[ad_1] Journalist Bob Woodward arrives at Trump Tower, N.Y., 2017. (Mike Segar/Reuters) On the menu today: Trump’s statements to Bob Woodward aren’t all that different from what he’s said at his rallies and in other public events, a couple of ways that the rest of America’s leadership class isn’t providing the sharp contrast to Trump

[ad_1] Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) listens during a hearing regarding the national response to the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 22, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/Reuters) Representative Max Rose (D., N.Y.) is calling fellow Democrat Bill de Blasio “the worst mayor in the history of New York City” in a series of digital

[ad_1] Attendees at the 2017 March for Life (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Pro-choice advocates push a new talking point that it isn’t. Let’s look at the record. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s the pro-life movement remains entrenched among American voters, a new pro-choice talking point has entered the media narrative. In the new historiography of the

[ad_1] President Trump’s determined transformation of the federal judiciary has elevated some of the brightest under-40 members of the conservative legal movement, from Andy Oldham of the Fifth Circuit to Allison Jones Rushing of the Fourth Circuit, to the federal courts. These judges will be on the bench for a very long time, and the

[ad_1] (Bill Chizek/iStock/Getty Images Plus) President Trump on Wednesday released his updated list of potential Supreme Court nominees and called on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to follow suit. “Should there be another vacancy on the Supreme Court during my presidency, my nominee will come from the names I have shared with the American public,” Trump

[ad_1] (Illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) The Wall Street Journal reports that TikTik parent company ByteDance and the Trump administration are evaluating alternatives to the forced sell off that’s been in the works since June. For several weeks, it seemed that such a deal, whereby an American company would purchase the popular video-sharing app, could prevent a

[ad_1] As a preface to his list of new Supreme Court candidates, President Trump delivered a very strong statement on why it matters whether he or Joe Biden is making judicial nominations over the next four years. Here’s my cleaned-up version (e.g., capitalization added, typos fixed) of an unofficial transcript I received by email: The

[ad_1] (AntonioGuillem/Getty Images) The University of Michigan Dearborn hosted a virtual discussion Tuesday that it dubbed the “non-POC cafe,” an event that appeared to welcome only white students and ignited criticism of the school for its decision to hold an apparently segregated event. The Dearborn campus, one of the public university’s two regional campuses, described the virtual event

[ad_1] President Trump today added 20 names to his existing list of Supreme Court candidates and committed to select his next nominees from the revised list. The overall list is outstanding. Bridget Bade, Ninth Circuit Daniel Cameron, Kentucky AG Paul Clement, former Solicitor General Tom Cotton, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator Stuart Kyle Duncan,

[ad_1] Former Secretary of Defense General Jim Mattis speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, September 9, 2019. (Gary He/Reuters) Former defense secretary Jim Mattis told then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats they may have to take “collective action” against President Trump due to his unfitness for office, according to a new book

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., August 20, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) A new Marquette University Law School poll of the key battleground state of Wisconsin shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 48

[ad_1] A polling station in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 4, 2014 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) In the New York Times, Jesse Wegman complains about the Electoral College. His argument will be familiar to anyone who has read complaints about the Electoral College. And so will this phrase, which has become a mandatory feature of complaints about the Electoral

[ad_1] So argues Professor Jacob Howland in today’s Martin Center article.  Most of our colleges and universities have been taken over by “progressives” who use them to advance their visions and true education is being pushed out. That’s what happened at the school where Howland taught for many years, the University of Tulsa. Across the

[ad_1] Senator Ben Sasse speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2020. ( Erin Schaff/Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) called to repeal the 17th Amendment on Tuesday, which would eliminate the requirement that U.S. senators be elected by popular votes. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed

[ad_1] Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Wash., in 2015. (Matt Mills McKnight/Reuters) Teachers’ unions now have the nation’s parents over a barrel. Local, voluntary, accountable private schools could break their stranglehold while helping kids and strengthening communities. Death, taxes, and appalling behavior on the part of

