[ad_1] Back when the country was going off the economic cliff because most states “shut down,” Ezekiel Emanuel, the bioethicist and Obamacare architect, urged that we be kept in that artificially induced societal coma for 18 months, until a COVID-19 vaccine was found. Now, the country is slowly getting back on its feet and millions

[ad_1] By a 5-4 vote (with the liberals and the Chief Justice in the majority) in Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak, the Supreme Court on Friday denied the emergency application in which a church sought an injunction that would require Nevada governor Steve Sisolak to allow it “to hold in-person worship services on the

[ad_1] (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) On the menu today: Jim’s back, with a little bit of everythin; an observation about how the New York Times not-so-secretly loathes a portion of its own readership; decrying the emerging form of “anti-journalism” in news institutions; the Guardian lies about Senator Tom Cotton, a new push for a deal on DACA; a late-summer book-recommendation list,

[ad_1] Houses in the Denver, Colo., suburb of Superior, 2006. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) An effort to shake down Amrock was passed off as a fight to protect intellectual property. Perhaps the fastest growing area of business lawsuits is litigation over trade secrets. The game changer came in 2016, when Congress created the Defense of Trade Secrets

[ad_1] A worker adjusts European Union and U.S. flags at EU Commission headquarters in Brussels in 2013. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters) While the European Union may be on the verge of its ‘Hamilton moment,’ the United States flirts with decline. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he European Union is — maybe — on the verge of its much-discussed

[ad_1] (adrian825/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The evidence is mixed, but suggests the answer could be yes. The dramatic increase of COVID-19 cases in the states of Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California this summer has many scratching their heads. The summer months were supposed to slow infections due to activities taking place outdoors and more in-home ventilation,

[ad_1] Sen. Edward Kennedy on Capitol Hill, January 2006 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) 1990—Less than three months after appointing New Hampshire supreme court justice David Hackett Souter to the First Circuit, President George H.W. Bush nominates him to the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from Justice Brennan’s retirement. Displaying his usual perspicacity and deploying his full arsenal of

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force news briefing at the White House., July 22, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) It doesn’t matter what candidates and their supporters have to say about the election’s result. It only matters what the Constitution says about it. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here have been many “interesting times”

[ad_1] Via Bloomberg’s Maeve Sheehey and Steve Matthews, writing yesterday, more evidence that what recovery we have had is already faltering. From restaurant dining to air travel and now to filings for unemployment benefits, a growing body of evidence indicates America’s rebound from the pandemic is stalling days before hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth

[ad_1] Mayor Ted Wheeler wears a protective mask and googles during a protest in Portland, Ore., July 22, 2020. (Jonathan Maus/Bikeportland via Reuters) On his first day of work, Portland, Ore. mayor Ted Wheeler rode his bike to the office. It was a bold, symbolic move for a city mayor, but fairly predictable in a

[ad_1] President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 23, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The president, faced with a true crisis, got bored. After nearly 150,000 deaths, the closure of the economy, the certainty of more closures and interruptions to come, after the lockdowns drove the population of his

[ad_1] Climate-change activist Greta Thunberg attends a Fridays for Future protest in Turin, Italy, December 13, 2019. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters) Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has become the world’s most famous anti–global-warming campaigner, was just awarded a one million pound environmental prize. She has announced that 100,000 pounds of that money will be donated to

[ad_1] (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) There are a number of real threats to journalistic integrity afoot today. A big one is that powerful people will use their value as news sources to dictate what a newspaper can print or a TV network can air. “Access journalism” is hardly a new phenomenon. It can be particularly pernicious in

[ad_1] MSNBC debate moderators Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow during the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Fla., June 26, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Media Democrats focus on a few non-scandals of surpassing triviality. As the Democratic presidential campaign moves toward its last three months and narrows down to the false claim that the president has

[ad_1] The Pentagon logo in the briefing room at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., January 8, 2020 (Al Drago/Reuters) A consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O program is speaking out about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.” Eric W. Davis, an astrophysicist who worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the

