A woman who is five months pregnant attends a sonogram at a local hospital in Shanghai, China, September 12, 2014. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) The ‘news’ piece criticizes pro-life centers for receiving a few million in taxpayer funding. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ne of the most common slanders of the pro-life movement is that its members care

Power lines and wind turbines at a wind and solar energy storage and transmission power station of the State Grid Corporation of China in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China, March 18, 2016. (Jason Lee/Reuters) To be sure, China may be evolving into a fascist state (albeit one with Chinese characteristics), and there’s the little matter of

Central American migrants are escorted out of private land as they are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico in La Joya, Texas, April 27, 2021. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) Two watchdog groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services for records

Arizona Democratic senator Mark Kelly was already facing a tough reelection in November, and Chuck Schumer’s decision to turn Arizona’s senior Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema into a villain may have made things a bit tougher for Kelly:  When Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer held a doomed vote last month to override the rules regarding the

Stacey Abrams speaks to the media in Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2021. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams issued an apology for appearing maskless in a photo with masked elementary-school students in Decatur, Ga. earlier this week, calling it a “mistake.” “I approached the podium with my mask on, I followed the protocols. I

People try to keep social distance as they use a New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 22, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) How to fight Covid is not the only seemingly technical or scientific issue that has become corrupted by ideological politics as described in my earlier

(urfinguss/Getty Images) Wellesley Public Schools has settled a discrimination lawsuit launched by non-profit Parents Defending Education on behalf of parents in the district, agreeing to end the use of racial “affinity groups” and any school-sponsored activities that exclude students on the basis of race. In holding three affinity-based group sessions — one for black and

Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks after being ceremonially sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) President Biden’s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned on Monday after an investigation revealed he violated the White

A person waves a Canadian flag in front of a truck as truckers and supporters continue to protest Covid vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2022. (Lars Hagberg/Reuters) The callous message to Canadian truckers NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he trucker convoy in Canada is the most dramatic, and most effective, protest against Covid-era

Gas prices at a BP station in New York City, November 24, 2021. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) This morning, the American Automobile Association reports that the national average price of gasoline is $3.44 per gallon for regular unleaded – ten cents higher than it was less than two weeks ago! That price is actually a few cents

Virginia Delegate A.C. Cordoza speaks at the Virginia House of Delegates, February 3, 2022. (vahousegop/via YouTube) If you’re not a liberal, you need not apply. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V irginia Democrats are certainly taking their defeat last November hard. Last week, they spitefully refused the application of the lone black Republican in the House of

People are silhouetted in front of the Canadian national flag at the Palais des Congres in Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 21, 2019. (Stephane Mahe/Reuters) A judge in New Brunswick, Canada recently blocked a father’s shared custody of his three children over his refusal to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, according to a new report. The parents

Marc Short participates in Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s daily briefing at the White House, March 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Marc Short, who served as chief of staff to Mike Pence, said Sunday that President Trump had “many bad advisers who were basically snake oil salesmen” at the time of the January 6 Capitol Riot. During

1937—Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s rulings against New Deal legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Court to as many as 15 justices. On the pretext that aging justices are unable to keep up with their workload, FDR’s Court-packing plan would add a new justice for each sitting justice who remained

Then-Vice President Mike Pence takes part in a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 election results on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Erin Schaff/Pool via Reuters) The Republican National Committee has voted to formally censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for “actions in their positions as members of the January

Vice President Kamala Harris gives a speech on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) I have noted previously the hemorrhaging of senior people from Kamala Harris’s staff just a year into her rocky tenure as vice president. That trend should be particularly surprising when

Cade Costales mobilizes students to protest Washington state K-12 mask mandate. (via Twitter@XJCasper) The mask wars have been heating up in school districts across the country in recent weeks, notably in purple Virginia, where Governor Youngkin’s administration has been battling defiant school districts over his recent executive order making masks optional. Even in reliable blue

Jose Espinoza, 27, receives a Covid vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2021. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Adrian Vermeule, a law professor at Harvard University, wants to use the power of the federal government to make you take a coronavirus vaccine. He argues as much in a recent New York Times

Store with a “No Mask, No Entry” sign on door in Queens, N.Y., December 29, 2021. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Some would argue (I wouldn’t, but I think Charlie Cooke would, as would many on the Left) that although 9/11 was a catastrophic event that required a serious response, we nevertheless went

(Photos.com/Getty Images) These days, that question arises rather often, and the usual answer is: Appease the mob. A particularly disturbing example is the story of Bob Kuczewski, who was a computer specialist at the Salk Institute. But one day he made the unpardonable mistake of taking issue with BLM rhetoric, writing: At the risk of

(Mark Makela/Reuters) There was an interesting post on the FRED blog today at the St. Louis Fed. It looks at the data on real personal consumption expenditures (so, adjusted for inflation) for durable goods, nondurable goods, and services. It indexes each of those such that 100 is equal to the February 2020 level of real

(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Spotify added more users and saw a spike in advertising revenue in its fourth quarter as the company shifted its focus toward podcasting, despite experiencing some public outcry over podcast host Joe Rogan. Spotify recorded 406 million monthly active users, an 18 percent increase from one year earlier. Paying subscribers rose 16 percent

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention in Greenville, North Carolina, June 5, 2021. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) South Dakota governor Kristi Noem introduced legislation Wednesday to prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools and higher-education training and orientation for students and staff. The bill ensures that “critical race

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., December 8, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Is the Senate majority leader terrified of a primary challenge in New York? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ow scared is Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer of the progressive base? Scared enough to risk his

Copies of Amnesty International’s report named “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity” during a press conference at the St. George Hotel, in East Jerusalem, February 1, 2022. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) The human-rights group’s newest report is a disgraceful attack on the Jewish state. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A ll over the

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speak to reporters after a meeting with President Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The State of the Union address is a civic tradition and, at times, fascinating political theater, although its TV ratings have been in

People walk near the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., January 26, 2022. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The president’s nominee will almost surely pose a threat to the Constitution. And Republicans should say so. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s highly unlikely that Republicans will be able to mount any serious challenge to President Joe Biden’s impending nominee

Ryan Bourne of the Cato Institute explains why economists disagree on the causes and solutions for inflation. Here’s an excerpt: Put aside the baseless suggestions from politicians about the role of corporate greed or market concentration; economists such as Larry Summers and John Cochrane confidently claim that the problem was primarily too much macroeconomic stimulus being pumped

Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the WorldPride 2019 opening ceremony in New York,June 26, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) On Monday, Jewish organizations denounced The View host Whoopi Goldberg’s on-air rant that dismissed the racial motivation behind the Holocaust, the Third Reich’s genocide of more than 6 million Jews. Goldberg surprised her audience and co-hosts when she argued on

Republican John James, who fell 1.7 percentage points short of unseating Democratic Michigan senator Gary Peters in 2020, has announced that he’s running for the House in 2022:  I fought on the battlefield for American lives and in business for good-paying jobs that fuel livelihoods. I will continue to fight for the hardworking families in