[ad_1] Ohio Governor and former presidential candidate John Kasich speaks to the press in Concord, N.H., November 15, 2018. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) This is shallow opportunism. There are honorable and honest ways to oppose your own party, and to leave it. As a conservative who took the Never-Trump path and voted for Evan McMullin in 2016,

[ad_1] Keating Hall on the Fordham campus (Ericcro/Dreamstime) A Fordham University student is threatening to sue the university after it placed him on disciplinary probation for Instagram posts commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre and memorializing a black retired police officer killed during a riot in St. Louis, Mo., last month. Fordham found that rising senior

[ad_1] A rainbow flag waves at the Stonewall National Monument in New York, June 4, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Elites’ endless quest for social status is fueling our present moral panic. There is some mystery about the generation of names. “Gay” becomes “gay and lesbian” becomes “lesbian and gay” becomes LGB becomes LGBTQ becomes LGBTQIAPK becomes

[ad_1] Protesters confront police in Portland, Ore., June 13, 2020. (Terray Sylvester/Reuters) The Los Angeles Times on Monday compared images of a naked woman protesting federal police in Portland, Ore., to the iconic picture of a Chinese man standing in front of a tank at the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. The woman, whose name was

[ad_1] In addition to the Abu Zubaydah case, the en banc Ninth Circuit divided sharply on a second order today involving the state-secrets privilege—this time in conjunction with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The court denied en banc review of the panel decision against the government in Fazaga v. FBI. (The amended panel decision is

[ad_1] (MattGush/Getty Images) The suspect in a shooting at the New Brunswick, N.J., home of federal judge Esther Salas has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to multiple reports. While Salas was in the basement of her home at the time, the gunman killed her 20-year-old son and injured her husband. Salas

[ad_1] A woman holds a small coronavirus vaccine bottle, April 10, 2020. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) An early human trial of Oxford University’s experimental coronavirus vaccine has yielded a strong immune response in hundreds of people, according to newly released data. The potential vaccine, which the U.K. university developed in partnership with drugmaker AstraZeneca, was administered in

[ad_1] Empty patient beds in a Maryland hospital, March 18, 2020 (Rosem Morton/Reuters) It is open season on Catholic hospitals as secularists try to coerce these institutions to violate Church doctrine in the provision of medical services. The most notable examples are transgendered persons suing when Catholic hospitals refuse to remove healthy organs as part

[ad_1] Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner slammed elected officials at a press conference on Sunday, a day after the union’s offices were set on fire amid continuing riots in the city. Since the death of George Floyd, an African American man killed during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers, Portland has seen 50 days

[ad_1] A paramedic dressed in personal protective equipment exits an ambulance at St. Petersburg General Hospital, where coronavirus cases are being treated, in St. Petersburg, Fla., July 15, 2020. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) Coronavirus cases continued to rise throughout the country as President Trump attempted to reassure Americans that the outbreak would be brought under control. Florida

[ad_1] Police officers stand guard during a protest against the death of George Floyd in New York City, June 5, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) Shootings and other crimes spike in the poorest neighborhoods when cops pull back. New York City needs more arrests. More arrests in the subways. More arrests in housing projects. More drug arrests.

[ad_1] Paul Krugman at a conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 14, 2012 (Nacho Doce/Reuters) In the fall of 2016, all the rage among Democrats and their partisans was lecturing Republicans on how they should accept Donald Trump’s (almost unanimously anticipated) defeat and reject Trump’s irresponsible “rigged election” rhetoric. On Election Day, I wrote a

[ad_1] (Chansom Pantip/Getty) Will it bring us together and revive local communities ─ or drive us apart and exacerbate class divisions? Earlier in the year, I had planned to move to New York City. National Review hired me a few months ago and the main office is in Manhattan. With everything that’s happened in the meantime,

[ad_1] Associate Justice Elena Kagan speaks in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., July 22, 2019, where the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens lies in repose. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters Pool) 2014—In State v. Gleason, the Kansas supreme court expressly acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court “has explained that its Eighth

[ad_1] (artisteer/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The media has decided there’s more emotional satisfaction in failure than in performing the function with which the public entrusts it. In December 2016, Ben Smith, then BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, wrote a memo to his staff that was meant to be a kind of charter for the dawning of the Trump Era.