[ad_1] Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., KY) walks from the Senate Chamber after eliminating the filibuster rule against Supreme Court nominees in Washington, D.C., April 6, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Norman Ornstein’s ‘Smart Way to Fix the Filibuster’ is nothing of the sort. For The Atlantic, Norman Ornstein has written a piece purporting to lay

[ad_1] Police officers in riot gear fire pepper balls against rioters in Rochester, New York, September 5, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Hundreds of violent riots resulting in billions of dollars in damage, lost life, and a fraying social fabric is not an issue to be set aside. Has this summer’s unrest been “mostly peaceful,” as some

[ad_1] A NYPD police officer at the scene of a shooting in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 25, 2020 (Lloyd Mitchell/Reuters) The NYPD made more gun arrests last week than during any week over the last 25 years, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday, a milestone for the department as the city weathers a spike in shootings

[ad_1] At the Republican National Convention, several speakers focused on the pro-life movement and the Democratic Party’s increasing, frightening support for abortion on demand. Perhaps the most noteworthy of those speakers was Sister Deirdre Byrne, a missionary, a medical doctor, a military veteran, and a religious sister in the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts

[ad_1] (Pixabay) How in the tank for assisted suicide are the media? This much. A headline in the Mercury News about assisted suicide exclaims: “How Doctors are Fixing How We Die.” Good grief. The story is about Lonnie Shavelson, formerly a part-time ER doctor who spent most of his working life as a photo journalist. He

[ad_1] (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) Before becoming a judge on the Ninth Circuit, Daniel Bress had, by age 39, accomplished in just a few years what many lawyers aspire to achieve over the course of an entire career. He clerked for the late Justice Scalia. He was a partner at a law firm where, among numerous other

[ad_1] Former college football coach Lou Holtz sits beside White House ecomonic advisor Larry Kudlow as President Donald Trump announces that he intends to honor Holtz with a presidential medal of freedom during a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 4, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Two weeks ago, former Notre Dame football

[ad_1] Former Covington Catholic High School Student Nicholas Sandmann speaks from the Lincoln Memorial to the 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington, D.C., August 25, 2020. (2020 Republican National Convention/Handout via Reuters) An ACLU Kentucky communications associate criticized Transylvania University on Saturday for accepting Nick Sandmann, the high school student who sued major news

[ad_1] Voter Michael Grabowski fills out his ballot at a polling station during the primary election in Peru, Ill., March 17, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) One major difference between the 2016 presidential-election cycle and this year is that so far the minor-party candidates appear to be non-factors. Whether or not you think “Gary Johnson and Jill

[ad_1] Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris arrives at General Mitchell International Airport Milwaukee, Wis., September 7, 2020. (Alex Wroblewski/Reuters) Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke with Jacob Blake on Monday, telling the 29-year-old who was shot in the back by Kenosha, Wis. police that she was proud of him. Blake “told Sen. Harris

[ad_1] Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., August 24, 2020. (Tom Williams/Reuters) House Democrats said Monday they would open an investigation into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over accusations that he broke campaign finance laws in pushing his employees to make campaign contributions

[ad_1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) The agency’s eviction ban oversteps the bounds of the law. In a move it finalized on Friday of last week, the Trump administration banned many evictions through the end of the year. Readers furrowed their brows in puzzlement when they learned which

[ad_1] Patrick Pearse (Bain News Service/Library of Congress) Shared sacrifice for the sake of others is a boon, but some varieties of nationalism are performative and selfish. At the very end of my summer, I felt as if I’d experienced the end of the pandemic, or at least I got a foretaste of the end.

[ad_1] A tapestry of Pope John Paul II hangs at the Vatican during canonization ceremonies in 2014. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters) America could benefit from serious engagement with The Gospel of Life. I used to be one of those people who argued with the people on television. I was a political junkie from my earliest days, so

[ad_1] Campus of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (dwhob/iStock/Getty Images Plus) They continue to compromise free speech and due process. For years, universities have denied basic procedural protections to students accused of sexual misconduct. Despite the seriousness of such allegations, schools routinely condemn students as responsible without so much as a hearing or the opportunity