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

Oh dear. The parent of MSNBC and the former home of Brian Williams believes it has the moral high ground on Fox News… or something. In a Sunday morning article, Brian Rosenwald attacked Fox News in general and Tucker Carlson specifically for choosing profit over journalistic ethics. “Claims about journalistic responsibility, morality or the public

This Brownstone Institute essay by Vinay Prasad asks “For Whom Do the Covid ‘Fact-Checkers’ really Work?” They certainly don’t work for the good of the public. Key paragraph: “So here is what blows my mind: We are living in a world where the CDC director can say something that is false, made-up and no institution

US Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Examining Best Practices for Incarceration and Detention During COVID-19,” in the Dirksen Building in Washington, DC on June 2, 2020.(Photo by TOM WILLIAMS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) As counterintuitive as it may seem, Americans have become accustomed to a strong vice president.  From

On Saturday morning’s The Cross Connection, MSNBC viewers got a triple helping of racist comments as frequent guests Roland Martin and Elie Mystal took aim at whites. After Mystal claimed in the show’s first hour that blue-collar whites only care about “using their guns on black people and getting away with it.” And in the

It’s a phenomenon that experts are having a hard time explaining. About 3.5 million women left the workforce in 2020 as a result of being laid off or losing their jobs during the pandemic. But only a fraction of those women has decided to return to their jobs or seriously look for another. We know

Let’s play a game. The rules of this game are easy; I’ll mention a simple scenario, and you either nod your head in agreement, or shake your head in disagreement. At the end, we’ll see if you win a prize. I’ve called this the “Conspiracy Theory” game for reasons that will become clear as we’re

(Photo: Mark Antonio Wright) Eleven years ago, in the summer of 2010, Henry Latimer got a dog, a yellow Labrador puppy he named “Boomer” — and it changed my life forever. When Hank acquired Boomer, he and I were both seniors at the University of Oklahoma, though we didn’t know each other then. Because of

This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments over a potential blockbuster Second Amendment case, one in which the conservative majority appeared poised to overturn New York’s (and other states) restrictions on who can get a concealed carry permit. But if that happens, don’t expect the network newscasts to celebrate this as a “historic” decision. Those

Weeks ago, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed during a press briefing that 80 percent of Americans supported Biden’s agenda. “Included in these packages that the President is fighting to move forward on with leadership, we are working to lower the excruciatingly high cost of prescription drugs, which, by the way, over 80 percent

Whether or not you are Christian, whether or not you believe in the Christian Bible and its stories, you’ve nevertheless heard ad nauseum the story of Noah and the ark. It seems shocking, then, that so many of us fail to recall – or fail to grasp – one of the most valuable lessons of

A staff member at Hamilton Park Nursing and Rehabilitation receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccine from Walgreens Pharmacist Craig Brandt in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 4, 2021. (Yuki Iwamura/Reuters) Back in 1983, economics professor Bruce Yandle argued that much of what goes on in government can be explained as the collaboration of “Baptists” and “Bootleggers.” That

The United Nations “climate summit” in Glasgow, known as COP26, continued to draw promotional coverage in the New York Times. Saturday’s story focused on the youth movement: “Unmoved by Climate Promises, Activists Hit Glasgow’s Streets.” Reporters Megan Specia and Stephen Castle committed 1,400 words to the Times’ latest climate change children’s crusade, again with no

President Biden acknowledged on Friday that the White House must do more to fight inflation, even as American families are being squeezed by higher prices. The president dismissed the idea that his $3 trillion in spending proposals would drive prices higher. In fact, he claims passage of his $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill, along

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit temporarily halted the Biden administration’s rule requiring employers with over 100 workers to mandate vaccines or implement weekly testing In a ruling issued Saturday on a lawsuit filed by state attorneys general, the court ordered the vaccine mandate to be temporarily halted. The mandate was

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 28, 2021. (Al Drago/Reuters) Regarding the SALT cap — which limits the federal tax subsidy for rich people in expensive, high-tax, typically Democratic states — Charlie quotes Obama CEA chairman Jason Furman: Just the value of this