What has happened on campaign finance reform was, unfortunately, utterly predictable. It’s why Bush shouldn’t sign bills he thinks are unconstitutional.
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Hillary Ruins the Plan
Editor’s note: Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book is Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. This is the first in a series of excerpts.
There really was a collusion plot. It really did target our election system. It absolutely sought to usurp our capacity for ...
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Another Pop-Culture Christian Loses His Faith
It’s happened again. For the second time in three weeks, a prominent (at least in Evangelical circles) Christian has renounced his faith. In July, it was Josh Harris, a pastor and author of the mega-best-selling purity-culture book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. This month, it’s Hillsong United songwriter and ...
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Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest
They're facing charges.
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Max Boot’s Dishonesty
Before yesterday, my primary criticism of the Washington Post’s Max Boot was political in nature. As I wrote in a recent book review, I found it regrettable that Boot’s opposition to the president had not prevented him from “succumbing reactively to Trump’s cult of personality, or from making Trump the ...
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To Save a Bad Gun Law, Democratic Senators Threaten the Supreme Court
I just finished reading of the most astonishing legal briefs I’ve ever read. It is easily the most malicious Supreme Court brief I’ve ever seen. And it comes not from an angry or unhinged private citizen, but from five Democratic members of the United States Senate. Without any foundation, they directly ...
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A Brief History of Election Meddling
Editor’s note: Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book is Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. This is the second in a series of excerpts.
‘The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”
Thus spoke President Barack Obama just a couple of weeks before ...
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The End of Hong Kong as We Know It
The protests in Hong Kong have been going on for more than four months now, and no matter how the current crisis concludes in the coming days or weeks, it will mark the end of Hong Kong as we know it.
The protests started in response to an extradition bill that was proposed by the city’s Beijing-backed ...
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What European Countries Sacrifice for Free College
The higher-education system in Finland is supposedly every American progressive’s dream. The Finnish government pays 96 percent of the total cost of providing young Finns with a college education; almost all domestic students at Finnish universities pay nothing in tuition. Indeed, Finland subsidizes its ...
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PolitiFact Should Have the Courage to Tell the Truth
In theory, fact-checking is a valuable media enterprise. No one will do it perfectly — human beings are fallible, after all — but to do it well requires a kind of flinty moral courage. Every reporter has his own biases, and sometimes the demands of the job will conflict with the desires of his heart. ...
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Your Periodic Warning About Second Amendment Conspiracy Theorists
This should serve as your periodic reminder that the case that Jeffrey Toobin lays out here -- that the Second Amendment was never intended to protect an individual right -- is an outlandish conspiracy theory that contradicts the text; the history; all of the contemporary commentary; the views of the drafters of ...
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