the Guttmacher Institute released a report with new state-level data on

People protest in support of the unionizing efforts of the Alabama Amazon workers, in Los Angeles, California, March 22, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) There’s a new report out by James Sherk, formerly a labor economist at the Heritage Foundation and a labor policy adviser in the Trump White House, about Democrats’ union-related proposals in the $3.5

The Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) You’re invited to join National Review Institute and Pacific Legal Foundation as they join forces once again for an annual preview of the coming Supreme Court term. The event will include a panel discussion with three of our nation’s top Supreme Court

U.S. Marines provide assistance during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 20, 2021. (Lance Cpl. Nicholas Guevara/U.S. Marine Corps/via Reuters) On the menu today: A Marine officer in the brig demonstrates the U.S. government’s twisted sense of “accountability” for the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan; the new Taliban continues to act

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to reporters following the weekly Senate lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) The Senate failed to pass a bill that would raise the federal debt ceiling and provide short-term funding to avoid a government shutdown, in a key procedural vote Monday evening.

President Joe Biden speaks prior to signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law as Vice President Kamala Harris stands by in the East Room of the White House, June 17, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) At the risk of sounding even more cynical than usual, I suspect the Biden administration sees the entire public

Gov. Greg Abbott (R., Texas) speaks during a news conference in Del Rio, Texas, September 21, 2021. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday put his support behind Border Patrol agents who are under investigation by the Biden administration for swinging long reins while interacting with Haitian migrants, vowing to hire any who are

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed that about 12,000 migrants who arrived in Del Rio, Texas, over the past two weeks have been released into the U.S., in an interview on Fox News Sunday. Host Chris Wallace noted that out of 30,000 migrants who came to Del Rio, Mayorkas has already stated that about

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions from reporters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., August 6, 2021. (Gabrielle Crockett/Reuters) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to acknowledge that the cost of the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion spending resolution will ultimately be lowered before passage, in an interview on ABC’s This

The west side of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) 2006—At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Michael B. Wallace to the Fifth Circuit, Roberta Liebenberg, chair of the ABA’s judicial-evaluations committee, commits multiple acts of apparent flat-out perjury in defending her committee’s “not qualified” rating

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks next to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before boarding Air Force Two at El Paso International Airport in El Paso, Texas, June 25, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday claimed that images of Border Patrol agents swinging long reins while interacting with Haitian migrants

Fletcher Library on the Arizona State University campus, 2010. (Wikimedia Commons) Two white Arizona State University students were harassed at the school’s multicultural center over their race and their support for police, according to reports. Video of the incident purports to show black students attempting to force two white male students to leave the area,

President Jimmy Carter at the White House in 1977 (LIbrary of Congress) 1979–Taking advantage of its (and the House’s) massive increase in the number of judgeships a year earlier, the Democrat-controlled Senate confirms on a single day 25 of President Jimmy Carter’s judicial nominees, seven to appellate judgeships and eighteen to district judgeships.

Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command guide evacuees on to a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 21, 2021. (Sergeant Samuel Ruiz/U.S. Marine Corps) The FBI has launched an investigation into the alleged assault of a female soldier perpetrated

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on Afghanistan during a speech in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D,C., August 31, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Axios has a report out about how President Biden’s team is finally coming to the realization that with razor thin majorities in Congress, maybe it was a bit

President Bill Clinton speaks in the briefing room of the White House, June 16, 1998. (Gary Cameron/Reuters) 1992—By a vote of 4 to 3, the Kentucky supreme court rules (in Commonwealth v. Wasson) that Kentucky’s statutory prohibition of homosexual sodomy, dating from 1860, violates a right of privacy and a guarantee of equal treatment implicit

Protesters scale a wall as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) In my column this morning, I waded back into January 6. Meanwhile, congressional investigators are pressing ahead with

From left: Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib hold a news conference on Capitol Hill, July 15, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) The House Democratic progressive “Squad” effort to eliminate U.S. assistance for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system seemed to come out of nowhere. Israel and the Palestinians haven’t

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, May 10, 2021. Picture taken with slow shutter speed. (Amir Cohen/Reuters) Stripping funding for Iron Dome only makes sense if the goal is to help Hamas become more efficient at killing civilians. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F

The Supreme Court Building in Washington D.C., August 5, 2021 (Brent Buterbaugh/National Review) If you’re like me, you will have enjoyed reading the legal commentary that’s been published ahead of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on December 1. At issue in the case is Mississippi’s 2018 Gestational Age

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 22, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) White House press secretary Jen Psaki accused border patrol agents of using “brutal” methods against migrants crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, during a press briefing at the White House. Psaki said officials

Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. walk in the Rio Grande River near the International Bridge between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, September 17, 2021. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Constant vigilance and cooperation with Mexico made the difference. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A lejandro Mayorkas likes to say that our border isn’t open. This line

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, May 19, 2021. (Amir Cohen/Reuters) On Tuesday, House Democratic leadership stripped $1 billion for Israel’s defensive anti-missile Iron Dome program out of a bill to fund the government. Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan was one of

Afghan refugees wait to board buses that will take them to a processing center after arriving at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., September 2, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Thirty-three major companies have vowed to hire and train Afghan refugees arriving in the U.S., the Tent Partnership for Refugees announced Tuesday. The companies, which include Amazon,

A father and son pass a sign announcing that the school is closed for the academic year due to the coronavirus in Falls Church, Va., March 25, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) During the fall term, the fatality risk of teaching was comparable to that of driving 18 miles alone in a car. Many U.S. school buildings,