Elections matter. Imagine, for just a second, that in 2016 the result most people expected—and virtually all the experts predicted—happened, and Hillary Clinton was elected president. It’s scary, I know, but today we’re seeing why every election matters so much. It’s hard to imagine what the long-term impact would have been had Trump not won

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”—Matthew 7:15 In recent weeks, big-name Republican governors have signed bills and made statements assuring their conservative base they will not force COVID-19 vaccines on them. However, what appears to be good on the surface may not be so

(Pixabay) Our pal Andrew Stuttaford tweeted a story about a CRISPR genetic engineering experiment from the Financial Times. I checked it out, and given the frequent criticisms I have penned here about sometimes out-of-control biotechnological research, I thought it was worth a few moments to illustrate how much of what is being done is perfectly

Remember “Republicans pounced?” It has been used so much for the past few years that it has become a laughable cliché that has even earned an entry in the Urban Dictionary: Republicans pounce! A headline in a newspaper or other article that describes Republicans (or other right-leaning individuals) attacking a Democrat (or other left-leaning individual)

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that fully-vaccinated people should continue to wear face masks and practice social distancing in order to stop the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19. “People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses. They still need to protect themselves,” Dr. Mariangela Simao, WHO assistant

A growing movement of local governments and communities across the United States is beginning to grapple with an unfortunate realization: The highway boom of the 1950s and ’60s produced a massive amount of infrastructure that seems to have done more harm than good. “Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods, dividing many Black communities

Former president Donald Trump speaks at the North Carolina GOP convention dinner in Greenville, N.C., June 5, 2021. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Charlie is right, of course, that targeting people because they are unpopular, rather than targeting crimes and then prosecuting the people you can prove committed them, is a bad thing for prosecutors to do. It

If you’re a self-styled “social advocate,” the last thing you’re going to do is blame the current crime surge on the criminals. Instead, appearing on Tiffany Cross’s MSNBC show this morning, former LAPD cop Cheryl Dorsey blamed . . . the police, calling them “butt-hurt” and “cowardly.” Why, in Dorsey’s view, are police “butt-hurt?” Because,

She’s BAAAAAAAACK Welcome to the second installment of my now monthly conversation with my good friend, RedState Editor-at-Large Kira Davis. via GIPHY Kira and I hit some politics in this episode, of course, but then we get into a conversation about how awful we are at picking television shows. As I think I mention¸ this

As skyrocketing crime and violence across the country threaten public safety, many liberal communities are rethinking their views on law enforcement. “We may be liberal but this has gone too far,” Washington Square Park resident Steven Hill told the New York Post. “There have always been drugs in the park, mostly pot, but what’s emerged

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., February 28, 2021. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) The rule of law is a crucial dividing line between free societies and tin-pot dictatorships. One central element of that is that our constitutions and legislatures write the rules down, and the text of written rules

Over here in NewsBusters, my colleague Tim Graham has taken note of a story at Hot Air on a report on trust in the media. The report is discussed by Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute. Tim quotes it thusly:  “The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed

I know, I know. This is late. I usually do this column on Fridays and I tried to do it, I swear… but I was on the radio for four hours filling in for Bob Lonsberry on WHAM 1180 on Friday and it took a lot out of me. I love being on the air.

A quote that is sometimes mistakenly credited to C.S. Lewis declares, “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” A clue that this was not uttered by Lewis is that it doesn’t quite capture the truth. As Lewis would well know, an education without values would

President Joe Biden speaks following a bipartisan meeting with U.S. senators about the proposed framework for the infrastructure bill at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) On Thursday, hours after agreeing to framework for an infrastructure bill with a bipartisan group of senators, President Biden said: “If this [bipartisan deal]

One small step for women, one giant hurdle for women’s sports. Transgender track star CeCe Telfer was just deemed ineligible to participate in the United States Olympic trials as a woman due to his testosterone levels being too high. Of course, any real doctor that doesn’t feed into the woke mob mentality will tell you

Why are there so few investigative journalists willing to put in the time to uncover the vast abuses in the judicial system as evidenced by the guardian scandals in probate and family courts that routinely go uncovered? Investigative journalist Gretchen Hammond joins me this week to get into her fight with not only the probate

Proponents of big government spending have desperately argued that mounting price inflation is just temporary. But multiple alarming inflation metrics came out for April and May, and examples of rising prices are clear to see from big-box retail stores to the real estate market. Now, yet another metric has come in making the ongoing inflation

India Walton poses as she campaigns to replace four-term Mayor Byron Brown in Buffalo, N.Y., December 15, 2020. (Lindsay DeDario/Reuters) Media outlets are insistent that capitalism is unpopular, and that a clear majority of Americans, especially young people, prefer socialism over capitalism. A quick look at the headlines from major newspapers reveals stories that start

It was straight out of Hollywood.  Countless comparisons were made in the Donald Trump era between the 45th president and Phineas Taylor “P.T.” Barnum. With the showman standard-bearer summarily ejected from the center ring, John Cox, perennial candidate and current aspirant governor, sought to fill the void. Literally.  He brought in the bear. Overshadowed by

A video channel dedicated to highlighting human rights violations in China has been blocked by YouTube. Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights channel is run by Serikzhan Bilash, a Xinjiang-born activist who has been arrested for his pro-freedom activism several times. Government advisors warned him against using the word “genocide” to describe the abuses in Xinjiang. “They’re just

Kamala Harris visits El Paso, Texas, as I write this. She is technically visiting the U.S.-Mexico border, but significantly, she is staying about 800 miles from the worst of the border issues and her boss, Plagiarist Joe Biden, have caused. More than 90 days after Plagiarist Biden give Harris the job of doing something without

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks before boarding Air Force Two at El Paso International Airport in El Paso, Texas, June 25, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) The vice president finally dropped by El Paso this morning for a four-hour tour, after months of resisting such a visit. She might have been able to shrug off Republican

On Thursday’s CNN Newsroom, host Jim Sciutto welcomed retired Lt. Gen. and military analyst Mark Hertling onto the program to discuss and defend Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley’s defense of Critical Race Theory being taught at West Point. Sciutto led Hertling by playing a clip of Milley’s remarks referring to the dreadful January 6 riot, where he declared, “I do think

I’d like to say “I called it!” But really, who didn’t see this coming? Anyone who has been paying attention to politics over the years has certainly picked up the trend that every Republican nominee for president has been worse than the Republican president before him. If you thought their hatred of Donald Trump eclipsed

The Vatican did not tell bishops not to move forward drafting a document on the Eucharist, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops clarified this week.  The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox and multiple other outlets have claimed that the bishops were “flouting a warning from the Vatican” when they approved a measure

(djedzura/Getty Images) There are many lessons, to put it mildly, to be learned (or relearned) from the way that the COVID-19 pandemic has been handled. One of them is the willingness of supposedly free peoples to submit to — and even welcome — a form of authoritarian rule. Sadly, that’s no great surprise. The historical

According to the establishment media, critical race theory, or CRT, is a distraction. It is a right-wing smear. It is a conservative attempt to quash the dark side of American history. Most of all, according to the establishment media, you must never — ever — pay attention to the infusion of CRT into the nation’s

It was hardly surprising to see Democrats worried about the consequences of their disastrous endorsement of defunding the police. As unfortunate as it was to see the Democrats paint the police as the enemy, it was good to see that woke liberal city leaders who thought they were protecting their citizens by defunding the police