To say the NBA’s relationship with the office of the President of the United States has been complicated over the past half-decade is an understatement. The defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks visited the White House on Monday, reviving an American sports tradition (the winners of the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB seasons visiting the White

(Kruiser’s Permanote Description: This column is intended to be a lighthearted, short-form way to frequently connect with our cherished VIP readers. Sometimes it will be serious. Sometimes it will be fun. Sometimes it will be a cornucopia of intellectual curiosities and fascinations. OK, maybe not so much the last one. Anyway, as this is a

Facebook is not showing any search results when the query “Kyle Rittenhouse” is entered into the social media platform’s search bar. A search for Rittenhouse’s full name yields only a message informing the user that Facebook did not find any results and a prompt to check one’s spelling. Rittenhouse, an 18-year-old from Illinois, is currently

California Governor Gavin Newsom makes an appearance after the polls close on the recall election, at the California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., September 14, 2021. (Fred Greaves/Reuters) California governor Gavin Newsom offered a partial explanation for his strange absence over the past two weeks, saying he skipped the Glasgow climate change summit because

There are many ways to parse the Republican upset over a Democrat party boss in Virginia this November. Was it proof of the GOP rebounding after a Trump binge? Was it a foretaste of bigger Democrat wipeouts to come in 2022? Was it, to riff off of TAC contributing editor Matthew Walther’s take, false euphoria

Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms. The “Filter Bubble Transparency Act,” shared exclusively with Axios, aims to “require that internet platforms give users the option

I never heard of Travis Scott until 11 people went into cardiac arrest and eight people died at his event called Astroworld in Houston, Texas. Apparently, he’s connected to one of the Kardashians (another sideshow I don’t pay attention to). But I seem to be one of the only people on earth who hasn’t heard

A massive Comcast Xfinity outage left several areas across the country without service Tuesday morning, NJ.com reported. Reports of people experiencing unsteady or nonexistent internet access began in the San Francisco Bay Area late Monday, NJ.com reported. The outage then spread to Northern California, as well the northeast, midwest, Pacific Northwest. Downdetector showed a massive

United States Capitol Building (rarrarorro/Getty Images) While we await the Congressional Budget Office’s score of the Democrats’ reconciliation bill, we can look to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), which produced its own cost estimate based on past CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation analysis. The CRFB finds that the Build Back Better

On her 9:00 a.m. ET MSNBC hour show Monday morning, anchor and Democratic Party hack Stephanie Ruhle was in full panic mode over President Biden’s plummeting poll numbers and told DNC chair Jaime Harrison that he just needs to sell all the Biden administration’s “massive wins” in order to stave off huge electoral losses in

Nuclear blackmail is nothing I ever thought I’d have to worry about as an adult. I came of age politically during some of the hottest days of the Cold War, when President Ronald Reagan was speaking justly of an “evil empire” bent on domination, and both bristled with nuclear arsenals several times larger than the

“You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.” – O’Brien – Orwell’s 1984 “’By itself,’ he said, ‘pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being

Garry Kasparov in October 2021 (Oslo Freedom Forum) I would like to link to a couple of podcasts. Here is the latest episode of my Music for a While; and here is my latest Q&A, which is with Garry Kasparov. The text accompanying the music podcast is as follows: A piece he was writing about

Don Lemon accuser Dustin Hice made an appearance on Megyn Kelly’s SiriusXM radio show on Monday to detail the alleged sexual assault he experienced at the hands of the CNN anchor in 2019, which is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. Hice also disclosed that Lemon has made three settlement offers through his legal team, which

If you’re not guilty, don’t act like it. If Democrats followed this simple mantra, Republicans would be far less suspicious of voter fraud and stolen elections. But Democrats do act guilty—like they’re so proud of what they’ve accomplished, and it kills them not to brag about it. In New Jersey, Democratic New Jersey Senate President

In a landmark 2010 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that in addition to the federal government, states must also respect the public’s individual constitutional right to bear arms. Yet the high court has neglected to take any more major Second Amendment cases in the decade since that would have further clarified the scope of this ruling,

An illustration of military aircraft behind the Chinese and Taiwanese national flags, April 9, 2021 (Dado Ruvic / Reuters) In recent days, two government officials — one Taiwanese, the other American — have made noteworthy predictions about just when the People’s Republic could attack Taiwan. Chen Ming-tong, the director of Taiwan’s national-security bureau, last week

Hollow diversity quota victories, like the first black, female mayor in Western Pennsylvania, have nothing to do with actual governance. I spent last Tuesday doing the most unglamorous kind of political work. Outside a black evangelical church a block from my childhood home in a city of 8,000 people, I paced around to keep warm,

Big Tech better watch out! A new bipartisan Senate bill aimed at restricting tech companies’ “anticompetitive” acquisition abilities is getting attention from policymakers and experts alike. The new Senate bill introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) would greatly limit the ability of Big Tech companies to acquire other tech companies. While

Trump has all but said he plans to run for president in 2024. For many months now, he’s been teasing his intentions to the public. In July, Trump told Sean Hannity that he had made up his mind about running in 2024 but didn’t say what the decision was. In August, Trump’s former chief of staff,

Federal Reserve governor Randal Quarles announced Monday he would resign from his position in December, giving President Joe Biden another opportunity to fill a seat on the central bank’s seven-member board of governors. Quarles was appointed to a four-year term in 2017 by former President Donald Trump to serve as the Fed’s vice chairman for

Gerald Russello speaks at the University of Colorado, October 11, 2018. (Screenshot via YouTube) Yesterday, we suffered a great loss. Gerald Russello died after an extended bout with brain cancer. Gerald was a longtime friend of National Review and an occasional contributor to these pages. He was also the editor of the University Bookman, the journal

The worst bout of food poisoning I ever had took days to run its course, as every orifice did its duty to rid my body of whatever evil I had ingested. That brings us to the Clintons and Virginia. The defeat of the Democratic party in Virginia in general and Terry McAuliffe for governor in

Appearing as a guest onMSNBC’s The Sunday Show, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss charged that Virginia Republican governor-elect Glenn Youngkin “played the race card” to get elected, and was “perfectly happy to connect with Virginia’s horrible, violent, ugly history, which is centuries of slavery, white supremacy politics.” Left-wing host Jonathan Capehart — who had

We’re meandering again! We started off with politics and booze but somehow got to cowboy boots. via GIPHY There is never a wrong time for a discussion about footwear that’s made from fine leather and toxic masculinity. The regular weekly segments are here and we pondered a new monthly one. We need the structure.

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An old Olds — as all Oldses are, there being no new ones — on the streets of New York, November 2021 (Jay Nordlinger) I haven’t meant to focus on Oldsmobiles lately — it was just an accident. I happened past one in Dallas, and put it in a column of mine titled “Snapshots of

Is it unethical to profit off the mass death of your countrymen, and should something be done about it? In a society where wealth of any origin is increasingly looked at with suspicion and envy, weapons contractors have somehow avoided the spotlight. Even domestic gunmakers have withstood more public criticism than the producers of battleships,

If a reporter asks a president a question in which the answer is deceptive at best and a flat out lie at worst, would that make the reporter asking the question “disrespectful?” According to Joe Biden’s senior adviser, Cedric Richmond, it does. Despite the fact that Biden answered Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy’s

Early in the Delta wave of the pandemic, I remember an emphatic statement from Dr. Robert W. Malone. As Florida and the rest of the South began seeing increased cases, the drumbeat to get vaccinated became incessant. Governor Ron DeSantis was in the process of revolutionizing the delivery of monoclonal antibodies amid criticism from the