[ad_1] Michael Flynn arrives prior to a news conference (Carlos Barria/File Photo via Reuters) A few months ago, I wrote about the unprecedented assault on the rule of law by liberal judges across the country. As Exhibit A, I highlighted the treatment of General Michael Flynn by U.S. District judge Emmet Sullivan. Today’s decision by

[ad_1] Flynn testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in 2014. (Reuters photo: Gary Cameron) The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s request to immediately drop his case. The Justice Department in April moved to drop its case against Flynn for allegedly lying to FBI agents as part

[ad_1] Judge Justin Walker is sworn in prior to testifying before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 6, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via Reuters) Justin Walker’s ascent to the federal judiciary is an American success story. Raised by a single mother in Louisville, Ky., Walker attended Louisville’s Catholic schools, studied

[ad_1] Demonstrators in Portland, Ore., August 2, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) On the menu today: pouring cold water on the notion that any figure or faction is going to benefit from riots in the streets of American cities, figuring out what to conclude from those reports of a few cases of coronavirus reinfection around the globe,

[ad_1] People yell at a line of police officers outside the Kenosha County Courthouse after Jacob Blake was shot several times by police in Kenosha, Wisc., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Kenosha police revealed on Sunday evening that most of the people arrested for rioting over the past week have an address outside the city

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech for the 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., August 20, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released a statement Sunday accusing President Trump of “fanning the flames of hate” that he said led to the Saturday night violence in

[ad_1] (Darren415/iStock/Getty Images Plus) If liberal economists could win the economic debate with honest arguments, they would make them. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s President Reagan once joked, “Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” In his New York Times

[ad_1] After Kyle finished his work that day as a community lifeguard in Kenosha, he wanted to help clean up some of the damage, so he and a friend went to the local public high school to remove graffiti by rioters. Later in the day, they received information about a call for help from a

[ad_1] Asha Rangappa on ABC in 2018. (ABC/via YouTube) Rangappa has made a habit of mounting vicious, dishonest attacks on women she disagrees with. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE ‘I know that the U.S. has engaged in many questionable things,” Asha Rangappa was quoted as saying in a glowing 2019 Elle profile. “But there was this idea

[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, October 17, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) The LA Times reported on Friday afternoon that House speaker Nancy Pelosi has privately committed to fellow Democrats that the House will vote next year to provide unlimited taxpayer funding of abortion for Medicaid recipients: The plan

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, August 27, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump brought the Republican convention to a close with a night long on pageantry, and longer on words. Trump’s acceptance speech went

[ad_1] University of Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind. (Matt Cashore/USA TODAY Sports) On the third night of the Republican National Convention, former Notre Dame head football coach Lou Holtz addressed the crowd, calling Trump “a consistent winner, an outstanding leader [who] deserves to be reelected as our president.” “There’s a statue of me

[ad_1] John Deberry, April 7, 2014. (Sean Braisted via Wikimedia) Tennessee State Representative John Deberry, a Democrat from Memphis, tore into rioters and demonstrators in Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere in the U.S. in a blistering speech to the Tennessee House earlier this month. Deberry spoke as lawmakers debated a law on August 12 to increase

[ad_1] (Getty Images) Oren Cass, executive director of American Compass, has an essay in the New York Times that I encourage you to read. It is an argument that many overweight the importance of economic outcomes in assessing overall well-being. The essay is often confused. Mr. Cass gives short shrift to the human misery caused

[ad_1] A demonstrators holds a large cross outside the Supreme Court as the court rules on two cases concerning religious liberty in Washington, D.C., July 8, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Fifth Circuit will soon decide whether to reconsider a case over whether religious groups control their own internal religious matters, or if — in the

[ad_1] Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2018 (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) is calling on the FBI to investigate the mob of protestors that swarmed him outside of the White House on Thursday following President Trump’s Republican convention speech, saying the group is part

[ad_1] Men carry rifles as people protest outside the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 25, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Without more context, the numerous videos of the incident add up to a disturbing Rorschach test. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE K enosha, a city of 100,000 in Wisconsin’s southeastern corner, now confronts the question of when

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers his speech during the final event of the Republican National Convention in Washington, August 27, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) In his convention speech last night, the president reframed the 2020 election as a referendum on the American idea. Joe Biden might not know how to respond. President Trump accepted the Republican

[ad_1] Senator Rand Paul is confronted by demonstrators during a protest in Washington, D.C., August 28, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) A crowd of protestors harassed Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) on Thursday night as he left the White House, where President Donald Trump had just delivered his nomination acceptance speech on the last night of the

[ad_1] Healthcare workers walk through the Texas Medical Center during a shift change as cases of the coronavirus spike in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 8, 2020. (Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters) Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota all reported record one-day increases in the number of new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.  While deaths from the virus climbed

[ad_1] (eranicle/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A new study reaches the obvious conclusion that ‘soaking the rich’ doesn’t help anyone. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s a well-observed truth that when you tax something, you get less of it. What many of today’s Democrats don’t seem to understand is that the rule applies just as much to taxes

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden greets workers during a campaign stop at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Mack assembly plant in Detroit, Mich., March 10, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) His proposals would eliminate large numbers of union jobs in manufacturing. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A mid all the confusion caused by the coronavirus and the usual noise

[ad_1] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Because the Federal Reserve’s most important job is to conduct monetary policy in a way that promotes stability, it has a salutary bias toward caution. But that caution has served it badly in its recent review of its policies. It knows it needs to change, but what

[ad_1] (Illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) It’s peddling the same dubious claims it has been making for months. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T ikTok, the besieged video-sharing app, is taking the U.S. government to court over President Trump’s decision to issue an executive order that bans the app after September 20. On Monday, the company’s lawyers filed a

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, August 27, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Donald Trump spoke for an hour and ten minutes, and he did not seem as if he was enjoying

[ad_1] Mona Charen at CPAC, 2018 (Gage Skidmore) A means, not an end. To be pro-life is to be part of an insurgent political movement that has been disempowered for nearly 50 years. Any such movement needs to obtain and to use political power to effect social change. For pro-lifers, the presidency and reelection campaign

[ad_1] Joe Biden in South Carolina in February, President Trump at the White House in April (Elizabeth Frantz, Joshua Roberts/Reuters) I’m hoping that after the Republican national convention concludes this week, the nation’s pollsters go out and start conducting more surveys, because it feels like we’re not getting as many as we usually do in

[ad_1] (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports) The National Hockey League has postponed two playoff games scheduled for Thursday night, following a push by some players to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. The decision came after an effort organized by the Hockey Diversity Alliance, a group of NHL players whose purpose is “to

[ad_1] A police officer wears an American flag mask during the coronavirus outbreak, Del Mar, Calif., April 3, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Virginia Senate approved legislation on Wednesday that would downgrade the legal penalty for a suspect found guilty of assaulting a police officer. Senate Bill 5032 would, if signed into law, eliminate the state’s

[ad_1] DJ Jaffe, October 1, 2018. (Screenshot via Youtube, Manhattan Institute) The seriously mentally ill lost their loudest champion last weekend. He will be missed. D. J. Jaffe died last weekend. He was an acquaintance of mine and a friend to many. Unfortunately, when you spend your life fighting for men and women with serious