[ad_1] New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio speaks to the media during a press conference in the Queens borough of New York, N.Y., April 10, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) New York mayor Bill de Blasio quoted Karl Marx when outlining the relationship he wanted his office to have with the city’s business community, in an

[ad_1] Native American Nathan Phillips confronts a student from Covington Catholic High School in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2019. (Kaya Taitano/Social Media/via Reuters) Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who sued major news outlets in the aftermath of their coverage of a controversial interaction he and several of his classmates had with a

[ad_1] (Rick Becker-leckrone/Dreamstime) The problem with American politics is not those who possess experience of elected office, but our own decadent complacency. If you’re a resident of the United States in possession of a television, you’ve probably been subjected to more campaign ads than you care to recall. I had occasion to spend a good

[ad_1] (tupungato/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration have spent the past few months putting off another round of coronavirus relief. Watching and waiting made some sense, given the fluidity of our condition, but it now leaves them with little time to reach a common position and then negotiate an acceptable outcome with

[ad_1] President Donald Trump takes questions during a coronavirus news briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 23, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) I’m Jimmy Quinn, one of National Review’s Buckley Fellows, filling in for Jim Geraghty. On the menu today: Trump moves most of the Republican National Convention online, the Labor Department reports a

[ad_1] A police officer walks in front of Seattle Police Department East Precinct in Seattle, Washington, June 11, 2020. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) Seattle Times executive editor Michele Matassa Flores pushed back on a judge’s ruling that the paper and four other Seattle news organizations must give police unpublished photos and video footage of riots in the

[ad_1] Our many intellectuals who despise private property, free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty believe that their project of fastening us with omnipotent government won’t work unless they get most Americans to revile our history. They’re probably correct about that. And thus they have been waging a campaign to make it seem as though

[ad_1] (Pixabay) The coronavirus poses a dire threat for Catholic schools — and offers an opportunity. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t’s been a long time since Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman came together as a fiery, electric duo to save an inner-city Catholic school in Leo McCarey’s 1945 The Bells of St. Mary’s — and

[ad_1] People line up outside the Kentucky Career Center to find assistance with their unemployment claims in Frankfort, Ky., June 18, 2020. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) Don’t cut the unemployment-insurance supplement too far or too fast. From CNBC: Republicans are considering extending the enhanced unemployment insurance benefit at a dramatically reduced level of $400 per month, or

[ad_1] Medical assistant Claudia Clemente performs a test for the coronavirus at Tolleson Fire Department Station 161 in Tolleson, Ariz., June 18, 2020. (Courtney Pedroza/Reuters) The U.S. officially surpassed 4 million recorded COVID-19 cases on Thursday, adding 1 million new cases in just the last 15 days, according to Johns Hopkins University.  The actual number

[ad_1] A Harley-Davidson Inc. logo at the Paris auto show in Paris, France, October 4, 2018 (Benoit Tessier/Reuters) When national media and Wisconsin’s largest news outlets ignore something so clearly tied to national events, it becomes nearly impossible not to conclude that they are doing so because it does not fit their preordained narrative. To

[ad_1] A man inspects a handgun at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 28, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) At this point, there is simply no excuse for it. With the possible exception of religion, there is no issue in American political life that is as poorly covered as guns. At RealClearPolitics, John Lott reports

[ad_1] The Pentagon logo behind the podium in the briefing room at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., January 8, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) But Washington could use some of Silicon Valley’s freedom from credentialism. Last week, White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios was named acting head of research and engineering for the Pentagon. Kratsios started

[ad_1] Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2020. (Gabriella Demczuk/Reuters) Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced a law on Thursday that would prohibit federal funding for schools that incorporate curriculum from the New York Times‘s “1619 Project.” The 1619 Project, named

[ad_1] A man yells at a line of police officers in New York, July 15, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) The claim that America’s awash in systemic racism is made and repeated as unassailable fact. It’s repeated casually, as if everyone concedes its veracity. The term is ubiquitous in news and social media. Politicians invoke it daily,