[ad_1] FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testifies in Washington, D.C., July 12, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Former FBI agent Peter Strzok debunked a February 14, 2017, article in The New York Times on possible contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence, noting that the agency had seen no evidence of connections between campaign officials

[ad_1] Terrence Floyd, brother of George Floyd, speaks at a makeshift memorial honoring George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., June 1, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Minneapolis City Council on Friday declared racism a public health emergency, a move that comes after weeks of unrest following the police custody death of George Floyd in May that sparked

[ad_1] On Monday, federal district judge Theodore D. Chuang granted a preliminary injunction (in American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. FDA) that bars the Food and Drug Administration from enforcing during the coronavirus pandemic two of its rules governing the drug regimen used in medication (i.e., non-surgical) abortions—rules, I’ll note, that were adopted during

[ad_1] The Supreme Court (Joshua Roberts / Reuters) Five years ago in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court held that a State may not “exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples.” In other words, “the constellation of benefits that the States have linked to marriage” must be

[ad_1] Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced on Friday that she has been undergoing treatment for cancer since May. “On May 19, I began a course of chemotherapy…to treat a recurrence of cancer,” Ginsburg said in a statement. The justice said the cancer was first

[ad_1] Women protest Georgia’s “heartbeat bill” at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Ga, May 7, 2019. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) Earlier this week, Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed a “heartbeat bill” prohibiting abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can occur as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The law makes Tennessee one of

[ad_1] White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany smiles during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, July 16, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A number of prominent journalists and outlets distorted Kayleigh McEnany’s remarks on Thursday about school reopenings, selectively quoting the White House press secretary to cast the administration as hostile to scientific

[ad_1] The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2018. (Erin Schaff/Reuters) This week, a 17-year hiatus on federal executions ended with the executions of Daniel Lewis Lee on Tuesday and Wesley Purkey Thursday morning. Both cases involved decades-old crimes and inmates who had long exhausted channels to review their convictions, but that did not

[ad_1] President Donald Trump is greeted by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has filed a lawsuit against Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the Atlanta City Council challenging the city’s decision to mandate masks and revert

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks about Trump administration plans on infrastructure during an event at the United Parcel Service (UPS) Airport Facility in Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Joe Biden press secretary T.J. Ducklo accused President Trump on Thursday of backing white supremacist causes, in an interview on the Fox News Rundown podcast. “If

[ad_1] U.S. Border Patrol agents detail illegal immigrants near Roma, Texas, May 11, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A new book tells an important story. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he basic narrative of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 is simple and well-known: Conservatives and liberals compromised, trading an illegal-immigrant amnesty for better enforcement going

[ad_1] (artJazz/iStock/Getty Images Plus) While a V-shaped recovery was never really on the cards, insisting that a substantial percentage of the money pumped into the economy goes into green projects will turn the unlikely into the impossible. Joe Biden has, of course, announced his $2 trillion clean energy & infrastructure plan, but that is still

[ad_1] President Donald Trump is greeted by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Democratic local officials in Georgia clashed with Republican Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday and accused the governor of playing politics a day after he banned localities from issuing

[ad_1] An employee wearing a protective mask and face shield walks inside a Railink train after the government eased restrictions following the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 2, 2020. (Willy Kurniawan/Reuters) We are a long way from done with this fight. Where do we stand in our fight against the coronavirus? Here are

[ad_1] Governor Andrew Cuomo wears a mask as he arrives to speak during a daily coronavirus briefing in New York, July 13, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The media have decided to play along with New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s bizarre effort to reinvent himself as the hero of the fight against COVID-19. Cuomo’s motivation is transparent